With covid and government restrictions not quite a distance memory yet, many of us are still opting for UK-based trips, with ‘staycations’ becoming the new foreign getaway. For those of you who favour the UK holiday anyway, you’ve probably got all the gear you need for camping or caravanning with pets, but for those who are fairly...
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Going to summer camp with your horse is one of the most exciting things on the calendar and every horse lover’s dream. A week of nothing but horse-related activities – what could be better? You’re in the great outdoors with your best friend, spending the day in the saddle and the evenings under the stars. After the two years of re...
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Horse ownership often necessitates travelling, which can be stressful at the best of times, and traumatic and even dangerous at the worst. To help ensure you are always travelling safely with your horses, here are our top tips for keeping journeys stress-free: Get your horse used to being loaded, as this is often the most stressful part of the jour...
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Here's an overview of our cold chain packaging testing for your attention, as tested on mock dispatches of Caninsulin. Getting the conditions right: Each test involved packaging an insulin vial in the temperature controlled envelopes with the varying ice and gel packs. The cold packs were not to come into direct contact with the vial. All tests car...
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If you’ve never been overseas with your dog before, the thought of it can be quite daunting. But a family holiday surely wouldn’t be complete without all your family members coming along? You certainly have to be organised to make an overseas trip, but don’t let this put you off! Having your dog in tow can add to the fun immensely...
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They are every horse owner’s nightmare and, come June/July, flies and midges are out in force. The weather starts hotting up and horses are turned out 24/7 to make the most of the glorious sunshine. But being outside means flies. Everywhere. Biting flies, horse flies, feeding midges, you name it; horses are being affected by it. Apart from be...
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Whether we like it or not, stress features in all our lives, whether we are a dog, cat, horse or human. It is not always just big, life-changing things that send our emotions into overdrive but the small, mundane situations of everyday life that cause us stress and anxiety. When our systems are over-taxed by stress our bodies find ways to ‘co...
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Lyme Disease, named after Lyme town in Connecticut where a number of early cases were identified, is a vector-borne illness caused by the Borrelia burgdorferi bacterium. The bacterium is carried and transmitted by the Ixodes tick, which feeds on the blood of humans and animals (including dogs and cats). In the Northern Hemisphere, Lyme Disease is t...
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Show season is here, which means it's time to start preparing your horse for the demands of competition, if you haven't already done so. Besides the obvious need to primp and preen your horse, it is important to think about internally preparing it with appropriate supplementation for support through the season. Showing and competition pressure, tog...
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