How to tip the scales in your favour: weight monitoring and management while keeping your horse happy (2021)
Overview
Horse owners often hate weight management and feel like it’s a constant battle, endlessly doing things your horse dislikes, such as restricting food and extra exercise. However, it doesn’t have to be like that! By working through the options which will suit you best, we can help you find weight management options for your horse that actually help your horse be happy in the field, or help you spend time with your horse. This practical talk will first focus on some aspects of weight monitoring that many people overlook, before going through the different options for weight management, and how to ensure optimum well-being for your horse at the same time as managing its weight.
Presenters
Dr. Tamzin Furtado PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Liverpool
Tamzin is a social scientist with a background in global health, and has a specific interest in the interconnections between human and animal health and wellbeing. She completed a PhD at the University of Liverpool studying how we can improve the management of obesity in horses, particularly focusing on horse-human relationships and human behaviour change. She now works on projects covering a wide range of aspects of understanding human behaviour in order to improve companion animal welfare, and in using social sciences to find out more about how we can help people to change. She is working with BEVA on their equine obesity initiative, and frequently gives lectures and talks about applying behaviour change principles to help equine professionals and owners manage weight.