Lucy

I work at a Cat Cafe so main duties include animal care for the cats as I open, close and during the day - I also tell customers about the cats that we care for in the cafe as well as serving drinks.

I have loaned a range of horses in the past, so I can mange a variety of horses. Including one ex race horse and an older horse that required daily medicine (which I was responsible for). I have 15 years of riding experience, from schooling to hacking holidays. I also volunteered when I was younger, to work on a yard at weekends, helping muck out, tack up ponies, grooming and even lead little ones round the arena. I also helped out on pony days. I have hacked out in a number of places, including North Yorkshire, Canada and Spain. Therefore I am well accustomed to different terrain and how to ride on it.

As my Jobs require me to be, I am friendly and approachable with new people/ customers, my job also has a lot of children and people with special needs come in so I’m comfortable interacting with them. Due to working with animals, I can politely but firmly inform people of rules that keep both them and the animals safe. In the past, I have been responsible for a section of a yard, making sure that all horses there were fed the right feed, as well as making sure the beds were clean.

I’m comfortable with hacking, flat work, dressage and jumping. I can happily sit through the motions of walk, trot, canter and gallop. I do know basic road safety as well.

I have managed a range of horses, as I loaned them, non came from schooling backgrounds, so I did have to watch out for bad habits, and I have sat (and fallen) through my fair share of spooks, however non of these horses were problematic or overly green, and all where over 10 years of age.