Pets: Wild at Heart

Beautifully filmed, - loved every minute of this programme. Are there only two episodes?

I caught up with it on iPlayer and really enjoyed both programmes.

The budgie was amazing - yes I know they can be taught to speak (ours had quite a vocabulary) but that one was exceptional.

I loved the hamsters, especially the one that went out for a nightly constitutional. We had one that could get out of its cage - we renamed her Houdini.

Yes, mrsmopp, just the two.

Anyone into animals especially horses - or if you just want a lovely story about people who care - I've just watched a lovely film on BBC I player about the search for Appaloosa horses. I found it in the 'History' category quite by chance....no idea when it was transmitted.

Oh, that was on a few weeks ago and I just caught the tail end of it. Appaloosas suffer from a degenerative eye disease, I believe, so I wondered if the search for fresh blood was to help prevent this? What was the programme called?

The Secret horse: quest for the true Appaloosa.

Caught up with Pets Wild at Heart. How fascinating. When I was a child I must have seen something about the white horses of The Carmargue. I have no idea what or where but have always longed to see them. Maybe I will one day

Thanks Hilda; found it on iplayer last night. I really enjoyed watching the whole programme. Katy; same here about the Camargue...must be a reason why a little schoolkid from Brum knew all about them! By the same token there was a picture of Mousehole on a noticeboard at grammar school that made me want to visit Cornwall, and I then went on to live there! Was it White Horses? will do some googling....

..nope; not that but there is one called Hermine and Jacqui...

There was a children's programme on BBC years ago about the white horses with a very catchy theme tune....'White horses'.......its running through my head now.

I found the appaloosa programme very interesting. I had always thought they were just a colour, hadn't realised they are a recognised breed

KatyK I remember being read a poem at school about the white horses of the Camargue. Then one year when my daughter was au pairing in Provence during her Gap Year we drove down to pick her up and I had the chance to visit the Camargue and see the white horses for myself, and the black bulls that live there also.