Recent content by scats

10 days of Gut Sponge sorted Millie out, thank goodness.

I’m a self employed dog groomer who works from home in my converted garage. I work my job around the horses and it pays well, though it’s physically a much harder job than people realise. I can earn as much or as little as I like really. Due to my health issues, I have to limit my number of...

I won’t read it because I’ll get in a rage. Vile woman. Vile.

I despair at some of the idiotic comments I’ve read from supposed horse people. The world is full of idiots who would rather a horse suffer than be put to sleep. Some people shouldn’t be allowed near a horse, or any animal, frankly.

If I had 2 old, retired horses who had lived their whole lives together and been basically side by side for their golden years, I would actually consider it a pretty heartless act to put one to sleep and leave the other behind.

We’ve currently got a bale that none of my yard will eat. It looks and smells fine, but even the greedy cobs on the yard won’t touch it.

It’s not about them knowing what’s happening when they go together, it’s about one not being left behind and stressing out about their friend suddenly not being there. I’d far rather have 2 bonded horses of a similar old age be put to sleep on the same day than keep one alive for the sake of a...

For warmbloods who have been at the top level, it’s a grand age. Sad news, but lovely that they have gone together. I wish more people would make the decision to let horses go with dignity, sooner rather than later. That must have been a very hard day on Carl’s yard.

They usually get stud muffins off their yard friends, my mum provides them with some veg their Christmas dinner and I usually get them some sort of treat to hang in the stable. Nutmeg has just been treated to a load of new rugs so she’s had a couple of hundred pounds worth of presents already.

Given the replies to Horse and Hound posts recently, I think she’ll be given a very warm reception.

I feed the Timothy horsehage. Low sugar and starch and no rye.

I saw this the other day and it sounded horrendous. My friends horse was killed on the road about 20 years ago and that day will stay forever etched in my mind. You never really get over witnessing that kind of thing 😞 It made me extra cautious about road riding because I’ve seen what can...

I joined a few FB tortoise groups when I got my first tortoise (it was through one of these that I found Raphael :))

My friends older mare went the same way. Was found dead in the field by another friend. She didn’t bother will a PM as the horse was a TB in her twenties.

The breed was actually irrelevant in this situation. It could have been any dog. The fact was the dog was allowed to run up to other dogs (on lead or otherwise) and then the owner blamed those owners when their dogs retaliated. I wasn’t actually that bothered when it annoyed my dogs. Bess just...