Help Countryside Garden Wildlife Survive the Winter

By providing some suitable areas of hibernation and nutritious food we can help our countryside garden wildlife survive the winter months. Here are a few simple things we can do to help our garden wildlife in winter but won’t take much time or effort, so there is no excuse! There are three ways wildlife can [...]
Understanding Horses

There’s a new blog on the block called HorseHandler for horse behavioural problems, written by equine behaviorist Steve Thompson and is a jolly good read. In his about me section Steve says “My work involves teaching horses and their handlers how to get around behaviour issues without conflict. My ‘motto’ is Compassion, Consideration, Cooperation because [...]
Working Dogs Should Work

There are few sadder sights than an overweight miserable dog designed for country sports lolling by the fire waiting for the next meal to magically appear before it. From sheep dogs to gun dogs to hunting dogs and beyond we often see these dogs bought and kept as family pets with little more than a [...]
UK Backs Re-emergence of Ivory Trade

Congratulations to the British government for yet another astoundingly unpopular and insane decision. During the 80′s the elephant population was halved due to the world ivory trade, hence the ban on ivory trading in 1989. At a meeting of CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) in Geneva Britain voted to allow China (the [...]

