"Great" start to 2010 - D@mn loaner!!!

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Nats_uk

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Had to put my horse out on loan in October due to financial issues and thought I found him the perfect loan home.
Lady and yard were lovely and she seemed to have fallen in love with him but it has now all gone wrong
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Winter came and snow set in and she couldn't ride or turn out. She didn't reduce his feed down at all (including his sugarbeet) and he was in for a couple of weeks. He then started to go out for a few hours a day (small fields so no room for a proper hoon around) - she rode the first day and said he was very lively (back end 2ft higher then the front were her exact words), lunged the second day and then had a dressage lesson the third day. He spooked and she slipped and dug her spurs in his side and he bucked her off. She says she is now too scared to ride him and has given me her months notice!!!

Am now in a dilemma as don't have anywhere to keep him and it is an awful time of year to try to loan or sell a horse! So now have a month to either find a new loan home or at least find somewhere I can keep him (not sure how I'm going to afford that!) so I can loan/sell him again.

Rant over - cookies and tea (too early for wine!) for those that have read this!
 
why the rant? she's been perfectly honest with you and given you a months notice (many many loaners would just hand him back) so has been totally fair. At the end of the day this is the risk with loaning
 
How rubbish! but by the sounds of it he'll be better off elsewhere!... I don't understand people who keep their horses in and continue to shovel them full of feed and expect them to be sane when they finally get on their backs!!
 
That's a real shame - I'm sure there will be some suitable loaner out there. Another idea would be an equine college - they seem to be looking for horses for loan (depending on age/ability etc).
Good Luck.
 
Is there no way to negotiate with her? Maybe you could ride him for her until he settles a bit? Then again maybe he's better off not staying with someone who doesn't have the sense to reduce feed in that situation or wear spurs on a horse they already feel is too above himself.
 
Yes she is well within her right to hand him back and I appreciate her honesty and sticking to the months notice in the contract but I thought she seemed quite capable and thought it would have made sense not to keep a horse in for 2 weeks on the same hard feed quantities as when he is turned out in full work then ride him cold with spurs (two days after saying she felt he was fresh and wanting to explode) and then wonder why he does? He is a 16.3 fit WB not a laid back plod type.
 
Typical loaner in my experience - the minute something goes wrong, either with the horse or in their own lives - the horse gets returned. Theres no working through problems like any sensible person would do with their own horse. I loaned my pony out twice while I was at university to girls a couple of years younger than me who had all the family support I never had when I was the same age. Yet they both got fed up after a few months and returned him. In the end, it worked out less hassle to keep him at part livery at a yard near the university. Not much use I'm afraid and I know there are exceptions and there are some good loaners about, but the arrangement that was meant to save me hassle and expense only ended up causing me some.
 
You have a month - get an advert done now!!!

I've had to find a yard in a week (loaner tried to get a months notice, but I'd been notified by a friend that she was trying to sell my horse without paying for it!!! No way was she keeping her a second longer than she had!) - It is doable!

Try another post on here for people who might have room for one more. You'll be surprised! (It was a forum member who origionally said she'd take mine! But fortunatly I found a yard much closer to home
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Don't lose heart - there will be people out there looking to take a loan horse on now - I am! Well, I will be at the end of January, anyway, so looking now.
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why the rant? she's been perfectly honest with you and given you a months notice (many many loaners would just hand him back) so has been totally fair. At the end of the day this is the risk with loaning

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Sadly, you are absolutely right. I have only loaned once and never again. The loaners told me to come and get the horse pretty much straightaway. My advice with loaning, is to always have a back up plan and somewhere that the horse can come back to.
 
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Typical loaner in my experience - the minute something goes wrong, either with the horse or in their own lives - the horse gets returned. Theres no working through problems like any sensible person would do with their own horse.

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Don't tar us all with the same brush!!!
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I've had mine over year now and been through thick and thin (and much £££) with her. She has a home for life with me until her owner ever wants her back.

To the OP, sorry to hear about your situation, if I had more land, stables and more time to ride another horse, I'd take him
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Yes we aren't all that bad! I had my last horse for a while, and couldn't even ride her to start with due to no saddle and then she got an abscess in her foot!
I gave her back due to owner wanting to sel her, and wanting, what I thought, was to much for an ex-racer that had health issues, and no tack etc!
I would love to have her back, if I could!
 
There are some good loaners out there, and I am proud to say i am one of them! I had my horse on loan for 9 glorious years, loved him as my own, paid for absolutely everything, and when he was ready to retire his owner took him back happily! I have since bought a horse that is too much for me, my loans owner wants something more than the old one so she is taking the new one and I am having my old boy back for a while. So some loanies can be quite willing!
 
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