Large Animal Rescue











The essay is focused on rescue techniques to save the large animals such as horse and cows in danger situations. How to save these animals in danger situations such fire or accident or when animal will fall down in a valley or muddy water etc is real challenge, so the rescuer uses the simple rescue techniques to save them. As we know that large animals have more strength, so the rescuer will make use of that strength in order to save that animals. Therefore this way the rescuer make the powerful animals to make use of their own power, this animal will use their own power to help themselves. This will reduce labor and thus with some good rescue techniques the animal will be saved. But in all this scenarios the major care will be taken to protect rescuer from any type of danger and thus the animals will be saved next.
The special kind of training is required for this kind of risky operation which make the rescuer perfect to judge the situation and will be able to make the decision which is helpful in that particular situation. The training not only teaches how to deal with animals but also teach how to understand the animal behavior and enlightens the inner strength in the rescuer to save the animal in even more worst situations. This is a tough job to perform and but appropriate equipment and technology makes it easy to implement and practice. The key to save animal is the mutual understanding between the co-workers which help them to perform their task with out any confusion. Slight mistakes some time may create big problems both to animals and to the rescuers too.
Summary:
The Large Animal Rescue is also commonly known as Technical Large Animal Rescue is a kind of interaction with large animals in the situation when the animal is in danger. The large animal rescue training is a training where we learn how to keep ourselves safe and while working with an animal which is already injured or in extremely bad situation and of course keeping the safety of animals in mind. There is an advantage in large animal rescue that this animals are big and powerful, the rescuers can make use of there power and help the animals to help themselves.
There are many ways to assist the animal but how to assist the animal depends on the situation and reaction of that animal. The risk factor depends on how the animal reacts in that particular situation. Different animal react differently in different situations. Some may be quite and will respond supportively but some due to scare and other factor react very badly and may cause problems, because when the rescuers are trying to assist a injured animal then the main idea of the animal is to be alive and not be eaten, and in general we can say that the animal will not be in a thinking mode. This type of animal may react in different ways. The risk always depends on the reaction of the animals, some animals due to scarcity may create problems for rescuers. But if the rescuers is trained then they can handle the situation very wisely otherwise it may be dangerous for both rescuer and also to the animal. Therefore if the rescuers are trained then they can handle the situation in a better way.
As the reaction of the animals are ascertain the action of the rescuer may vary according to the situation, If the animal response is good then it will be easy for the rescuers to save the animal will very less damage to the animal. But the problem arises when the animals are not responding well in the situation and will turn badly against the rescuer and may try to harm them, then in this situation the rescuer first thinks of there own safety and secondly the rescuer will try to adopt a method by which they can save the animal with minimum risk.
The choosing of method to save really matters a lot in this kind of situation. if we consider a simple example where the horse in trouble with some obstacle then in this scenario some time it is very worthy to remove the obstacle from the horse but it may not be the same in other situation so at that removing the horse from that place will work out well. Therefore the rescuers will use their own tactics to save animal in different situation. in the similar way we can give such numerous simple examples, to list out few in some situation if the horse can’t make to travel uphill then it is better to make it go downhill. And in other case if the horse is in the trail, then in this situation it is sometimes more easy to cut the trail then to lift the horse up. This thinks can be done by any trainers but which method to adopt in what situation can only be decided perfectly by a trained rescuer. There are many advantages to take training because the untrained worker may sometime create problem in a simple situations. And according to many experts in this area the main problem in tough situation will be the decision of the rescuer. If the rescuers are not trained then they may not take right decisions.
The rescuers will learn many things in the training to name few
1. They learn how to keep themselves save while dealing with the large animals.
2. When they have to call for large animal veterinarian.
3. How a large animal can be safely removed from a trailer
4. How to lift the animal vertically
5. How to take out the animals from mud and quicksand
6. How to safe animal and of course themselves in the situation of fire.
7. How to use the equipments of animal safety and in which situation.
8. Emergency first aid for horses or for any other animals.
9. How to approach, move and catch the horse with or without equipments.
Therefore it is very important for horse riders and for rescuers to take training and learn better ways to save animals in dangerous situations. The trained rescuers will use many equipments to save animals, but if this equipments is used by a person who has not taken any training then it may result in a serious injuries or may some time cause death. The most important equipment can be listed as
Personal Gear:
Every rescuer should have these things in personal for their own use. It is suggestible that everyone should have their own such equipment for safely handling the situations. Some of these personal gears can be named as
1. Gloves to catch hold of ropes and mechanical equipments etc
2. Boats are really necessary when animals stuck in to mud or in place or fire.
3. Headwear-it may be a good helmet which may protect the head.
4. Goggles, ear protection are mainly used when there is chance of exposure due to fire or due to some other kind of serious damage.
5. Protective clothing, level C HazMat suit, body harness, and
6. Water rescue gear such as dry suit, boots, helmet etc.
The other basic rescue equipment which the rescue team should carry with them in any kind of operation is: the emergency rope halter, wide fire hose web with sewn loops on each end, spread bar, gallon of water-based lubricants, nylon web with loops on each end, horse head protection, large steel carabiners, large bed sheet, Large animal first-aid box, dust tape, insulated horse blanket etc.
It is also good to have following things which rescuers may need in certain situations, so to be on safe side it is better to carry all this things with the equipment mention above, it can be listed as portable fence, mud rescue kit, portable winch, rope anchor system, power generator, portable flood lights, portable air tank, photo camera, video camera, transport boxes for equipments, chemical capture equipments after consulting with veterinarian.
Techniques to save Large animals:
When the animal fall in to the river and unable to make it out of it then there are few techniques to follow to safely deal the situation, we need to make use of hose ie., the kind of floating plastic or wooden rod is used which help the horse to float on water and there by tying the rope at the belly and girth part of the horse it can be taken out of the river. The condition sometime will become worst if the rescuer cant make it out to put the rope near belly and girth, instead if they put it to neck then that will be a dangerous situation, so it is suggested to avoid that way.

