DPI Needs to shape up
It is now reaching the point of being ridiculous in my current situation at Centennial Park.
Whilst I acknowledge we were amongst the first to get it and also very widely publicised, it has now been over 5 weeks since the first diagnosed case and we have the DPI constantly changing dates for our quarantine period to end, a veterinary practice who has done a sterling job of diagnosing and treating the virus and now after trying to launch an experiment (Sentinal Project) have faded away into the background and can provide no details on how long the quarantine period should be for, no regular swabbing of horses to check progress and not being a good source of any updates from the chief veterinarians around the state.
It seems as though we have been pushed into the bleak background and forgotten, if we were serious about clearing this up Centennial Park should still be an active, monitored quarantine centre by the vets and DPI alike but it is now a sitting duck.
So we have:
- DPI that know little to nothing
- On-site veterinary practice who have no information and can provide no advice on quarantine periods or swabbing, and are not regularly checking every horse in the centre
Whilst permits may not be granted to us, our horses are in a similar situation to those trapped in various places - we have no access to any grass, riding tracks & arenas out in Centennial Park which is silly considering we are all now in a Red Zone along with Randwick and Redfern.
DPI - Give us a decent strategy, get advice from our veterinary experts and make some decisions - Firm Dates for end of quarantine, make it 31st December and stick to it if it has to be - at the moment all you are doing is lagging behind the 8 ball and falling to every whim the Racing Industry demands and looking at the performance horse industry as a secondary market.
Allow us to move our horses out to Purple Zone (highly contagious areas) so at the very least our horses can recover in paddocks rather than stables with limited exercise, its now turing into a welfare issue and the DPI would not know the back of a horse from the front.
Kate Wallis
Whilst I acknowledge we were amongst the first to get it and also very widely publicised, it has now been over 5 weeks since the first diagnosed case and we have the DPI constantly changing dates for our quarantine period to end, a veterinary practice who has done a sterling job of diagnosing and treating the virus and now after trying to launch an experiment (Sentinal Project) have faded away into the background and can provide no details on how long the quarantine period should be for, no regular swabbing of horses to check progress and not being a good source of any updates from the chief veterinarians around the state.
It seems as though we have been pushed into the bleak background and forgotten, if we were serious about clearing this up Centennial Park should still be an active, monitored quarantine centre by the vets and DPI alike but it is now a sitting duck.
So we have:
- DPI that know little to nothing
- On-site veterinary practice who have no information and can provide no advice on quarantine periods or swabbing, and are not regularly checking every horse in the centre
Whilst permits may not be granted to us, our horses are in a similar situation to those trapped in various places - we have no access to any grass, riding tracks & arenas out in Centennial Park which is silly considering we are all now in a Red Zone along with Randwick and Redfern.
DPI - Give us a decent strategy, get advice from our veterinary experts and make some decisions - Firm Dates for end of quarantine, make it 31st December and stick to it if it has to be - at the moment all you are doing is lagging behind the 8 ball and falling to every whim the Racing Industry demands and looking at the performance horse industry as a secondary market.
Allow us to move our horses out to Purple Zone (highly contagious areas) so at the very least our horses can recover in paddocks rather than stables with limited exercise, its now turing into a welfare issue and the DPI would not know the back of a horse from the front.
Kate Wallis
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