I’m better than you asked:
I mean how without putting the animal under complete stress. I mean a trip to China is stressful for humans, I can’t imagine the stress for the animal. Or do they use trained horses from China?
Autumn
I mean how without putting the animal under complete stress. I mean a trip to China is stressful for humans, I can’t imagine the stress for the animal. Or do they use trained horses from China?
Autumn
No, they fly their own horses there… I would guess they use mild tranquilizers to keep the animals calm during the trip.
This is how they did it for the Sydney Olympics in 2000
Comment by lakeplacidgirl2001 — January 12, 2008 @ 3:29 pm
The U.S. equestrian team’s horses arrived in Beijing about a week before the games, NBC reported. The horses probably have more frequent flyer miles than most people, as they travel approximately 30,000 miles by plane annually, according to Tim Dutta of Dutta Corporation, a horse transportation company.
Horses must arrive at the airport 10 hours early and be monitored in quarantine for five hours. They travel in stalls similar to horse trailers you’d see on the road. They travel on passenger flights as well as cargo flights.
A good article on this is here
Comment by Jenny C — January 15, 2008 @ 5:01 pm