Jenni Nellist
Clinical Animal Behaviourist

I’ve been prompted to think a bit more about these. I don’t usually, because they are always there, right on the noses and other...

Mum, Mom, Mam, Maman, Mamma, Mor… It doesn’t matter which language you speak, mothers are important. They provide comfort, sanctuary and...

Olympics time again! But what does it take to be a globe trotting top competition horse? What psychological abilities does a performance...

I wrote a blog over on one of my sister sites, the Gower Pony Experience. It was about play behaviour in the hill ponies. Just after I...

Originally featured as a guest blog on HBC Animal Welfare For the love of my horse. Why experience matters when it comes to choosing...

The first five weeks of grazing a field that’s barely been touched by a grazing animal for years! I learned that despite the lack of...

Frankie, a Welsh part bred colt foal, and his mum, Gemma. Presenting Problem: Charging up to people, and rearing, mounting and nipping...

Ben, an Exmoor gelding Presenting Problem: Difficult to catch, bolting when led. Medical issues: Sweet itch, hot branded. History: Ben is...

So the plan went a little off piste… But not by much. The aim of the operation was to avoid winding up Penny and Bronwen any more than...

So here we go again, another change in my circumstances and my horses are affected. No drama for my part, I’m moving to South Gower with...

Sunny day, keen horse, lorry swooshes by out of nowhere, everyman and his dog is outside DIYing, and the farmer just turned his steers...

A Gower Pony Experience. In 1998 I was on a mission to conduct a field study for my BSc Honours dissertation. I went to Cefn Bryn to...