Help with livery yard stupidity please?

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All the geldings on the livery yard had to stay in last night and today as there was an open day for the cross country course. This morning I left my 3 year old with a full haynet. When I got to the yard tonight there was no haynet and no haylage in his stable. I found it on someones haynet pile but hidden at the bottom. It was still virtually full.
I asked around and apparently the lady thought it was her and so took it back (a ten year old child told me this!)
I have only been at this yard 3 weeks so why would I steal someones haynet and then flaunt it?
I am seriously annoyed, mainly, because he was left without hay for the whole day but also that someone entered my stable with my horse in it and basically stole my haynet!
The lady in question was not there tonight and I don't see her very often as her 15 year old daughter attends to the horses so I am unsure as what to do?
Should I write her a letter? Ring her? I told the yard owner but I get the feeling she doesn't want to get involved.
Any thoughts much appreciated!
 
I'd be ringing her to tell her she had no right to enter my stable! And if there was a problem she should have rang you or contacted the yard owner. Bare in mind I can be a bit blunt when it comes to people messing with my horses..
 
If your yard owner doesn't want to get involved I would look to move yards. In my view it is part of their job to sort these sorts of issues out.

I would be annoyed in your position. Hopefully this woman emptied the net out before she removed it from your youngster's stable.

When I was on a livery yard I ended up buying stuff in the most hideous colour I could find to stop myself going walk about.
 
How can anyone call themselves a horse lover by taking it's food away, even if you had blatantly stole it, she should have left it's food and taken the matter up with you later, think you need to have a word and get things straight from the beggining.
 
Agree with pedantic! Or empty the hay out on the floor and take the haynet back! Ring her and ask! Buy bright pink haynets so they don't get mixed up :), or tie bits of bailing twine so they can be identified!
 
That is what has annoyed me the most, she took the haynet AND its contents. He stood there the whole day with nothing and I always like them to have plenty at all times!
 
OMG you HAVE to call this woman! I'm serious!

Just call and say "I wonder if there's been a bit of a misunderstanding..." You can be saccharine sweet to her, overly so, so that she realises you're bordering on sarcasm and incredibly serious about this issue. Round it off with, "In future, I'd really prefer that you didn't go into my horses stable when I'm not around - for your safety and his." That should solidify anything you've discussed.

at the same time you don't want to go making enemies at your new yard since you just got there... but you have to nip this in the bud! Perhaps she thought that this was OK - that haynets aren't that big of a deal? If she doesn't look after the horses much, she just might not have much of a clue about their care.

Personally, I would be fuming.
 
Its the yard managers job to deal with such situations if you cannot/dont want to do it yourself.
 
I thought it was the yard owners job too but I didn't want to ring the culprit tonight as I am fuming. I need to wait until tomorrow until I feel calmer!
 
I agree just let it be, but make sure you identify you r own stuff, I had this problem two days after I went to one yard, the net was absolutely new, and it was full, I had it hanging up near the hay shed to put up at night, I was able to identify the new one but only after a fortnight, by which time I had bought another, the same person (well known for "owning" things) did same thing one night (even after I had sort of mentioned it), (I thought I was being subtle), so I took all her nets which were outside her stable and swapped them around (sorry yes I did enter the stable) She may have been a bit puzzled, but I had no more taking of my filled nets, (lazy cow)
I had to put a label on my portable saddle rack after someone "owned" it, throwing my rugs on the floor and moving it to their space in tack room, this stopped it for ages, but it disappeared when she moved.
 
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Ring her up and as much as you want to rant, keep it sickly sweet with the lovely under tone of touch my stuff again and see.
No point having huge arguements when new to yard but at the same time dont be a walk over
 
Must admit to me the YO has a responsablity to their clients and noway should they say not my problem, unless they want to get a bad name as a livery yard. You have informed the YO of what has happened then go in for the kill and start looking else where for a decent livery yard who's YO/YM takes note of what you say and does something about the problem. If I was a YO/YM seeing so many of these threads coming up, I'd start worrying about loosing clients and getting bad reputation as these travel faster than light.
 
I have the horses at home now but at old yard the YO would be very cross not to be advised/involved.
TBH I would just mark/get brightly coloured nets and say in passing that if she makes that mistake again, can speak to you and not leave a horse without food as that would be classed as cruelty.
 
Just a small voice of caution before you 'rant' at anyone - am I correct in thinking you are taking the word of a 10 year old child that it was this particular lady.

Don't get me wrong - it is totally out of order to go into someone's stable and remove a horse's hay. But I would really make sure I had my facts accurate before saying too much - after all you have only just moved there. If the child is correct and she did do it then I agree the yard owner needs to be notified.
 
It was certainly wrong of her, but she may genuinely have thought it was hers, (she still should have left hay).

I would certainly ask her about it -rather than accusing her.

Then let her know that it was yours, that you will be clearly marking your equipment to avoid future issues, and that you were very unhappy that your horse was without feed.

I would also let the yard owner know that where another person interferes with your horses feed, that it should be something she addresses, not something she ignores.

I know how annoying it is to lose stuff because it is your hard earned $$. You are in a much stronger position if all clearly marked.
 
I'd just calm down a bit. Maybe she thought your horse was a bit colicky or had choked or something? She may well have thought she was helping out in some way?
 
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Just a small voice of caution before you 'rant' at anyone - am I correct in thinking you are taking the word of a 10 year old child that it was this particular lady.

Don't get me wrong - it is totally out of order to go into someone's stable and remove a horse's hay. But I would really make sure I had my facts accurate before saying too much - after all you have only just moved there. If the child is correct and she did do it then I agree the yard owner needs to be notified.
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I know a lot of the people at the yard from elsewhere, they all say she likes to take things that she thinks are hers. I know it was her as she'd hidden my full haynet under four of hers in her pile, everyone has their own little section for haynets/shavings.
 
I wouldn't ring her I would speak to her face to face, but try and keep calm you don't want to be getting chucked off your yard. Just calmly explain to her that you are furious about it and that if it happens again you will take things further :mad: (maybe I should take my own advice as I am known for being a bit of a hot head and charging straight in :p)
 
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