DIY liveries-Would this p*ss you off????

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I was on my yard earlier this eve chitterchattering and noticed one of the horses being a little more animated as usual- went to check and the horse was absolutely Dripping :( in sweat....because.....the bloody obese hairy as a yak was double rugged and the top rug was a HW!
thinking along the lines of, oh, if that was my horse i would appreciate it not dying tonight I went in and removed the top rug, horse was drenched through to the point sweat was dripping off the tip of her beard (think mucky cob type thing)
around 40mins later she was a little dryer , but still ready to break under the LW i had left on.
so i left her as she was.

now. tomorrow, do i re rug horse and pretend it never happened?
re rug horse and say what happened
or leave it and say what I did...

its 11.45 and i am sat here thinking, great, gonna get aggro tomorrow!!!
 
I woudl have contacted the owner asap as could well have been an underlying reason, if only double rugging-stupid owner but at the end of the day it's their horse and they should know if its been sweating like a pig as it could be ill.
 
Leave it off and tell them :)

If someone had noticed my horse was suffering due to rugs I would appreciate someone making the effort to make my horse more comfortable. Maybe they will be grateful, you never know! :D

I wonder why they rugged a hairy fatty :S

My yard owners would remove the rug themselves or tell me what I'm doing is wrong if I was to rug my overweight, unclipped native. Not that I ever would.
 
If I knew owners I would have text first to say what I was doing. I'd see how it is tomorrow, rug accordingly and let owners know what you have done - let them know you hung about to check it was o.k as this shows you really cared rather than just thought you knew better than them. I hate over rugging and can't understand why people do this but every yard I go to I find it happening.
 
ive known the horse for a number of years and its quite an obvious animal- everything about her was ok, droppings, wee, eating and membranes. My own fully clipped horse is only in a MW and we were all on the yard near 9pm in sweaters no coats so truly assume that heat was the only issue.
 
i am a "rugger" but only if the horse needs it!

its also that DIY thing, do you or are you happy for others to do things like this or would you rather things be ignored/left to you? Ill happily refill empty waters then inform the owner, do up un fastened rugs and re bolt an unbolted door at the end of the night but to some DIY is some form of cult!
 
Hmmm, difficult to say. most normal people would appreciate it but you never know!!

I'd just tell them but say "oh I'm really sorry and didn't want to interfere but she was really hot with the weather getting warmer.... blah blah"

I was ill and OH offered to turn horse out on way to work the other week, I obviously thought he was a bit more clued up than he is - he was going to put him out in his lightweight night rug!!! luckily someone stopped him!! So there might be an explanation.
 
lucemoose said:
its also that DIY thing, do you or are you happy for others to do things like this or would you rather things be ignored/left to you? Ill happily refill empty waters then inform the owner, do up un fastened rugs and re bolt an unbolted door at the end of the night but to some DIY is some form of cult!
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I'd actually be more upset if my horse was in some sort of danger and nobody had noticed/did anything rather than them think 'oh, she's diy, her fault if her horse has drunk all its water etc etc'

I think taking the top rug off was a sensible thing to do - but def tell the owner in case she thinks its been stolen or whatever :)
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lucemoose said:
i am a "rugger" but only if the horse needs it!

its also that DIY thing, do you or are you happy for others to do things like this or would you rather things be ignored/left to you? Ill happily refill empty waters then inform the owner, do up un fastened rugs and re bolt an unbolted door at the end of the night but to some DIY is some form of cult!
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See I'm a bit new to this DIY thing (previously kept horse at parents) but there is a mother/daughter combo that go looking round all the boxes at night and it really pisses YO off!! But I think they are just trying to be helpful!

I would rather people help, but only if they know what they are doing!
 
If it was my horse, I would be very grateful if you did that, I mean, can you imagine arriving at the yard in the morning to find your horse in that state, I used to be on a yard that combined full/part and DIY and if anyone spotted a horse too hot or cold we sorted it and let the owner know, it's just a decent thing to do, I would have worried all night if it was me and I had left a horse to suffer like that, good for you, you did the right thing for the horse :)
 
Completely and utterly normal as far as I am concerned, it is like straightening nosebands or tucking straps into keepers, automatic, slightly embarrassing on a strangers horse perhaps:( but second nature.

When I was on a DIY yard I think every single one of us glanced in stables as a matter of course, no-one thought anything of going in to straighten rugs, top up buckets, re-hang nets blah, blah, blah. We always mentioned what we had done, or called to check if it was OK or to say that a horse didn't look quite right etc, and I can't think of a single occasion, that I was aware of, when an owner resented any action taken by others. I was always grateful that people bothered, and once or twice I'd gone down to check and the horse had indeed been colicky etc.

