Facebook horse groups- angry!

I saw a shaved tail at one of the big horse shows recently, it was on a coloured and the pink of the dock showed the hair was so short, the rest of the tail was full and lovely - not sure if its a fashion but its a step too far in my eyes!
 
Ive seen tails trimmed with clippers, razors and even clipped down both sides but to clip the tail down to the skin all over the dock is a new one on me!
 
I left one of my local groups - set up to help combat rural crime - because no one ever challenged the idiots who wanted to blame "the travellers", "the gypos", "the you know who's" for every dog that got out of the garden or car that slowed down and "looked at out horses in the field like they was (sic) going to steal them" .And the threads about horses with a plait in the mane being targets by aforementioned groups. And I saw the one about the saddle for a youngster - she was offered one with a twist, one with a break. And a four year old who had been SJ at a netres, XC, etc etc. When I asked "What and only 4?" she said Yes and gave me a smiley! No understanding!
 
The Equifest group has been an eye opener for me. Thefts blamed on travellers sneaking in because horsey people cant possibly be bad....
 
EKW said:
I got banned from one if these pages because I explained about racing, the rules, the whip rules, how the horses are treated, how quickly they are attended to on the course etc ... But because I wasn't insanely against racing and made stuff up to make the sport look bad I was abused by everyone and then banned.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing but no knowledge at all is even worse!
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Oh yes but when you try to talk sense and explain that the Racing Industry makes up a small % of the total horses kept in the UK, or that TB breeding in down over the past few years etc etc etc well you must be a bad person and condone abuse....try reasoning and mention that the whole equine industry is up the swanny, and that the Racing Industry can't be blamed for all equine abuse and how is selling a kiddies out grown pony any different to selling on a horse out of racing, you get accused of being mad because it is 'totally different'. I truely give up with these groups as they can't see that they are rather hypocritical and have a very blinkered view.
 
Dab said:
Oh yes but when you try to talk sense and explain that the Racing Industry makes up a small % of the total horses kept in the UK, or that TB breeding in down over the past few years etc etc etc well you must be a bad person and condone abuse....try reasoning and mention that the whole equine industry is up the swanny, and that the Racing Industry can't be blamed for all equine abuse and how is selling a kiddies out grown pony any different to selling on a horse out of racing, you get accused of being mad because it is 'totally different'. I truely give up with these groups as they can't see that they are rather hypocritical and have a very blinkered view.
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Or better still, try saying that breeding indiscriminately from every coloured cob going because it's fashionable, and it's viewed as treason practically!

I personally find the 'coloured cob' breeding fanatics the worst at the moment. They are appearing left, right and centre, and there are so many around going for peanuts which have horrendous conformation but are still bred from because they simply 'are coloured cobs'. Disgusting IMO.
 
I saw one post that ran along the lines of "I loaned my horse out for the person to breed from and now she won't give it back".

Why is it that every time there's a mare that can't be ridden, it gets bred from instead? Argh!

I will try to find the horrific shaved tail photo. I'll put up a warning so those of you who are eating at the time don't look at it by accident!
 
muckypony said:
I saw a post on a Facebook group saying 'need a really cheap saddle because I'm breaking in my horse, doesn't matter what condition just must be cheap
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See that a lot, utterly depresses me, what kind of start is that for a youngster? Possible pain, discomfort, ill-fitting crap saddle. Great! :rolleyes3:

rachyblue said:
On a lighter note, someone's horse on there today may be suffering from "cushions"...

I was tempted to ask if it had too much padding, but thought they may not appreciate my humour.

It made me laugh like mutley though lol
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PMSL!

Today, a kid was asking why under 18s weren't allowed to share someone's horse and she 'sed' (sic) that it was 'rediculous' and she had previously had a massive shire that she had 'got rid of' and was therefore hugely experienced so why couldn't she share someone's horse. So depressing. :frown3:
 
There's a group out there that claims to be uber friendly and welcomes positive comments apparently. Horse chit chat possibly? Well I had a similar experience regarding the lami pony and had to leave pdq as well. There's another one out there that is I swear 90% keyboard warriors, there is no way that they would say the things they typed to someone's face. Makes me mad too!! And don't get me started on the spelling and grammar!!!
 
