Cheeky/ridiculous posts you see on Facebook.

This is a good one. Not all at once, everyone, OK?

Help welcome with my own horses on a private yardstables in wigan.Must be reliable and able to commit to something regular .After school/ weekends or mornings welcome.You'll need your own accident & 3rd party liability insurance (around £50/ year)Fantastic opportunity for anyone who wants to be around horses but can't afford their own. Dealing with my 2 rescues and my mare & foal in regular yard jobs like grooming, haynets, poo picking/ mucking out etc.This is not a riding position.

There is no fee for adults. There is no fee for children supervised by an adult. Unaccompanied children must contribute £20/ week, payable a month in advance.Based Shevington wn68
 
IrishMilo said:
This is a good one. Not all at once, everyone, OK?

Help welcome with my own horses on a private yardstables in wigan.Must be reliable and able to commit to something regular .After school/ weekends or mornings welcome.You'll need your own accident & 3rd party liability insurance (around £50/ year)Fantastic opportunity for anyone who wants to be around horses but can't afford their own. Dealing with my 2 rescues and my mare & foal in regular yard jobs like grooming, haynets, poo picking/ mucking out etc.This is not a riding position.

There is no fee for adults. There is no fee for children supervised by an adult. Unaccompanied children must contribute £20/ week, payable a month in advance.Based Shevington wn68
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The thing with this is, whilst it is bloody cheeky (especially the charge for unaccompanied children- that makes no sense!!), as a teenager I would have jumped at this opportunity. In fact I sort of did: From a working class, non-horsey family, so no chance of getting my own horse, I met a lady who owned horses and basically spent all my free time at the stables doing jobs (often 8-10 hours a day), and never once got the chance to ride. I thought I was the luckiest girl alive (still do in many ways!)!
Even now as an adult who can't afford her own horse, I have volunteered with RDA and charities to just be around horses. I am just the sort of gullible fool this advertiser is after, I wish it wasn't true as I can see how exploitative it is, but even so I bet they find people like me willing to do it! It's probably the only opportunity some people will have to be near the creatures they love most ☹🙊🤷‍♀️
 
ester said:
I didn’t give any thought to how I was going to pay for even a deposit should my horse need colic surgery so now I’m just going to ask all of facebook, not say my friends View attachment 166001
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I’m not condoning buying a horse and not getting insurance or having enough to cover the bills but I feel so horrible for him as far as I know he’s under 18 and he’s only had the horse 2/3weeks arrived with rain rot and very ribby
 
marketing video on Facebook selling one of those broom/rakes.
Person in video mucking out a semi deep littered bed. The comments are 90% of people not understanding it’s a semi deep litter and complaining the base isn’t being dug out.
One woman comments
You wouldn't be working in my barn for long. You don't even properly get the wet spot up.

which is the epitome of working for a bad boss in the equestrian world. Just sack someone rather than explain you don’t have a deep littered bed.
 
Candid8 said:
The thing with this is, whilst it is bloody cheeky (especially the charge for unaccompanied children- that makes no sense!!), as a teenager I would have jumped at this opportunity. In fact I sort of did: From a working class, non-horsey family, so no chance of getting my own horse, I met a lady who owned horses and basically spent all my free time at the stables doing jobs (often 8-10 hours a day), and never once got the chance to ride. I thought I was the luckiest girl alive (still do in many ways!)!
Even now as an adult who can't afford her own horse, I have volunteered with RDA and charities to just be around horses. I am just the sort of gullible fool this advertiser is after, I wish it wasn't true as I can see how exploitative it is, but even so I bet they find people like me willing to do it! It's probably the only opportunity some people will have to be near the creatures they love most ☹🙊🤷‍♀️
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Maybe the £20 weekly is to pay for child’s insurance.
 
More begging for donations towards the colic surgery at Leahurst which has been successful. Horse is ready to be discharged, but will not be released until the owner stumps up (as of today, costs will rise if not collected today) £1780. Balance to be paid off on a payment plan.

Total bill £6250
paid £1600
£1000 deposit
£600 of bill
need £2000 for discharge as that’s what they ask for legal requirements
£2750 on a 6 month payment plan

People can throw money at whoever they like, but I'm of the firm opinion that you pay for your own vet’s bills. Begging from family and friends is one thing, but strangers?
 
Tiddlypom said:
More begging for donations towards the colic surgery at Leahurst which has been successful. Horse is ready to be discharged, but will not be released until the owner stumps up (as of today, costs will rise if not collected today) £1780. Balance to be paid off on a payment plan.

Total bill £6250
paid £1600
£1000 deposit
£600 of bill
need £2000 for discharge as that’s what they ask for legal requirements
£2750 on a 6 month payment plan

People can throw money at whoever they like, but I'm of the firm opinion that you pay for your own vet’s bills. Begging from family and friends is one thing, but strangers?
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They even have the cheek to be slagging leahurst off on their posts now, and their friends are joining in!
 
He seems to be surprised that the longer the horse is there the bigger the bill will be, while also being surprised that the horse is ready for discharge - rather than presuming they are trying to keep the bill as low as possible for him.

And surprised that they want money pre discharge with ‘only’ 15 hours notice (he knew the horse was at the vets..)
 
ester said:
He seems to be surprised that the longer the horse is there the bigger the bill will be, while also being surprised that the horse is ready for discharge - rather than presuming they are trying to keep the bill as low as possible for him.

