Recent content by moosea

not really, you can post pictures from another time or use AI

When you learn to school your horse onto his hocks rather than his forehand you will probably find he no longer needs to lean. Try riding squares.

Ride the horse you get on the day. Aim for Joes method, be flexable enough to use all the tools in your box! So, imho, Joes method is what to aim for. however if the horse is unblance, unsure, unfit and/or uneducated then you'll need a good bit of style 2 to train the horse to listen to the...

Hi, I'm not sure which bits you want help with as it sounds completly normal to grieve a family member, pet or human. There is no time scale for 'getting over it' Maybe you could put yourself in a new horsey environment? Perhaps ask your local RDA if they would like any volunteers? You could go...

Buy baby nappies to fit your horses foot!

In the very olden days ( older than me even!) houses used to have straw laid on the floor and would put a piece of wood in the doorway to stop the straw from coming out of their homes. This is how entrance doors got a 'thresh hold'

Ponies didn't come into loose boxes. They were dragged in from the field, scrubbed up to be presentable, ridden then back out asap!!

Shavings were for those horses who coughed - they were looked down on! You wouldn't plait everyday, just re do when needed.

Pretty much this! The front of the straw was woven/ plaited or often just laid properly and sort of rolled back, to form an edge. Almost a threshold, to prvent the horse from bringing bedding out onto the yard. When a bed is laid correctly the straw all lies in the same direction. hard with...

Horses used to be kept in stalls with a rope and log. The horse could lie down but not turn around. Loose boxes - the horse was allowed to be loose in the box.

If you had a straw bed you'd bring down the 'night' bed from the banks, then lay the bed, and really posh grooms would plait the front! Oh gosh, I'm old!!

The blunt answer to this is to enclose your captive animals better, especially as you seem to understand them so well. Of course foxes are still being killed. Most people I have spoken to agree that being shot seems prefrable to being chased until too exhausted and then torn to bits by dogs...

I cannot understand why theses hunts are not being charged for having out of control dogs ?

I'm so sorry to read this. I can't imagaine how hard that must have been for you. I hope you can take comfort, in time, that your selfless act which has caused you so much pain, is the reason your pony didn't have to suffer. Sometimes all we can do is let them have peace. Sending gentle hugs

ETA: Sorry, I'm not very good at the quote thing, so had to reply in each quote box, and did split one of Palo1 coments but can't unsplit it! Sorry!