Cantau Creek Stables

08/04/2026

1000% HAVE SOME FRICKIN’ FUN PUT THERE!

🖤✨🐴

08/03/2026

RIP Monty Roberts. A legend. I grew up eating up every word he spoke.

08/03/2026

Bath night and grass munchies.

07/23/2026

Every year I post ugly pictures of excessive adipose tissue accumulated in the nuchal crest, around the croup, or around the abdominal cavity.
And every year, I face the same picture during dissections.
So it is time to repeat the plea.

Please learn to recognise and score both the Body Condition Score (BCS) and the Cresty Neck Score (CNS).
Learn that this amount of adipose tissue is not simply an extra energy store. Excessive fat is a metabolically active tissue that alters numerous biochemical and endocrine pathways throughout the body.
Obese horses are not "cute" or "just good doers." They are at risk of serious health problems, including insulin dysregulation, laminitis, and reduced quality of life.
They need educated help.
But first, they need you to recognise that there is a problem.

Killing with kindness is still killing.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2769846/
https://totallyvets.co.nz/body-condition-score/
https://hygain.co.nz/blogs/library/cresty-neck-scoring-how-to
https://ker.com/equinews/body-condition-scoring-horses-practice-makes-perfect/
https://www.vet.cornell.edu/about-us/news/20230721/equine-obesity-talk-about-equine-metabolic-syndrome-and-laminitis
https://ker.com/equinews/the-heavy-hand-of-equine-obesity/
https://www.avonvaleequine.co.uk/blog/equine-obesity-how-it-impacts-welfare/

07/08/2026

07/07/2026

06/19/2026

My favorite ears 🦕
Arlo came out in beast mode today. Damn boy is a machine. 🙌🏼 Few things make my heart flutter but he sure did today. ✨

06/14/2026

🍌🍌🍌Excuse me a minute while I remember my bananas. 🍌🍌🍌

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06/10/2026

Mr Arlo 🦕
The bestest boy.