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RE: [RC] re: You should (was agressive kicker) - Susan E. Garlinghouse, DVM

Yes, 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



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[RC] re: You should (was agressive kicker), CTH
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