Large Animal Rescue

<Introduction Today, there has been growing concerns on how animals can be rescued, and especially with the large animals. For instance, the entire public will always have the expectation that they should be able call 9-1-1 and get quick response for all their sudden needs. This has evolved from the fire fighting services, ambulances, police, and now with animal service. They have been subjected into thorough training sessions so that they can be competent enough towards offering the best services to the public. This has been the similar thing with animal rescue operations (Stilp, 2009). Such individuals have spent very many hours undergoing thorough training so that they may be able to offer sufficient response or adaptations for any issue or emergencies related to large animals. With this kind of understanding, we shall be able to see that Large Animal Rescue, LAR, or also known as Technical Large Animal Rescue, TLAR, has been adopted as a method through which human beings will interact with the large animals during rescue operations or situations. The LAR has been offering a concise training, which will be effective in teaching someone how he or she can be in a position of keeping himself safe when working with a given large animal, and possibly an animal that has been seriously injured. In addition, the training should be able to provide the individual with the appropriate techniques of engagement towards ensuring that the animal has been kept safe as well. Due to this kind of demand and expectation, Large Animal Rescue has therefore been designed in such a way that it will work hand in hand with Incident Command Systems, also known as ICS. In the event that a given command response has been noted to involve a multiple number of agencies, then it is necessary that all the agencies have to interact in a manner that promotes rescue operations. In addition, they will be expected to interact properly towards offering the necessary rescue operations for animals and any other individuals who might have been involved (Stilp, 2009). As well, the agencies have to be capable of keeping themselves safe as well. Therefore, the LAR training ensures that it will cover scene management and safety provision, how to apply and use some given equipment, and how useful equipments for the operation can be improvised. History of Large Animal Rescue Different events and occurrences around the world will be responsible for any kind of development that takes place. This has been the exact thing with the history of large animal rescue. Over the past few years, man has been noted to come up with approaches and policies, which give animals some privileges and rights. Therefore, it will be noted that the original concept towards giving animals some rights must have been something that has been on slow evolution for the past centuries (Staples, 2006). A number of historians also note that, in the ancient days, animals were noted to be the equivalent of the child, and thus there was the need of giving these animals equal rights as with the children. According to them, the argument has been that the ancient human society's saw the child and the animals as two types of creatures, which were not able to make deliberate or useful decisions and could not offer complains for what was being done on them. This was the beginning of giving animals a number of useful considerations and rights towards their improved living conditions. Before the 1600s, historians say that life must have been very difficult for both men and animals. During this historical time, majority of the world's populations have been noted to have been working so hard so that they can be in a position of getting or achieving some simple requirements and needs of life, such as shelter, warmth, and even food. There had been very many illnesses and mishaps claiming the lives of very many people as well as the animals (Staples, 2006). With such kind of deaths for both animals and human beings, majority of the humans were not aware, or could not at all come into terms with what might have been happening during the time (Staples, 2006). Therefore, from such happening, people in different parts of the world started to come up with very realistic attitudes and views of their own world. For instance, parents would end up bearing over ten children so that they may have several surviving and be able to inherit from them and have continued human existence. Children who died were buried in the farms together with the animals that had died as well. During the same time, physical engagement, which we can call 'encouragement', had been applied for both animals, especially the horse, donkey, and the ox, together with the children who were not hard working enough. At some other parts, the adults who were not showing any signs of productivity were also birched severely. The individuals who were not working hard towards better production in the society had to be beaten, and sometimes even to death. This was exactly the same thing with the animals. However, since the animals would appear to be more advantageous than other men were, it was necessary that they were cared for future productivity. As the world entered into the 1700s and the 1800s, men continued to find the usefulness in animals and hence thinking of how the animals would be made more productive for the coming days. At the same time, the non-working individuals in the society were also not encouraged and were beaten severely. Later in the year 1825, there was the establishment of the House of Refuge in America, HOR, which was adopted for the children who had been greatly abandoned or thoroughly beaten from their societies. Later