Do you feel vunerable doing your horses?

Here is my 'Syd Dog', she is with me when i'm not riding, and stays close then I'm doing the night hay and carrots into the paddocks....anyone tried anything, god help them! :D

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Hi PoppyAnderson, yes reported it, the police have taken it seriously but haven't caught him. He also flashed at a 14 year old at our yard. Pretty disgusting and very worrying,
 
I get a bit worried if I'm on my own as I'm 15.

The man who owns the field and stables next to us, who is in his 60s, did something terrible to his sister as children. She has never gone into details, but he either molested or raped her. He always tries to smile and speak to me, which is really creepy and scares me when I'm alone :(
 
Loulabelle007 said:
Hi PoppyAnderson, yes reported it, the police have taken it seriously but haven't caught him. He also flashed at a 14 year old at our yard. Pretty disgusting and very worrying,
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That's awful, poor you. Be very careful. Make sure you have some form of protection with you, such as one of the sprays that's been mentionned already, as well as a phone with an emergancy number ready to dial. Perhaps get a permanent marker spray in luminous yellow as well and if you ever encounter the creep again, spray it right in his face. Might be a bit easier for the police to spot him then!!
 
PoppyAnderson said:
That's awful, poor you. Be very careful. Make sure you have some form of protection with you, such as one of the sprays that's been mentionned already, as well as a phone with an emergancy number ready to dial. Perhaps get a permanent marker spray in luminous yellow as well and if you ever encounter the creep again, spray it right in his face. Might be a bit easier for the police to spot him then!!
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Thank you - I may just do that!

I had to sit through 595 photos of deviants at the police station the other day (shoulder and above photos :rolleyes:) in an effort to identify him. I am pleased it has been taken seriously, but disappointed that no-one has any idea who he is. He was young as well - so plenty of years left to be a problem.

I think the deep heat idea was a good one - a squirt of that in the eye has got to hurt.....

In all seriousness, I am looking at moving yards as I just no longer feel comfortable. :mad:
 
We keep ours at home but I hate doing the horses alone because we live in the middle of nowhere and have a giant wood at the back of the house & stables making all sorts of creepy sounds!! We currently have no floodlights because the builders disconnected everything ages ago & never returned and for some reason no one's fixed them yet, and there are quite a lot of boy racers having picnics down the road late & night and wandering around and I absolutely hate going down the fields in the pitch black. We get people ferreting (sp?!) as well the other side of the wall so I just hear lots of footsteps and whispering and its horrible, they never tell us when they're coming!
Not a fan of the winter time!
 
Yes I do. I was attacked by a pervert 30 years ago whilst out riding. He was jailed for a year for the attack. Not long after his release he raped someone. So yes I don't particularly like doing my horses on my own or riding or walking my dogs on my own but I do but I am aware of who & what is around me.
 
I never used to worry, but then had mostly kept my horses at private homes where the stables were in the drive/by the house.

But more recently I've rented an additional field on a farm a mile or so down the lane where my yard is, out of sight of civilisation - just about.

I always found it creepy up there in the winter, and 2 of my horses didn't much like it there either.

One night, I was changing out of my wellies at my car which was parked on the farm driveway, and this chap emerged out of the darkness, and I 'felt' him standing right behind me, in that the hairs on the back of my neck stood up - even though he didn't touch me. It was that dark that night, that I could only see a bit of him from the interior light of my car, when I turned round.....

I screamed the place down, and no one heard but him.... he muttered that he hadn't meant to scare me, but obviously he had.... as he had no need to stand right behind me like that.

The following day I took the morning off work, and moved out of the place.

Since then I've been a lot more wary.... and am glad I'm back at my normal safe yard.
 
I'm shocking for letting my imagination run amok when I'm alone and its dark :o I cannot sleep at night when left home alone and really hate what the darkness can be hiding.

I worked for my coach for a few months who ran a showjumping stable and he and his family went on a holiday leaving me to hold down the fort for a few weeks. I loved the days, spent them riding nice horses in an awesome indoor but dreaded the nights. I had a little flat connected to the stables which I had to lock the dogs in at night and they would rough house making all sorts of banging and moaning sounds. Plus the toilet was only accessable from outside. This meant I had the dilemma of locking the flat when I left and then possibly being abducted as I fumbled with the key :o or not locking the flat and leaving it open to invasion. It didn't help that this was at the time when the movie trailer for 'The Strangers' was being played every five seconds during evening TV. That mask freaked me out so much!
 
So glad its not just me that a scary wimp. I imagine all sorts of things and get to the yard at 5.00am. My stables are around the back and look out onto the fields. It is so dark even with the yard lights. Last year I could hear banging in the field-sounded like someone with a hammer. I was on my own and kept thinking of the urban myth about the car breaking down and the nutter on the car banging the husbands head on roof :eek: Obviously will mean nothing if you have never heard story. When I got back up in that night we found it was a electric insulator banging on the wooden post in the wind.

One time I thought the other liveries had arrived because I could hear kick bolts but when I came around with wheelbarrow yard was empty and pitch black.

