A survey on Buying a horse

Meowy Catkin

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I don't understand what Q6 and Q7 have to do with buying horses? Surely they are more about rescuing abandoned equines and supporting charities that rescue, rather than buying a horse for myself.
 

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I've been thinking about this today and I thought that you might find it useful to know that some of the things that are very important to me when buying a horse aren't listed in Q3. Good conformation, temperament, trainability and the suitability for the job I want them to do are vital IMO.
 

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I've been thinking about this today and I thought that you might find it useful to know that some of the things that are very important to me when buying a horse aren't listed in Q3. Good conformation, temperament, trainability and the suitability for the job I want them to do are vital IMO.


I started the survey but got to Q3 and stopped as most of the list was unimportant or ill defined, as Faracat has said conformation is high on my list as is temperament, certainly above colour, ancestry, breeding and cost is relative, I tend to buy at a lower cost because I buy young but cost is not a priority if the horse is correctly put together and moves well.
The part about abandoned horses has nothing to do with buying, I may take one in but would not actively go looking for one so why is it in a survey about buying, if you want a good response it may be an idea to start again giving it more thought or changing the title.
 

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What course at uni are you doing that requires info about a potential childs toy - your first survey this week and what makes us buy our horses - second survey. As Faracat and be positive I took a quick look at this survey but cant see where your information gathering is heading. Perhaps a more straightforward question could be posed?
 

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I really don't understand what this has to do with buying a horse. It's almost as if a market researcher with no knowledge at all of horses asked a few random questions. The questions are not related to each other, let alone the subject. What is the point?
 

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Agree with what everyone else has said! Not a good survey - suggest you go back to the drawing board and re-design it and decide exactly what you want to find out from your survey! As it stands, you will find out precisely nothing!
 

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Survey didn't work as it didn't allow to scale my responses from 1 to 5 as requested

Couple of questions weren't related to buying a horse and there were things I would put above the options given for importance.
 

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Completed, but a very strange survey.

Not sure what you are hoping to find/ discover/ prove with it?

What kind of course are you on?

I also don't really care about breeding, ancestry. I would be very unlikely to bring an abandoned horse home with me. Even with a spare stable.
 

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Doesn't look like a uni survey -- perhaps a college thing, to learn how to manipulate basic data? (though don't know why one would need a "real" survey for that?).
For better or for worse I have attempted to complete it lol
 

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Doesn't look like a uni survey -- perhaps a college thing, to learn how to manipulate basic data? (though don't know why one would need a "real" survey for that?).
For better or for worse I have attempted to complete it lol

Do you have the space for the abandoned neddy????? Can you afford him???? Save the abandoned neddy! I feel quite mean for turning him away!
 
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