Recent content by HarrietLong

Seriously what is wrong with you!!!!! I have no problem that you don't wear/use second hand stuff (at the moment I don't either - purely because I am sooooooooooooooooooo fortunate that my parents are prepared to buy new stuff, though I should add my parents would never buy me new really...

Ohhhhh, see now I comprehend why people do not like you. When I was 14, and if I had as much as you appear to have, I wouldn't "be out with mates" all the time, I would be taking advantage of the horse and all the "brand new" stuff my parents had given me. Forgive me for sounding like a...

Can anyone suggest a fly rug that doesn't have a neck but that goes under the belly? I have looked but can't seem to find anything? x

I didn't say slip ups were ok!? I said it would be unlikely we would have slip ups in the UK due to DNA etc etc. If you take that approach then nothing will act as a deterrant - so why do we bother even having prisons, according to you it is a waste of time as it makes no difference as to...

If what the person had done was so bad that a judge had sentenced him to death - I would have no qualms about administering the injection. I'm not the sort of person who wouldn't want to do something but hands it over to someone else. Granted it isn't my ideal line of work haha, but I would...

Obviously capital punishment would have to be properly enforced. You couldn't go killing people here there and everywhere haha. However, people bring up time and time again people that have been wrongly accused and murdered in the US. However, people seem to forget that our justice system is so...

Disgusting - the death penalty should be brought back anyway. But to everyone who says they would have intervened - not you wouldn't, you say that now, but in the situation things would be very different. Much as people would LOVE to have intervened and have helped, it would be an insane...

Going to go and spend some time with my horses at the new yard - it is soooo nice to be able to enjoy them again. Won't be doing anything major, probably just some light hacking and spending time with them :)

Cacketts is under new management - so not sure how recently you heard mixed reviews? I looked to go there with my two about 6 months ago, the main problem for me was that all the geldings are turned out together, as are all the mares. There was also a lack in storage and we have ALOT of stuff...

Things like this really frustrate me!! It is the same with descriptions of livery yards - from personal experience you know that everything is the total opposite to how it is described!! As soemone else has said, these things come out in the end - but in the meantime all you can do is make sure...

Personally on the whole I do prefer smaller yards, owners can pay more individual attention to your horses, and as an yard owner you can keep on top of things. However, sometimes on a small yard it can begin to feel like a small family - this is not necessarily a bad thing - however if you are...

Your friend must be a friend of mine too :) Lets just leave it at that .....

So would you make it public knowledge? As in the experiences of cruelty that you had had, even if you knew owners/trainers would see it? I'm a huge believer in the fact that the truth will come out in the end- however it is a case of how many horses/people will suffer in the meantime.

That it is your "duty" (so to speak) to warn other horse owners about certain things (mainly concerning livery yards and trainers). I think there is a fine line between being responsible and interfering, but not too sure where that line comes. For example if you had a really bad experience...

My gelding was exactly the same. Thing is he was so unpredictable, he would loan within half an hour (seems ages, but with him it was a very short period of time!) but at the other end trying to load him coming home we could be u to 4 hours!! He was not at all scared, merely very very stubborn...