Alice posted: >>> I recently was able to purchase a used heart rate
monitor and I was really excited to get it. (well, I don?t have it yet, but I
will soon) I was telling a friend who rides, but doesn?t do distance riding,
about the new monitor and she asked why I needed
it<<<
But only YOU know why you feel the need or don't feel the need for any
piece of equipment you use on your horse. You must have felt a need for it, (I'd
think) or you would not have bought it. Just because your friend does not think
it sounds useful does not really matter, does it? LOL I mean,
some feel the need for shoes, some feel the need for bits, some just a halter to
ride. Some feel the need for shavings in the trailer to haul, others don't, and
would find it a waste of money... get where I'm going? So get it,
use it, and then decide if it is a piece of equipment you DO feel is something
you need.
>>>So, tell me why it?s a good or bad
purchase and how you would just take the pulse of a horse without getting off
and using a stethoscope? If you?re taking pulse with a finger and a wrist watch
where do you do that?<<<
You have been around enough CTR's and know where to
take a pulse don't you??? Without a stethoscope you can get them
under the jowl, on the large vein on the inside of the upper leg, some horses
under the base of the tail, and some you can just feel by pressing your hand
where you listen with a stethoscope.
