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Loved it! 🤣

I just search my dog and wash down her legs after walks and pull them off if I feel any. I don’t believe in making my dog toxic on a near continuous basis just in case she comes across a tick with Lymes, but that’s just my own assessment of risk v environmental and health costs.

Not seen by me in Sussex.

Thinking of you and the Bog today.

Perhaps you should up your riding at the stables, maybe to a couple of times a week to improve your strength, before buying anything? Going from riding a few times over the last year to having a horse, whatever the breed, that will need riding 5 or 6 times every week may prove difficult...

Have you checked to see if anyone you know has some? Then you could give it back when you can get some on Monday.

Thanks for the update @Michen . You do whatever you think is right for you, including staying off this forum if that helps, and to hell with what anyone else may think. Bogs could never have found a better owner and you are the only person who knows what is needed. I wish you well and big hugs...

I don’t think it’s ragwort. Looks l like a hawks beard or similar, as above. I wouldn’t be going round complaining to the farmer and I would keep feeding it.

I had rubber matting and put bedding at the back of the shelter. I put 30cm planks across the entrances to stop the bedding creeping away.

Oops, sorry. I must have missed that. Will have to just go for name I like this year then!

Where is Elf? I did very nicely last year based on her posts re the National.

If you have x-rays, presumably taken by a vet, then the vet should have offered an opinion on the lump?

Genuine question: when would you use a rope halter rather than a headcollar? I haven’t seen halters used since the local horse sales in the 70s, never really wondered why before.

Boot liner, dog guard and boot mat plus lots of towels. Never ever let the dog near the seats!

Yes, I remember it, although I lived further west in Shoreham so I went to Mrs Goodbody’s, Happy Valley and Holmbush. I think the Portslade stables were run by Mickey Ayling for a while - but I think that was in the 70s. I used to ride in the same places on the Downs though, up over the National...