The Vermont
Horse Council is a non-profit organization and we welcome your
membership and/or tax deductible contributions.
Donations can be made to
be spent directly through a certain committee such as trails,
scholarships, technical rescue etc., please see the committee pages for
more information. If you prefer that your donation be spent through a
specific fund please indicate this on your check.
You can also help the
Vermont Horse Council simply by shopping!! We are part of the country
care program through Country Supply, by shopping at
www.countrysupply.com and
entering VHC when asked for your country cares code a percentage of your
purchase will be donated to the Vermont Horse Council.
Equine Liabilty
Statute Signs, $15.00.
Contact Terry Rose at
phone: (802)728-6303
e-mail:
rose@kdpyield.com
146 Bent Hill Road
Braintree, VT 05060
$5 Now for Horses LATR
(LARGE ANIMAL
TECHNICAL RESCUE)
The Vermont Horse Council has
trained thirteen Fire Departments in Vermont to rescue large animals in
emergencies such as trailer accidents, stuck in mud, or cast in stalls.
Now we need to buy the equipment that they have been trained in. Each
equipment package will cost approximately $5000.00.
WE NEED YOUR
SUPPORT!!!
Just $5.00 from each horse owner
in Vermont will allow us to achieve our goal and possibly train and
equip more departments.
For more information go to
www.vthorsecouncil.org and visit our fundraising page or send
your donation to:
Vermont Horse Council
PO Box 392
Underhill, VT 05489
Large
Animal Technical Rescue Training Was A Huge Success!!
On August 4th and 5th 2007 forty eight participants including members
of thirteen fire departments and technical rescue units from Vermont
and other animal professionals from VT, MA, NY and NH converged on
Cottonwood Stables in Colchester for a Large Animal Technical Course
sponsored by the Vermont Horse Council.
Cindy Cross-Greenia, President of the Vermont Horse Council opened the
Saturday morning session using live horses and teaching horse handling
and behavior. Participants were instructed on the use of emergency
leading and haltering, the four strike zones of a horse, basic
behavior and were given the time to work hands on with live horses
Buttons a Thoroughbred mare and Sophie a Haflinger mare. These four
legged volunteers were owned by Jeff Senesac of Cottonwood Stables and
seemed to really enjoy the attention.
Saturday afternoon and all day Sunday allowed participants to develop
skills using both specialized rescue equipment as well as items
commonly found on fire apparatus. Rescues were done in the form of
real life scenarios such as a horse down in the woods with a possible
shoulder fracture and a horse cast in a stall with injuries needing
medical attention these required the use of the Rescue Glide which can
be described as a large horse backboard. Another focus of the course
was learning to use an Anderson Lift to raise horses that may need to
be lifted up with the help of a tractor or rope pulley systems.
Rescues were instructed by Roger Lauze Equine Emergency Education
Coordinator of the MSPCA Nevins Farm and performed on Lucky the rescue
mannequin, Lucky is 15 hands tall weighs 600 pounds and is fully
poseable.
We
asked participants to fill out a post evaluation of the course and the
feedback was excellent with all responders feeling assured that they
can perform a technical horse rescue.
What we need now is funding to purchase the equipment for these
departments and rescue teams, starting with Colchester Technical
Rescue who have the ability to respond to many areas of the state. We
would like to continue raising funds and place this equipment
throughout the state to increase response time to an incident. Each
equipment package will cost approximately $5000.00 so your support is
needed. If you are interested in making a donation please send your
check to The Vermont Horse Council, PO Box 392 Underhill VT 05489 and
indicate Technical Rescue on your check all donations are tax
deductible and you will receive a receipt. If you would like more
information on this project contact Cindy Cross-Greenia at
goodhorsekeepingco@yahoo.com or 802/899-3928.
In closing I would like to thank Cottonwood Stables for the donation
of their facilities for this event, CCR Sales and Service for the use
of a tractor, David Blow, Martha Benoit and Terry Rose for
volunteering their time.
