Recent content by littletrotter

Also wondering this - the RS i ride at uses them on every saddle without exception.

I'm saving this one, thanks!

Yes! Ours are shiny black and come with stickers (!!) you can adorn them with. I wasn't expecting much as they were so cheap, but actually they've been really good. The youngest isn't too bothered and will stick with hers as needed, the eldest is keen and wants a velvet cap for her birthday...

I don't know. I know a family who have been doing this the past wee while. The horse is the teenage daughters, she has had a really hard time the last few years. Mum has recently been diagnosed with a serious progressive illness, daughter has by default become a carer (there's no assistance...

Mine are in dial-fit ones, like cycle helmets, £20 from decathlon, in current code, and correct code for the new year too. The same hat size fits my 2yo, 5yo and 9yo's. They're called Daisy something i think. Google will probably find them. They're not elegant enough for the show ring but...

There are two separate problems here. There is the fact that the horse was injured, and bled, during the class. There is the fact that the media repeatedly said, "it's a welfare issue" over and over, without giving better details, which made it SEEM, particularly to non-horsey types watching...

Sometimes though, keeping a diary helps merely because it shows you how much of a problem you don't have. I once had to keep a sleep dairy for my "terrible sleeper" child, then-8yo, who has ADHD. And the main thing i learned over that month is that, barring really terrible anxiety about...

I just try to be courteous and kind. So if i see a horse i tend to hang back until waved on, since the rider is in a better position than me to know if my hanging back is more likely than me passing them (even wide and slow) to cause a problem - ideally all horses on roads are bombproof but in...

So did mine. But a heel prick is a minor injury which summoning the caregiver would be the best response for. Circumcision is a mortal injury (even in modern hospitals there are babies who bleed to death or die of sepsis after it, though luckily very rarely), which would assume the caregiver...

No, that's why i asked. I personally think animals with bits chopped off look horrible and was thrilled when they banned it. My point was merely that however happy/unhappy a creature being injured might look it's better to think rationally about the injury than rely on observation.

When you say the horse was "partly responsible" for two getting loose on the road - was a human also "partly responsible", and was that human you? You sound pretty annoyed about this when it's not a massive issue, loose horses aside, if someone else can't catch their own horse. IMO 10 days...

It's not banned in Scotland. I've never seen puppies but i saw kittens a few years ago. I reported them to the SSPCA because their eyes were barely open!

Pain isn't in your sinuses though, it's in your brain (all pain is actually produced, as an experience of the sufferer, in the brain). You can amputate someone's leg and they can go on feeling excruciating pain in it. Unfortunately pain response isn't as straightforward as say, bleeding. I...

Actually H2O is chemicals, and everyone knows chemicals kill you. By drowning in this case.

Well what effect does it have? I had an interesting, if hair-raising, chat with an american woman once who had just had her baby circumcised. Her hospital did it without anaesthetic when the baby was 24 hours old. They strapped him to a sort of board, they velcro on, you can google to see how...