A Brief Newsround - Week Ending 16/05/21
One of the Lucy Irvine Foundation Europe 's most valued and versatile helpers is Roma. With us for nearly 6 years now, he's learned how dogs and horses can be handled differently - with more sensitivity to their needs - than is customary in the community he comes from. His new knowledge is starting to spread among others making Ilia, in effect , an ambassador for LIFE in several Roma communities so that more dogs and horses are experiencing more thoughtful handling. As Ilia learns, others learn from him. This past week he acquired a new useful skill to pass on: how to file a horse's hooves between trims carried out by an expert. LIFE wants to thank trimmer Vanya Lavarova, who's also a qualified vet and a successful competition rider, for helping Ilia to learn how to file hooves. Vanya Lavarova demonstrating how to file hooves Supervising & Guiding Ilia Ilia learning to file his filly's hooves With Ilia, who helps translate my Bulgarian into Romanes when we...