--- stroppelj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> a horse coming directly from Iceland usually don't
> need to be 
> quarantined as there are no infectiuos horse
> diseases in Iceland. If 
> you quarantine them, then to prevent them from being
> infected from the 
> resident horses ;-). the problem might be, that they
> have to stay in 
> quarantine stables, where horses from other
> countries are stabled as 
> well. So there they might catch something.

This Icelandic was sent to California, was shipped
across the US by truck after arrival, they do pick
things up on the truck, especially because they have
no immunity. "The people" tried to convince me that my
horse had gotten staph from drinking in the park, the
vet said no, highly unlikely. So it was either the
horse, or a dirty stable, and I think it was the pony.
The pony wasn't feeling 100%. In the situation, I
didn't really have a choice. Once my pony came down
with staph, I had to wait about a month to move him to
a new stable, because he was infected.

Kim

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