Traveller's Rest Equine Elders Sanctuary: Age is Just a Number

Monday, November 3, 2008

Age is Just a Number

"At what age should I retire my horse?"

We hear that question often and I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole. I'll just say that there is no magic number. You should retire your horse when he no longer enjoys his work.

"'I will retire Elmer when he no longer enjoys the trail,' said [Mary Anna] Wood. Saturday (10-25-08) was not that day." http://www.thehorse.com/ViewArticle.aspx?ID=12985&source=rss

Elmer Bandit....our hero! Many senior horses' owners have followed Elmer for many months as he approached the competitive trail mileage record. In Kansas, over the October 25-26 weekend, he did it. Elmer broke the old record of 20,710 career miles. As if that number wasn't impressive enough, here's another: Elmer broke that record at age 37!

See? Just a number.

Be sure to read the article linked above, written by Marsha Hayes, who had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity -- to ride her horse Ransom, next to Elmer during his record breaking ride.

"Elmer Bandit is not scheduled to compete in any other events in 2008. "

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Traveller's Rest Equine Elders Sanctuary Mission: To promote the humane treatment of elder equine through education and awareness programs for the general public as well as the equine community, to provide information on care of elderly equine, assisting owners in properly maintaining older animals through retirement, to support municipal and court efforts to enforce humane treatment and animal control laws, to rescue and rehabilitate abused or neglected equine, and to provide for the lifetime care of elderly equine. Traveller’s Rest Equine Elders Sanctuary is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. Your contributions are tax deductible to the full extent of the Internal Revenue Code. EIN #20-0331606

Suggested Reading

Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin
Black Beauty, by Anna Sewell
Hands-On Senior Horse Care, by Karen E N Hayes, DVM, MS & Sue M Copeland
Horse Sense and the Human Heart by Adele von Rust McCormick, PhD, & Marlena Deborah McCormick, PhD
Horsekeeping on Small Acreage, by Cherry Hill
Horses and the Mystical Path, by Adele von Rust McCormick, PhD, Marlena Deborah McCormick, Phd & Thomas E McCormick, MD
Seabiscuit, by Laura Hillenbrand
The Soul of a Horse: Life Lessons from the Herd by Joe Camp
The Tao of Equus, by Linda Kohanov
Wisdom of the Elders, by David Suzuki & Peter Knudtson

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