Strangles Awareness Week

Become a SAW Ambassador and make a difference!

Strangles Awareness Week (SAW) is a global collaborative initiative aimed at preventing and managing Strangles - the most common infectious equine disease.

SAW takes place in the first week of May each year and is the perfect way for you to join a fast-growing network of horse-owners and equestrian professionals who want to help protect horses and businesses from the misery of a Strangles outbreak. We reached over 2.8 million equestrians in 2024! Here’s to making 2025 an even better year!

Help us reach more people by signing up to become a SAW Ambassador for free, see below for details.

Highlights from SAW24!

The 2024 Strangles Awareness Week (SAW) campaign reached over 2.8 million equestrians and yard owners. Plus, over 150 new ambassadors joined the campaign to spread the word about Strangles, not the disease.
This year we received support from International 5* event riders Lucinda Green and William Fox-Pitt, International dressage rider Richard Davison and equestrian influencer Riding with Rhi, who starred in videos promoting actions horse owners could take to give their horses the BEST protection from Strangles:

Boost immunity by vaccinating against Strangles
Educate yourself and others
Separate new horses
Temperature check routinely

Over 40 leading equestrian brands, including Champion, Toggi, Equilibrium and Spillers, donated prizes for the SAW BEST prize draw– for horse owners who could correctly identify the BEST actions in order to win over £6,500 worth of prizes!

You can catch up by watching all the campaign content here: Strangles Awareness Week 2024 - YouTube

Richard Davison, Lucinda Green, William Fox-Pitt, Riding with Rhi

Your horse deserves the BEST - get involved!

SAW 2024 was dedicated to promoting the BEST preventative actions to safeguard horses against Strangles, empowering owners to take proactive measures in disease prevention.

Strangles Awareness Week may officially be over for this year but you can still be involved! Watch and share our videos like Otto and Claire's story (below) to help us show the profound impact Strangles can have on yards, horse owners and of course the horses themselves. Because any horse can get Strangles and every person can make a difference.

Otto's Story

Watch Claire and Otto's story here

Check your horse's overall health with our free temperature checker

Temperature checking is an inexpensive, easy and vital way of checking your horse’s overall health. Help spot disease early in your horse by taking our custom temperature checker.

Become a SAW ambassador - just like Riding with Rhi!

Our growing network of ambassadors helps us reach horse owners who with your influence might start to get interested in the ways they can protect their horse and others.

Getting involved is free and simple - sign up and find out how you can be informed, inspired and make a difference for horses throughout Strangles Awareness Week.

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Can you spot yourself in this video? Are you and your horse at risk of Strangles?

How does Strangles manage to spread so far and so fast? Thanks to some fantastic research, funded by our friends at the Horse Trust, we can now link Strangles outbreaks not only in different counties, but in different countries!
Our brand-new animation takes a light-hearted look at some serious situations in which your horse could easily become infected. Watch the animation to discover why Strangles is never an isolated case and learn what YOU can do to make a difference and protect your horse.