Horses & safety - what are your pet peeves/tips?

[Kenzo]

Not using bailer twine, clipping lead ropes to bits, headcollers around necks, lunging with reins etc dangling about....all the usual stuff but my pet hate most of all, riding without a hat.

I saw a mother and daughter (someone I kind of know) riding around our village, daughter had hat and BP on, mother not wearing a hat and her horse is not exactly a rocking horse, why? what example is that setting, just because she's child she has to wear one? is her head less important that her daughters? A mother needs to be there for her daughter, always, she's no good to her in hospital with brain damage or even worse in a coffin!

mini rant over.

Etd to say withOUT a hat (durh

) slight typo there folks

 

[AmyMay]

People tying their horses outside their stable (or whereever) and then feeding them. They have no idea of the damage they could do.

Clipping the lead rope to the bit.

Grooming the horse whilst it's eating.

To name just three

 

[teddyt]

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My absolute pet hate regarding safety of horses is leaving a horse tied up with the headcollar round its neck. This is SO bloody dangerous, really really annoys me

Ok little rant over

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I thought i was the only person never to do this! At competitions you see it all the time. I cant stand it either!

 

[LizScott]

Horses tied up with bailer twine that HASN'T been split - I've seen so many horses pull back, but the leadrope or headcollar has broken before the twine...

Tying up 2 horses close together even though both are known to have a tendency to kick.

Putting headcollar around horses neck when clipping a sensitive horses head without undoing the quick release knot on unsplit bailer twine!!

Tying up with the whole length of leadrope dangling around so the horse "can move around"

Going into a stable to change rugs etc with a horse that is know to be a bit free with it's back legs and has also bitten a few people and not tying it up.

Oh the list goes on!!

 

[Quadro]

sensible footwear around horses!!! the number off women you see with strappy sandles and the like leading horses around at comps in the summer, im sure they wont look as nice with a cast on their broken foot!!! and people who park there lorry right up against your leaving you no space to tie your horse up or even open your cab door!!! or even worse if they dont notice you have a side ramp ( we have a lorry with 1) drives me mad where do they think the horses are going to come out from if there is no ramp on the back???? through the cab???? just bad manners!!!!

 

[Boater]

Girl who has stable next to mine, turned up on Sunday morning wearing flipflops, and walked her mare up a very rutted field to turn her out. I had a "soft" word with her about it but she got all humpy and went off in a strop. I reminded her of someone I knew who was wearing flipflops and had severed her little toe when horse trod on her.

 

[Linda_Goode]

Oh this is just brilliant! I love putting the world to rights!

Re the flip flops, I can go one better than leading a horse to its field in them. There is a girl in our village who insists on riding out in (picture this!) denim hot pants, bikini top and flip flops! It's brilliant. Body beautiful she isn't! Still at least she wears a hat!

 

[RubysGold]

My pet hate is people who try to do things that they haven't been taught such as loose schooling or loose jumping, you see some people just winding the horse up because they don't know what they are doing. And then the horse falls over.
I hate seeing someone lunge incorrectly, for example lunge line touching floor, or them yelling stop in a fashion that makes the horse go faster. And I hate seeing people giving their horse mixed signals when riding, and then blaming it on the horse!
Nickie

 

[muddy boots]

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People who tie horses to doors and gates on hinges. They lift off and get dragged round the yard, bashing into the terrified horse's legs. Bl00dy stupid that they can't see what will happen.

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Agree with this one

 

[Tnavas]

Pet hates: People not wearing helmets when riding.
Unsafe footwear on the ground and when riding.
Lungeing horses off the bit
Putting rugs on in the field with no headcollar and rope on.
People crowding you in the collecting ring, or riding with their heads down so that they crash into you. I wonder sometimes if I'm the only one that looks where I'm going! :lol:
Kids overhorsed - struggling to control the pony they can grow into.

 

[Walrus]

People who do not teach their horse good manners especially basic leading and standing. In particular when the horse has to be handled by other people like staff, helpers, sharers and riders. This really irks me after being barged and practically run over and ended up on the floor turning out a 2 year old for it's owner at the yard I used to help at. The owner very much had the attitude "isn't she sweet, she's only a baby, she's so cheeky!" - No my love, she is a flipping big baby who has just flattened me on the road which is not "cheeky" in any way!" Also a horse who was bargy and tried to trot to the field when being turned out, turns out the owner used to run to the field with him sometimes when turning him out!

 

[algy666]

I saw a woman at our yard today put her daughter (who is about 3) up on her horse BAREBACK IN THE STABLE without any kind of restraint on the horse at all

 

[Hollycat]

People buying horses with no equine knowledge are one of my pet hates. Means they do 'kind' things like feeding them grass cuttings. One person actually asked me if horses chew the cud

Also hate people going out on roads without high vis - particularly those on dark horses, in dark conditions using their mobile phones.

Also hate it when you slow down/stop for a rider and they do not acknoledge you in any way. I always attempt a smile - even through very gritted teeth!

 

[miss_c]

I agree with Hollycat about the riders not saying thankyou! Yes it only takes a few seconds to slow down for a horse, but I make sure to always thank those who make the effort.

Also about the pushing behind horses. When Genie's tied up outside her stable there's very little room to go behind her, although fortunately only one horse has to go past. I always move her to the side so there's plenty of room, but the number of people that go past her to get to the feed room and squeeze round her bum! She doesn't kick, but you never know. If people just asked me I'd move her out of the way.

What really took the biscuit though, was when the lady with the stable next door (who is amazing and I love her to bits) pushed the wheelbarrow full of haylege UNDER Genie's belly, walked round her bum, and then pulled it out the other side! Needless to say I freaked.

 

[Shilasdair]

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People tying their horses outside their stable (or whereever) and then feeding them. They have no idea of the damage they could do.

Clipping the lead rope to the bit.

Grooming the horse whilst it's eating.

To name just three

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I tie mine outside my stable to feed her. Sometimes I just unclip the rope and leave her loose to eat.

And I groom mine whilst feeding them - why wouldn't I?

I would never accept a horse biting, kicking or swinging at feed time, any more than any other time.
It's a good reward to teach them to accept new things - grooming, fly sprays, clipping, etc, where you withdraw the feed if they are aggressive or naughty.
S

 

[lilym]

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People tying their horses outside their stable (or whereever) and then feeding them. They have no idea of the damage they could do.

Clipping the lead rope to the bit.

Grooming the horse whilst it's eating.

To name just three

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I tie mine outside my stable to feed her. Sometimes I just unclip the rope and leave her loose to eat.

And I groom mine whilst feeding them - why wouldn't I?

I would never accept a horse biting, kicking or swinging at feed time, any more than any other time.
It's a good reward to teach them to accept new things - grooming, fly sprays, clipping, etc, where you withdraw the feed if they are aggressive or naughty.
S

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I groom mine while they are eating too - what's the problem?? they are so totally used to it, and have good manners anyway.....i work full time and have 3 to do, so don't have time to faff around.