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Beautiful horsemanship 🐴 Bitless
🐴 Bridleless
🐴 LIMA (Least invasive, minimally aversive)
🐴 Hacking on Dartmoor

What lengths would you go to to keep your horses in your care? With the cost of living rising to crazy levels, the droug...
25/09/2026

What lengths would you go to to keep your horses in your care?

With the cost of living rising to crazy levels, the droughts causing hay prices to rise, it’s becoming more and more expensive to care for our horses.

Gone are the days where you could find a field for as cheap as chips and throw your horses on, feed them for pennies and not have to worry one bit about how you’d afford them.

When do you say enough is enough? I can’t afford them anymore concerning daily care, vet bills, medications?

Would you put things on cards?
Would you go into deep debt?
Would you go without food yourself?
Would you put your horse before your humans?

What happens with the stuff that is unexpected? With the health conditions that suddenly arise that cost? What happens if you just can’t afford it? Where do you go from there?

No judgement. It’s just something I’ve been pondering for myself lately.

Before I get multiple messages, Just want to add here that I’m not giving up horses😊

23/09/2026

Honestly! Just the cutest!

We went for a longer adventure today and goodness, this girl🐴🐴❤️❤️This is a route that we did early on into our relation...
22/09/2026

We went for a longer adventure today and goodness, this girl🐴🐴❤️❤️

This is a route that we did early on into our relationship and I walked quite a lot of it with her. This time round and some years later we did it backwards and she was happy enough for me to be on her back the whole time.

The lanes were super quiet. There was so much wildlife-we saw about 120 squirrels 🐿️
The woods were pretty and the village was super busy. We met Humpty Dumpty who was sat on the wall and the twits.

Clover managed the main road like a pro and then homeward bound across the moor.

4hrs of sunny bliss❤️

A nice cool water down when we got home which she appreciated and even more appreciated was the section of grass Dad had opened up in the field.

The grass is flipping illuminous! 😳 These two would love to be let loose on all this but it’s going to have to calm down...
20/09/2026

The grass is flipping illuminous! 😳 These two would love to be let loose on all this but it’s going to have to calm down a bit before that happens.

We ride pristine! 🤣
19/09/2026

We ride pristine! 🤣

16/09/2026

When we hit the moor today we saw another lady with her pony. We had a nice long chat and decided to see how both ponies would be if we rode together.

Clover was super happy to take the lead and when it came to leaving, I was so delighted that she was super happy to follow my lead. No saying, ‘No’. No being over threshold. Just an, ‘okie dokie’.

We don’t often ride with others and the times we have, I’ve taken Tom just because I wasn’t sure if she could handle it. Turns out, she can!

Love this girl🙌

15/09/2026

These old ponies have been on this part of the moor for years that they are part of the landscape. This little one wasn’t going anywhere as we squeezed by🐴🦄

We set out today and I realised I forgot my phone so Clover had a snack in the garden while I went to get it. A nice cou...
12/09/2026

We set out today and I realised I forgot my phone so Clover had a snack in the garden while I went to get it.

A nice couple of hours hacking all over the place. She enjoyed being charge and making decisions on where we went.

When we got back both horses had a tidy of hooves then some bodywork. I treated one and while they processed and went to zombie land, the other would come over and show me where they wanted to be treated, they went to zombie land and the process repeated.

Ended the day with giving Tom a W***y wash. Having had mares all my life, this has been a new experience for me🤣

11/09/2026

A perfect Friday night with the ponies. Clover bringing up the rear. Only just got back before we lost the light! Waaaaahhhhh! Winter is looming!

Me and Tom went on a blind date. I always think it’s super risky riding with someone you don’t know and it’s totally out...
09/09/2026

Me and Tom went on a blind date.

I always think it’s super risky riding with someone you don’t know and it’s totally out of character for me to respond to a fb ad but I was feeling wreckless🤣

I had many questions:
Will they be my type of person?
Is their horse as wild as the hills?
Will the horses get along ok?

Well, we took a risk and it paid off! We had a lovely outing. The horses were perfect, the people chatted and the sun came out!

Hopefully doing it again soon😊

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