EQUINE GROUPS ISSUE GUIDELINES FOR HORSE SANCTUARIES
Interested or involved in horse rescue or retirement? Two new sets of
care and management guidelines have been issued. The Doris Day Animal
League (DDAL) and the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) gathered a group
of veterinarians, equestrians and public policy experts—including Dr.
Andrew Lang, director of the ASPCA's Equine Program—to produce
guidelines that include information on feeding, enclosures,
veterinary care and new arrivals. "The equine rescue community takes
very seriously its responsibility to provide quality care to its
animals," said DDAL's Liz Ross.

For a copy of the guidelines, please
visit DDAL at http://www.ddal.org/ or AWI online at
http://www.awionline.org/.

"With thousands of unwanted horses in our country in need of care,
equine rescue and retirement organizations are often the only
facilities that can offer assistance," adds Larry R. Bramlage, DVM,
MS, president of the American Association of Equine Practitioners
(AAEP), which also recently issued a new resource guide. Topics
addressed by AAEP include basic health management, refeeding the
starved horse and caring for the geriatric horse. It can also be
downloaded atAAEP's website at http://www.aaep.org/. Dr. Lang
contributed to these guidelines, as well.

http://www.aspca.org/site/PageServer?pagename=
horseresponsibility

Posted on SHARE Yahoo group Dec. 9, 2004