Welcome to EquestriSafe
We’d like to tell you about us in a series of opening blog posts.
First of all, the idea of visible Horse Identification is why you might be here and it the reason that EquestriSafe exists. Our story began some 11 years ago, when 2 friends were ordered to evacuate their homes for an impending fire.
Our first thought was, where are we going to go? Secondly, how are we going to evacuate? See personally, I had 3 horses and no horse trailer or a way to evacuate except to ride from my home out about a mile to where someone could either “take my horses” for me or have a friend meet me with a horse trailer to “pick us up” – need I say “And go where?”. At the time I wasn’t even aware of any evacuation locations, so I guessed I’d have to beg a friend to keep my horses until we could get back home.
Now top this off with ….. This happened with a 4 am wake-up blow horn Sheriff’s car in my front yard. Woken up out of a dead sleep & told you have 15 minutes to evacuate and you can not come back until the evacuation order is lifted.
The scramble began, what do you take? Where do you begin? Obviously we’d take the dogs, try to locate the important papers regarding our house, the birds, rabbits and what else? Oh yes, the computers, but at the time we had a desktop with a very large tower and we forgot the tower. Yes, we had the monitors loaded, but forgot the tower.
We didn’t even think about cloths, because I thought we could purchase new clothes. Any woman knows we love to buy cloths. Besides my jeans needed replaced and my husband could use some new t-shirts.
Oh how I digress. Back to what are we going to do. So at 4 am, who do you call? I waited to call people until 5:30 am, yes we waited that long – bad move. However we were in visual site of the impending fire, there was no wind, so we felt safe enough not to rush out. I had saddled my riding horse, haltered (or attempted to) the 2 mustangs I had at the time.
Now if you’ve seen me do presentations, you’ve heard me ask you to “do your homework” and run into your horses pasture, stall, barn whatever is your set up and try to halter your horse when you are scared and excited. This situation is why I ask you to do that, my youngest mustang literally gave me the hoof and would not let me get near him no matter what I did to make this happen. That was until I exited the stall from frustration and about 5 minutes later walked right up to him and put the halter on without incident.
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