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[RC] CTR and behavior - Susan E. Garlinghouse, DVMI'm one of the crowd that doesn't personally care to ride NATRC (tried it, wasn't for me), but I do appreciate vetting a horse that is well behaved, whether that behavior is from a CTR background or not. I'm often puzzled to see riders that will make all kinds of efforts to get their horse to pulse down quickly, but then seems clueless when the horse is leaping all over the place when I try to (gently) lift a lip to check the gums, palpate muscles and so on. Granted, the horse has already pulsed through, but less time spent dinking around just trying to vet through is more time available to eat and rest. There are a few horses so bad that I've threatened to DQ them if they continued to act downright dangerous in the future---I can (usually) sidestep, but too many P&R volunteers aren't used to bad behavior, and their job description shouldn't have to include ducking flying hooves. I don't care where the schooling originates, but it should be part of basic training as much as developing the physical athlete is. JMO. Susan Garlinghouse, DVM =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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