Sponsor a Dartmoor Pony for Christmas and get an extra special gift!
| Sponsor a Dartmoor Pony for Christmas and get an extra special gift! A sponsorship makes a fantastic Christmas present which lasts throughout the year. For £15 the sponsor will get a certificate of sponsorship with their pony profile, a photo, a letter introducing them to their pony, a birthday and Christmas card and 3 updates/newsletters a year. This year they are also offering a special gift for Christmas sponsors, a lock of their chosen ponies mane! The ponies have agreed they don't mind a small haircut for their supporters!
The Dartmoor Pony Training Centre whose ponies are based in Moretonhampstead have enjoyed a successful year and have re-homed many of their ponies, there are of course always more looking for homes including 2 yearlings and 3 mares with foals, the mares and foals cannot be re-homed until the foals are weaned which will be around February.
Their open day was a huge success with Sarah Weston a recommended associate of Intelligent Horsemanship and her colleagues demonstrating how clicker training and non confrontational methods can work well in training these wonderful ponies. It is hoped next year there will be a 3-4 day workshop with Sarah, if any one is interested in this then please contact the DPTC.
|  Sponsor a Dartmoor Pony for Christmas and get an extra special gift! |
The DPTC are now looking to get more sponsorships for their permanent pony residents Merry & Trixie as the money raised from this scheme helps pay for the keep of the ponies. Winter is a very expensive time of year and with 3 mares and their foals to look after this winter funds are more important than ever! They are fortunate to have been able to grow and cut their own hay again this year which saves hundreds of pounds but there is still the hard feed the mares need together with the ongoing costs such as rent, farrier, veterinary bills (there are still outstanding bills for the castrations of the 7 unsold colts taken on from market last year).
If you would like to sponsor a pony or would like any further information then please call 01364 654609 or e-mail dartmoorponytrainingcentre@yahoo.co.uk, alternatively you can look at their website http://www.dptc.org.uk
Finally the DPTC would like to thank everyone for their support!
Added on: 18/10/08.

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