Caring for our pets is a rewarding and joyous job as a pet parent. Having a dog, in particular, is a good reason to get out and about which is good for our mental health as well as theirs. That’s why, when they get poorly, it can be a worrying time. Here, we caught up […]

People have been using photography to express themselves for nearly two hundred years, ever since Joseph Nicéphore Niépce took the first blurry photograph in the late 1820s. The old cliché that a camera doesn’t lie, comes from the fact that a photograph captures an image as it is, with no input from the photographer – […]

Background When growing up and until I moved out of home, we had a family cat, but Ethel is the first cat/pet of my own. I got her a year after I moved into my first home. Ethel is extremely loving and loyal; she is like my shadow. It’s no exaggeration to say that whenever […]

People choose to take out horse insurance for several reasons, often to have cover for the unexpected. As we know, horses are naturally curious creatures and if left to their own devices can get into all sorts of mischief, which is why horse insurance can give you peace of mind. However, while we know that […]

With years of providing specialist horse insurance behind us, we understand the importance of keeping your horse healthy, happy and safe. Unfortunately, animals don’t have access to the kind of health care that we do, and vet’s fees can soon add up. In 2024 our average horse insurance claim for digestive issues was £922, the […]

Having your fishing tackle stolen has to be one of the worst experiences you can have as an angler. As any keen fisher knows, the gear doesn’t come cheap and a single rod and reel could be well into the hundreds of pounds. Money aside, there’s also the emotional attachment we have with some of […]

Worms are an inevitable fact of life for horses, and the vast majority of them have some level of infestation. Worm eggs, such a tapeworm, are usually ingested from infected pasture, they then develop into worms inside the horse’s gut or lungs before being passed out onto the pasture via faeces which can then infect […]

We’re still in the depths of winter and that often means we’re still in the depths of cold season, and while a cold isn’t serious, it can still be irritating when you get one and make you feel quite rough. A cold is a fact of life for us humans, but what about our canine […]

Anyone who takes part in any kind of sport or exercise knows how important it is to warm up beforehand. Stretching your muscles reduces the risk of muscle fibres tearing, and it encourages fresh oxygen to flow through the body, which helps reduce pain. It also eases your muscles into exercise so they can perform […]

One of the most common debates that takes place on the riverbank, apart from the tales of the one that got away, is what kind of fishing bait to use; do you make your own or buy it, and is there anything out there that we haven’t heard of before? We’ve all heard of the […]