The images have been provided to have a clear understanding of how the horse which is caught in the mud can be saved. Imagine a scenario when the horse is caught in the mud or quicksand. The mad will caught the animal in the very distinct way and it is really tough to move any animal in the mud. It need a good planning and patience. Here the rescuer has to take a special care because some time they may slip in to the mud and in that scenario rescuer has to be very careful. The most important thing is the horse should not be pulled by keeping the rope in to its head or legs. Instead the technique suggest to use the broad rope and should be fixed on the appropriate position as shown.

From figure 1, we can see that in the background a sheet is being prepared which will be helpful for the support of horse to come out from the mud. The ropes should not be put on the place which may heart or may will be uneasy to horse. The position matters a lot because if the rope is place in the sensitive parts of horse body then it may irritate it and any wrong action of it at that time will cause a big problem. Therefore for the safety of the animal it has to roped well.

Figure 2 shows the place to keep the sheet and rope is also seen very clearly. Now when every things seems to be right the horse will be lifted up with a Crain type machine. The ropes will be fixed to the hookes of the machine and then the machine will lift the horse and put it on the safe place. Here in all these process, the positioning of rope matters a lot.
Another approach to help animal is TLAER. In the olden days also the ropes and slings were commonly used to transport animals from one place to another. This situation occur when there is a water which is very deep and it is very dangerous to cross for any animal. This technique is generally used by the formers who don’t what to travel there animal in boat because of danger. But this is a real hard work and cant be perform and preferred by many. Figure below shows the image of a precarious Mekong River was first published the magazine of national Geographic in September 1921. The owner of the beast supply his own power, hand over hand and cross the river with his beast.

When the ropes are not available or else men power is less than the animals then simple technique can be used to take the animal to the destination. The animals have a mentality that they will follow the bigger and powerful among then. If the powerful among them is controlled by the owner then every one else will also follow the big animal. Therefore we can make use of this technique to control all animals and make to follow one particular path.
This scenario is helpful, for example when the owner has to take care of 5 or more animals and the owner has only one rope then in this case the owner has to select one perticuar animal which is powerful and bigger among them, then tie rope to that particular animal and move with that animal then all other animals will follow the first one, thereby decreases the man labor with simple technique.

