Tip 3: halters and labels for horses

Posted on the former site on 14 May 2013.

Horse and large-animal owners got their own tip in the 2013 series. It made two points.

1. Every stall should have a well-fitting halter with the farm name and phone numbers, and a lead rope. The old tip said emergency workers cannot move a horse out of danger without one.
2. Every stall should be labeled with the horse's name, recent medicine, health history, a vet number and the owner's emergency number. Someone who does not know the horse cannot give a vet useful details without it.

The ASPCA agrees that horses should be used to wearing a halter and to loading in a trailer, and that vet records and emergency numbers should be easy to reach, with 24-hour numbers posted by the phone. Ready.gov says every large animal should carry some form of identification.

This tip first appeared on the former Pet Safe Coalition website on 14 May 2013. The advice here was rewritten and checked against the sources below on 4 October 2026.