How strange that I should post this today.........we've just had a bit of a crisis here with a friends horse & have had to get our vet....thank god nothing serious & I can't say what now....but I had to do pulse, HR (heart rate), temp, respiration etc to check the horse before the Vet arrived.....thanfully I know all this as its all part of the course having done endurance for years....to know pulse, HR (how to take etc!)!!! Phew!