How closely do you watch liveries who move off??

Sadly due to previous bad experience I watch them like a hawk!

The last one to leave me was so dishonest on the day of leaving I packed up all of her things and put them into an empty stable and changed the lock on the tack room!!

STILL she managed to make off with a few things, presumably she had sneaked them out beforehand!
 
eerm i dont think you should tar all people leaving a yard as potential theives...or watch them closely just because they are leaving a yard
 
exactly. have moved yards in the past, and wasn't till a few months later that I realised that a few of my things were missing, and as i had kept all my thing in one place could only put it down to yard owner
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eerm i dont think you should tar all people leaving a yard as potential theives...or watch them closely just because they are leaving a yard

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Please tell me where I have tarred someone as a potential thief??? I simply stated it could be a opportunity for the not so honest!
 
It was the other way round for me. My loan horse went back to her owner after a it was discovered that she wss unfit for purpose with me due to an old injury which hadn't fully healed. I was absolutely devastated and because of this I didn't collect all my things immediately.

When I went to collect my things two weeks later when I felt a little better (space was not an issue for storage so I didn't feel obliged to remove ready for a new livery) I found that there were a few things missing.

None were hugely valuable but it galled me that people had still felt that because I wasn't there and the horse had gone they could help themselves to; a headcollar, fly spray, a lead rope and a small collection of marked brushes.

So I carefully took back my brushes and head collar, (not light fingers in my eyes as I had bought them) asked one livery if they knew about the fly spray and lead rope, she blushed and returned my lead rope, chewed to uselessness by her pony. The fly spray was long gone, made communal by another livery.

It might be petty about such small items, but the storable ones I intended to keep for a new horse when it came along and the perishables had been promised to a friend who had supported me through the tough desicion of returning my loan horse and allowed me to ride her horse whenever I wanted to.
 
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"Could be a prime opportunity for the not so honest to gather extra horsey equipment! "

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Yes again you have quoted me I said the not so honest...not everybody who leaves the yard!! I still don't get where in that I have said everybody
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It used to annoy me when I was loaning - everyone would borrow my brushes, move my things and take my carrots! Argh! So annoying when people don't respect others things!
 
I think you would only have reason to watch if this person has previously given you reason not to trust them.

And personally if you feel the need to do that, I would keep it to yourself. Existing liveries pick up on all sorts, and its only human nature for them to question whether one day they will be treated the same way. As a YO, you've also your reputation to think about, so these kind of things really need to be kept private.

Unfortunately, livery yards and tea leafs seem to go hand in hand, so I can understand why you would ask the quesiton x
 
I had it the other way round. Girl I was sharing yard with nicked some of my stuff, then when I left, she had the gall to lock up all her stuff as if I was a thief! She changed all the locks so I couldn't take down my saddle racks and other fittings. Cheeky cow!! Well, I couldn't be bothered to argue over it, just glad to be out.

I don't trust anyone now!!
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It is hard to watch them when they do a moonlight flit, taking with them wheelbarows, rugs of the other horses backs and everything else they can.

We've only ever had one person steal stuff, but god she took a lot.
 
my grandparents got to the stage where they used to help pack & load those leaving, its a sad state of affairs but when one person leaves & takes 3 good steel wheelbarrows, 2 single bag feed bins, 20 bales of hay & every fitting from their allocated tackroom.
He did that from a couple in their 60's that bent over backwards to help whenever they could, (they even looked after his 3 horses for 6 weeks whilst he went on holiday at no extra cost!) & just to take the mick he cancelled the cheque for the last 3 months rent so they diddnt even get any cash for it all.

sadly this world if full of people that want something for nothing & for many its once bitten twice shy.
 
On my old yard we had one family who having been asked to leave (for being proved to be thieves amongst other things) removed everything they could find loose around the yard including my wind-up radio. Later found they had been chucked off the previous yard for stealing feed from the other liveries. Another one got chucked off for using the yard as a dealing base and came back a couple of weeks later and nicked a load of saddles (including mine which I'd only had 9 weeks). We subsequently found he'd been named as the most likely suspect on another local yard which suffered the same fate and had been on just about every yard in the locality. Wish YOs would do some homework before saying someone can move on!
 
Other way round for me - when I was leaving I went to collect my New Zealand from the rug store, and it wasn't there. Eventually the new yard owner's daughter admitted throwing it out "because it was dirty". Of course it was, it was a turnout rug...
 
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