Recent content by Petalpoos

Sealskinz. Brilliant but, as above, you would need new wellies so you may as well just buy wellies that don’t leak 🤣

It is great fun - and make sure you stay on to watch the hunt race at the end, it’s insane! We used to stay at Trinity College. They let out the student rooms in summer and it’s in a great location in the centre of Dublin and cheap. Books up fast though.

If doing what you do pays more money than grooming, is the difference in pay enough to fund you having your horse back, or another horse?

Peanut (butter). You could definitely eat him he’s so gorgeous!

Wonderful memories! I don’t need to write mine down as you have all pretty much covered them above. Very sad to think that there will be no such memories for kids growing up now, what with all the elf and safety and societal norms about letting 9 year old girls whatever go off all day on their...

Someone broke into my yard and let the horses loose one night a few years back. 2 of them scoffed their way through a couple of bags of high energy food that neither of them needed any amount of. Vet suggested best thing to do to avoid laminitis was to let them loose in one of the fields that...

5’8” on a 14:3 haffie.

Just keep the dog on a lead if any chance of sheep. it’s not worth risking it, My retriever went to chase some sheep when young and ran straight into the electric fence. Was scared of sheep therafter, but.. last year I was walking through a field where I did not think there were any sheep and...

I think the main advice would be that you stop riding him and only lead him with a hat on, then seek professional advice from a vet and behaviourist. What he is doing is just too dangerous to take any further risks, especially if it is escalating.

The latest one has stopped! Hurrah and thank you @Admin

Mine has brought them home a couple of times and still has some bits left a few years later. She’s always inordinately pleased when she finds one 😄

Agree. I was shocked to see that crating farrowing sows is still allowed and even more shocked that the farmers caging the sows (and chicken) are complaining that they will be unable to be competitive with foreign imports unless they are allowed to continue these cruel practises. Surely the...

Oh dear - if he is actually eating it then be careful in case the shiplap has been treated with a preservative or whatever. One of mine started on her stable if she ever ran out of food for 5 minutes. I used to leave a large bucket of chopped oat straw so she always had something to munch.

I agree strongly - horses are not just another inanimate object that can be moved around as we please. I am often dismayed by posts on here where people have bought a new horse or moved their existing one and are surprised at all the behavioural issues that seem suddenly to appear. I...

Nothing to add bar @Spiderpig2009 - I now have a new earworm, thank you 🤣