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Horse Owners.. Can You Take a Holiday? |
Have you had to knock back a holiday or weekend away because there was no-one to look after your horses? Well, it happened to me and is how the idea for Horse Nannies International was conceived.
My neighbour needed to take an overseas trip at the same time I was booked for a holiday. Normally, we cared for each other’s horses but now both faced the dilemma of who was going to care for them with us both away?
Despite having a large network of horse friends, they were either also away or too busy to add the care of our horses to their schedule. So I put up a post on Facebook asking if there were any reliable, experienced horse people around to visit our properties twice a day and feed and care for a total of five horses. The trouble with this method was I had people reply I knew to be less than competent and now they were going to be offended when I said NO.
Whilst I was pondering my problem, someone suggested I look at a house/pet minding website for a suitable person. What I found on the site were lots of dog and cat people but no horse people. One gentleman had looked after cattle and therefore thought he could handle horses, but this wasn’t what I had in mind. I needed a horse person!
Horse Owners Care Choices for Horse Owners
It was then I had my lightbulb moment! Facebook may not have solved my problem by finding me a suitable horse sitter directly, but it had been a wonderful platform for my horse cartoons page which now had over 250,000 horse people following. Could Funny Horse Cartoons help connect horse people and provide the connection between horse owners and horse carers? Whilst my cartoons were light-hearted, I very much realised horse care is very serious, so a serious and comprehensive website was required. One that could ask the right questions concerning horses and give horse owners some choices.
So late 2016 Horse Nannies came together to offer horse people the advantages of;
- Advertising or browsing for a suitable person alleviating the need to impose on friends
(or offend an acquaintance). - A message system that also included a duties list which could be ticked off as each task was completed. This list would then be sent to the horse owner for peace of mind.
- A place where horse people could earn money to help pay for their own horse habit or even start/promote their own horse business.
- A system with downloadable documents, suggestions (such as background checks) to help horse owners make the right decision.
- Blogs, horse care tips and a general meeting place for horse people.
New But Growing
Of course like all new services, Horse Nannies will take time to cover all regions but the feedback has been tremendous with new people coming on board every day. What we envisage is the day when all horse people are able to access other caring horse people, quickly and easily. This is why we are reaching out and saying PLEASE JOIN US FOR FREE! Even if you don’t have a need right now, start making the connections so the next trip away is HORSE CARE WORRY FREE
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