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I'm inviting the Horses USA community to take my survey on unwanted horses, and options beyond getting rid of them. My college writing course is focusing on a feasibility project in an area of professional interest. I'm currently attending the University of Minnesota as an Animal Science undergrad, technically concentrating in Biotechnology but I'm also doing as many horse courses as I can. My topic is "What option, or combination of options, that either discourage breeding or make use of unwanted horses without changing hands would be the most feasible to implement?". Most of the options touted by the Unwanted Horse Council amount to getting rid of the horse, but I think that isn't the best way to deal with all "unwanted" horses and other options should be considered. The AQHA is going to be the association to ask about feasibility, since they are the one I'm most familiar with and they appear to have the greatest impact on the US horse industry, especially in the low end horses, so their choices would trickle down to other purebred registries. I need to do a survey and three or more interviews as part of this project, so if you know of anyone who could be considered an expert in some part of this topic please mention them in the "other options?" part of this survey! People who work for AQHA, breeders who have been in the industry forever, full-time rescuers, kill buyers, AC officers/ASPCA people, etc. MN-based or affiliated with my U of M a big plus. If you are a horse owner in the US over the age of 18, I'd like you to take this survey. It should only take a few minutes to fill out, and it will be available until Wednesday or Friday of next week, depending on when the minimum number of responses is reached and if you guys blow up my in box. I'll post the results end of November or the middle of December. If anything isn't working, or you don't understand a question, please email me at the address on the website. http://www.tc.umn.edu/~meyer817/ LURA: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
