Boring liveries

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palomino_pony

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Anyone else at a yard full of liveries who own but don't ride? I do loads and ride after work indoors in the freezing cold, hack out, compete, but there are about 6 liveries who have horses but never ride. They can ride, their horses are sound, we have good hacking and an indoor but they just don't do it. AARRRR
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Yep, it wouldn't be for me but then each to their own. I don't have my guinea pigs for any reason other than to look at them so I suppose that its the same for some people and their horses.

Personally I think that Daisy gets pleasure from being ridden and having new experiences but better not ridden than people who ride badly and have a negative impact upon their horse
 
(Off topic.............dwi you have guinea pigs ? I have guinea pigs ! They are almost as lovely as horses !)
Back on track.......I have been on a couple of yards with people who hardly ever ride, can't understand it myself, but then they think I'm mad when I ride whatever the weather !
 
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(Off topic.............dwi you have guinea pigs ? I have guinea pigs ! They are almost as lovely as horses !)


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Yes three. I lost my beautiful Sam last week to cancer. He was the best little piggie ever but he was suffering and it was for the best. He's over the Rainbox bridge now terrorising all the lady guinea pigs. RIP Sammie

I still have his full brother Frodo and two lady piggies Rosie and Hilda. They are all tri coloured abyssinians
 
well i keep a horse and dont ride her and yes can be expensive pet!! however she is retired as she has problems with her mouth and is happy being retired.there is no way i would sell her and whilst she is happy within herself and enjoying life and retirement i would never consider having her PTS. i do still ride though!! i just steal my freinds 16.1 IDxTB for the task!!
 
can understand it if the horse can't be ridden but if it can then I don't get it! and it must be very expensive to keep too
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however personal choice I suppose, I know I'd much rather ride though than not ride
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My last yard was like that, you wonder how they justify the expense when they don't even ride. Some also used to comment on 'how brave I was' doing riding club novice hunter trials??? The rest seemed to think I was terribly hard on my boy going on hacks further than down the lane and back, and sometimes (call the RSPCA!) riding TWICE in one day
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I'm one of those at the moment!! Have a sound horse and reasonable hacking, however I'm working such long hours that by the time I've mucked out, it's 8.30pm and I want to get home for tea and bed. Also have a v opinionated horse who I just end up arguing with if I ride when I'm too tired or stressed, so it's better not to ride than to end up with us both getting wound up.
 
I moved to a yard years ago where I was the only livery, the four people there were all the same family. They had a cob and two hill ponies which were supposedly being broken for driving.

Only when I had moved there did I discover that only one of the four could ride, but she never did, and nobody knew about driving! In the six months I was there, I rode out alone all but twice, and they thought I was very hard on my horse as I used to ride him in the school (yes they had a school but didn't use it!) and hack him too, sometimes for up to three hours on the moors! They drove me nuts, would have been okay if I wasn't the sole livery!
 
Is it really so wrong? I guess there could be many reasons for not riding, but as long as everyone is happy it really doesn't matter what other people think.

I have Boarders who don't even come to see their horses! I don't ask them why, they keep paying and I keep looking after the horses as if they were my own.
 
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