Save Your Horse!

A Horse Owner's Guide to Large Animal Rescue

Approximately one percent of all firefighters have learned this specialized training (or one trained responder per 827 horses in the US; 1 trained responder per 3067 horses in Canada). According to experts, the most critical safety issue at the scene of a large animal incident is the responders' lack of knowledge of and experience around large animals. Untrained responders coupled with uninformed veterinarians and injured horses is a recipe for disaster!

Don't jeopardize your horse, yourself or your responders! This book will teach you AND your responders how to be safe and keep your horse alive. Now in its fourth edition, this book is spiral bound so it will lie flat on the ground and is filled with drawings and photos!

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Horse Awareness and Safety class

This CD-Rom is designed for emergency responders and anyone else who wants to learn about horses. It introduces people to horses, starting in a classroom setting, then moving into an arena for a hands-on introduction to live animals in a controlled and safe environment. This day-long class includes scene assessment and safety, horse behavior and how to "read" a horse, emergency first aid, and barn fire safety.

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Introduction to Large Animal Rescue for Horse Owners class

This "Teach It Yourself" class is designed for horse owners who are interested in being prepared to remove or help remove their horse from a life-threatening incident. Intro to LAR gives you basic information to help you work with the emergency response system in your area. This class is a significant addition to the teaching tools of CERT and Equine Management instructors, and fire departments, and provides invaluable information for horse owners everywhere. Hands-on practice helps reinforce lessons on tying an emergency halter and harness. Information includes removing a horse from entrapment, barn fire safety, and safe trailering.

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Emergency First Aid for Pets class

Based on traditional CPR/First Aid classes for humans, this "Teach It Yourself" class is designed to be taught in a classroom but is also useful for the pet owner.

Learn how to handle life threatening emergencies as well as wounds and splinting, rabies, euthanasia, and dealing with disasters.

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Calling all Volunteers!

As part of our mission to bring safety to ALL, we would like to translate our classes and books into as many major languages as possible. For instance, we have donated the LAR book and all classes to several Humane Societies and rescues in the Caribbean. Unfortunately, these products have just gone to English speaking countries because the language barrier makes teaching difficult.

A volunteer is translating the Pet First Aid class into French which means that countries like Bonaire and Haiti, Rwanda and Vietnam will have access to this class.

If you know Latin Spanish and would like to translate a class or book, please let us know. It would mean that Central and South America, as well as the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Cuba would have this knowledge. It would also mean that poor Hispanic areas of the US and Canada would benefit.

According to Wikipedia, the top ten languages are Mandarin, Spanish, Hindi/Urdu, Arabic, Bengali, Portugese, Russian, Japanese and German, and of course English. We have English covered, but welcome help with the others.

Send us an email detailing your interest to Languages The animals of the world will thank you.

This course has taught me a lot of different things and I am not sure where to start so I will start at the beginning. I never realized that there was Large Animal Rescue I knew that if your horse got into trouble, in a pool, you had to get it out but I didnt know that there were classes and information on how to do it correctly and actual hands on training available. I never knew anything about Incident Command System and that all volunteers (firefighters, EMS) had to take the course Introduction to Incident Command Systems.

The ICS structure at first seemed to be a whole other language but I feel that it is the most straight forward system for disasters there is. Most any one should be able to understand it.

I now know how to handle a scene if I am the first one there. I know what questions to ask myself to make sure I am safe at all times. I know the 9 steps to size the scene up and to be helpful when more help arrives.

I know the ways to help the emergency responders that have never dealt with horses, the safe ways to handle them, the safe places to stand, what might scare them and the ways to place straps for removal from different disaster scenes.

I now feel confident in educating people about making their barns fire safe, as well as how to make my own safe. There are things to make your barn safe that never crossed my mind such as the barrier between the road and barn.

I feel very confident in providing safe trailering to my own horses and any ones elses horse that I may trailer. Also, how to help someone when buying a trailer to make sure that they are purchasing a safe trailer and how for them to keep it safe. I know what documents should be in my trailer every time I haul horses incase of an emergency so all responders know who to call and who can help.

I had fun tying up my dog as my training animal for my safety harness. He was an almost willing participant. I think that it made it a little more real on how it would be in a real emergency. I used my horse for the emergency halter test dummy.

I have already shared some of the information with the local fire department and the local veterinarian. I have shared some of the information with farrier customers on how to make their barn fire safe. My horse friends are very interested in how to safely get their horses out of trouble.

I have plans on having an informational gathering at the local fire department for any one interested in attending to share with them the information that I have obtained from the course. That way the fire department, veterinarian and local horse owners have a better understanding of what to do in an emergency and to be safer on the road when trailering horses. There are a lot of Amish where I live so we have a share of buggy accidents and there are a lot of horses in my community. Barn fires are also common due to the only light in their barns is a kerosene lamp, fuel and cobwebs bad idea. I can help the fire department with how to handle horses in a barn fire and educate the owners on how to train there horses to not be scared of the fire men.

Over all I feel that everyone that owns horses should take this course and have your book Save Your Horse! A Horse Owners Guide to Large Animal Rescue. The local vet and fire department now knows that I have some information about how to safely rescue horses and I am there go to person for help. Thanks again for allowing this great course to be available.

Thank YOU, Morgan