How To Groom Your Pet Naturally

How often do you groom your horse, dog or other pet/animal? There’s not a right or wrong answer. And also it doesn’t matter if you do everyday, if you’re not having a good look. So what do I mean? Two obvious benefits of grooming are: 1.Cleaner coat 2. Less tangles But other benefits are: Gives…

How to use colour to help your horse or dog feel happy

Colour Therapy – also known as Chromotherapy or “Colorology”. This is a holistic technique used to help rebalance the body. Via emotions, physical, spiritual, and mentally. It works by applying colour and light to specific areas on the body. How would you know if your pet has a colour preference?Have you ever changed your pet’s…

How to use natural therapies to relieve your horse or dog’s stress

Hello Stress – it affects everyone, including our animals. It’s not always a bad thing to have some stress. It can help provide motivation to get things done. Or even to face issues that do need resolving and not left. But stress can also cause anxiety, worry and lead to ill-health. If not managed and…

How To Use Yucca For Your Horse or Dog’s Health

Have you heard of Yucca? You may’ve heard it from some TV wild-survival shows. Where people eat yucca while living in the wild? It’s becoming more recognised for its use in both human and veterinary medicine. A natural way to help health. Yucca is a medicinal plant. Yucca extracts contain according to folk medicine, anti-arthritic…

How to Reduce Stress From Fireworks For Your Animal

Natural Ways to Reduce Stress from Fireworks for Your Animals Here are some top tips to help you help your animal stay stress-free, naturally. Despite firework noise! AromatherapyLavender is a herb that’s usually used to calm and relax.  Diffusion is often a good way to use essential oils in stressful situations – but of course,…

Top reasons why your horse will love shiatsu

Hello What is Shiatsu? Shiatsu shares the principles of acupuncture. But there are no needles used. It’s so termed a ‘non-invasive’ therapy. Shiatsu uses finger pressure applied at “acupressure points”. These gently stimulate the natural healing ability of the body. Why Shiatsu for your horse? Your horse may find Shiatsu helpful as part of his…

How To Help Your Horse Be Less Stressed?

Hello Does your horse seem “clingy” or looks upset if his or her favourite herd companion has other things to do? The look on my horse’s face when her closest horse friend goes off to graze with another horse says it all. She’s not happy! So usually it results in my horse rushing along and…

Discover Reiki For Your Horse (or Other Animal)

Hello 🙂 I’ve discussed Reiki in previous blog posts (Reiki and Energy Healing), but having spoken to some fellow animal lovers recently who didn’t know much about it, I thought it’d be helpful to provide a bit more information about this sometimes misunderstood and sometimes mysterious therapy. Reiki is an energy therapy. Everyone has energy. Even…

Excitable Horse or Dog? Could This Therapy Help?

Hello 🙂 For many of us who keep animals, at some point or another we will have an over-excited animal.  Particularly if we have horses and go to a show/event – many horses, can find it an exciting experience – sometimes this can lead to them losing focus despite our best efforts and training. I’ve…

Herbs for Your Pets

Hello Does your animal have herbs in his/her lifestyle – either as a food supplement or skincare?  They are incredibly popular and many equine tackroom and pet care department shelves feature different lotions and potions that contain herbs. Over recent years they have become particularly popular for a wide variety of occasions, throughout the year….

Flowers Safe for Pets?

Hello Many of you will be giving flowers to loved ones over the next week with it being Valentines Day, but if the flowers are going to be near a pet – think twice before you buy!  Unfortunately some of the most popular flowers to give, (and commonly found in the florists) are poisonous to…

Smelling to Health & Wellbeing?

Hello, My first experiences of trying holistic ways to help my horse Tara were with physiotherapy and herbal remedies.  But after a while, I also discovered aromatherapy – at first I was a bit sceptical, can smelling something actually make a difference?  As I discovered, yes it can make a difference – IF it’s the…