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Hunters, dressage riders, showjumpers, eventers, endurance riders, happy hackers...all can be abusive, ignorant and cruel. I have seen...

I haven't any good suggestions to offer, sorry, but it does sound really awful. It seems with horses that there often runs of bad luck...

I had one with lame/sound/lame/sound. As this was going on and on the senior vet came out with her X ray machine as she thought there...

Two and half acres for two small ponies is quite a lot really. Our field was that big and we never had a problem and at one time even...

This was originally the cut off date for applying to put new (based on old evidence) on the Definitive Map. In other words what we have...

I agree with the above. It is so hard when they are your horses and you love them. But someone who is not involved can take a more...

I'm sorry you're in this situation. It would not be wrong to put both to sleep. Both have unfixable issues, both are ion pain to some...

We are lucky that our practice if very much mixed, includes farm and equine and is still independent, and they certainly advertise that...

I'm still fairly new to horses, and being a dog owner I was really surprised that it's actually cheaper to sedate and stitch up a bloody...

In our experience , we’ve found that our bills for the cats and dogs are much higher than for the horses. Perhaps the VC’s are more...

Did you know that years ago it was common to put a sprig of Elder in your pocket if you were breaking in a horse - to keep him calm...

I think it might be easy to over/mis interpret. Firstly I’d distinguish between the backing/breaking stage and the riding away stage...

My over riding childhood memory is the long drop loos!

Well it depends on his experiences so far. If you have already got on, established steering and stopping in all gaits and met most of...

Since people have had horses they have raced them, all over the world. I think my horse is faster than yours, let's have a race to find...