World Horse Welfare explains why looking through our horses’ eyes is the key to giving them good lives

In the first of two articles on box rest care, Edward Busuttil MRCVS explores how to manage its psychological and physiological impacts, stress and reintroducing turnout successfully

Experts consider what each of us can do to promote and improve welfare and ensure ethical treatment of horses

Going hunting without your own hunter is an increasingly popular choice for a range of reasons, finds Lucy Higginson

Let’s start with the numbers. There are about 13.5 million tame wolves (we call them pet dogs), 12.5 million cats, one million rabbits, 700,000 tortoises and turtles, 700,000 guinea pigs, 600,000 hams

In celebration of the author’s 250th year, Bethany Stone delves into the small but significant role of horses in Jane Austen’s fiction