Recent content by Caol Ila

Is it a weather app? I'd love a sarcastic weather app so long as the forecast is accurate and conveys the info I want in a simple and readable manner.

I am 5'4 and he is 14hh.

Sorry to sidetrack, but I love Dave's Mam's cat. What is she??

Yeah, but not a good experience. My friend's Friesian had it and died. No one knew until the horse went down suddenly, went into the hospital, and was PTS within four days. The horse was 12. Diagnosis was confirmed by a necropsy. Horse was very likely born with the genetic connective disorder...

The new Met Office app has OH and I in a frothing rage. He has been sending angry emails to them daily.

I kind of agree with paddy here. My own have never been aggressive but I’ve had to deal with aggressive gate police in the field. This is similar to my approach. I’m pretty no nonsense with horses whose one job is to get out of my f***king way and leave the horse on the end of my rope alone.

Sorry you are feeling so down about keeping horses. My friends on Skye also find it very hard going. It can look idyllic - we have spent a lot of time in the far northwest and have occasionally threatened to move there - but I know the reality is far from that. The Highlands are a tough place...

Was thinking about this when schooling Fin the other day. Hermosa does whatever the hell one does in the hackamore (who knows...not me, most of the time), but Fin goes in a snaffle like a normal English trained horse. We mostly use the legetere method, separation of aids into light contact...

Haha. Good question. I have a couple utterly useless saddles that hide in the attic. Out of sight and out of mind.

I do stupid stuff all the time. I’m a little more careful with Fin but do dumb stuff all the time around Hermosa. God knows how no one died when she was 3/4. At 7, she expects it.

I'm not remotely qualified either. LOL. As far as I am aware, it's more of a Western (and some classical dressage schools) thing v. English/German/no-accurate-word-to-describe it thing. The Legetere stuff is very much based on separation of the aids and developing lightness before power. It's...

I have a Ghost on my Highland.

Ugh. One of the schoolies at our yard, who was in the grass livery fields recovering from an injury, was chased by a dog and run through a fence. She had to be put down as her injuries were too catastrophic. The field backs onto the park, so I don't know whether the dog got loose from someone...

Never come across the word 'quarter' before, in that context, but I try to avoid full body clips like the plague. Only came across the word 'headcollar' in the UK. In the US, 'halter' is any item, nylon, leather, rope, whatever, that you put on a horse's head to lead it from A to B.

Hah. I had tons of anxiety around cantering as a kid, and I still do, at 42 f—-ing years old. The canters of my two horses, green/unbacked when I got them, remains very much a work-in-progress for this reason. Occasionally pisses me off but working very hard at developing my ‘who gives a sh1t’...