The Horse Nanny

22/08/2024

MISSING CAT

Keith has been missing since Saturday from Green Lane, Belper

21/08/2024

Wedding season! 👰‍♀️ 🤵 💒 Got to spend time with this fabulous girl while mum and dad got married. She's been quite poorly over the last 6 months or so and undergoing chemo which made it really nice to spend some time with her, keeping her company. ❤️

20/08/2024

She may not be able to walk that far anymore but 👸 🎃 loved her sniffy walks last week while her regular walker was away. Struck lucky with the weather being warm but not too hot for her.

19/08/2024

🌼Ragwort extremist groups🌼

The amount of photos shared on social media with equines grazing amongst ragwort is disgraceful. The groups encouraging people to leave it, are even worse. There is this “safety” blanket that people believe their equine will not eat ragwort unless it is is hay.

Now, it is true that ragwort is bitter when growing, however in overgrazed paddocks equines will begin to eat things they otherwise would do their best to avoid. When ragwort rosettes numbers are high, but their growth is at ground level, it makes it very difficult to equines to try and eat the grass around them without ultimately consuming some ragwort too!

Below you can see the number of confirmed ragwort poisonings in the UK over the last three years. Note - the highest numbers tend to be when ragwort is growing (and closest to ground level) and when people are least likely to be feeding hay.

Now this could be chronic accumulation from winter hay showing the poisoning effects during the summer and spring months, however look at Q2 2024!!!! We have all been commenting on how bad the ragwort is this year. Q2 2024 (April - June) has seen the highest number of ragwort poisonings than has been seen over the last three years (almost twice as many as the same time last year). I would argue that the pattern below looks like acute ragwort poisoning from ground level rosettes, rather than chronic.

Q2 2024: 14 confirmed poisonings
Q1 2024: 2 confirmed poisonings

Q4 2023: 4 confirmed poisonings
Q3 2023: 2 confirmed poisonings
Q2 2023: 8 confirmed poisonings
Q1 2023: 2 confirmed poisonings

Q4 2022: 1 confirmed poisonings
Q3 2022: 4 confirmed poisonings
Q2 2022: 4 confirmed poisonings
Q1 2022: 1 confirmed poisonings

Please don’t leave it, dig it up.

Please share for the extremist Dunning Krugers.

Oh and especially for those that think “I made the numbers up” here’s the Equine Disease Surveillance Network!

https://equinesurveillance.org/landing/

19/08/2024

When you get to look after this jolly little chappie you know it's a good day. He really is an absolute joy.

16/08/2024

Would anyone be interested in adopting these three goofballs together?😻😻😻 We know it's a lot to ask but they do SO well together and figured it was worth a shot! 🤷‍♀️ They are ridiculously sweet.

Interested parties with pure bred experience recommended!

📧Email [email protected] if interested and subject the email "The Motley Crew"

15/08/2024

Always a real pleasure to spend time
With these lovelies. Shared this job with Lydia Mellor Equine Services to make sure everything was covered so thanks Lydia! 🦮🦮🐶🐾🐎🐎🐴🐹🐹🦆🦆🦆🐑🐑🐑🐑 🐓🐓Ooops forgot to add the guinea pig in to the photo.🤦‍♀️

14/08/2024

Loved house sitting for this varied bunch while mum got away. 🌞🏖️🏊‍♀️ thanks to Stirrups Equestrian Services of Derbyshire for your help! Not my best photos and I missed a couple of the cats.🤦‍♀️

05/08/2024

A weeks kitty cat care for this lovely girl. Loved spending time with her for strokes and snuggles and the weather was great for sitting outside with her.

Then she blanked her mum when she came back from holiday 🤦‍♀️

The Horse Nanny

01/08/2024

Oh yeah! When you move 140 mud control slabs in the hottest
Part Of the day you know you've worked hard! The Horse Nanny 💪🏻

31/07/2024

30/07/2024

A hot 🥵 weekend looking after these quirky show jumpers. A couple are retired but can still strut their stuff. Chaos caused by hay being cut, tedded and baled close by but out of sight when bringing in 👻 👺 😈🎆🎇🧨

We all got in safe and sound so that's all that matters

26/07/2024

23/07/2024

What a fab job I have. Love looking after this varied lot. Chaos and carnage occasionally reigns for a bit but they are all awesome. Some how managed to forget to photograph the sheep.🤦‍♀️
Missed 🐰and 🐹😢

🐈 🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴🐑🐑🐑🐑🦆🦆🐣🐹🐓🐓🐕🐕🐕‍🦺🐾

20/07/2024

17/07/2024

Seen these guys and girls a few times recently. They are the loveliest herd to look after. ( plus Mr T the cat)

15/07/2024

First time looking after this one and WOW! what a sweetheart. So shiny and handsome too plus he loves kisses. 😘😘😘😘 💋🥰Mum doesn't get to go away often so hopefully this will mean she can get a few breaks in the future

13/07/2024

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12/07/2024

Puppy love. Lots of fun chasing around and sniffing. Shottlegate Farm Paws and Play

09/07/2024

Yeah! Love 'em! Loved the last 7 days house sitting for this super lot. They really are the best.

08/07/2024

Match up wanted for Friday 26th July.
Route: Winn Hill, 8 miles
This will be a predominantly walk/canter ride. There are some nice spots for steady cantering on this one. If you've ridden with me before, are free on this date and fancy this route, please drop me a message.

06/07/2024

This tracked field was one of the worst I saw over the wet wet winter as it's at the bottom of a steep hill. Harrowed really well and it's back to perfect. The Horse Nanny

05/07/2024

| Dog injured after being attacked by another dog | Reference 24000355823

Officers are appealing for the public’s help to trace two men in connection with an incident where a dog suffered serious injuries after being attacked by another dog.

The incident occurred at around 3pm on Sunday 16 June near a bridge across the Lathkil river in Lathkil Dale when a group of dog walkers were approached by a large dog which then attacked a Dachshund, causing serious injuries.

The What3Words for this location was ///marketing.resists.scored.

We would like to speak to the two men pictured as they may have information which could help with our investigation.

If you recognise them, or have any information on the incident, contact us, using any of the below methods, quoting the reference 24000355823:
• Website – We have crime reporting tools on our website: https://orlo.uk/3hj8a
• Facebook – send us a private message to the Derbyshire Constabulary page
• X (Twitter) – direct message our contact centre via
• Phone – call us on 101

You can also anonymously contact the independent charity CrimeStoppers, on 0800 555 111, or by visiting the CrimeStoppers website: https://orlo.uk/vFvBp