This plan was organized by the State Animal Response Team, North Carolina Department of Agriculture, and the North Carolina State College of Veterinary Medicine.

If any horses are requested from states affected by Hurricane Katrina are to be sent to North Carolina, it is hoped that no sick or injured horses are asked to make the long trip. Healthy horses will be received at a central location in North Carolina, examined, and triaged, including rapid Coggins testing. They will be observed in quarantine for seven days, then be available for fostering to volunteer owners. The North Carolina Horse Council under the guidance of the above groups would be in need of:

 1. Horse experienced volunteers that could be called in central North Carolina willing to help clean stalls, feed, groom, and hand walk horses.

2. Experienced horse people who are willing to take horses after they have been through quarantine, which could be for an indefinite period of time