And surprised that they want money pre discharge with ‘only’ 15 hours notice (he knew the horse was at the vets..)
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I get so angry that people just get animals with no provisions to pay for them if things go wrong. If anyone dares to point this out, him and his family go on the bounce that he’s only 18… blah blah.
What is wrong with people to make them grow up so entitled??
 
scats said:
I get so angry that people just get animals with no provisions to pay for them if things go wrong. If anyone dares to point this out, him and his family go on the bounce that he’s only 18… blah blah.
What is wrong with people to make them grow up so entitled??
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I think the crowdfunding for medical bills has become so standard and unremarkable due to how many people in the US at one point had no other choice. Raise money or die type situations. It certainly seems "start a go-fund-me" is some peoples first option now, when 10 years ago even it wasn't a thing at all, you'd be doing without, selling things or going into debt.

Personally I don't really care, so long as nobody is being strong-armed. Don't ask, don't get. I've contributed to friend's and acquaintances, local charities etc and you just make a choice about if donating would make you feel good about helping. It does feel good to help! Less begging, more community support systems?

It sounds like this situation is less emergency and more lack of foresight, so I might be less inclined to be generous 😬
 
smolmaus said:
I think the crowdfunding for medical bills has become so standard and unremarkable due to how many people in the US at one point had no other choice. Raise money or die type situations. It certainly seems "start a go-fund-me" is some peoples first option now, when 10 years ago even it wasn't a thing at all, you'd be doing without, selling things or going into debt.

Personally I don't really care, so long as nobody is being strong-armed. Don't ask, don't get. I've contributed to friend's and acquaintances, local charities etc and you just make a choice about if donating would make you feel good about helping. It does feel good to help! Less begging, more community support systems?

It sounds like this situation is less emergency and more lack of foresight, so I might be less inclined to be generous 😬
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I guess I was just raised to think that you pay your own way and take responsibility for your own decisions. My tortoise cost me £6k last year and I still ended up losing her. It was a rare and devastating condition that she had, and she wasn’t insured (my choice). But I would never have dreamed of asking people to donate to the vet bills for an animal that was my responsibility and choice to own.

I recognise no-one is being forced to pay, but I find the constant bombarding on all the FB groups really quite entitled.
 
scats said:
They even have the cheek to be slagging leahurst off on their posts now, and their friends are joining in!
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Stuff like this is a contributor to the high suicide rate in the vet industry. We quite often have local FB posts popping up slagging us (small animal vet) for daring to expect to be paid. These posts always turn into a pile on, along the "only interested in the money" lines. It's horrendous, especially as we (as the professionals) can't divulge the actual circumstances or defend ourselves. We just have to suck it up. It's so bloody depressing.
 
Landcruiser said:
Stuff like this is a contributor to the high suicide rate in the vet industry. We quite often have local FB posts popping up slagging us (small animal vet) for daring to expect to be paid. These posts always turn into a pile on, along the "only interested in the money" lines. It's horrendous, especially as we (as the professionals) can't divulge the actual circumstances or defend ourselves. We just have to suck it up. It's so bloody depressing.
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A few people have accused Leahurst about being “all about the money”.
Do people not realise that vets aren’t charities??
 
Tiddlypom said:
More begging for donations towards the colic surgery at Leahurst which has been successful. Horse is ready to be discharged, but will not be released until the owner stumps up (as of today, costs will rise if not collected today) £1780. Balance to be paid off on a payment plan.

Total bill £6250
paid £1600
£1000 deposit
£600 of bill
need £2000 for discharge as that’s what they ask for legal requirements
£2750 on a 6 month payment plan

People can throw money at whoever they like, but I'm of the firm opinion that you pay for your own vet’s bills. Begging from family and friends is one thing, but strangers?
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just came to post this.

Surely if you hadn't prepared for this situation you'd be selling stuff and applying for credit cards as you wait for updates. Weather the surgery is successful or not the bill is still going to be greater than the initial deposit of £1,000
 
scats said:
I guess I was just raised to think that you pay your own way and take responsibility for your own decisions. My tortoise cost me £6k last year and I still ended up losing her. It was a rare and devastating condition that she had, and she wasn’t insured (my choice). But I would never have dreamed of asking people to donate to the vet bills for an animal that was my responsibility and choice to own.

I recognise no-one is being forced to pay, but I find the constant bombarding on all the FB groups really quite entitled.
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Oh sure, I was too. I will offer help all day long and struggle to accept it back 😂

It's case by case really. If someone I knew had to say no to vet treatments for an animal for financial reasons, when I could have helped, I think that would be a sad thing if they didn't ask. If a local business or a rescue or something had an emergency, like my OH's brother and his wife run a rescue/ cat cafe in NZ and have crowd funded previously for emergency repairs due to flood damage, you are donating to something in your community you want to continue operating. If it is someone overstocking themselves for social media clout, or crowdfunding for non-essentials (wasn't there someone last year crowd funding a new horse???) that is different but the whole social media, parasocial relationship thing is weird and screwy anyway
 
Colic horse is a 9yo Irish ex racer, Monza Man, who was listed for sale recently at £1500 by what seems to be a reasonably decent racehorse rehoming outfit.

Unfortunately cheap horses soon work out expensive if they get sick or injured, it’s not enough just to scrimp to get the purchase price together.
 
My horse went to Liphook for ovarian removal she was excellently looked after and I was surprised when I didn't have to pay any of the bill until they invoiced me nearly a month later, likewise with my new vets the bill came a month later so I think maybe Leahurst were a bit harsh in wanting most of the money before letting the horse go. Agree you should be able to pay your costs but after her transport costs that month was very welcome to me and I would use Liphook over Leahurst every time
 
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