Being left with the pony after accident

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One of the members on here has caused us alot of upset at the yard after her pony was attacking my horse and acting very riggy she was asked to keep it away from her the pony was then put in the adjoining field to which he broke down the gate cornered my mare and kicked her repeatedly, this has cost me almost £600 now and the vet is still coming backwards and forwards, my mare has had to be on box rest and may have a chipped fetlock bone we will find out tomorrowafter I cintacted the owner she came to the yard and did not even apologise just wandered around, then left the yard and had not been back up since, her pony has been left out in the same rug through all the snow and the warm sunshine many times with no water or hay to her knowledge I have been doing it but I don not see why I should be left to look after this pony after what has happened, I and the yard owner have tried to contact her on many occasions by phone and text to which she will not reply, I feel very hurt by the way she has treated me and to make matters worse she has been coming on here advertising lessons with people and posting loving pictures of the pony that she has now abandoned I posted on that thread and asked her why she had bothered to come up and look after her pony or even contacted me to ask how my horse is doing as she was meant to b a friend and nothing not even a reply, I was advised by someone on that thread to post it on here so that is what I am doing has anyone else been left in this situation
 
SOrry to here of your ordeal. I hope your horse gets better soon. Your YO should write an official letter or something stating their concerns with the pony, and her not seeing to it, and possibly give her notice to leave.
At the end of the day, the YO has the power to evict her, so maybe she should start thinking about that if the owner refuses to see to the pony.
 
Sounds like an awful situation which the YO should have taken control of immediately.

I would suggest that the YO takes full responsibility for the pony and considers it on full livery - and charges the owner accordingly.

Absolutely no reason for the pony to be anyone's responsbility other than the YO's if the person who owns it has abandoned it.
 
What a horrid situation, I hope your mare gets well soon.. I agree with others that YO should charge owner of gelding/rig Full livery.

Healing vibes for your girl and ((hug)) for you
 
Cant really offer any advice but I hope your horse recovers and you dont recieve any futher bad news and something is sorted out quickly, you'd think the least the owner would do is to try to make amends and start looking after her pony.

(((hugs)))
 
If this pony is on diy livery then I suggest the YO sends a letter by recorded delivery advising the pony's owner that they will now be charged full livery rate, and asking that they contact YO by return. Sorry to hear about your pony, hope she makes a good recovery. How long ago did the accident happen ?
 
Erm...seems sad that you have to 'air your dirty washing'on here,considering she is also a forum member!
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However,maybe she is plain embarassed by the whole situation,I do feel for you where your mare is concerned,and the fact that she chooses not to acknowledge either an apology to you,and that this pony that has caused all this heartache and worry for all concerned has been dumped on you......I think you are very kind to oversee the animal...However this does not solve the problem,I would get YO to go to her home address in person and discuss if she is blatant to choose to ignore,then YO should sell the pony and recoupe her losses along with yours to cover your mare's injuries!
Hope your mare will be OK...and please keep us posted!
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I am not one for condoning the airing of dirty washing on public forums but if you and the YO have truely exhausted all contact methods then I kind of understand.

On another post the person you are talking about mentioned a clinic or lesson thing she was going to be at, why don't you and your YO go to that and see her there?

Or you say that the YO doesn't have an address for her, go down to the local library and look her up on the electoral role!

Have you tried putting her phone number into the directory enquiries web site, that gives you the address if she is not ex-directory.....
 
She has not filled in and returned the contract to the yard owner and always came to my house rather than me going to hers we have not been friends for long, also she has turned of her mobile and got a new one and has not got a house number, the accident was just over 2 weeks ago, we have recieved a messege from someone to say that the pony is being given away and is going on saturday, which is good for him but it still leaves me mad that someone can treat a friend like this she has no compassion for what has happened to my girly
 
You will not be able to recoup any vet costs, horses are horses and accidents happen. The YO will not be able to sell the horse, unless she obtains a court order to so do. If she does without court order she will be guilty of illegal convertion. How did you approach the owner on the day of the accident? Did you start asking for money for the vet fees? If you did and the owner is not aware that you do not have the right to do this, she may be avoiding the yard as she is unnable to pay.
 