The situation may come when trailer detached from the trunk and rolled downhill and filled on it. In this scenario try to use ropes and pull the trailer to its normal position it is impossible to do so then we need to cut the trailer such that it may not harm the animal. The animal inside will be really panic so try to avoid going close to the animal, this may cause the rescuer to be in trouble. This situation may sometime turn worst when some one try to step on the trailer and want to open the door of the trailer manually, instead we need to use the rod to open the door to avoid the aggressive animal nature. If the animal is injured then we need to use the First aid box to medicate it at the right time without any danger to animal


There may be other situation when the animals have to protected from Fire. There are many ways by which the form may catch fire and it is a very dangerous situation because the forms are generally situated at rural area and away from the cities. So it may take a long time for the fire department to come and remove fire. So it is better to have a safety measure then to put off the fire. There are many preventive measures to avoid the form to catch fire.
The two main sources for catching fire is Ignition source and Fuel source. The Ignition source are smoking-matches, smoking materials, faulty electrical wiring which includes extension codes, heaters, heat lamps, lights, sparks from motors, truck or machinery exhaust and friction from worn mechanical component etc, whereas fuel sources are Hay, bedding material-straw, wood for building frame work, stall walls, blanket, cloth, cleaning rags, and liquid fuels such as gasoline, kerosene etc. The following are the few
preventive steps to avoid fire in the forms.
The first to avoid fire in the form is to identify ignition sources in the form and eliminate them. For example the matches and smoking material should be kept away from the dry grass as the dry grass will catch fire very quickly. Try to avoid the extension code as much as possible and make use of electric wiring and care should be taken that no wire should be kept open ended which may lead to sparks. Care should be taken for heaters, it should be turn off immediately after its use, similarly the case with heat lamps and lights. Replace the motor which give sparks or else try to fix the problem. Store hey at proper moisture level and its condition has to be check at regular interval.
Liquids fuels should be store separately; the fire producing things should not be put close to the blanket, cloth, rags or any kind of liquids. Make sure that there is no bare wires exposed. Look at the wire carefully which indicate heating or arcing. Avoid overloading the circuit. The major source for fire hazard is extension cord. It may cause danger to both animals as well as to the human. Make sure that all the electronic equipments used in the form is well maintained.
The modern technique of firm alarm system should be used, and try to keep the fire extinguisher in the form at some places. The family member and those who work in the form should do some kind of pre planning. The proper strategy may avoid a lot of damage and thus every one working in the form should know how to evacuate the barn and how to remove the animals from the firms. There should be separate exit for this type of situation. everyone should know where phones are located in the firm, and make sure to have the first aid box at nearby place.


