AnimalCrackers

28/09/2025

1-8 & 21-25 November are now available for holiday cover

26/09/2025

I now have limited availability for holiday cover in November.
Message to book in!

24/09/2025

Sums up owning horses (or any other animals) perfectly 🤣

23/09/2025

Due to unforeseen circumstances I now have a space (Monday to Friday) for regular dog walking or mucking out stables (up to 4 boxes).

Would prefer New Deer or Maud areas but Auchnagatt Ythanbank and Methlick would work in too.

As usual all dogs are walked on the lead, due to the terms on my insurance policy.

I am one of the few walkers who doesn’t mix dogs from different households, this means your dog/s get my full attention.

Please message me for further information.

Animal Crackers is fully insured with KBIS, and was established in 2005, so plenty of experience.

A few photos of some of our own gang!

19/09/2025

Morning supplies, busy day ahead, weirdly warm this morning and thankfully the wind has dropped a bit.

18/09/2025

Joys of the job 🤦‍♀️ pulled off my feet again, as usual I still kept hold of the dogs 😅
But my favourite breeches 😭 along with my knee and hand have a few holes, twisted ankle and knee, off home to get some ibuprofen and wash the cuts.
Hey ho I have had way worse 🤣

16/09/2025

On Sunday I headed out to do some showing with Enya, neither of us are really overly keen on showing nowadays, i used to love ot but it is such a long day and having to juggle work plus our other animals at home it’s difficult to do.
But after a wee blip she settled down and we came 2nd in the riding horse class.
Here’s a few pics of our day and as usual the part I enjoyed the most was getting her ready.

I am fully booked up for holiday cover until March 2026 but have limited availability for plaiting and grooming at events.

12/09/2025

Breakfast on the go yet again 🤦‍♀️
First 2 jobs done, was passing our house so popped in for a tea refill and an egg sandwich for breakfast, considering I have burnt over 1,200 calories i think I need some food 🤣
Off to do more stables and dog walks, hopefully get something done with my own horse this afternoon

10/09/2025

Sums us up well 🤣

Groom [ghroo-m] noun
🧹 Keeper of horses, finder of lost hoof picks, and master of “just five more minutes.”

Likes:
✔️ Coffee that never runs out
✔️ Plaits that stay in overnight
✔️ Horses that don’t roll after being bathed

Dislikes:
❌ Rugs with 87 billion straps
❌ Mud that laughs at wellies
❌ Hearing “Can you just…” at 6:29pm

Often seen:
🐴 Speed-walking across the yard with a haynet in one hand, a headcollar in the other, and a pocket full of straw, baler twine and plaiting bands.

👍Join the professional association that actually gets grooms (mainly because we were all one once!) britishgrooms.org.uk

09/09/2025

🤣 i often wonder what they say about us

07/09/2025

Dotty says it’s time to stop doing accounts

03/09/2025

One for the horsey folks, it’s normally a great fun day out