Sorry your horse got injured.
In fact if any-one is responsible for the injuries to your horse it is the YO who did not ensure that after the first incident the pony was not far enough away/could not get back to fight your horse. Perhaps you should ask YO to pay vet bills. She may be able to claim on her insurance.
 
OMG, your poor horse. That is disgusting and seriously, seriously weird! At the end of the day it is neglect of the pony to just leave it for 2 weeks in the same rug etc, how did she know for DEFINATE that someone else would look after it? It's just disgusting! Hope your poor mare gets better soon.x
 
i feel it very unfair to air something this private and personal against another member on here.
If your anything in RL as you come across on here then im not suprised she has stayed away really,shame to her pony of course and she should be there caring for him.But we are only hearing your side of the story.
Its sounds as though you have been on
the yard longer as she is a new friends and not yet returned yard contract.
Weird to me as most places wont let you move on until signed contract is back to YO.
My feeling in this is possibly yourself and YO have been giving her a rough ride about this.
I can understand you been upset but im afraid horses fight,break into fields with each other,and this owner does not owe you any money for your mares injuries.This is part and parcell of owning horses in afraid.

Im not taking any of this as gospel im afraid as your not a known member and i dont know how honest and clear cut you are.Dont know who the other member is either,one thing i do know is this should not be brought onto a public forum and if it were me been posted about in such a manner and it were to be false.Then i would be taking this printed out and seeking legal advice.
 
Firstly I have never asked her to pay the vets bill nor has the yard owner, I have insurance for that and have paid the ecess myself, no one has given her a hard time at all as since the accident no one has seen or spoken to her as she will not answer any kind of contact. All I would like from her is some kind of compassion towards my horse and for her to just call and say hows things going not to completely aviod everyone including her own pony.
Also no one has said the yard owner has any intentions of selling the pony just that it would b nice for her to come and maintain care for him which I do not think is to much to ask as it is her pony after all not mine or the yard owners, this was not started with any malice just someone said I should post it on here to give her the chance to say how she was feeling which I said she would not do and she has not
 
I even offered to help her break the horse to harness so she had more chance of selling it 20 mins after the accident as she had said it would b difficult to sell hima nd was struggling does that sound like I am being hard on her how many of u would of done that
 
From what I've gathered the OP has phoned, texted and PMed with no response. Neither she nor YO has an address for the other girl either. I did mention to OP (on another thread) that I didn't think the forum was the right place to air one's grievances, but I now think she's been driven to it. Remember that the other girl can come on at any time and set the record straight so if the OP WERE lying, she'd be setting herself up for a bit of a dressing down, don't you think?
 
thank u i have no reason to lie I have not and will not b asking her for anything other that a bit of respect and consideration which is the same as I have given her in the past
 
how long have you been on the yard together? seems odd for her just to walk off if previously she's been looking after the pony? people are odd!
 
I met the girl in qustion about 4 months ago when we were on a different yard she never used to come regular there but it was not a problem there as her pony was out with a young colt and the YO used to bring it in and out with that one so she did not have to come up if she did not want to, she would muck out about 3 times a week, then she fell out with them and decided to move to another yard as I was moving as well she decided to come to the yard where I was going, when we moved we had all the snow so she did not come up and I looked after him for 3 weeks, I told her that this was not acceptable as I have other commitments also,than the accident happened and as I say since then she has not been seen at all even though I have told her I am not doing it any more, people at the yard keep saying to me is she coming or not this is disgusting but nothing we were alos on another forum and since the accident she has not been on there at all, I have posted about the accident on there but not blamed anyone and I would not have done on here untill she started posting loving pictures it made my blood boil.


I have had the vet out again today and it has been scanned and her fetlock bone is chipped and still not even a phone call to say how is she nothing i feel so let down after all the help I have given her
 
No this has not been taken in hand as she has finally been up to yard late last night and to add insult to injury litrally, she stole my haylage to feed the bloody thing, pudpud if u are reading these enough now get your own stuff and look after ur own pony as everyone has had enough now
 
The pony has gone today to a new home she left her husband to come up and sort it out he said she wants nothing to do with horses anymore and he has no idea how she could act like this he was lovely about it all, at least the pony will have someone to look after him now
 
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