A visit from the dentist! All ready for Winter.

Two of the older ponies down and sorted for the dentist. 

And officially ready for the winter. 

In fact they are currently out enjoying the last of the autumn grass, with their rugs on.

Stella went incredibly well and was all routine so she will only have to be seen once a year unless anything rears its head, luckily this seems highly unlikely.

Monty on the other hand, as we predicted, was much worse. Over an hour and half of dental work and he is now on the right track and able to eat properly once again. 

He had a hunch about his teeth when he came and as he started to lose condition despite being fed we knew we had to do something. 

It won't surprise a lot of you that are used to handling ponies, that little Monty was much more of a challenge than the much larger Stella. 

Not that he was naughty, he just didn't appreciate having to deal with things such as dental work at his age.

You would be surprised to know how much hard work it is to keep a small ponies head in the air when all he wants to do is leave the stable!

Massive thumbs up for our equine dentist of choice If you live anywhere around the Midlands I can strongly recommend James Sheppard.

Check him out at 

http://horsedentistuk.co.uk/

He is utterly brilliant, I used him when I had my rather skittish ex-racehorse and he treated him perfectly with no sedation and completely calmly. 

He was also brilliant with both Monty and Stella the other night, despite not leaving us until about 9pm.

Needless to say Monty is a changed pony already.  He is already dropping much less food (it may take him a  little while to teach himself to chew properly again). But we are hoping that in a month or so we will start to see a decent increase in his body condition.

Here is the old man wrapped up in his new rug. Fully enjoying his third meal of the day yesterday.

There are still a few more horses on the farm that will have their teeth done in the near future, but next on my list is the clipping of fat and naughty ponies!!! 

Bring on this weekend and the chance to catch up a little.