Recent content by TinselPoos

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 🤣

My 2 mares were bonded but they got used to one of them going out on a ride or being brought in separately, it just took time - a gradual building up from taking one out for 10 minutes of grooming to riding one where the other could see up to being able to go out on long rides. There were other...

I saw this yesterday and found it very amusing. I think we have all had at least the odd (Really? A crisp bag?) occasion like that.

Just in case anyone wants some late night reading. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969722066499

Google it, but mainly through excretion apparently, but not much research yet undertaken so who knows? I am just an old cynic I guess, but I don’t see any benefit to dosing my dogs with a deadly chemical just in case they get fleas or ticks etc. I have never seen any fleas on my dogs in over 30...

Yes. It is an insecticide.

I attended a fascinating webinar on Wednesday about the impact of prophylactic flea and tick treatments. I felt the presenter did not go far enough e.g. by blaming the big pharma /big vet duo for getting people to take out monthly plans including regular insecticidal treatments, but I guess he...

I know, I was being sarcastic as I could imagine such people shouting the place down if they found out that there were two systems 🤣

I can see why the vets have to do this and also see that they would have to require that everybody pays up front, otherwise the well-known non/late payers would claim discrimination. Still a sad reflection though.

Really disgusting. Why can these men not stop for a minute and consider how they would feel if a gang of men dug their terrier out of a hole, after chasing it for a couple of hours, then threw it to the hounds?

i live fairly close by. Shop now on my banned list