With regard to the original question, personally I'd either leave a note on the door explaining what you had done, and why, or I'd speak to the owner, one way or another I'd let them know.
 
Tough isn't it....folks can be qeer

I got a right *******ing from a YO for interfering with one horse - every time I went into the field to get mine, the straps of the rug on one gormless, but nice, TB type were down. On several ocassions he was wearing huis rug as a scarf and was tangled in it.

So I fixed it each time, but then put the rubber castrating bands I use on the rugs on to his rug which fixed the problem.

Boom.....it seemed the owner was happy for me to fix things for her horse each time, but preventing the problem from happening in the first place was "interfering"

Then a few weeks later he had been put out in a rug I hadn't fixed and got it off and trashed it. Pissing cold rain, late in the evening, and the horse was shaking like a leaf, so I hung the damaged rug on the gate, waslked all the way back to my stable in the dark and put one of my horses dry rugs on him - in all conscience I couldn't leave him.

Not only did I get a *******ing, but the owner continued to use the rug while her rugs dried out and got repaired - and then when I got the rug back it was stinking!!!!

Nowt so queer as folk!

So glad I have a small private yard wiht just my 4 now.
 
One diy yard I was at had a rota for a different person to do late checks each week. Extra hay was given if left ready, water buckets would be topped up and, yes, rugs would be adjusted if needed. It worked well and I often thought it taught a lot to those newer to horses as they saw how to rug correctly, feed etc.
 
When I was on a large diy yard, my mare who was 9 months in foal had colic while out in the field. I was at work. NOBODY DID ANYTHING. The first I knew was after work when lots off people kept saying, your mare hasn't been right all afternoon. She was flat out, sweating and in lots off pain. I LOST THE FOAL.
I also left the yard shortly after.
So yes you did the right thing and if I was the owner I would be greetful for what you done. But do let her know so she's aware there was a problem
 
Do you not have a board on the yard with everyones tel number? I would have removed the rug then called the owner to let them know.

I would leave rug off and tell the owner....

When my horse was a DIY on a large college yard he was left out in the paddock on his own while other horses we brought in (the rules were NEVER to leave a horse out alone) and he blew his tendon and was never ridden again..... :mad:

Luckily my horses are kept at home now, but i do feel for you all
 
I would be really greatful that someone thought to check on my pony when I wasn't there.

Last week my pony (who rolls in the field constantly) was showing signs of colic in the field, struggling to get up etc and if it wasn't for the other DIY liveries he could've been like that all night as I had just left a hour or two before this set in!

Some people need to get off their high horse though and accept that help isn't always a bad thing :D
 
thatsmygirl said:
When I was on a large diy yard, my mare who was 9 months in foal had colic while out in the field. I was at work. NOBODY DID ANYTHING. The first I knew was after work when lots off people kept saying, your mare hasn't been right all afternoon. She was flat out, sweating and in lots off pain. I LOST THE FOAL.
I also left the yard shortly after.
So yes you did the right thing and if I was the owner I would be greetful for what you done. But do let her know so she's aware there was a problem
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Jees, that is just AWFUL! We all look out for each others horses, and if one shows any different behaviour, we are on the phone to each other. Similarly, if one has got through hay/water we will top up, and if a horse was sweating profously, then def would remove a rug and then send a text to the owner.

If someone removed a rug for me, I would be really grateful!
If I were in your shoes, just send them a text if you have their number, just saying, removed top rug, horse was very unsettled and sweating heavily, air temperatures are quite warm tonight.
If you get told not to interfere next time, then if it happens again just send them text saying horse is wet through and very unsettled, you may want to come to yard to sort - at least you let them know.
 
If it was my horse I would be greatful that someone could be bothered to check on him. Allot of people probably would have left him...slagging me off for doing it but not doing anything helpful about it.
I would appreciate a text or phone call just in case there was a reason for the rugs.

In that persons defence I heard rumours from people on my yard it was going down to minus 2 but when I checked the Met Office (as I do every night and morning) it was around 12/14 degs!!! I left my horse in his stable naked last night as it was so mild. Maybe they thought it was going to be colder than it was?

You did the right thing and after either the embarrassment factor or peeved off because you touched my horse factor, I'm sure they will be greatful too.
 
I would definitely appreciate someone looking out for my horse just like I would look out for theirs. As long as u let her kno that u took of the rug as the horse was sweating she should be grateful. Some people are odd tho the other horse in my mares field is rugged in a heavy weight already and she is not even clipped the owner would rather her be rugged even if on nice days! so I'm cautious with that horse but most people are fine. Let us know if anything is said :).
 
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