Recent content by Exploding Chestnuts

It's unlikely you have experience of many horses other than riding school ponies, who are managed Why not try a charity who loan horses and will not let you have something unsuitable. By a charity, I mean a well respected and established charity not someone who takes on horses which are...

PS have a look on YouTube at Barry Hook, he drives horses and ponies, from blank canvas to problem horses, after schooling in a busy arena and in fields he is out on busy roads, he has only the lightest of contact. The horses are with him for six weeks, sometimes more, by which time they are...

Can you have some lessons, maybe attend another yard and get the staff, assuming it is a professional yard,, to make sure this is not horse taking the pixel. Get them to handle the horse , see how they are doing this. Horses need to have rules from you their leader, else they will take the lead...

I had similar, the horse was a bad loader and I had no transport, after trying to take horse out of field she chained the gate. She also persuaded police, (I called them out and they came) that she owned the horse, but agreed she owed me money. This was her story, and they chose to believe her...

My moggie was 3.4 kg when he lived on the streets, and is now 5kg. He was in a sad state when I got him, 4.4kg, and he'd been in captivity for about four months, no one wanted him. He's now in best of health, lies on my bed every night, purrs steadily. It took me a year to bring him round to...

I find it strange that people are like this, it's as if they consider they are superior to you, no they are not, they hold different views. Certainly don't think it through, if everyone decided to veg out there would be no animals kerping the countryside tidy, and scenic. Yes there are too many...

Quite bizarre, you are always going to be ignoring these wicked witches, best to start now. If challenged just be calm and polite and explain you were justified in your reaction to to their interference, you may have lost the plot, but you were not expecting anyone to interfere with your...

It even had a wrapper, and was pretty much brand new, most folks would take it out in the car and stick it on, anyway, it was soon confirmed she was barely past posting and nowhere ready to buy a youngster. I would normally ask a bit more about a potential buyer, but she caught me unawares and...

Don't think a vet is the person to say anything is a confidence giver, but if he says it's not, walk away. People have so little experience to buy a horse with no viewing, riding, vetting are mad. I had someone who turned up to buy my horse who was a challenge, she still kept her hat in its box...

I've ridden maybe a thousand horses, one in particular was very careful to carry me like a basket of precious eggs, yes said trainer (racehorse), I rode him all thru my pregnancy, that is one in a thousand! Confidence givers are often happy ponies quiet and kind.. They do not rear. I once...

Do not waste your money on physio, you could ask the yard manager to check saddle fit, and also pain when running hand down spine, but I bought one like that and it ended badly, dealer not interested. Use email only to calmly demand your money back and horse picked up, from your premises...

I fed mineral supplement from Feedmark, and never looked back, trouble is it takes six months, but get farrier to trim every sx weeks, and walk him on tarmac in hand every day for twenty mins

As mentioned earlier you are the keeper of the horse, so if shove came to push you could be liable. Tell her this, and that you can no longer take the responsibility, when in your opinion the horse is suffering and..... If the horse needs a vet, a dental check, extra feed, maybe stabling...

Yes, a roller, mind went blank. Everything you use is a training aid. Its the skill of the handler that makes the difference. You're not going to train a riding horse or a driving horse without using reins.

I had a young horse that had been rushed, and I did not realise he would never have been lunged, he nearly took of over the manege rails. I had been loose schooling and had backed him for best part of a year. He was undeveloped hind quarters, it took three months light cantering on a slope to...