Photos and News

In the News: 4/18/07 Seven Days
The Vermont Mounted Response Unit has been featured in alternative newspaper Seven Days' Animal Issue. Two of our Rockies graced the entire front page of the 4/18/07 issue...that's three-year-old Sweets on the left, and four-year-old MacKay on the right. (Sweets has always been a prom queen at heart, and now she reminds us constantly that she is, in fact, a cover girl!)

Kirk Kardashian's article "The Need For Steeds: In the Saddle with the Vermont Mounted Response Unit" presents a light-hearted but accurate overview of the patrol.

Read the full article online at the Seven Days website.

Horse Patrol Trivia
Did you know, some of the horses who have served in the Vermont Horse Patrol are famous? Many of the horses within the unit have their own unofficial fan club and people have traveled as far as 250 miles to watch the unit in action. (Seriously!) Most famous of the mounts was Winter Storm Warning, a Rocky Mountain gelding who has been hailed a horse hero for his actions in saving peoples lives (before he was even four...). That's Storm's handsome mug in the Mounted Response Patrol logo, at the top of every page. Storm lives and works in New Mexico now, at the US MRU Training Center, but he was one of the original members of the Vermont Horse Patrol.