Re: RC: Dead/Alive -TEVIS RESCUE Part 2

[Lif Strand <fasterhorses@gilanet.com>]

At 09:15 PM 8/10/00 +0000, Bonnie wrote:
>Okay, I've thought of  something worse. Having someone die at a high profile,
>media-covered event like Tevis and NOT having had an emergency vehicle 
>standing by...
>Disclaimers, waivers, and bravado aside, it's not going to garner much 
>mass appeal or
>big-time sponsorship.

Could I repeat what the original discussion was about?  The original poster 
was talking about how she couldn't get help for her HORSE at Tevis.  It was 
not about having emergency stuff for people, it was not about having a 
human die or even be injured at a ride, it was about the 
difficulty/impossibility of expecting RMs to have emergency rescue stuff 
available for HORSES.

Horses can and do die on rides - wasn't that a topic of conversation on 
this list just a few weeks ago?  Were there emergency rescue services 
available for that horse?  I don't remember anyone mentioning that at 
all.  So what I want to know is why Tevis is being picked on for not 
providing something that probably no other ride does either?

For the record, people, I am not against anyone providing emergency 
services for people at rides, I just don't see how it is practical to 
provide emergency services for horses above and beyond what vets can do at 
vet checks, which is hard and disruptive enough as it is.  To ask RMs to 
provide it on the trail is just asking too much.  Lif





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