Horse Emergency
Project of 1-st rescue service for horses, farm- and zoo-animals is a private organization operating the first mobile ambulance to save the injured, sick or abused large animals in Central and Eastern Europe. Our ambition is to make the most possible comfort (welfare) for injured animals during rescue operations, during transport and transporting injured or sick animal to safety or to professional treatment as soon as possible.
Our motivation is a great experience with similar emergency services abroad. Today we offer a unique and professional service of animal rescue, emergency transportation, and special interventions, and all that, despite the fact, that our rescue crew does not have this like a main job. We think that our pets, who often become friends and family members, deserve it. Currently we have one specially equipped ambulance, which departs from the Brno Clinic of horses diseases. We see our future in expanding our team to each region in Czech republic and eventually to the neighboring countries, where this service does not exist yet. We are a full part of the Civil Emergency Preparedness (Integrated Rescue System) of the South Moravian Region (IZS JMK).
Project founders
- professional Horse-transporters: Pavel Cechovsky - Horse Taxi Brno, Tomas Förchtgott - Horse Trans
- Clinic of horses’ diseases of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Brno – MVDr. Zdenek Žert, CSc, Dipl.ECVS , Veterinary Clinic Heřmanův Městec – MVDr. Peter Přikryl-.
... Or - everything has already been there! Yes, the idea of raising horses in the construction and their transportation in a special container is not new. On images from the early 20th century you can see the equipment of the firefighters who helped stand up carriage horses that fell on the pavement. If a horse could not stand, then he was transported in a special box, which has an opening side. The horse was secured against standing up by the stretcher on the top.
