HAPPY TAILS RESCUE: LRTC HAS BEEN BUSY!

LRTC’s Technical Large Animal Rescue team has been keeping busy!  In August, team members attended Crime Scene Investigation training under Lyon County Sheriff Search and Rescue’s teaching. Their takeaways were identifying a potential crime scene, who to report it to, how to preserve the scene, and things they should and shouldn’t do.

In September they participated in Dayton Valley Days, along with Wild Horse Connection and two rescued foals, Bella and Smokey. They were there alongside the Wild Horse Preservation League and Virginia Range Wildlife Protection Association. 

In October, a full Technical Large Animal Rescue training was held in Stagecoach for new members and members keeping their certification current.

All the while they took on plenty of calls for everything from simple wellness checks, a horse with a nail in it’s hoof (successfully removed), another with a pipe sleeve stuck sideways on its hoof (successfully removed), a domestic horse who could not get up on its own, multiple calls where horses have gotten onto fenced highway through a development who has not installed proper road protection as needed, and a call quite a ways north of Gerlach to help some Washoe County Sheriff deputies free a horse stuck in a cattle guard.

Currently LRTC is looking for volunteers from all around the Virginia Range - Fernley, Silver Springs, Dayton, Carson City, Reno - all are welcome! For more information on required training and next steps, please email Tracy at tdkwilson@gmail.com.