Recent content by KillarneyISH

I have been the barn cat mom and cat vet care provider at every stable where I've boarded. You will have much more luck keeping the cats at your stable if you adopt at least 2, and keep them together in a large cage, small room, or horse trailer for at least couple of weeks to get them used to...

Do you attribute that to the foam panels?

Opinions on Devocoux dressage saddles?

My pony has a flaky, itchy tail. He had pinworms when I got him, and we cured that, but this is different. Any suggestions for shampoos or ointments that work well?

Sounds like what I experienced with my new pony - he went from a very good pony to pretty spooky and resistant over a couple of months when we started working him. A vet chiropractor determined that his saddle had too narrow a tree and too narrow a channel, and also did not fit his short flat...

My daughter bailed out of riding at about that age - I always wanted to be a Pony Club mom and braid manes at 5 am for shows, but it was not meant to be. Riding with friends and doing pony camps in the summer might make it more attractive. Have you thought about letting her off the lunge line...

In addition to what moleskinsmum said, a fly bonnet, preferably one with ear plugs (my retired horse cannot stand wind in his ears or his forelock touching his ears in tense situations), might help, as would doing ground work incorporating scary monsters and setting up times to ride him with a...

I got a 15 h Welsh Cob/GRP cross last summer for dressage, who was great when he came, but steadily got more spooky and uncooperative. After a lot of angst, expense and trial and error, I finally consulted my excellent vet/chiropractor who told me that he had severe pain in his withers, and...

NoisyGirl - I have a Houdini horse, with a very talented pasture mate, who jointly can get anything off my horse even if it requires ripping the straps. I am very interested in what you did to modify your muzzle in these pictures, and wonder if you could describe for me exactly what you did. I...

My Cleveland Bay-TB cross had a hot nail, a period of heat and a pulse (weeks and weeks of soaking and wrapping, bute, and two colic episodes from the bute), and finally wound up with pedal osteitis. I have him on Isoxuprine and aspirin, and am treating with a magnetic bell boot, all to improve...

I have just discovered that my dressage and my jumping saddles are rotating to the right - the pommel is always directly over his withers, but the cantle shifts so far to the right as I ride that, on my dressage saddle, his spine is not underneath the gullet at the cantle - the jumping saddle is...