100 California colts cut in clinic series
A U.S.A. equine network has organised the castration of 100 stallions in addition to colts throughout key California inward the terminal few days.
The National Equine Resource Network (NERN) in addition to a grouping of colleagues including equine vets, vet students, and equine rescue sanctuaries gelded the horses inward a week-long rolling serial of low-cost gelding clinics.
“When NERN was formed ii years agone to help the equine welfare community inward saving in addition to caring for at-risk horses, our finish was to brand an immediate impact,” said Shirley Puga, NERN Founder in addition to Executive Director.
“Low-cost gelding clinics held inward partnership amongst equine veterinarians were an obvious agency every bit they require a relatively pocket-size fiscal commitment piece producing major results past times impacting the publish of horses that powerfulness go neglected or abandoned inward the future,” she said.
Since the average privately owned stallion volition sire v foals inward its breeding career, every stallion in addition to colt gelded at these clinics reduces the futurity equine population past times that number. According to Puga, this serial was business office of NERN’s continuing airplane pilot computer programme to furnish a model for these clinics throughout the country. The series potentially reduced the futurity Equus caballus population of the province past times 500.
The traveling gelding hospital serial was a partnership betwixt Puga, Dr Eric Davis, DVM, Founder of Rural Veterinary Experience Teaching in addition to Service (R-VETS), in addition to his partner Cindy McClinn, RVT, who piece of occupation together to choose character tending to animals that powerfulness non e'er larn professional person veterinary treatment.
Puga in addition to Davis too invention to partner on futurity clinics throughout California. NERN too continues to refine the low-cost gelding computer programme for distribution to rescue sanctuary operators in addition to other equine welfare advocates throughout the country.
“The ask to bring down the country’s equine population, a key cistron inward ending equine slaughter, has never been greater in addition to NERN volition choose a leadership go inward this seem of that solution,” Puga said.
She is too working amongst other segments of the country’s Equus caballus welfare community to convince the commercial equine manufacture to exercise to a greater extent than selective breeding in addition to furnish for aftercare for their horses to eventually eliminate equine slaughter.
The eight-day traveling serial held 8 gelding clinics inward 8 cities; roofing to a greater extent than than k miles inward the heavily Equus caballus populated key business office of California. The hospital locations were Salinas, King City, Lodi, Auburn, Petaluma, Woodland, Orland in addition to Cottonwood.
Participating equine rescues were the SPCA of Monterey County, Valley View Ranch Equine Rescue, Oakdale Equine Rescue, The Shiloh Foundation, Sonoma Action For Equine Rescue, in addition to Safe Haven Horse Rescue. Contributing sponsors for this serial of clinics were One Horse At A Time in addition to Redwings Horse Sanctuary. Professional lensman Jim Westin volunteered his fourth dimension to document the entire trial on film.
In add-on to providing this much needed service to Equus caballus owners, the clinics too served every bit an of import grooming sense for a grouping of UC Davis vet students who traveled amongst NERN in addition to R-VETS.
In April, NERN scheduled four, one-day gelding clinics – Apr vii inward Oakdale, Apr xv inward Ramona, Apr 21 inward Bishop, in addition to dorsum inward Oakdale on Apr 28. Clinics are inward the plant for May in addition to June every bit well.
Puga said planning is nether agency for the outset out-of-state clinic, to go held inward Western Washington State inward piece of cake Spring/early Summer. The states of Nevada in addition to Texas are nether consideration for the Fall.
“We are proving that the equine welfare community is willing to pace upwards to the plate to create its business office inward reducing our country’s Equus caballus population in addition to so eliminate the ask for equine slaughter. We promise the commercial breeding in addition to racing industries volition choose their responsibleness also,” Puga said.
NERN’s finish for 2012 is to geld 250 stallions in addition to colts, representing a futurity population reduction of 1250 horses. They are good on their way. With fiscal assistance, they could create fifty-fifty more.
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