Disturbing horse owner behaviour

Buds_mum said:
Haaaha well as you can see i'm Buddy's Mummy :p

Doesn't harm you does it? He also has his Dad and his Granny, quite a few Aunties too :D

My little jack russel sleeps in bed with his mummy and daddy, he knows he's my baby ;)
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Havn't read all the resposes yet but got to this one and had to LOL. This is me :o All my animals are my Babies and My OH is there Daddy, My mum is there Granny ect ect :D The little fella sleeps on the bed (Under the duvet :eek: ) He has to be touching me all night. He gets cross if I have a restless night and keep moving. :rolleyes: and I can't sleep if he's not on the bed :o

Having said this I am fully aware my animals are animals and I am a human. They are treated as appropreate for there spicies and mostly do as I tell them ;)

Maybe i'm creepy, I know alot of people who would agree I'm mad ;) :p :D :D
 
Only read the first 6 pages of this so apologies if I'm repeating what someone else has said. I am "mummy" to my mare. She also has a daddy, a grandad, two grannys and several aunts as well as living with her real (horse) mother.

I could comit worse crimes - my girl is a happy, well adjusted, affectionate, VERY well looked-after PONIO. She is regularly shod, has all her jabs, sports massages, dentist, wormers etc., and wants for nothing. BUT - she is not a pampered mare - she lives out naked and clipped all through the winter and I regularly whip her around the bridle paths to make her gallop faster (that part's a joke). ;)

It's my birthday today and I had a card from my cat, to whom I am also Mummy. :)
 
I call them Fatty, Thug, Grumpy, Bones, Spotty, Swamprat....... Depending on appearance and/or mood on the day. I am most definitely NOT mummy. Then I wasn't Mummy to my kids either. Just too icky.

Love this thread - you can tell the weather is bad just now, there's just so much time to spare.
 
debsg said:
Although, to be honest, my small animal practice will call out " Fido's mum" into the waiting room :D or call your animal's name and add your surname.
I love it, cos no one can pronounce my Golden Retriever's name, Caoimhe. Much hilarity!
We get Coom-ha, Came-he :D
Anyone here care to have a go? It's Gaelic.
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I'd say Keeva, is that right?
 
I am so guilty of this with my horse and cat and prob alot of people on our yard are too :D.
I know others refer to their friends as "Auntie" when talking to their horses

My mum goes mad when I refer to her as our cats "Nanna" but my dads just as bad as he refers to their cat as our cats "Uncle" :p
 
Ye, we're mum and dad to all our pets.

What else would I say to the dog instead of 'go to daddy'? Go to that man over there who paid £650 for you?

Bigger things in the world to worry about.
 
Cedars said:
What else would I say to the dog instead of 'go to daddy'? Go to that man over there who paid £650 for you?
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This, exactly!

I'm not about to start calling my husband by the pet name I use for him myself when I am out in company with my horse, and using his proper first name that I never use unless I'm angry with him would sound equally odd to me. So, short of not talking to him at all (which I find VERY odd behaviour in a horse owner), "Daddy will hold you while I go for a pee" does it for me :D
 
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I'm not our mare's mummy or granny - I'm known as 'The Chequebook AKA The Credit Card' or on some occasions the one with the Tesco Value Dog Food factory number on speed-dial
 
TBH I could not careless what people call their horses as for the most part their words are of insignificance. Actions speak louder than words. I would be more concerned with what people are either doing or not doing to their horses. Neglect and abuse of horses concerns me more than what the horses are referred to.
 
JFTD said:
:) welcome to the club. I find it bizarre. If I'm not their owner, then I'm the boss. I am not their mother :eek:
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no but neither should you be boss, horse and rider/owner is partnership of mutual respect.
don't get me wrong i'm no new age hippy n my boys get told off when they step out of line but they listen because they respect me and i respect they are a darn sight bigger/stronger than me and could do some sserious damage if they so wished
 
bunnereeny said:
no but neither should you be boss, horse and rider/owner is partnership of mutual respect.
don't get me wrong i'm no new age hippy n my boys get told off when they step out of line but they listen because they respect me and i respect they are a darn sight bigger/stronger than me and could do some sserious damage if they so wished
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But a boss makes the decisions - in the horse's case feeding, exercise, tack, competitions.... It's not really a true 'partnership' really IMO.
 
I know a very rough and tough dealer who talks to his best horse before he goes in the ring, and says,

"Be good for your Dad now, won't you?"

Nothing wrong with it at all, each to their own.
 
Well I haven't got time to read all the replies, but if you don't like hearing it, don't listen. Put your headphones on and ignore it. I shall talk to my horses however I see fit, I don't care who hears because if anyone made a comment to me about me talking to them, they might as well talk to a wall, because frankly I don't give a damn!
 
Good post !!! :)

It windes my OH half up no end that I say to my dog ' go to daddy ', how ever he has no warms saying ' your big brother did not do that ' !!!! ( btw big brother was a SH Weimaraner and no way related by birth )!!!!'

I don't treat my animals as people, but I am their ' adopted mums and dads, as I look after their well being and health.

It is just an affectionate way of putting it, I don't ' think' I am their parents :)
 
trickivicki said:
I agree I find the Mummy thing a bit wierd, perfectly harmless but a little odd.... BUT this is coming from the girl that has conversations with my horse doing a fake mans voice for his replies???

(in my defence my yard is very very very quiet and quite often Peej is my only company!)
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This made me laugh but I must confess that I talk to my horses as if they are children all the time but haven't got to the stage of answering as them YET but you never know. :)
 
Is it OK to use baby talk?

Well, I don't do THAT exactly but I was listening to myself today and I do vary my tone a lot, from a rude word in a rough voice when I thought I was about to be nipped to endearing tones when I'm scratching a youngster....
 
Dry Rot said:
Is it OK to use baby talk?

Well, I don't do THAT exactly but I was listening to myself today and I do vary my tone a lot, from a rude word in a rough voice when I thought I was about to be nipped to endearing tones when I'm scratching a youngster....
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I quite like insulting and threatening the pony in a very nice happy tone when out and about....... makes me feel much better knowing I have told him my mind even if no one else knows :D
 
dafthoss said:
I quite like insulting and threatening the pony in a very nice happy tone when out and about....... makes me feel much better knowing I have told him my mind even if no one else knows :D
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I thought you just beat him up and insulted him regardless of spectators? I had to force myself to stop swearing at Fergs for being a knob when we met a push chair on the byway - thought it might be inappropriate :D
 
I refered to rosie as roe or rosel and often cow bag, that bitch etc
trilby was refered to as trilby, trill of dafty
i dont refer to any of my animals as my 'babies' and i dont call myself a 'mummy' although i have been named as aunty leah to a friends bunch of horses.
i usually just call them big'un, little'un, lass, ladd and every now and very rearely as bairn but i think thats just because im from the north!!! :D
 
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