Anyone taken their horse(s) to uni??

As the title says really, just wondered if anyone had/is planning on taking their horse(s) to uni with them and if so how you found it?

Getting him in the ensuite was a bit of a struggle to be honest!

As the title says really, just wondered if anyone had/is planning on taking their horse(s) to uni with them and if so how you found it?

As the title says really, just wondered if anyone had/is planning on taking their horse(s) to uni with them and if so how you found it?

My sister took her horse to uni with her

Seriously?
Did she ride it to lectures?
How cool would that be?

I can't think of anything worse than getting up at 6am to go muck out a gigantic beast with the personality of a two year old that can rip your finger off in one bite if it so wishes, but each to their own.

Nope, I am not taking mine. I've had her on loan for 4 years but will be giving her back to her owner when I go to uni in september. I won't even be able to afford food let alone a horse, so taking my horse to uni was never an option for me. Also it's a long distance to have to transport them.
I guess it depends on whether you feel you have the time and money to keep looking after a horse whilst also studying for a degree. In my opinion it's better to loan your horse out for the time you're at uni, but it all dpeends on what the owner wants/feels is best. People do sometimes take their horses with them.

I just asked her for more detail and she said:

You either needs lots of money for the horse, or you can do it cheap and have no social life. "It's the holy trinity: money, social life, degree - pick two".

She said she couldn't have kept the horse throughout university - she was only able to have it in the final year because she did a placement year when she could save up a lot of money.

So maybe OP, see how you feel after the first year in terms of workload, settling in etc. and if it seems possible/realistic (especially financially) then maybe think about it then? It's doable if you want to make it happen, but you'll need to be able to manage your time well so you're able to keep on top of all your work.

Hope that helps

EDIT: Ooh, and her horse in on 'part-livery' *whatever that means*

As the title says really, just wondered if anyone had/is planning on taking their horse(s) to uni with them and if so how you found it?

Hello, i originally got into Essex and then swapped to CCCU as it was closer to home and commuted the 90 mile round trip every day to afford to keep my horse as well keeping a horse and living in halls would have been hideous, and well it still made me broke living at home keeping her and uni even with two jobs. I moved to Canterbury for my second year and was considering keeping her at the local riding school on a working livery, but I'd have to make up the short fall (mum wasn't prepared to spend more than the livery she was paying at home) and well I couldnt afford it. So she's now out on loan with view to buy, as in the end it worked out easier. But I do actually get a lot more reading done now, and it's given me the opportunity to focus on other sports that I didn't have the time to do so before, so it's a blessing in disguise. I captain the equestrian bucs and varsity teams now anyway so I'm still involved and have a lesson once a week to get a pony fix.