Eurgh! Pestering Parent?

I'd have told her that if she's so persistant to have her daughter near a pony that is dangerous for her age and abilities, that is fine, but it's her thats the bad one. It's her thats obviously promised someone elses pony to her child. It's her thats been a cheeky b****. Suggest that perhaps her child is lucky that one of you has acted maturely in ensuring her daughters safety.

What a stupid cow. I'd be livid! :mad:
 
She does sound a bit lacking in some department.

Keep note of your texts, they sound quite abusive to me. Like others have said, watch your pony too.
 
Just tell her a simple 'no, thank you and goodbye'...... Don't be soft on her. It's your horse and as stated NOT FOR SALE. Get the hint lady and sod off!

She seems to think that constantly pestering you will make you give in. I don't think I'd have your patience.
 
Utter nutter!

Where are you in the country? sounds like one who offered her 6 year old daughter to ride for me.:cool:
I tried saying that they were all colts and all under the age of three and unbroken only to be told that 'her daughter can ride anything'

I was tempted to see how long she would of stayed on :p
 
Keep the texts. 2 or more abusive texts/emails counts as harassment, arrestable offence. She is for sure unhinged! Has she even me you?! I'd be fuming with your friend. Forward her the texts and tell her to deal with it.
 
She just turned up on the yard Stargirl88.
We do get a lot of people on the yard asking if we do lessons/horses for loan and sale etc. Because it is the first yard on the moss where my pony is kept.
 
I'm in the North West Bigbenji.
And ha! Bloody hell you should of :p

If she sends me one text or a call tomorrow I'll be going to the police. For harassment and the welfare of my pony. She has never met me once, today was the first I've heard of her!
I have it in for my "friend". I'm the one who gives her horse feed in the morning and turns it out. She's in for a leathering when I get home.
 
It's a police matter - harassment and being threatened.

I'd be very concerned about the welfare of my horse if I were you. She sounds like a sandwich short of a picnic and I wouldn't put it past someone like her to just come down and pinch him!

It takes all sorts.
 
She turned up on the yard at 11pm? Sounds a bit fishy to me.

Ignore her, keep the texts and if she persists report her for harassment. Do you have sent items on your phone? Don't delete any texts you have sent either.
 
We have CCTV on the yard and a guard dog out at night Tizzy so she would be lucky to even get over the gate!

My gelding is on the yard with my pony currently being looked after whilst I'm away, on Saturday I'm moving him back to his yard up the Moss so I may see if the YO has a spare stable where I can keep my pony for a while :)
 
Florrie said:
We have CCTV on the yard and a guard dog out at night Tizzy so she would be lucky to even get over the gate!

My gelding is on the yard with my pony currently being looked after whilst I'm away, on Saturday I'm moving him back to his yard up the Moss so I may see if the YO has a spare stable where I can keep my pony for a while :)
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She may sneak in MI5 style ghillie suit:p
 
Crazy woman!

I'd be so annoyed with your friend! How dare she give out your number to some stranger without asking! The least she could have done would have been to take her number and let you contact her if you wanted!

What a bizarre situation.... Let us know if there is any further harassing!
 
I know exactly how you feel as I have had this same thing happen to me twice in the 15 years I've owned my little lad (and I still say he won't be going anywhere without me!). I even received Death Threats from one of them.....lovely!

Sadly, I honestly think that some people's brains are programmed to be completely unable to compute the word 'NO' and they see this as 'YES'.....if and when the penny finally drops they are so mortally offended that you would dare to tell them no that they lose every ounce of sanity they were born with!

I too would be reporting to the police for harrassment, as well as having serious words with said 'friend'!
 
Wow just be glad your pony IS completely unsuitable or you might have got sucked in by this fruitloop!

Horses attract crazy people, at first you might feel sorry for them but then it all gets a bit much, you have to tell them and then they become vindictive. It's scary!

I'm sure she came across nice as pie to your friend, although obviously it would have been better to give YOU her number so you could then not contact her. Although she probably would have come to track you down anyway :-/

Face to face would have been even more scary!
 
Lol.. if she texts again tell her you will publish her number on here and we will all send her abusive messages!! See how she would like that. What a rude and obnoxious person, and poor kid having to grow up with her for a mother.
 
and a third who thinks you should report it.

I bought my mare off the dealer/riding school where I keep her, one day I had a riding school parent come down to the hay barn and attack me verbally for buying "HER" daughters pony. Apparently it was "their" pony as she was the only riding school child that could ride it and how dare I buy it before her daughter had entered the jumping competition next month. Absolute fruit loop woman, the mare had been up for sale for a year so they had pleanty of opportunities and I loaned her for 3 months without a peep, they also scared off my mares previous sharer by telling her she couldn't ride on weekends as they rode her, so sharer left as weekends were all she could ride, and these fruit loops weren't even sharing or paying to share my mare - totally deluded. YO had STRONG words with fruit loop in the end and told her in no uncertain terms that unless she stopped harassing myself and my mares old sharer she would not be welcome for lessons any more. This was fine and she no longer bothers me but a new dealer pony came in, fruit loops daughter rode it in 2 lessons, someone else bought it and now she is harrassing her!
 
