Welcome

For all of you that are new to here my name is Tonette....... Hello! I hope that you enjoy what you read and maybe

I have given you some information that might just be of some help to you, or if you don't have horses then you have

enjoyed reading what I have wrote :-)....... please email me with any thoughts or suggestions that you might have for

this web site I answer all emails and if it is something that I think would benefit others I will put any suggestions on

 one of the pages :-)

I am not a vet, I have been around horses since I was 5 years old when I first started to ride many, many years ago!

I was very lucky that when I was 11 years old I had my first pony, when I was 16 I went and lived in on a Equestrian Centre

 to take my BHSHM. From the age of 27 until I was in my middle 30s I had a break from horses (due to work commitments

 and money!). I have had Caddy now for 10 years and Dimby for 5 years. I have learnt a lot over the years and learnt from my

 mistakes. I have seen many horses suffer through some owners not understanding what horses need to survive. My husband

 thought when he first met me that if you owned a horse that you drove by the field a couple of times a week and waved at

 them, and if they looked all right then they were..... He was so surprised at the amount of looking after they take and also

 how much money they cost to look after....... I am so lucky that he loves our two as much as I do, he is very good at mucking

out and poo picking and all the other stuff too!!

Caddy and Dimby have taught me so much, because of this and from what I have learnt and seen over the years I thought

 maybe someone would be interested in what I have learnt so I decided to put my thoughts, and what I have learnt on this web site.

 to treat them. I have a horses health pages this covers horse first aid, how to take temperature, pulse respiratory

 it also covers strangles, colic and other illnesses. I have a summer management page and also worming programme

 and why it is so important to worm. There is also a Laminitis page please be aware of this dreaded illness it can attack

 any horse or pony, I really would read this just so that you can recognise the symptoms should your horse or a horse

 you know show the signs, the earlier it is caught the better the outcome ...... anyway you get the idea I am trying to

 put everything that I can think of this web site, but as I have already mentioned if you can think of anything that

 I may have missed or that you would like to see then..... email me :-))   

Hello to all of you that have come on here because of the Atrial Septal Defect, I have a page that I did while I was waiting

for closure of the hole in my heart and what it was like during and after closure...... I decided to do this page to help other

 people like myself, as when I was waiting closure there was no where to go to find out exactly what it was like. From this

 page It was suggested by one of the many friends that I made through email about me starting a face book group which

 I did, so if you have face book look up Adults Atrial Septal Defect and you will find us :-) we are very friendly

We hope that by doing this that we will now be able to reach so many more people with Atrial Septal Defect , and also be able to give more information.

It will be easier to find topics on the forum and it is ours

Well that is about it so please sit back and have a cup of tea or what ever :-) and I hope you enjoy what

 you read...... oh and I hope you like the pictures too