Recent content by dunthing

I used to ride out with John on his pony, when he was very young. A brilliant rider who said that it was ridiculous to use your whip on a horse at the end of a race as they had given everything by then.

So sorry, I hit buttons with arthritic fingers.

I have read that the Poitu donkey can't be ridden because of a congenital weakness in good and somewhere else! I can't recall which other bit is affected.

I had a lab bitch who would roll in anything dead. Frogs, snakes, mice and birds. Our present lab has, luckily, never rolled in anything or eaten any poo. My sister had a rescue staff who would wolf down car poo and the vet told her it may have contributed to the dog having liver failure at...

A friend of ours used to carry her metal tipped whip upside down. She would give any close cars a clonk with it!

I still have a Callard and Bowser box from years ago. Mine doubles as a pencil box

I have to agree with you about Highlands. I have had a couple of them and both have been superb. My first was a yearling and a sweet gentle boy. Second was oversize at 15.1, my horse of a lifetime. Huge, gentle, funny, go anywhere boy with manners. He had a huge, handstand buck which I laughed...

They are very beautiful ladies. They remind me of my Nan's old cat in colour.

I would love to take our lab to Badminton but strangely he refuses to eat or drink when he's out of the house. We couldn't risk him not drinking on a hot day. He's fine if we holiday in a caravan and very well behaved with other dogs, he ignores them and strangers.

My granddaughter had an almost pure Crabbet gelding, he was about 87.9% and the other bit came from Skowronek the Polish stallion. He was smallish, about 14.2 but a sweet, steady boy who looked after her well. She lost him at 26years old. He got stuck in a ditch and gave up fighting. Most of...

Our lab has a best friend who looks like your description. Tall, grey and very regal, his name is Higgins.

I will probably get laughed off the forum for this but I have long thought that TBs now need some "outside blood" before they get any weaker. I was talking to a lady in USA recently, about fatal injuries and we both were of the same opinion that new blood such as quarter horses, and arabs...

They did say that he was up at one point but very wobbly. I wonder if he got a kick while he was down, which may have caused neurological damage. The couldn't get him on the trailer for a while because he was unsteady on his feet.

We have a working type lab. We got him at 7weeks as mum had stopped feeding the pups. Ours is 10 years old on Friday and has been as perfect as a dog could be. mad as a hatter running, swimming but very quiet in the house. I'm used to the hair as we've always had labs.