Sounds like pestering 5 yr old tactics from woman who hasn't grown out of it.

People do turn funny when yoou say no. Friend loaned horse out, found out after 18 months he been dumped with someone we knew who she didn't give a penny to cover his keep/bills. Friend took back (long story but basically loanee had benn far from honest in 18 months), told her (loanee didn't know as she hadn't been to see him once in 3 months, think she sent 1 text in this time), & she turned nasty. If she had apologised, admitted her lies etc & generally come clean she might have got a second chance. But sending spiteful texts, as if that's going to make anyone change their mind.

Think on it as lucky escape, change his routine so she wont know where to find him, report texts to police so she knows you are serious. He is your pony, you do not have to justify saying no to her.
 
What a nightmare. The police will give you an incident number which you can text to the woman. We've done this when we were harassed by someone in the past and they disappeared sharpish.

Paula
 
I had someone do this to me. I managed to avoid her for a couple of years then she somehow got hold of my phone number, when I find out who gave it to her I am going to string them up alive! So when I didn't give an answer to her precious daughter riding my shetlands she rocked up at my door and refused to leave until said brat had ridden the pony. I gave in just to be rid of her - BIG mistake! 3 years, 2 changes of phone number, being told the kid was useless and couldnt ride the pony I still get harrassed by her! This kid also has 4 ponies of her own to ride at home! She's ruined my ponies reputation in the showring and I am working hard to rectify it.

She had entered my pony for a show and didnt tell me til the wednesday before when I got a text telling me to bath him and they would pick him and his stuff up on the saturday morning and then just take the pony home on loan. Needless to say she did not get the pony that saturday and has never been allowed to take him anywhere on his own.

The icing on the cake, as if it couldn't get any worse - she has been telling all and sundry that she is buying the pony off of me at the end of September. I have heard this from 5 very different sources but have never once heard it from her herself nor do I have any intention of selling that pony! She is completely off her rocker!

I tried the insurance thing and she went out and got personal insurance for them all ...
 
Firstly I don't think your situation is the same as the other thread, those kids (even though not ops idea) had already been invited up to play ponies. Definitely tell her to fook off, & that if she contacts you or continues stalking pony you will go to the police. While I have helped out lots of ponyless kids, its on my terms & my invite. Although I haven't met anyone on that scale, I'm pretty forthright at making my opinion clear, some parents of children my daughter knows seem to think I should be running a free rs.
 
EKW said:
I had someone do this to me. I managed to avoid her for a couple of years then she somehow got hold of my phone number, when I find out who gave it to her I am going to string them up alive! So when I didn't give an answer to her precious daughter riding my shetlands she rocked up at my door and refused to leave until said brat had ridden the pony. I gave in just to be rid of her - BIG mistake! 3 years, 2 changes of phone number, being told the kid was useless and couldnt ride the pony I still get harrassed by her! This kid also has 4 ponies of her own to ride at home! She's ruined my ponies reputation in the showring and I am working hard to rectify it.

She had entered my pony for a show and didnt tell me til the wednesday before when I got a text telling me to bath him and they would pick him and his stuff up on the saturday morning and then just take the pony home on loan. Needless to say she did not get the pony that saturday and has never been allowed to take him anywhere on his own.

The icing on the cake, as if it couldn't get any worse - she has been telling all and sundry that she is buying the pony off of me at the end of September. I have heard this from 5 very different sources but have never once heard it from her herself nor do I have any intention of selling that pony! She is completely off her rocker!

I tried the insurance thing and she went out and got personal insurance for them all ...
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WTF!!!!!! Wow.
 
I've had the same issue, started out innocent "can we brush your veteran" and ended up in the two girls ring my mobile all day demanding i go up so they could come over and them cussing me out on Facebook. I finally lost it and blocked them on facebook, had words with the mother (who didn't care cause she got every night free while they harrassed me), i made a huge point that my new horse was dangerous so they could not enter the field (he's totally not, but he's big and that's enough).

Eventually I moved as they lived next to my yard. I'd been there 10 years and got on fabulously with the previous neighbours (it was their daughter that handed over my mobile number because the girls made out one of the horses was injured so i didn't blame her). It was no longer relaxing being up there and avoiding them. Thank god mother never kicked off with me as i think i may have lost it.

Sorry to say it but is the spoilt kids that are worst, they even started calling my old boy theirs and that daddy could buy him in a second. Only action is to be firm and clear..............i will not be getting into that situation again!!!!
 
She is totally out of order.

Perhaps reply with , yes you have a very nice car, I'd like to drive it, hand over the keys NOW!

No you won't, you've broken my heart I sooooo wanted to drive it!
 
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