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Mine does it now if I am standing on something taller than him/put my hand up, but this was early days in training it so I also was overusing the vocal ask too. He was an unbacked baby in this video, excuse my 1000 winter layers! I was scratching him on the withers in the field and stopped...

Mine is £12 less He does however charge £20 if they pull one off to revisit and refit - I have always thought they should charge for this, but never have previously so it must be a fairly new thing

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If she's sound I wouldn't worry about it. I would however try to do some work with her back legs to find out more if it's current pain related, or if she gets over it and it's more the memory of pain

I would differentiate a mechanical lameness from stiffness. I have arthritic hips and I know that when I am stiff, even if it walks off, it's because of pain. An oldie muscle weakness slight wobble I would say is likely not pain but a clear stiffness with gate abnormality as a result I would be...

With the amount of wet bedding I take out the middle daily, plenty enough! 😂 With one that isn't a reliable drinker though it's not great I agree

Auto drinker is the ideal, or if that's frozen a big plastic trug weighted with bricks and put in a tyre... otherwise the second I put him in there he will pick up the bucket by the handle and throw it.

I have had this conversation with many friends, and my mum when our cats got elderly, who say 'oh they're just a bit stiff'... yes lame/stiff equals pain, that's what causes the lameness/stiffness and they don't know any different, so it should be treated as such. It's so frustrating.

Thank you, I know of DSLD, I didn't realise they are somewhat similar

Purely out of curiosity, as someone who has never dealt with PSD, why is it bargepole territory?

Have you read Pucking Around? No further comment on its contents but it sounds like you may enjoy the books 😂

Dex sounds a lot like H! It is really difficult to delegate handling sometimes and you just have to do your best not to think too much into it. Thankfully my YM is great, clear expectations but quiet and kind with it - I have to admit that I just throw the rope over Dex's neck and he walks in...

THERE'S BOOKS?! I may or may not have watched the whole series, back to back, on Saturday

Well done for sorting it! Dex is a terrible door kicker now, he learnt it from a New Forest in the stable across initially and now if he does it in the mornings a couple of liveries have been known to put hay over his door which further reinforces it. The problem is, he doesn't want food or to...

Dex backs up when I come in with his bucket and I ask him to, I put it down and say 'wait' and he does, and then say 'good boy' and he eats. I don't go overboard with asking him to wait, probably 5 seconds. Might seem OTT but he was a scared, BIG youngster when he arrived and I wanted to make...