After youve sold them?

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Just wondering do you try and keep in contact with the new owners or what?
I know if i sold henry id want to stay in touch as he is such a big part of my life! Im still in contact with his old owner and find her really helpful.
 
Yes definately, have always kept in contact, but not in an overpowering way! When you have looked after something everyday and loved them its nice to keep in touch.
 
No, I'll stay available to help for a while as of course I want my horse to settle into a new home as comfortably as possible - but after that I wouldn't bother a new owner.

TBH if I bought a horse I would eventually get a little tired of it if the old owner kept pestering, although I don't mind occasional contact.
 
Yes, I have been in touch with at least five people through buying/selling/retiring etc over the past few years and I'm not a dealer!

I would be really worried to be honest if someone wasn't bothered about keeping in touch and I was buying.
 
I just wondered after reading about the woman whos old horse, who she sold to someone respectable, was found at spindles farm.... id hate to think of henry ending up there.
 
I don't blame you wondering. I believe we all have responsibility for them just by having had them in our care.

After all they are wonderful, unassuming, beautiful and long suffering creatures on this planet, not put here for us to sit on and do what we want with, yet they let us do just that.

Now my blood is up again - HOW DARE ANYONE ABUSE THEM
 
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No, I'll stay available to help for a while as of course I want my horse to settle into a new home as comfortably as possible - but after that I wouldn't bother a new owner.

TBH if I bought a horse I would eventually get a little tired of it if the old owner kept pestering, although I don't mind occasional contact.

[/ QUOTE ] This is my position to be honest. I have sold a couple and its nice to hear ocassionally that they are doing well, but I don't contact the owners myself. Also I wouldn't be very keen if a previous owner contacted me too often asking about my horse. I'd understand and I'd be nice and helpful, but deep down I wouldn't be keen. After all the horse has moved on, ownership has changed, its not foster care.

Having said all that, I didn't love the others, not like I love my mare. I'd have to know that she was okay, but then I couldn't ever part with her so thats fine
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Agreed daisychain, then pop it in a sandwich.

Actually I am not against eating the poor chaps, just the suffering. Not that I eat them.

May have had a bit in salami perhaps... but I digress.
 
To be honest i havent kept in touch with the new owners but i now deeply regret that i havent especially with one or two of the special ones who i spent a lot of time working with and developed a special bond. I do keep in touch with my daughters first ponys old owner but this is just once a year at xmas just to let her know that 'Star' is ok and we still have her.
 
I sold one in Oct and delivered her, about 6 hours away! I gave email address, phone number, of course they have address etc. They promised to send a couple of pics. But I have only had one call. I won't pester them, but as you can see you can't make them keep in touch, I suppose some people are not good at that sort of thing. They are not computer minded and she is a very hard working woman, who gets up at 4 am every morning and grooms them half until they're bald!

I bet my mare nearly fainted when she got her breakfast at 5am!
 
as you know my tb and coloured sold coloured is local so will see him out and about but iv had photos and a couple of emails and tb they sent texts. and also a horse we sold two years ago get odd text so its lovely and i wud do the same
 
Yes, I wanted to stay in touch when I sold flint, but was left a voice message to tell me to stop calling. I think its good to stay in touch should any questions need answering, history etc.
as for letting them now stay in touch with me? The door is always open, but will be shut quickly when I see them coming
 
I would like to stay in touch with the new owners but I agree with watcher that it could get annoying. Just the odd email/text every so often would be enough but then I would never sell to someone I didn't know.
 
We are still in contact with the teams old owners, and P+G's. When we got Ajay they rang to check he was OK, but that was it, and we saw teddies old owners around the shows. We haven't kept in contact with anyone, as the only pony I was really attached to had to go to a dealer, although we did see her about for about a year after.

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only for a short settling in period if required...then i cut all ties.


it would drive me up the wall if a previous owner rang on a regular basis!
 
Definately. Ive stayed in touch with ALL horses/ponies Ive ever sold. That includes the odd one Ive only had for 6 weeks! With 2 of them who have been sold on since I am now in touch with the next owners too
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I usually just send them a very occassional email or am lucky enough to see them at the odd competition. All of them are very nice, 2 even ask me over. I dont see why not, most owners LOVE talking about their horses anyway!
 
I got 2 emails from the people I sold Thumper to in their first month. They were gloating, telling me how they had got him in a snaffle, and sorted his issues, and were really pleased with him. They also wanting to buy my saddle off me very cheap (I kept it!).