Conclusion:
I feel that Large animal rescue is a very tough job and can only be performed by the people who has real interest in animals. Only animals lovers can do this jobs and rescue should have good sense of humor and more operation he/she will perform, more experience they get. So its basically depends on the experience and skills. The experience make the rescuer to deal with tough situation with ease. It is the job to be done with lot of patience and self confidence.
I feel awareness should be made among the people through news papers and TV channel or though small documentary kind of movies with real experience of some rescuers. If people will be more familiar with the situation then they will try to handle with it by themselves up to some extend till the rescue team arrive at the spot.
I strongly believe that people who are working as rescues should take Large animal rescue training in order to make themselves confident enough to deal for any kind of situation and moreover the techniques thought in this training period is really good and worth. Its all deal with common sense all together with proper tools and equipments. If the person wants to help animal but is not properly trained then he may make the situation even worst like to save the horse in the water or in mud, if the rescuer don’t know where to put a rope and by mistake if he put it in the animals neck then he will make the situation worst then before.
Therefore this training teach the rescuer to deal with situation and how to make a mutual understanding between the co-workers because while rescuing any large animal the better understanding and team work is needed. Every individual should be perfect at his work and everyone should know what to do and when to do and how to do the particular task. Any mistake by any individual may cause problem to the life of animal and may sometime create problems for their co-workers. And sometimes leads to someone’s death.
Outline:
The essay is focused on rescue techniques to save the large animals such as horse and cows in danger situations. How to save these animals in danger situations such fire or accident or when animal will fall down in a valley or muddy water etc is real challenge, so the rescuer uses the simple rescue techniques to save them. The Large Animal Rescue is also commonly known as Technical Large Animal Rescue is a kind of interaction with large animals in the situation when the animal is in danger. There is an advantage in large animal rescue that this animals are big and powerful, the rescuers can make use of there power and help the animals to help themselves. The risk factor depends on how the animal reacts in that particular situation. Different animal react differently in different situations. Some may be quite and will respond supportively but some due to scare and other factor react very badly and may cause problems, because when the rescuers are trying to assist a injured animal then the main idea of the animal is to be alive and not be eaten, and in general we can say that if the rescuers are trained then they can handle the situation in a better way. But the problem arises when the animals are not responding well in the situation and will turn badly against the rescuer and may try to harm them, then in this situation the rescuer first thinks of there own safety and secondly the rescuer will try to adopt a method by which they can save the animal with minimum risk.
The rescuers will learn many things in the training to name few, they learn how to keep themselves save while dealing with the large animals, when they have to call for large animal veterinarian, how a large animal can be safely removed from a trailer, how to lift the animal vertically, how to take out the animals from mud and quicksand, how to safe animal and of course themselves in the situation of fire. how to use the equipments of animal safety and in which situation, emergency first aid for horses or for any other animals. How to approach, move and catch the horse with or without equipments.
Therefore it is very important for horse riders and for rescuers to take training and learn better ways to save animals in dangerous situations. The most important equipment can be listed as Personal Gear: Every rescuer should have this things in personal for there own use. It is suggestible that everyone should have there own such equipment for safely handling the situations. Some of these personal gears can be named as gloves, boats, headwear-it may be a good helmet which may protect the head, goggles, ear protection, protective clothing, level C HazMat suit, body harness, and water rescue gear such as dry suit, boots, helmet etc. Techniques to save Large animals, among them, then tie rope to that particular animal and move with that animal then all other animals will follow the first one, thereby decreases the man labor with simple technique. The situation may come when trailer detached from the trunk and rolled downhill and filled on it. In this scenario try to use ropes and pull the trailer to its normal position it is impossible to do so then we need to cut the trailer such that it may not harm the animal. There may be other situation when the animals have to protected from Fire. There are many ways by which the form may catch fire and it is a very dangerous situation because the forms are generally situated at rural area and away from.
The two main sources for catching fire is Ignition source and Fuel source. The Ignition source are smoking-matches, smoking materials, faulty electrical wiring which includes extension codes, heaters, heat lamps, lights, sparks from motors, truck or machinery exhaust and friction from worn mechanical component etc, whereas fuel sources are Hay, bedding material-straw, wood for building frame work, stall walls, blanket, cloth, cleaning rags, and liquid fuels such as gasoline, kerosene etc. The modern technique of firm alarm system should be used, and try to keep the fire extinguisher in the form at some places. The family member and those who work in the form should do some kind of pre planning. The proper strategy may avoid a lot of damage and thus every one working in the form should know how to evacuate the barn and how to remove the animals from the firms. There should be separate exit for this type of situation. everyone should know where phones are located in the firm, and make sure to have the first aid box at nearby place.
Therefore I strongly believe that ever rescuer has to take a training in order know the logics and techniques of this work. Therefore this training teach the rescuer to deal with situation and how to make a mutual understanding between the co-workers because while rescuing any large animal the better understanding and team work is needed. Every individual should be perfect at his work and everyone should know what to do and when to do and how to do the particular task. Any mistake by any individual may cause problem to the life of animal and may sometime create problems for their co-workers. And sometimes leads to someone’s death.











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