Recent content by TheMule

Humans can be incredibly cruel sometimes

You have to be very clear in what you want but it should click quite quickly. If he responds to a food reward then I would stop and treat to help him really get the message

Whilst I agree that it’s not a useful video to publish, and more needs to be considered about why the horse is doing that, I don’t agree with the HHO mass diagnosis of terminal hind end problems or assuming that Tom won’t listen to the horse. The horse has the most impeccable eventing record- he...

It’s just very dull repetition of what you want I’m afraid- every single pole has a halt transition after it until he will canter a pole and pull up smoothly and quietly within a few strides. Then you do the same thing with a jump. I pair it with a voice aid and then release of pressure and...

The long range forecast is starting to look a little more optimistic and Spring is definitely in the air. My fields are still incredibly wet, but I am more optimistic now that we are moving out the other side of this endless cloud 🤞

As do many domesticated horses, no matter how many balancers their owners shovel into them. They die of colic, laminitis, infection, injury, cancer etc etc

AH saddles sorted out my flat- backed wide event horse with a dressage saddle. He jumps in a lovely little Ideal saddle (they have a couple of models designed for this sort of horse) as the AH ones weren’t quite forward cut enough for me

It’s not a nice picture, it’s all expression from tension and punishing the horse with a harsh hand and jabbing spur with no obvious 'out' for the horse, IE, it’s often unclear what she wants back from the horse. Unfortunately much a similar story to the whipping

No one has defined what ‘balanced’ means in horses. Optimal dietary levels are purely guesswork (as they are in humans), so you can only ever try to match up to some kind of arbitrary number. In my opinion, if your horse is eating a diet predominantly made of green stuff (in proper fields) then...

I’d say it’s a pretty poorly designed animal if it can’t get the nutrients it needs from its natural foodstuffs. Millions of years of evolution must have got it very wrong 🙈

I am very impressed you show this much enthusiasm in the winter-of-endless-rain She looks adorable, hopefully the stat of many happy adventures

PE? I found the ankle part too small so they are quite hard to get on (I dont have cankles either 😂)

Not good in my experience- I’ve chanced it a couple of times when they have been very reduced, but quality has been poor and not comfortable to wear. I bought a pair of bargain fleece lined boots from Dever last week and they are actually surprisingly good...

I would probably scan the hind suspensories and, if they are clear, stick some steroid in the SI and see if that helped

It’s almost certainly not the nerve block (especially as the horse is lame in the opposite leg), the horse is bilaterally lame. Unfortunately most likely cause is bilateral PSD, but worth x-raying the hocks too as they’re easier to fix. A toe drag is a sign of lameness, so you were right to...