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Weve got it sussed…. The Animal health certificate needs to be done a maximum of 10 days before travel. She doesn’t need a wormer to go out, only to come into the uk. And my vets will do the AHC for £117. Then once she’s in Spain we can swap that for a spanish passport. So all solved for the...

Anyone who travels abroad with your dogs can you help please. A friend of mine rescued a dog in Spain. He’s got her uk passport, she lived with him in Spain, has all her vaccinations, rabies shots etc. and travelled into the UK on sept 28th this year with Brittany Ferries. In Jan he is going...

I’ve never had my horse go silly on micronised linseed. And I’ve had several horses. But my horse is not working as much, nor is he out for as long as he would like to be. He’s fresh!

Phoenix equine, Tony Kaye. He’s a superb horse vet.

I spend about 50p per dog a day. But I buy from my butcher. They get in chicken carcasses, and chicken necks and they sell pet mince which is meat and offal. I can get as many bones as I want from them for a small donation to charity. I’m lucky as my dogs don’t have any allergies. I don’t weigh...

Not really, rush hour in Exeter is far far easier than Bristol or Birmingham. And if you know the place you can always get through as it’s such a small city. But the holiday makers are a nightmare. I’m a driving instructor in Exeter, very few issues October to March ?

west would be tricky as traffic in summer … well Easter to October, can be a nightmare with all the caravans turning over On the M5 and A30.

stick with her, loads of walking on grass, loose reins and calm chilled walking. On circular routes, no high energy feed, just grass, hay/haylage, and sugar beet, grass nuts and micronised linseed if you want to get weight on. But no conditioning mixes or competition mixes. You want everything...

He’s not a big lad …. So Pocket Rocket ??

With an ex racehorse you need to take it slowly ….. never ever turn around on yourself. So always a circular route, and on grass walk until you know he is chilled with being ridden on grass and coming back to you. Your snaffle isn’t the issue, i ride my ex racer in a snaffle, it’s the attitude...

Loads of livery yards in all areas! So the easiest way to do it would be to look at where your husband is working and find somewhere to live on that side, then find a livery yard near by. There are loads of yards and some superb riding, beaches, moorland and bridlepaths.

Whereabouts near exeter? I’m near Okehampton and have my horse on an amazing yard near Dartmoor.

Get cordless clippers, mine are liveryman, and they make a huge difference . When I got my horse he’d just broken someone cheek while being clipped with standard clippers. I clipped him with my cordless clippers and he was absolutely fine. The more times you do it, the easier it should get. At...

Plait it and leave plaits in to get it all on the one side, then after a few days undo and comb through, then mane rake it on the underside. I have a horse with a huge thick mane, who Hates it being pulled. So I mane rake and I scissor cut but upwards, never across or it’s too straight.