AGRICULTURE
Equestrian groups with similar goals choose
Employees at Camp Care use the Bobcat compact tractor on a daily basis to move hay. Assistant program director Jeanne Avery is pictured driving the CT225 with front-end loader.
One has a Bobcat® compact tractor;
Bobcat equipment to help maintain facilities
another has a Bobcat utility vehicle. Two farm-based programs that provide therapy horseback riding programs for the handicapped share a similar purpose and needs. When it came time to purchase new equipment, both organizations followed the same path — to their local Bobcat dealer. That’s where they each found a machine perfect for their situation.
Camp Care, Inc. has relied on a group of dependable volunteers during the eight years it has provided therapeutic horseback riding opportunities for people with physical, emotional and learning disabilities. Along with helping participants with equine-assisted activities, volunteers handle chores such as removing manure from the barn and shoveling snow so the horses can get outside in the winter.
The volunteers are still as valuable as ever, but many of the back-breaking and diffi cult jobs have been made much easier by another dependable worker — a Bobcat CT225 compact tractor with front-end loader.
“We used to remove all of the manure by hand — a job that became almost impossible in the winter,” says Dr. Stephen Moran, founder and president of Camp Care, a non-profi t organization associated with the adjacent Crossroads Physical Therapy, LLC in Columbia, Conn.
3400 is big help for handicapped horseback riding program
Last Christmas, Ann Fassett asked her husband, Joe, for a new utility vehicle to replace the well-used model that they had operated for years. It helped complete chores around the farm where they developed the Equestrian Therapy Program for handicapped children and adults.
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Beth Stoodt is pictured with the Equestrian Therapy Program’s Bobcat utility vehicle.
“It really wasn’t much of a surprise because we looked at the available machines together and concluded that the Bobcat 3400 4x4 was the best available product,” she says. “That gift was right in line with one Joe gave me a few years
ago — a new manure spreader.”
Founded in 1982 by the Fassetts and Beverly Thompson, the Equestrian Therapy Program is a non-profi t charitable corporation offering therapeutic horseback riding for the handicapped in nine counties
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