Recent content by langtonhighway

funny stories! My mare sniffed the donkey cautiously then contemptuously turned her back on him and backed up ready to kick - however she accidentally touched the electric fencing and got a shock, she then thought that every donkey had an electric fence around it!

and they often get put down and not even taken home, sadly. Ten a penny at the moment

yes it would be awful. I'd try loan, but would never sell. If it really really came to it, I'd pts. But as we have our own land, hopefully it won't ever happen.

god this thread is partly horrendous and partly funny. I think the longer you are in horses the less snobby you get! My only criteria is "does the horse care?" - and for the vast majority of these things the answer is a resounding NO! He does not care if his mane is unpulled, or his tail...

I have an interesting perspective on this having hunted extensively with several packs for all of my childhood. Then as an adult becoming sickened at the digging out and other associated cruelty which does undoubtedly happen alongside "ordinary" hunting. I stopped hunting. then realising my...

hmmmm I have a different opinion on that. I don't ever have horses vetted. I do a thorough physical exam myself, including trotting up, flexion tests on all four legs and all joints, heart and lungs, check for sarcoids etc, the only thing i can't do is the eye test, and I've never known a...

Well done. Good job. match made in heaven :)

sorry but you CAN'T be sure that someone will do the right thing and be the right person for an elderly horse. At some point, someone does have to make the decision to have a horse put down. It is by no means the worst thing you can do for your horse. Going to the sales and seeing the old...

It is a sad situation, but I've been in it several times. Over the past 40 years, I've had five horses PTS, mostly old and getting poorly, one horrible one for behaviour reasons. YOU are doing the RIGHT THING putting your horse to sleep. She won't know. Or Care. and it's so easy these...

CPTrayes. your posts are ace! thoughtful, obviously researched and considered, and totally reasonable and polite. I agree with much of what you write :)

I too reckon they are brought by birds, mostly. One other thing to be aware of in the summer is that if you put yellow water bins out in your field, it attracts bumble bees, which then drown :( So sad to see several dead bees in your horse's water when you go to re-fill it. The other...

I agree. I think if people are concerned, they are right to do something about it, rather than ignore it. that's what leads to true neglect and abuse. If your horses are fine (and they sound it lol), then that's what will be reported back, and those people will then learn. We shouldn't...

actually, I think differently. I doubt very much they'd be allowed to create access from their property to anywhere, public ROW or not, without permission from the Council. It is very hard to get permission for access, even when you own both bits!! I'd just phone and check, without...

They were very harsh with the horses. I complained a few times. The place is owned by William Kriegal, who turned up once or twice. he just sees it as a money making venture. The horses came in one day, and were on the website for sale the next day, with a zero added to the price...

Oh my god, that was "Haras de la Cense" - I've studied there for six months several years ago. It was the worst experience of my life and I learned absolutely nothing. Their own horses were treated terribly, several died while I was there and the dressage horses NEVER got out of their...