Recent content by Trouper

Many congratulations - and so important that Atlas approves!! ;) ;) ;)

At the risk of raising any sort of sensible head above the parapet, what does your OH say??

It's such a hard time to live through - look after yourself now.

I think it helps otherwise they do keep looking.

May the road rise to meet him and may you find peace in only happy memories of him.

Ah but when you and a mare are finally on the same page it is a match made in heaven!!!

I hope it is not as serious as you are suggesting so if the vet thinks there is any hope, do talk to the guys at Trinity Consultants who do some amazing supplements to help liver recovery. Fingers crossed for you.

I have known a number of horses who really did not like loading onto a 3.5 but would happily load onto a trailer - it is something about going up the ramp into that solid wall. With a trailer you can practise loading with everything open so that it becomes a walk-through exercise to start...

I suspect it is more to do with herd hierarchy and where they feel safest and I am not clever enough to be able to work that one out!! My 15.2 TB mare was inconsistently bossy with her little herd of 3 and I never quite worked out where she sat - all I know is she would trot like a demented...

Just butting in to ask you if you can get yourself to a pool somewhere? It makes a huge difference for the water to take a lot of the body's weight while you start to get everything going - gravity makes it hard on solid ground while you are hurting so much.

I think there is a seasonal element to this, too. This time of year anything with a likely food source tends to be yellow (except for my winter heathers which I planted especially for the early bees). Later in the year the things they love - delphiniums, aconites, lavender etc tend to be blue.

There was a time in our history of 9 GSDs when we were introducing a 6-week male pup to a household with a very matriarchal bitch. He was given the hard stare and put in his place for several days to the extent that he practically asked her permission to get out of his bed. Then one day she...

It is illegal to have dogs out of control in a public place - not sure how forestry tracks equate to this but if open to the public.......? I would certainly report to the local dog warden and get their view on this. We are all tempted to let things go as nothing serious happened but next...

I need 3 - TB, ID and then a combination of the two.

What a cutie! Are we having a competition for the name or has it been decided yet?? ;) ;) ;) ;)