Recent content by Nancykitt

This is the sort of thread where our views are so massively influenced by our own experiences - whatever they may be - that it can often be difficult to see a consensus even when there is one. I grew to hate the 'Natural Horsemanship' marketing but I'm sure that some people were happy with the...

Yep, I can see the advert now...Experienced hunter, anyone's ride, loves hacking out. Happy to live in or out.

Exactly. People were utterly desperate for the quick fix and although Parelli and Roberts were selling a 'method' (complete with branded headcollars ropes, sticks etc), they relied heavily on the demonstrations of 'miracles' to boost their credibility. He 'started' one horse - a nervous young...

When we got our first horse 23 years ago Monty Roberts & Parelli were all the go, (although people tended to follow one or the other). We were probably greener than our cob and although he wasn’t horrendous we would be bombarded with ‘advice’ - which was usually fell into either ‘horse...

Apologies, I managed to find the FB post and I’ve now gone off at a tangent!

I’m not sure it’s the same post. It was on a DD page and the person posting it turned off comments. They were basically criticising the FB page that has been set up as well as saying that people shouldn’t buy blind & some of the victims were disagreeing with her. Another person, commenting on...

Quite! I find it all more than a bit cringeworthy. The child comes over as quite a character and I can see that some people will find this very appealing. (Whether or not this is morally/ethically OK is another matter...) But the parents - oh my goodness, they come over as needing a strong...

I noticed that there's another FB post from the family who are crowdfunding to buy stables... quite apart from the rights and wrongs of the crowdfunding, I'm beginning to think they're living in another world. I get that they're upset about some of the negative comments they've received, but if...

There was a post on one of the DD pages by someone who was basically shaming the victims for taking the horses on trial. Didn’t go down well. And then an ally of theirs joined in and said that the dealer in question had always been good with them, and ‘there’s two sides to every story.” I nearly...

This year, Snoopy and Ozzy both had lovely brand new Weatherbeeta rugs with high necks - perfect for living out up here. For some reason, AJ has started to incorporate rug-wrecking into play sessions. He starts with clamping his teeth on the tail flaps, which eventually results in the tail...

Hello all! Not much of an update really as work and the weather has severely limited our work with Ozzy. On the plus side, he does seem to have enjoyed the chance to just eat hay and hang out with Snoopy and AJ. He seems more chilled out in general - I'm hoping that he realises we aren't going...

I'm all for manners when feeding - we've always asked our horses to step back when I'm putting the bucket down. This worked well until the incident where Ozzy got annoyed and bit me on the shoulder. I'm afraid to say that I now just put the bucket down and leave him to it. This may change in...

Indeed - the thing that really worries me is that there are seemingly many, many people who don’t see the issue! Some are even praising the rider for her wonderful standard of horse care.

I've seen now that the hunt is actually named on the video footage. The Masters should really be having a word. These hunts don't do themselves any favours, do they? ETA - just seen the line 'I have the greatest mummy ever!' on the page. :( :rolleyes:

I may have mentioned this before, but some hunts only seem bothered about turnout - ie, they'll tackle someone for wearing the wrong stock or for wearing a raincoat without the Master's permission, but they won't mention an obvious welfare issue. (This happened once with a pack I rode with - an...