Blame culture?

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Am I alone in noticing how many posts seem to be looking to blame someone for a problem? I'm not pointing fingers, and if you think I'm a miserable old fart, I'll accept it. But surely, with animals (and people, come to that) sometimes things just happen. Nobody intended it to, or didn't do what they thought best. It just isn't always somebody's fault! I know we live in a blame/compensation culture, but I really wish we didn't. It's going to end up with no vet/ YO/ friend even, wanting to say or do anything, in case it goes wrong. I think horse owners should generally be more philosophical about things - not always, of course. Right, that's my little rant. I'll wait for the poison darts!
 
It will be your own fault when you get hit by them poison darts
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so dont blame me pmsl
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I actually totally agree with you.

The dramatic blaming posts make me laugh. I just think life must be a ball of stress and blaming for some people. Drama, drama, drama.

Something happened today that some people on here would have totally gone over the top about, but it was an accident, no one was hurt (Except my stirrup) and well, that is that really. Everyone learnt a little something.
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Bonzabean, good to hear some agreement, and you're right. People must live in a perpetual state of feeling persecuted by Fate! I just don't see how that ties in with keeping animals, particularly horses, who seem almost deliberately accident-prone.
 
i agree with you,as a yo makes you want to give up sometimes due to silly blame someone else problems that have nothing to do with us lol
never use to be like it,if things went wrong it was our own silly fault
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Yes it so annoys me that people don't just accept that bad things happen - I hate the compensation culture. I also hate the fact that we have to take the silliest precautions to avoid any potential compensation situations, such as no public hanging baskets in case they fall down on someone's head etc. I better stop typing now as this is a topic that really gets my blood boiling!
 
Yes, my YO has just had to do a risk assessment of rides (taking people on hacks, that is). We all laughed and said the biggest risks were the horse and the rider! After all, if you knew there was a hazard - road works, hunt out, etc. - you'd avoid it, wouldn't you? And it makes MY blood boil that occasionally someone falls off and the fuss - you wouldn't believe it! We ride on the moors, so ambulances find it difficult to get in. More than once, the 'casualty' has complained of back or neck pain, and that means calling the air ambulance out. No one dares ignore it or challenge them these days. So next day, you ask how the faller is (in hospital, in traction, presumably) only to hear that there's nothing wrong except a bit of bruising. Oh dear, you've got me going now...
 
I agree. What happen the weekend with Cloud has really brought that home.

I could blame the YO for giving us a field with a hidden ditch, accident waiting to happen. But, can I really? I knew there was a ditch, although I didn't realise it was 5 foot deep. It was a terrible accident. Everyone has been so supportive & helpful with Cloud.

Blaming someone else won't help Cloud recover any quicker. It will just fill me with bitterness, which will only hurt me.

That said, she won't be going back in that field until a fence has been errected, as she is probably silly enough to do it again!
 
Bitterness doesn't help, especially in a case like Cloud's. It's probably one of those things where everyone knew there was a ditch and it maybe should have been fenced, but no one's got round to it. We're human, it happens. Though a think a quiet word with yard owner about putting a fence up PDQ is in order! Glad your girl's on the mend.
 
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