A few months later some of my friends saw the owner at RC on a different horse... They asked what had happened and Thumper had bolted in the school, and sent the guy into a wall, putting him in hospital for a few days. They'd sold him on
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I still see the bloke occasionally at shows, and have to hide from him
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I'd rather not have any contact, or hear news - it's nearly always been bad
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only ever sold a few, but in touch with all but one of the owners of them.

One of them is actually on "sick rest at my yard" at the moment lol, his name is still on the door!

One I hear from owners about every 2 years, he is happy!

Funnily enough I am in touch also with the old owners of the ones we also have!!

I think if you have nothing to hide when you sell most people like to stay in touch to a degree.
 
I'm still in contact with Flynn's previous owners *waves to henryhorn* but although April's owner wanted me to keep in touch (and I have texted her with news) she hasn't come back to me at all. However, the owner who had her before and I are in contact every couple of weeks or so whilst April has been on box rest.

I have made efforts to keep in contact with all my horses' previous owners and am still in touch with the people who bought the only pony (so far) I've sold.
 
totally agree FAIRHILL, i have never sold a horse but they have always moved on to different homes, and iv never kept in touch, i like to remember them how i knew them and if they had been ruined or changed it would break my heart that there would be nothing i could do.

i did find one after 6 years and he was in a nice home and well looked after so i was pleased, but he didnt recongised me, and id had him since he was 6 months to a 5 year old.
 
I prefer not to know quite frankly, I advertise and try to sell out of the locality, when you sell a horse you give up all rights over it as far as I am concerned. If the horse is doing badly, being mistreated or whatever I can't do anything about it.

I had to sell a fabulous pony before I came here, thought I had found him a wonderful home, it wasn't quite that good as it turns out. Now he has been sold again and is back on my old yard, by all accounts he is in good hands but I wish to God that he'd gone further away.
 
When we had Alfie his previous owners used to take the P big time and drive us potty.
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They were forever calling and wanting to come and see him and always going on about how much they wanted to buy him back but didn't have any money, they didn't say it in so many words but i think they wanted us to give him to them.
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He was a proper nutter though that horse!
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We sold him on and his new owner (had him 2yrs now
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) gives us updates on how he is getting on and she brought him to our yard so we could see how he was a few months back.
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Think she told the owners before us to f off though!
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i would give occasional updates/pics if old owner wanted them. i bought my horse from a forum member so if she reads my posts she will know exactly what the little bugga is getting up to!! and her latest trick is to let herself out of her stable...
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not to mention the handstand she did with my daughter the other day and proceeded to p**s off around the school and had to be caught by another livery with daughter still onboard! lmao.
 
I've sold 4 in the past year: one has been resold, but to a friend/student of the original buyer (my DQ) so I still hear of him and his progress. One I get reasonably regular reports on - her new owner loves her and is having a ball with her (as she is with him because he loves hunting and jumping and so does she!)

The other two were sold to members of my forum - one just last week - so I have constant updates on them and I'd be VERY surprised if their owners fell out of love with them! I love hearing news of them and how they are progressing.

Another I sold 2 years ago I have become good friends with the buyers, and he has been back her for two sessions of schooling. I'd hate to lsoe touch with any of them!
 
Have only sold 2 ponies.... one as a companion as he had a severe heart murmur and I know he will never be sold and is still local. I dont keep in contact with her as she is a bit strange and he is on a private farm so cant visit.

The other I did keep in contact with but now know that he is on the move again and wont be able to know new details of his next owner, so have accepted that he is now out of reach.

Merlins old owner.... .well not sure what to think really. There are issues about his fetlock (arthritis) which I feel she knows more about than she is letting on but cant prove. She will talk to me if I ring her but doesnt bug me at any other time.

If I ever had to get rid of him it would have to be on a keep in touch basis as I would be terrified he would not be ridden sympathetically. So I suppose that means that he will not be sold!!
 
I think it's nice to stay in touch if you really care about them. When i sold my old pony i was distraught, but the new owners were lovely and let us come down to see him every month or so. When he went up for sale again, we got first refusal and bought him back, they haven't really been in touch yet though. We used to occassionaly see our other horseys old owner, they used to own a pub in town, but they never came down to see him as i think they were glad to see the back of him!! And other horseys owners haven't been in touch, we've had her for coming up to 5 years. THe christmas just gone, we sent them a xmas card with a few photos of her looking well and to just explain that we still have her and she is happy and healthy
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