Advert wording - 'above average livery facilities'

Lolo said:
I wonder if he is difficult to handle, as people have supposed, and the current owner wants somewhere which has got slightly more to enable them to have the best chance at dealing with him. If you've got a field shelter and a field, it'll be a fair sight harder to try and deal with a horse who is difficult than if you've got an enclosed yard, big stables and professionals around to help you...
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Not always.

My own chap is far easier to deal with in the field than if you bring him down to the yard, and in the yard is easier than in the stable.

He's having treatment applied to a sore leg at the moment and I would never get the cream safely on his sore leg in the stable and yet I can go up to him loose in the field (:eek3: that's right - no headcollar either) and slap the cream on with no fuss.

If this horse is like that, you need to actively take the pressure away and being in a box when he knows that you want to touch his sore leg does put pressure on him.
 
Faracat said:
Not always.


If this horse is like that, you need to actively take the pressure away and being in a box when he knows that you want to touch his sore leg does put pressure on him.
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Just what I was thinking. If he's difficult to handle, a route march from stable to field gate and back again every day could well be just what neither horse nor handler need. My philosophy is always to make it easy for the horse to get it right, removing the pressure and not setting up for a battle is the way to do that ime.

I agree about the shoes as well. We used to have a Clydie who didn't appreciate having the farrier do anything at all with her. She never had shoes and although we worked to improve her outlook and manners, we weren't working towards putting shoes on - she didn't need them.

I have to say, I don't think our facilities would qualify but no matter, we wouldn't want the horse.
 
PingPongPony said:
I'm sorry this is completely off topic but I've just been trawling through some adverts and came across this little filly, and she reminded me of your mare Faracat :) I think it was the colour that made me think if your mare :) http://www.horsemart.co.uk/arabs-horse-1-yr-2-mths-14-2-hh-grey-derbyshire/Horses/300681
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She does look like a young Floss! :)

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It's a shame they don't stay rose grey - it's so pretty (although F is absolutely rocking the fleabitten look now :p).
 
I shall slink off to my shabby 3 wooden stables, electric fencing and *gulp* no arena , hang over the fence and admire my 3 happy beasties.....one of which is also a well-bred Arab.....and hang my head in shame. Or not.
Turnout, company,appropriate handling is what horses really need.
I know I could provide a great home for that lovely horse but I wouldn't respond to the advert, it would put me right off.....
 
I'm just thinking that preloved isn't really an above average place to advertise him either is it. Better than DD obv but its hardly posh :D

(I have two bought via preloved and one via H&H and very average facilities ;)
 
Hippona said:
I shall slink off to my shabby 3 wooden stables, electric fencing and *gulp* no arena , hang over the fence and admire my 3 happy beasties.....one of which is also a well-bred Arab.....and hang my head in shame. Or not.
Turnout, company,appropriate handling is what horses really need.
I know I could provide a great home for that lovely horse but I wouldn't respond to the advert, it would put me right off.....
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Perhaps we should start a below average facilities, but above average horses, with good manners clique :)
 
FionaM12 said:
:eek3: That's one of the most rude, snooty and condescending statements I've seen here for a while. :D
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I thought it was a fair comment. If you haven't eaten fillet steak how do you know if it is superior to a sausage? :)

It clearly wasn't rude or meant to be derogatory, you've filled the gaps with your own interpretation there :)
 
Billie - we're all plebs here and do need good folks such as yourself and Susie to inform us of these things. Honestly, how have I coped going through life not knowing that sausages and steaks are different things (and indeed which is superior)? Thank you for enlightening my tiny, uncultured mind. :p
 
Eeeeek I think I must be missing something here, I wasn't be arsey... I don't get it.

For what it's worth, I've done ramshackle to millionaires row. I don't have a preference for either...

Confused :(
 
Billie1007 said:
I thought it was a fair comment. If you haven't eaten fillet steak how do you know if it is superior to a sausage? :)

It clearly wasn't rude or meant to be derogatory, you've filled the gaps with your own interpretation there :)
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Hmm. I'm not so sure. A lot of SusieT's posts are down right rude and obnoxious to be perfectly honest.
 
Billie1007 said:
Eeeeek I think I must be missing something here, I wasn't be arsey... I don't get it.

For what it's worth, I've done ramshackle to millionaires row. I don't have a preference for either...

Confused :(
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Don't worry - I understand where you were coming from, but someone surely has to be pretty dense to not understand the difference between a yard with good facilities and a basic yard without owning the posh one or being rich enough to livery there? So therefore it was a pretty condescending comment from Susie (as stated, her posts often come across this way and I've yet to decide whether or not she's pulling our legs by wording them as she does, or if she really is Margo from 'The Good Life'?).

I didn't think you were being arsey and I hope you didn't take my post seriously - it wasn't intended that way. :)
 
Ahhh maybe I should go back and read her posts! I was only looking at the quote from FionaM12 and posted with knowledge of the context of the thread rather than knowledge of the post.... Will have a look :)

Just caught up. I'm obviously way too thick skinned... :)
 
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