To register, visit z.umn.edu/TLAER or pay at the door. Cost for the public is $45 and continuing education units (CEUs) are available for participants as part of professional development. A separate session for U of M Crookston students will be held the same day.

Husted is a decorated combat veteran, retired signal officer for the U.S. Army, and holds degrees in biology and animal physiology. She offers consulting and training throughout the United States, and internationally for emergency response services such as fire departments, law enforcement agencies, emergency management, county and state emergency response teams, animal control officers, and other rescue squads. During the TLAER course, Husted teaches how to safely perform rescues without injury of the animal or people performing the rescue plus focuses on animal behavior and how it might affect people attempting to extricate the large animals.

TLAER courses are designed with a concentration in livestock with horses being the most encountered large animal at an emergency incident. The term “large animal” also includes commercial livestock, exotic animals, zoo animals, and more. Information from the course is particularly beneficial for cruelty investigations and neglect/abuse seizure cases. Prevention, safety, and education are major themes of the courses because, as animal owners and stakeholders learn to prevent the most common types of incidents, focus can be shifted to the unusual and highly technical ones.