So wait, lemme get this right: when horses are flown overseas, the humans in the flight require an additional human to be present alongside the horse, with a loaded .38, to “eyeball and shoot the horse” in any case of risk, within a pressurized metal tube at 10km altitude, traveling at several hundred kmph?
Isn’t that a recipe for disaster? Wouldn’t it be easier to drug the horse into oblivion, before takeoff? 😳
They are sedated to oblivion. Its just that like any sedative or anesthetic it can wear off if things get so stressful that the drugs turn out not to be enough.
And in such case, rather than a taser, or any incapacitating weapon, we go with one that can perforate a fuselage in one go? Sounds ill advised, but if it works it works. 🤷 I’ll leave it to the pros and the people who actually are risking their lives to decide what best fits their needs. All I know is I would pray the sedatives don’t wear off, because I don’t feel better than the horse about the alternative…
The horses that ship internationally like this are generally worth $1M+ so its not like this was the solution every settled on as “eh, good enough” and more like, even with all this time and effort, this is still the beat solution we can come up with. Also for what its worth, I don’t know that this measure has ever been taken in my lifetime. The sedatives have always worked in every case I’ve know. Putting down a horse in international shipping for safety is an extreme edge case
Attendants ride with the horses when shipping overseas. If a horse panics it can imbalance the plane leading to catastrophic failure
So wait, lemme get this right: when horses are flown overseas, the humans in the flight require an additional human to be present alongside the horse, with a loaded .38, to “eyeball and shoot the horse” in any case of risk, within a pressurized metal tube at 10km altitude, traveling at several hundred kmph?
Isn’t that a recipe for disaster? Wouldn’t it be easier to drug the horse into oblivion, before takeoff? 😳
They are sedated to oblivion. Its just that like any sedative or anesthetic it can wear off if things get so stressful that the drugs turn out not to be enough.
And in such case, rather than a taser, or any incapacitating weapon, we go with one that can perforate a fuselage in one go? Sounds ill advised, but if it works it works. 🤷 I’ll leave it to the pros and the people who actually are risking their lives to decide what best fits their needs. All I know is I would pray the sedatives don’t wear off, because I don’t feel better than the horse about the alternative…
The horses that ship internationally like this are generally worth $1M+ so its not like this was the solution every settled on as “eh, good enough” and more like, even with all this time and effort, this is still the beat solution we can come up with. Also for what its worth, I don’t know that this measure has ever been taken in my lifetime. The sedatives have always worked in every case I’ve know. Putting down a horse in international shipping for safety is an extreme edge case