Recent content by Mumbles

This. Castrating donkeys is far more problematic than castrating horses or ponies. They are notorious bleeders, and most vets experienced with castrating them would far rather wait until they have two nice dangly balls to quickly and cleanly nip off, rather than risk poking around looking for...

I am a bit confused by your idea of napping OP. I understand that a horse is only napping when it refuses to move froward, nothing to with knowing its way home? Or am I missing your point?

Could he possibly be a Pointer x JRT? http://files.dogster.com/pix/dogs/44/33244/1.jpg

It is very simple and very easy to take a long piece of tail hair from the underside, without maiming your horse in anyway. Don't be mean, it is a very small favour to ask from someone who probably loved this horse very much. I would be just happy that a previous owner had loved my horse as much...

What a refreshingly realistic and sensible reply. I suspect this young horse might have missed out on its early education with other youngsters that are supervised by a couple of feisty old mares? The harshest I had to be with a similar youngster I had bought was a very swift and very hard...

It will be a very fortunate horse that is to become owned by you at some point in the future. Find another riding school and trust your instincts 100 per cent. If only more experienced riders and owners were as perceptive as you appear to be at such an early start in your foray into the world of...

Start by contacting the person who had the horse passported, it will be noted even on a white passport. They might be able to point you in the direction of the previous owner before them whom they bought from, and so on and so on. I managed to trace my 14 year old Irish horse right back to its...

Well I guess at a stretch members of the travelling community could be considered collectively as one of the largest horse breeders in Europe, so maybe that is the implied warning? Just surmising why the poster would add such a strange reason for posting on this old thread? :D Very scary...