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Animal Transportation Association Coverage, Day 1

March 19, 2012
Posted by Rebecca Gimenez Husted, PhD

Topics: Blogs, The Horse 911: What's Your Emergency?

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This week, I’m reporting from the Animal Transportation Association’s 38th Annual International Conference, held at the Coast Coal Harbour Hotel in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.The conference takes place March 18-21, 2012.

This year’s theme is “A Global View on Animal Logistics.” The conference brings together professionals in air, sea, and ground transportation of animals of all shapes and sizesÑfrom exotics and zoologics to livestock, companion animals and horses. Our interest at this conference is all things equine, which technically includes the exotic equines (zebras, Prezwalski’s, wild asses), but we’ll concentrate on the domesticated equines for the purposes of this coverage

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Rebecca Gimenez Husted, PhD

Rebecca Gimenez Husted, BS, PhD, is the primary instructor and president of Technical Large Animal Emergency Rescue. Her first book, Technical Large Animal Emergency Rescue, was published in 2008. She is an internationally sought instructor in technical rescue techniques, procedures, and methodologies, and she has published numerous critiques, articles and journal submissions on horse safety, technical large animal rescue and horse handling issues.