Ridecamp: Re: [RC] RC: Vetting procedures

I must be weird or something but, I'm one of those people that says that
if your not sure how an aircraft works
 you probably shouldn't be operating one over densely populated
residential areas. By the same token, if your not educated in the
functions of the horses body as well as familiar enough with your own
horses mannerisms to determine whether or not it's having any physical
difficulty. You probably shouldn't be riding it in an endurance ride.
After all the horse's welfare is the sole responsibility of it's rider,
the vets are there to aid the rider in determining the horse's condition
therefore determining whether or not it's fit to continue. If you own it
and ride it daily, you should be more aware of what is normal than
somebody that's only seen it once or twice in the last year as well as it
being one of a hundred or so looked at in the last 24 hour period.

Rob

Bob Morris wrote:

> jeri:
>
> The AERC Rules state; 2.1.4 Each equine will receive a
> substantive physical examination of metabolic and mechanical
> parameters before the ride, at control points within the
> ride and after the ride.
>
> You take it from there!
>
> Bob
>
> Bob Morris
> Morris Endurance Enterprises
> Boise, ID
>
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> DESERTRYDR1@xxxxxxx
> Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 9:48 PM
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> Subject: [RC] RC: Vetting procedures
>
> This has been bothering me for a while, and I finally
> decided to bring it up
> on Ridecamp.  Please don't even bother trying to figure out
> who I'm talking
> about, as it has happened to one degree or another with
> different vets and
> it's not really important WHO the vet was.
>
> The vet, at the third check of a 50, watched my horse trot
> out and back and
> then marked the vet card with satisfactory marks all down
> the column.  Never
> put a stethoscope on my horse to check gut sounds, never
> checked cap refill,
> jug refill, muscle tone or any of those other things that
> vets usually do at
> a vet check.  I was sufficiently concerned as my horse has
> not done a lot of
> 50's and has had less than "A's" in the past, to check her
> gut sounds before
> I left the check.
>
> Another rider told me that he did his pre-vet of her horse
> the same way at
> that ride.  Never laid a hand on the horse.  I was told by a
> person who knows
> this vet that the vet knows more just by looking at a horse
> than most would
> by a full exam.  I don't dispute the level of knowledge,
> just want to find
> out if this is common vetting procedure, or should I (always
> nervous abut the
> condition of my horse) try to get a different vet when
> possible.  Do people
> like the more experienced vets who can tell a lot by
> looking? Or would they
> rather have a more thorough exam?  A couple of pieces of the
> puzzle:  The vet
> knew and recognized my horse from another ride where a
> friend had given the
> vet my horse's life history (first  50).  The vet commented
> that my horse
> looked a lot better than the other ride.  The vet also rides
> endurance.
> There was no line at the vet check, so speed of vetting was
> not an issue.
>
> I don't believe this vet's procedures were necessarily wrong
> or inadequate, I
> just always worry that some fairly minor sign that all is
> NOT RIGHT will be
> missed, and my horse is going to fall over dead 2 miles out
> of the vet check.
>  Am I being extraordinarily paranoid, or what?  jeri
>
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Rob Kalb
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Phelan CA



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