The W.A. Ranches facility was gifted to the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in 2018.
It’s still a working ranch but its also become home base in world-leading research into the four-legged athletes that compete at the Calgary Stampede, says Dr. Ed Pajor, professor of Animal Behaviour and Welfare and director of W.A.
Ranches. “This year what we are doing is providing a new framework to develop a new tool to look at assessing animal welfare of the rodeo animals. Animals show signs of stress, show signs of fear.
We know what those are. So we can put those in a catalogue of things we are going to measure. So we can say how bad [a] situation is for these animals.
” 2:25 Calgary Stampede wraps us with mostly success, animal rights advocates call out horse death at races And for the first time, every horses that run in the chuckwagon races will be given a blood test to try and prevent equine heart attacks, says Dr. Renaud Leguillette, Professor at the U of C’s faculty of Veterinary Medicine. Story continues below advertisement “We validated a test that allows us to measure how the cardiac muscle, the heart muscle, is dealing with the effort in the races.
Then we can...
red flag a horse.” The email you need for the day's top news stories from Canada and around the world. Leguillette says it’s like finding a needle in a haystack.
Very few horses, maybe five of 500 tested, will indicate a problem. Trending Now WestJet strike averted as feds interven.
