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do you take a teeny bit of offence if someone makes an unreasonable observation about your beloved horse?

i did yesterday then felt a bit silly as the person was obviously stoopid...

was hacking along a narrow bridletrack on babyhorse (4, not broken many months) and met a large tractor with a hedge cutter on coming the other way
tractor stopped and babyhorse was carrying on towards it, very focussed on the noisy tractor but good as gold...then a numpty on a bike came from nowhere and wizzed past us...

BH jumped as his focus is on tractor and he didnt hear the bike, and the man says

'hes a bit flighty isnt he?'

i know, daft to take offence, but i thought babyhorse was being bl@@dy heroic with the tractor, humph!
 
Ah he didn't know he was a young horse and prob didn't mean any offence. Your horse did really well. I know what you mean though. Someone called my cat the neighbour hood bully the other day and i thought how dare he lol
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LOL - when I was young I used to encourage my ponies to leap and buck so everyone thought I was a good rider
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Now that I am old and a mother I encourage my horses to be impeccably behaved and people often comment on how lucky I am to have such sensible horses out hunting.

But really I am seething to tell them that I have worked bloody hard to get such welll behaved horses!

You can't win - its horses for courses
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LOL - when I was young I used to encourage my ponies to leap and buck so everyone thought I was a good rider
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Haha I remember being like that.
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Yes sometimes when people are having problems schooling their horse and say mine is so easy - if only they knew how many hours and hours I'd put in to get her that way! She couldn't walk in a straight line till she was about 10 as she was permanently bent to the right.
 
Yes, I hear that. I get a teeny weeny bit miffed when people tell me how 'lucky' I am with my mare. Now, don't get me wrong, I am lucky - she is a pony in a million. But it does seem to slightly negate the hours of careful work I have put into her over the years. When I bought her she was barely broken - she didn't teach herself!
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Yes, I hear that. I get a teeny weeny bit miffed when people tell me how 'lucky' I am with my mare. Now, don't get me wrong, I am lucky - she is a pony in a million. But it does seem to slightly negate the hours of careful work I have put into her over the years. When I bought her she was barely broken - she didn't teach herself!
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Ha ha! After being told by a terrible instructor that I (to quote) 'rode like sh*t' and then got told that I shouldn't ruin my lovely horse I felt the same. I have had him since he was four, (he was then 8) and whilst he is good, it can't be all down to him!!!
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Arabelle- i do agree with what you say i had the same sort of thing with my cob!! However after a visit to vet hospital ( stifle issues) the vet and vet nurses said what a credit he was to me and how well behaved he was etc. I almost burst with pride!!! it also turns out they had a HW cob in the week before who barged and took off at every avalaible second so had to be handled only by v large man who usually did the maintenace as no one else could hang on!!!!

Just think how well you have done with her tho!!

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Yes! My usually well behaved 3 year old had a visit from the vet a few months ago to have her teeth done. To everyone's surprise she reacted quite badly, jumping around and not standing still. The vet said 'she has a terrible temper, you can't let her get her own way' and 'you'll have to nip this in the bud before you back her'.
I was mortified! When I told her that she was normally well behaved I'm sure she didn't believe a word! The yard owner tried to convince her but she wasn't having any of it!
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I dont think "flighty" is derogitory (sp?) esp coming from someone who probably hasnt been within 20ft of a horse for most of their lives!
Sounds like a brave ponio tho, my 18 year ol share span in the rode when we met a horse eating tractor the other day... ejit!
 

Probably not like everyone else but if an owner has a well behaved horse (ridden and handling) I automatically consider them a good horse person worth listening to or getting advice from if they're experienced...more so than the person with a misbehaving horse, I look at them and instantly wonder what the owner's done wrong lol...I certainly wouldn't go to them for advice.
 
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Arabelle- i do agree with what you say i had the same sort of thing with my cob!! However after a visit to vet hospital ( stifle issues) the vet and vet nurses said what a credit he was to me and how well behaved he was etc. I almost burst with pride!!! it also turns out they had a HW cob in the week before who barged and took off at every avalaible second so had to be handled only by v large man who usually did the maintenace as no one else could hang on!!!!



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It is great that the vet hospital gave you the credit for your well behaved horse (you are right to be proud BTW), instead of just saying 'aren't you lucky he is so well behaved'!!!! I think it shows the vet hospital are knowledgable enough to recognise that horses are usually well behaved as a result of good handling as well as good temprement (obviously, you do need both).
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i make my horses appear to be messing around on the road when it looks like someone's not slowing down, works every time too
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I'm very over protective of my horses i didn't speak to someone for quite a while because she said my horse had a big head, ftr he doesn't at all. My friend and i worked out that to make friends with a horsey person all you have to do is compliment their horse
 
Lol Elle that made me laugh!
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Although techincally all horses have pretty big heads...

I'm the same with all my pets. Someone came round my house once and stuck her finger through the bars of my rat's cage, then complained that he was mean when he bit her! I'm always telling people that rats have poor eyesight and if they just see your fingers they will assume it's food... they never listen...
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I'm very over protective of my horses i didn't speak to someone for quite a while because she said my horse had a big head,

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not sure over protective is the word I'm looking for..
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Not usually, it is my horse not theirs, sod them.

But...the ex owner of a horse of mine once told me at a meet that "a friend thought the horse looked thin and poor."

I was livid, utter crap, it was the middle of the hunting season, the horse was FIT, I guess compared to her fat, wobbly show horses he would have looked thin but I have never, ever, been so cross about a sly comment before, or after. How dare she dress it up with "a friend said" not "I think" relations with her were never the same after that. That really ruined my day.

If my horse had been thin, there would have been any number of people hunting who would have said so in no uncertain terms.
 
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I'm very over protective of my horses i didn't speak to someone for quite a while because she said my horse had a big head,

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not sure over protective is the word I'm looking for..
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It was a discussion about bridle sizes and the exact words were "oh well ....'s got a big head" this is following me saying that i had to replace half my full size bridle with cob parts. the horse is 16.2. I think she may have annoyed me on other matters too but the head comment is the one that bothered me
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My friend and i worked out that to make friends with a horsey person all you have to do is compliment their horse

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Oh so true... compliment Genie and I'm your friend for life! Say something derogatory about her and I won't speak to you for ages!
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Sounds like a brave ponio tho,

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he is, he's very good. hes a 16h mostly tb sports horse

that was only the 2nd tractor hed seen, last week there was a sleeping jcb in the park as the workmen were having a tea break so i took the opportunity to let him have a look

after a couple of times of trying to turn away which isnt allowed he was up to the thing and licking its windows within minutes
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It gets my goat when people say that my horse is easy and very quiet like it's an insult. She is that way after a lot of hard work lol, they weren't there when we had the spins and the bucks etc. She has gone from a bargy, rearing bitch in hand to being an angel through training, but the say she's so good like I couldn't manage anything else...grrrrrrr.

Oh the other was telling me my horse is fat when her weight hasn't budged, she has just muscled up! This while said person had just had their pony diagnosed with obesity related laminitis.
 
at a show last weekend, someone made a comment about my 5 year old jumping discovery that he was "rather green!" i suppose he is compared to all the other 10/12 year olds but it annoyed as there was no need a "well done" would have done instead!!!!
 
Quadro- my freind has a "green" pony as well who is lovely until he enters the ring. she sat for 99% of the plunging, broncing hissy fit and then she did the sensible bail out and save your dignity and she didnt even get a well sat or good effort from the rather snotty announcer!!!! and you are rightt obe miffed if people compare your clearly good baby to older established nags xxx
 
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