Posts for 'Horse Care' Category

Horses are amazingly beautiful and sensitive creatures. Horses require not only understanding and patience to have a horse as a pet, it also requires a whole lot of care.

Herd Mentality:

Observe horses in the herd system, each horse's welfare in the wild depends upon an instinctive submission to the discipline of the herd. The instinct is for immediate action. To the horse, action is survival. When horses live in an herd environment, they often take turns sleeping and standing guard for any predators. When the leader of the herd signals danger they take flight.

Learning respect and ascending to authority starts on the first day of life for the foals, there is a distinct pecking order in herds of horses.

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Horses are amazingly beautiful and sensitive creatures. Horses require not only understanding and patience to have a horse as a pet, it also requires a whole lot of care.

Herd Mentality:
Observe horses in the herd system, each horse's welfare in the wild depends upon an instinctive submission to the discipline of the herd. The instinct is for immediate action. To the horse, action is survival. When horses live in an herd environment, they often take turns sleeping and standing guard for any predators. When the leader of the herd signals danger they take flight.

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More than half of Britain’s vets were forced to kill a pet cat or dog over the past five years because owners could not afford treatment, it said. Almost 90 per cent of vets across the country admitted they had experienced cases of treatment for animals being rejected by owners because it was too expensive. Experts said vet fees were rising by more than 12 per cent every year, leaving animals being “needlessly put down”.

Among the diseases that could not be treated because of the rising costs included dental trauma, gastroenteritis, lameness and diabetes, the study from Sainsbury's Finance found. 'Advances in veterinary science mean that our pets can get the best treatment possible these days,” said Joanne Mallon, of Sainsbury’s.

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Even in the UK, which has what is seen by many non-Britons as a slightly repressed attitude towards death, prolonged mourning and visible grief is considered normal for the death of a family member or a close friend.

But in a nation of animal lovers there are many who feel almost the same way about the loss of a pet, but whose emotions occasionally provoke raised eyebrows.  The writer, broadcaster and former Labour deputy leader Lord Hattersley wrote this week in a newspaper about his grief for Buster his canine companion of 15 years, who died in October.

"I sat in the first floor room in which I work, watching my neighbours go about their lives, amazed and furious that they were behaving as if it was a normal day," wrote Hattersley. "Stop all the clocks. Buster was dead."

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Our horses are alway number one. We ensure our horses are healthy and happy!Our horses are vaccinated against influenza and tetanus. They are given annual boosters. They also enjoy a regular treatment against deworming, a vital aspect of horse health.

Never underestimate the power of grooming! Our horses are groomed daily. Grooming has several functions. Effective grooming not only maintains cleanliness and condition, but as a form of equine massage, also plays an important role in promoting circulation and preventing disease.A vital part of our horse care, we only purchase a high grade mixed feed of timothy and alfalfa. We aim for two-thirds carbohydrate, one-sixth protein and one-sixth fat. Our horses also enjoy daily treats which include grain, oats and barley (and of course an apple now and again, although believe it or now, a few of them won't eat them).

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Horses are wonderful animals! Strong, intelligent, they have great personalities that are as individual as humans, and readily return love, care and attention.

Like any animal kept for work or as a pet, some care and attention can make all the difference for the animal's health, happiness and temperament.

Barbed Wire

Barbed wire and horses don't mix! Unlike cattle, a horse’s skin is relatively thin and easily torn. Never pasture horses in barbed-wire fenced paddocks, as brushing against the wire, or becoming entangled, can cause nasty injuries that can easily become infected.

Strong wooden rails are a good fencing method; if using plain wire fences, electric or 'hot' wires quickly teach horses to keep away from the fence -- we use this method at Glen Shea and find it very effective.

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Horses are wonderful animals! Strong, intelligent, they have great personalities that are as individual as humans, and readily return love, care and attention.Like any animal kept for work or as a pet, some care and attention can make all the difference for the animal's health, happiness and temperament.

Barbed Wire-Barbed wire and horses don't mix! Unlike cattle, a horse’s skin is relatively thin and easily torn. Never pasture horses in barbed-wire fenced paddocks, as brushing against the wire, or becoming entangled, can cause nasty injuries that can easily become infected.

Strong wooden rails are a good fencing method; if using plain wire fences, electric or 'hot' wires quickly teach horses to keep away from the fence -- we use this method at Glen Shea and find it very effective.

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The guests at Day by Day Adult Care in Gloucester had a special visitor on Friday, Nov. 7: Maggie, the miniature horse.Maggie is a visiting therapy horse who, along with her owner, Nancy LeBaron-Kiley, 55, of Conant St. in Danvers, makes frequent visits to nursing homes and facilities for the elderly, disabled, and the deaf and blind.

Each year they visit the retirement community, Brooksby Village, in Peabody, the Beverly Home for the Deaf, The Beverly School for the Deaf, and many others, sometimes even going to New Hampshire.

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Deanna Ramsay got the happily-ever-after ending she was hoping for.Ramsay was finally re-united with her eight-year-old Arabian horse, King, who had vanished from her farm in Aurora, Ont., on Aug. 29, 2008.

The missing horse was found near King and Weston Roads, approximately 18 kilometres from her farm, late Sunday evening.Over the weekend, Ramsay put together a search party of 30 volunteers who slogged through the rain looking for the grey Arabian horse.

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Last winter, a good friend of mine consulted a pet psychic to help her comfort and care for her cat Mambo who was battling cancer. As a gal who is inherently wary of everything woo-woo, I recently decided to give pet communicator Marla Steele a call to suss out the world of pet mediums and get answers to a few questions about my own Miss Lorna Doone.

How did you learn to communicate with pets? I believe that we're all born equipped to do this, but most of us get distracted and wrapped up in a completely different way of relating and communicating in the world. Being a pet communicator requires practice just like any other kind of work. It's a muscle that needs to be flexed or it goes away.

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