Subject: Syn Alia clips with horses From: Kayce Cover Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:43:22 -0400 (EDT) To: applied-ethology@usask.ca http://www.synalia.com Regards, Kayce Kayce Cover MSEd, BS An Sci, CABC IAABC Syn Alia Training Systems http://www.synalia.com PO Box 8788, Norfolk, VA 23503-0788 001 757 588 5967 or 001 757 609 5066 Subject: FW: tethering animals From: "Reynnells, Richard" Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:46:30 -0400 To: applied-ethology@sask.usask.ca Can anyone help with this question? Please copy your response to Janet. Thanks. From: L&J [mailto:ljhalldy@smt-net.com] Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 11:09 AM To: Subject: tethering animals I am helping someone with research on the tethering of animals and would like to ask if you know if there are any animal species that do not do well being tethering on a 10 foot tether. I am specifically interested in the tethering of llamas, reptiles, and birds. I know, for example, that horses do not do well on that long of a tether and need one about 2 feet long or so. But what about others in the animal kingdom that you can think of? Any help you could give me on this would be very much appreciated. Thank you for your time. Janet Halladey ljhalldy@smt-net.com Subject: How do goats get up? From: tkonold@btinternet.com Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:04:44 +0000 (GMT) To: Applied Ethology List Dear all, studying the rising behaviour of ruminants can be useful to assess whether there is a neurological dysfunction (e.g. ataxia). For example, cattle with bovine spongiform encephalopathy may get up with their fore limbs first, contrary to the normal rising with the hind limbs first. Lameness etc. can obviously cause the same behavioural abnormality. I tried to find some information about the normal rising behaviour of goats but could not find anything. Having seen a few apparently healthy goats getting up I suspect that they get up like cattle but I have also seen goats getting up with the fore limbs first and wonder whether this is abnormal. Does anybody know of any publication that describes the rising behaviour in goats or can anybody on this list confirm - based on their own experience - that normal goats indeed get up with their hind limbs first? Thanks a lot, Timm Konold, DrMedVet MRCVS