Recent content by Mynstrel

Bit of a story there, the owner sold his horses after his business went under and then died last year. He was only 63 I think it said.

Ah, ok. So it's not sitting down so much as taking a bigger stride with the back legs that causes everything to be lower because the foot is further forward than a short striding dog. I do understand the frustration, I hear it from people with "mad" border colllies which are just fit bored...

I think that's the same with most dog sports, people see it on telly/YouTube and think it's easy. Find out in the first 5 minutes of trying that it isn't and either become determined to learn or go home and get the biscuits out 😁

As a non-breed person I thought she looked much better and more upright than the sorry sights of a few years ago, but how close her hocks came to the floor when she moved troubled me. Not meaning to be insulting at all, is that the correct movement and I'm expecting to see the wrong thing? I...

Our independent vet outsourced ooh a good few years ago, as we found out when we had a dog with a spleen problem. He stayed ooh Friday night in case anything happened, then we transferred to ours for surgery and then back too ooh for the weekend. Although it wasn't fun for us, the dog came...

I'm dying to know what you said now 😂

How about a jetboil (or unbranded equivalent)?

Did I say instead of? I was just saying a physio may be required as well, speaking from experience.

Possibly a physio too.

Definitely helps with our Welsh X tb. The one with ears works better than the one without as he's very noise sensitive, particularly with whooshy or swishy noises. That said we tried it on a different horse and he hated it, so worth a try but doesn't suit everyone. I think there is a firm that...

Google stress buckets. There were a lot of events that day that paid into his bucket and I'd guess when he went into the ring it overflowed, causing the reaction your daughter got at fence 4. It's a useful thing to know about for everything, horses, dogs, humans. Once you look as a day or...

A lot of years ago when I was getting into agility one of the top dogs in the country was found to have next to no hip joints when x-rayed for breeding (she didn't breed him). The owner mentioned retiring him and the vet said hell no, being so fit is what's keeping him together! so never say...

Hubby has a share in him too, exciting times ahead hopefully! Altogether we have a share in 5 OG horses between us and it's a lot of fun. No you don't make much but it doesn't cost much either and as others have said it's a great way to be involved in racing in an affordable way.

I open ours up myself and just give them a clean inside if there's nothing wrong with them, that's probably all a basic service is, plus oiling all the bits that need oiling. They only go to a paid for service if they aren't working and we can't fix them, they're not bad things to work on t be...

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