Rollin said:
I received an email one day, saying I had been unfriended by ???, as I refuse to join Facebook I don't quite understand. I don't like the pre-reg questions which are asked and my son who is an IT expert has warned me this is dangerous.

I also know from ANOTHER that because I don't belong to Facebook my name has appeared in discussions. I regard this as an invasion of my privacy.

I don't like it and won't go there.
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Facebook do not tell you if someone has unfriended you. What you received is probably a phishing email trying to get you to log in via a link. If you did that the people behind it could steal the password to try it on other things more important than facebook hoping you had the same password for everything.
 
Firefly9410 said:
Facebook do not tell you if someone has unfriended you. What you received is probably a phishing email trying to get you to log in via a link. If you did that the people behind it could steal the password to try it on other things more important than facebook hoping you had the same password for everything.
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If you have FB Purity it does.
 
DressageCob said:
I find it annoying how up themselves the admin get...where they frequently post topics saying "who is your favourite admin?" and "if you met an admin in real life what would you say?". Who cares? You're a bunch of people who have enough free time to delete spam from a facebok page. Get over yourselves.

There are some bonkers people on the horsey facebook pages. There's a lot of really novicey posts but then I'd rather they asked the questions than just guessed at what to do for the best. The ones where the obvious answer is "get a vet" are frustrating. it's a bit like on here really. The other ones that annoy me are people posting gobbledigook which, to their clique on the page, is funny but to the rest of us is just nonsense spamming up the page.

/rant over :D
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That must be me then as I am an admin on one of the pages.

To be fair I didn't create the page, another lady did who then posted to say she needed help just to approve members. I offered as was laid off from work sick and then she made me admin and deleted herself from the group. I carried it on as is quite useful for selling. That was a couple of years ago.

I am quite strict and delete all arguments, Horses free to good homes posts etc.
 
Irishbabygirl said:
I saw that tail on chit chat and tack - made me cringe! What's all that about?!
Haven't got a problem with going down the sides...but all over?! That's just wrong!
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When I got G he had a recently shaved tail I dont do that , so had no choice but to leave it , it’s looks awful now fiveish months later it’s like a huge spiky toilet brush it will take two years to look ok and four to disappear completely.
It’s gauling because he has lovely silky tail hair where it’s long it would have been a beautiful full tail .
 
Goldenstar said:
When I got G he had a recently shaved tail I dont do that , so had no choice but to leave it , it’s looks awful now fiveish months later it’s like a huge spiky toilet brush it will take two years to look ok and four to disappear completely.
It’s gauling because he has lovely silky tail hair where it’s long it would have been a beautiful full tail .
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Out of interest why was his tail clipped? Why do people do that ? (I googled clipped tail and no offence intended to you or your horse but, holy beejesus clipped tails really looks awful, really not a nice look at all IMHO) - is it a lazy way to avoid having to pull or plait it or what....?!
 
They do it because it quicker and easier that pulling it the old fashioned way or plaiting it .
I prefer my horses tails long and full it will take years for Gs tail to look full and natural again
I have a bit of an history recentlyof deciding to buy horses with tragic tails .
I negiogated a £500 reduction on the price for H because the cows had consumed his tail .
C had lost his tail during a long trip returning from an event abroad it grew back just and looked lovely just as I needed to put him down .
And then I found G with the hideous shaved thing going on and my new horse has just a wisp of long hair due I think to the over enthusiastic use of a dandy brush .
 
rachyblue said:
On a lighter note, someone's horse on there today may be suffering from "cushions"...
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I think some of these spellings might be peoples phones thinking they know better than their owner.... mine has turned anti's (hunt sabs) into 'antiseptics', Luke Harvey from the racing prog into 'Lukewarm Harvey', and A man into 'Athens man'... :D
 
Mine had a clipped tail when I bought him. Was ages before it grew out enough to plait it. I think the idea behind it is to show off the muscle in the hindquarters.
 
I find it quite amusing to read the stupid people - except from in cases like this were a poor horse is suffering when someone isn't smart enough to call the vet :(
 
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