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FW: [RC] horse boarding in Tripoli, Libya? - Mike Sherrell

Good point. Bringing a horse back from Mexico entails 2 weeks' quarantine in
a government facility in LA, near as I could make out from the government
websites. Nixed a trip I had in mind. 


Regards,

Mike Sherrell
Grizzly Analytical (USA)
www.grizzlyanalytical.com
707 887 2919; fax = 707 887 9834

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From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
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Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 1:46 PM
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Subject: Re: [RC] horse boarding in Tripoli, Libya?

There is another consideration.  Even assuming that you want to take  
the horse to Libya, this sounds like a military tour - maybe 2 years?   
What about bringing the horse BACK?  There are diseases which may preclude
being able to re-import the horse, if the horse has become a carrier in the
meantime.

In that case, I would rather leave the horse behind in the US, rather than
leave it behind in Libya...

On Aug 27, 2008, at 12:48 PM, Maryanne Gabbani wrote:

Nope. She's absolutely right to try to nail down as much as possible 
before going. Simply showing up with a horse at an airport in the 
Middle East is seriously not advisable. You have to have an address 
for quarantine and kilos of paperwork. It's fairly easy for the people 
taking their horses to Dubai because the hosts there run the country 
and have put the word out to facilitate everything.

And "everywhere else in the world" doesn't necessarily have farms and 
ranches that you'd just want to put a horse on. We have some nice 
Arabian stud farms here but they wouldn't take in a strange horse, nor 
would I necessarily want to have my horses there. 99.99% of all the 
horses in Egypt live in small boxes rather than paddocks or, heaven 
forbid!, a field.  Put a horse with your average farmer in Egypt and 
kiss it  good bye. Horses here are either put in little boxes or 
tethered to stakes on "farms"...which here can be as small as half an 
acre.

Maryanne
who has a "big" 2.5 acre farm and even paddocks.



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