jes_nibley
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- Joined
- 30 September 2006
- Messages
- 568
- Location
- Wiltshire / Dorset borders
So, my field is about 10 mins drive from my house and as yet has a small old shelter but no-where to shut the horses away properly.
I've only owned it 6 months but most of the people who live in the estate cottages have seen me riding and know i'm there.
I turn up yesterday morning to be greeted by a limping pony, a trashed field and firworks in their paddocks - i was (still am) bloody fuming!
Is it not common courtesy to inform someone with animals if you're having a display?
Is it not common sense that something like fireworks can be VERY SCARY?!
At least if i'd known i could have moved them to the bottom of the field or taken them away for the night.
They must have just gone to the end of their garden and let them off over my hedge. Unfortunately i work in the evenings but it's such a quiet rural area, everyone i've met has a pet and has said no-one ever does fireworks.
My poor wee boy now has quite a gash down his leg and will not walk down one side of the field so i reckon one probably hit him there on it's way down, this causes hassle though as he now has to walk through the shelter to get back around the other side and if the mare is in there she'll beat the crap out of him!
I'm just soo annoyed, especially as the majority of them know he's skittish cause we've had a few issues and scary moments since we moved.
Aaaarrrgghhh!
Right, rant over, carry on...
I've only owned it 6 months but most of the people who live in the estate cottages have seen me riding and know i'm there.
I turn up yesterday morning to be greeted by a limping pony, a trashed field and firworks in their paddocks - i was (still am) bloody fuming!
Is it not common courtesy to inform someone with animals if you're having a display?
Is it not common sense that something like fireworks can be VERY SCARY?!
At least if i'd known i could have moved them to the bottom of the field or taken them away for the night.
They must have just gone to the end of their garden and let them off over my hedge. Unfortunately i work in the evenings but it's such a quiet rural area, everyone i've met has a pet and has said no-one ever does fireworks.
My poor wee boy now has quite a gash down his leg and will not walk down one side of the field so i reckon one probably hit him there on it's way down, this causes hassle though as he now has to walk through the shelter to get back around the other side and if the mare is in there she'll beat the crap out of him!
I'm just soo annoyed, especially as the majority of them know he's skittish cause we've had a few issues and scary moments since we moved.
Aaaarrrgghhh!
Right, rant over, carry on...
