Ibblebibble
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I rent a small yard and have a couple who keep their mini shetlands there, because i am one handed at the mo they are currently looking after my 3 horses. this morning myself, OH and the 2 guys were there, my big mare was being a bit of a tit so hubby went to put her back in her stable (we'd been handgrazing them while the boys mucked out), mare had other ideas and barged past OH and got away from him. she took herself over the road onto a tiny little footbridge over the 4 ft deep stream/ditch which leads to a stile into the neighbours field where the spotty cob lives. We couldn't get on the bridge with her as it was too narrow, couldn't get across the ditch as too wide and deep, mare ended up falling off the bridge into the ditch when she tried to turn round, as she got out of the ditch she must had caught her front leg on the bridge as she had managed to put a good clean inch long gash across her cannon! plus superficial scrapes on all 3 other legs. go her back on the yard and decided it was defo a vet job! Now one of the guys teaches at the local riding school and was due to start teaching in half hour so he text the YO explained the situation and said he would be late while i phoned the emergency vet.
As he is currently doing the daily care of my horses he stayed and helped hold her for the vet and got his instructions for the next 2 weeks of care, as soon as mare was back in her stable he shot off to the riding school to apologise again and got told by YO that she didn't want to talk about it and he should have been there to teach rather than stay with me and my horse as the horse isn't his!! then she text him an hour later to tell him she would no longer require him to take the lessons on a saturday morning and she will be glad when he moves his horse which is on livery!!
I think she's being totally unreasonable to think that someone should just walk away from a horse with a great big gash on it's leg , or am i wrong to think that you stay with a horse until vet has sorted, no it's not his horse but he's caring for it and I'm one handed and OH is useless!
So what would you have done in that situation, left the horse to go teach the lessons or stayed?
As he is currently doing the daily care of my horses he stayed and helped hold her for the vet and got his instructions for the next 2 weeks of care, as soon as mare was back in her stable he shot off to the riding school to apologise again and got told by YO that she didn't want to talk about it and he should have been there to teach rather than stay with me and my horse as the horse isn't his!! then she text him an hour later to tell him she would no longer require him to take the lessons on a saturday morning and she will be glad when he moves his horse which is on livery!!
I think she's being totally unreasonable to think that someone should just walk away from a horse with a great big gash on it's leg , or am i wrong to think that you stay with a horse until vet has sorted, no it's not his horse but he's caring for it and I'm one handed and OH is useless!
So what would you have done in that situation, left the horse to go teach the lessons or stayed?