I also scare myself that someone had jumped in my car and I will look in the mirror and he will be sitting in the back :o
 
Nope but then there's 3 houses on site at the yard, stables are one side of yard & various houses the other. There's always loads of people around. However I have been on less populated, more lonely yards & wouldn't do it again as I do worry about wierdos hanging about. Love this yard as I feel so safe!
 
Sam100 said:
I also scare myself that someone had jumped in my car and I will look in the mirror and he will be sitting in the back :o
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Ahh you see you get around that by having a car crammed so full of junk that there is no room for itinerant psychopaths:D
 
Fortunately for me, ours are kept at home and it's not a scary place (lots of people around, fields and hay etc. next to house)... although I still don't like the dark and do sometimes worry someone might appear out of the darkness/shelter/hay shed etc!

My dad and stepmum live in a beautiful location but with just fields behind them and a large garden with trees at the end. My stepmum was out doing her horses one night and a mobile phone rang from the trees at the end of the garden where someone was hiding and watching her. That would have freaked me out TOTALLY. Anyway, they have 4 very whizzy dogs so I think she always takes them out with her now!
 
HollyWoozle said:
Fortunately for me, ours are kept at home and it's not a scary place (lots of people around, fields and hay etc. next to house)... although I still don't like the dark and do sometimes worry someone might appear out of the darkness/shelter/hay shed etc!

My dad and stepmum live in a beautiful location but with just fields behind them and a large garden with trees at the end. My stepmum was out doing her horses one night and a mobile phone rang from the trees at the end of the garden where someone was hiding and watching her. That would have freaked me out TOTALLY. Anyway, they have 4 very whizzy dogs so I think she always takes them out with her now!
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Oh god something else to scare me :eek:
 
I pop back down to my horses between 9-10 pm to check on them, top up hay etc. They're at home, the other side of the garden and I'v houses next to me but some nights it still creeps me out! I always feel there's someone in one of the fields watching!!! There's not as my two bodyguards would go bonkers!!!!

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nice bodyguards:D:D can't take mine (bullmastiff) to the farm with me as the bugger tries to play with the cows and horses:rolleyes:
stupidly i'm worse being alone in my house at night than i am outside:confused: if OH stays away and the kids are away too i have to go in every room and check no one has sneaked in and hidden in a cupboard or behind a door:o so stupid because i have 3 dogs :o And even dafter is i feel safer if the kids are home!! like a 10 and 12 year old are going to save me from the mad axe man lol:o
 
Yes, the last yard I was at made me feel like this, 3 of us there with 4 horses at the time, it was quite isolated, set back from the road. In the winter at 5.45 in the morning I did not like it at all, I would run up and down the track.

Then one day one of the girls was there in daylight and some oddball came up to her and said that he watched all of us coming and going from the yard!! I was not there much longer after that, although I left for a different reason I was glad to get away from this potential nutcase!
 
At my last yard I was just about ok going around the yard and doing my horse in the dark - I could do everything in the barn that she lived in - but I could absolutely NOT go to the muck heap. You know the scene at the beginning of expectations where the convict comes upon Pip in the graveyard and asks for the file and 'wittles'? Well I always had the idea that would happen while clambering over the muckheap (great marshy type muck heap of the sort you can see from space). I think the general marshiness is the connection, but i always had to hide my wheelbarrow in an empty stable until I came back when it was light!!!

And the psychopath in the back of the car thing is anywhere it's dark, not just at the yard. I have to check the back of the car before getting in. Who knew so many of us were scared of the dark?

Right I really have to write my essay now. Stop distracting me HHO!
 
The first yard I was at had a lot of land, so much so to get to my then horse's field you had to go up a lane, go down a long track which doubled up as a public footpath and then he shared about 10 acres with 4/5 other horses. Problem was the track was totally unlit and heavily wooded, there were no houses around and the lane was very quiet traffic wise, plus most of the horses were owned by the same woman so I was often seeing to my horse alone - I was only 17 then and never ever went without someone else with me but even then I regularly ran the whole way! There was also no electricity and no stables there, it was just the fields which were huge!

The yard I'm at now is great, the owners live on site and we have 3 Jack Russells I certainly wouldn't want to get on the wrong side off! It's also tucked out the way but not isolated - if that makes any sense at all! I have to admit, although we often get people wondering up the lane thinking it's part of the cycle network nearby, I never feel vulnerable there
 
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I'd rather be alone at midnight on the yard than in Glasgow town centre...

But tbh I still feel a little creeped out on my own on the yard.
 
I used to when keeping my horse at someones house (not near the actual house though) and I used to look after both the horses there as a teenager. Now it doesnt bother me even though I am often first and last at my yard in the dark, I know it has working CCTV, good neighbours (after one was burgled recently and someone saw it so all more on their guard for strange cars) and the horses are pretty alert when things change!

Got really spooked though at a yard I was working on when I had to skip out and re hay all the horses at 10pm and it literally was in the middle of nowhere, especially when the horses thought they saw something and all stared at the same spot in the darkness!
 
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