the industrial revolution came in strongly, thus helping human beings to cater for their basic needs more easily. This brought about the aspect of caring for the less fortunate, and then very soon the welfare for animals became something quite relevant and important at the same time. During the time, one of the strongest organizations was formed which was aimed in keeping the rights of the animals and ensuring that they were given the necessary respect they deserved from humankind. The American society that was in the front line towards helping the animals within the US was the ASPCA, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Bergh Henry, who was one of the wealthiest philanthropists from New York, founded the ASPCA society. Henry had been greatly upset by seeing that the horses used by the peasants around New York and elsewhere in the country had been highly beaten and mistreated. Having noted such notoriety and cruelty, Henry decided to come up with the ASPCA society in the year 1866 so that he could see the animals respected and treated with the greatest dignity. It was the start of a long journey, which other organizations were to start addressing the problems and issues of the animals such as stray dogs and cats. Many researchers now have been able to come up with constructions that cruelty develops a reason in man towards getting a solution to the cruel performances, whether on animals or even on fellow man (Staples, 2006). This was the beginning of the so-called large animal rescue mission, which has been able to grow so fast to become a career on its own.According to a number of experts, one of the most critical methods and safety issue during the incident where a large animal is involved is that there has to be knowledge, which is to be applied. According to this understanding, the passage of knowledge to other persons became very important thus making it possible for more individuals to get the knowledge in rescuing large animals (Schaffner, 2009). This brought in the aspect of ensuring that all the animals that have been involved in specific danger scenes have been rescued. As man continued to advance, it was necessary that he would start interacting with animals and cases of having animals engaged in human-animal accidents became popular thus calling for the need to come up with specific measures, which would be used in addressing the issues of large animal accidents. As well, human beings had been having direct contacts with large animals and hence such a development was quite unavoidable. Because such occurrences of accidents became common, it was necessary that specific individuals would come out and get ways of how such events could be effectively addressed. This was to make sure that any kind of accident would see all the people involved given the necessary care and attention as well as the animals. Where was Large Animal Rescue Started? Looking back at historical developments, it might require a great deal of study and analysis towards establishing exactly where the origin of large animal rescue lies. This is so because the past historical periods shows a number of issues concerning the need to give animals special rights while at the same time offering them the necessary attention and care whenever needed. This led to sequential developments towards addressing the needs and animals by coming up with the Large Animal Rescue operations. From the above discussion, we shall be able to say that large animal rescue must then have come about after Henry's observations in New York City (Schaffner, 2009). However, his main agenda was not really in rescuing animals that had been injured but was in coming up with measures through which the animals would be rescued from human abuse and irrelevant torture. Following this development, it was hence necessary to come up with proper ways and procedures that were to be used when animals had been involved in accidents. As well, the rescue operations were also to involve the handling of animals during critical conditions while being able to safeguard them from farther harm while at the same time safeguarding oneself from the same kind of harm. Having been developed, large animal rescue has thus been able to become a useful process or operation, which promotes the interaction of human beings and animals. After this development, more regions in the country adopted the ideology for not only the large animals but also with the smaller animals like the dogs and cats. In addition, many animals were able to get better rights and care from human beings. As days went by, the field of veterinary medicine grew at par with human medicine towards providing health care services to all animals, and especially with all the animals which man had direct benefits. Currently, large animal care and rescue is now being practiced almost in all parts of the world. Another important thing to note here is that the same care has also been extended to cover for animals within the domestic domain as well as the ones in the wildlife domain (Schaffner, 2009). This has been so because different animals will most likely be caught up in accidents and other damaging circumstances. Once that has happened, it will be something necessary that rescue operations are exercised which should leave both the animals and the involved individuals safe and much unharmed. It is also necessary to note that, when a large animal has been injured, chances are very high that it will become hurt and can very quickly inflict greater harm on any one who comes closer. This means that someone who is an expert in handling the animal at such tricky circumstances will be required to offer the necessary assistance.>