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RE: [RC] re: You should (was agressive kicker) - Susan E. Garlinghouse, DVMYes, good point. There is one ride I vet every year where one specific horse repeatedly shows up and is just awful to vet---and is getting past "annoying" and approaching "dangerous", more so every year. For a non-horsey volunteer, she is definitely a risk to be around. The owner has been nicely and specifically advised to do her homework and school her horse, which to date, she's pretty much shrugged off as "I don't know how to make her behave". This will be the third year and enough's enough---she's had fair warning and if it takes a DQ to bring the message home the hard way, so be it. If she injured another horse, rider or volunteer, I would feel that were significantly my fault for not having eliminated the potential opportunity for injury at the ride. Susan Garlinghouse, DVM -----Original Message----- From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Truman Prevatt Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2007 7:31 AM To: CTH Cc: ridecamp Subject: Re: [RC] re: You should (was agressive kicker) While I agree that a horse that kicks around a vet check at another horse, vet or volunteer should be DQ'ed, I also feel that if this reaction was prompted by the actions of another horse (bitting a horse, banging into the horse, etc.), that horse should also be DQ'ed. There are a lot of different acts of aggression and none should be tolerated. There is a huge difference when a horse that kicks just because they don't like the vet raising their tail and a horse that kicks because they are defending themselves from an attack when the horse behind them takes a chomp out of them. In general if a fight breaks out in a human sporting event, both participants are ejected. Makes sense to me that this should also be true for horses at an endurance ride. Truman =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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