Ranyhyn
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I have to agree the initial advert made me cringe, but without knowing the situation I wouldn't feel happy to comment, as some people have said one persons' garden, is anothers field 
How NOT to look after a pony
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Scheherezade
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Not the first time I've come across a shetland being kept in the back garden. At least it got some exercise, the one I saw on the animal rescue programme was kept in a small shednot even enough room for it to turn around
I think people look on shetlands as a slightly larger dog!
Hoplefully it has gone to a home where it can behave like a normal shettie....god help them LOL ( I love them really)
I saw that program, and the stable looked relatively no smaller than stables people keep 17hh competition horses in 24/7 without turnout. The pony could turn around and lie down easily enough. I've seen big competition dressage and SJ horses kept in square box stables that were the same relative size, in fact it is 'normal'. I'm sure if they had a makeshift contraption that made the horse walk round in circles endlessly people would be up in arms about that aswell, as it is *much* different from the 'walker' people pay thousands of pounds for.
I hate the snobbery of the horse world.
indiat
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Here's the URL for the ad
http://www.horsemart.co.uk/advert/1_yr_1_mth_24_0_hh_palomino_shetland_pony_buckinghamshire/99102
Can I just say I would have been tempted to take her home and cuddle her in bed?
*runs and hides*
http://www.horsemart.co.uk/advert/1_yr_1_mth_24_0_hh_palomino_shetland_pony_buckinghamshire/99102
Can I just say I would have been tempted to take her home and cuddle her in bed?
*runs and hides*
Ranyhyn
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The only time a child has ever out run a horse in that video!! lol she's adorable!!!
jodie3
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Do you think 24hh should have been 2.4hh?? Wasn't cheap was she or is that about right for a miniature? You could buy an awful lot of hamsters for that!!
I know its wrong but I have an image of her trotting round attached to the rotary clothes line helping the clothes to dry quicker!
Seriously - I know what OP is saying but I think the 'numpty' type horse owners will manage to buy one no matter how the ad is worded. Unfortunately not all sellers vet their prospective purchasers very well as they are more interested in the money than making sure the horse is going to a good home, and of course some people just lie about their facilities and knowledge.
I know its wrong but I have an image of her trotting round attached to the rotary clothes line helping the clothes to dry quicker!
Seriously - I know what OP is saying but I think the 'numpty' type horse owners will manage to buy one no matter how the ad is worded. Unfortunately not all sellers vet their prospective purchasers very well as they are more interested in the money than making sure the horse is going to a good home, and of course some people just lie about their facilities and knowledge.
tasel
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It's tiny!!! Looks more like a Fallabella and some poople keep those in their homes apparently - just like dogs!!!!
That pony would have more than enough room in a shed/backyard - don't see what the problem is. Not necessarily a big pony, isn't it - more like a dog.
Maybe OP should have mentioned it's a tiny showing pony rather than a ridden one???
No problem with the advert...
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Donkeymad
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OMG - it's 24hh
Got to admit, my garden is big enough to keep that in, although I would prefer it lived in my field
Got to admit, my garden is big enough to keep that in, although I would prefer it lived in my field
tasel
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Also wanted to add: the only thing the seller should have added was maybe that it was a mini-shetland rather than its bigger brother... if that's the case, a former colleague had two of those in hermother-in-law's "garden" - albeit their garden being the size of at least 3 football pitches!!
Once, in summer, they left the door to the garden open whilst having afternoon tea in the living room or something... and they saw the little ponies crossing the corridor into the kitchen! They are more like dogs...
Once, in summer, they left the door to the garden open whilst having afternoon tea in the living room or something... and they saw the little ponies crossing the corridor into the kitchen! They are more like dogs...
mollichop
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Have to say that the pony looks in fab condition and child handler pretty competent, so sure it was well looked after in it's shed/garden.
My ex's mum came down into the kitchen one evening to find the family and shetland sat round the table - 'well you asked me to get the pony in' his dad said!
My ex's mum came down into the kitchen one evening to find the family and shetland sat round the table - 'well you asked me to get the pony in' his dad said!
Dubsie
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Have to say that the pony looks in fab condition and child handler pretty competent, so sure it was well looked after in it's shed/garden.
My ex's mum came down into the kitchen one evening to find the family and shetland sat round the table - 'well you asked me to get the pony in' his dad said!
Agree, looks nicely kept.
Know someone who as a child took his pony upstairs in their house!
Last week I mistakenly left the back door open with the 2 lawnmowers (ponies) in the back garden - then went and opened the front door to go and do something, and left it open. They're in a straight line through the middle of the house, so you can see right through the kitchen into the hall and out of the front door. Came back in and found the nosey NF had stuck his head and 2 feet in the back door and looked as though he was contempating following me out of the front!
amandaco2
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they tie her to the clothes line for turnout?! but then go on to say she gets turned out with a mixed herd?!of what?clothes?!
seems a bit odd to me. surely its better for anyone to come and see the set up, rather than have an ad worded like that?
seems a bit odd to me. surely its better for anyone to come and see the set up, rather than have an ad worded like that?
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WoopsiiD
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Tie me to the washing line......
Many Many (ahem) Many years ago I looked after a pair of shetlands with a friend. My house was a two minute walk away from the yard through a park. We would take the ponies back to the house, lead them up the steps of the drive, through the hall, the front room and the conservatory and tie them to the washing line in the back garden to graze!
I often thought that tying them up was safer as they could get their heads down but not get tangled as in the way tethering can.
We stopped this practice when Mum came home early from work and found Muffin in the front room and Merls had dumped in the rockery!
Many Many (ahem) Many years ago I looked after a pair of shetlands with a friend. My house was a two minute walk away from the yard through a park. We would take the ponies back to the house, lead them up the steps of the drive, through the hall, the front room and the conservatory and tie them to the washing line in the back garden to graze!
I often thought that tying them up was safer as they could get their heads down but not get tangled as in the way tethering can.
We stopped this practice when Mum came home early from work and found Muffin in the front room and Merls had dumped in the rockery!
Irishlife
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Oh dear - I feel a slapped wrist coming on, I keep a show hunter and TB in a ramshackle stone cottage in my garden. They each have one side of a fireplace the TB has a set of wooden shelves on her side (handy to hide carrots on), they can look out of the windows and see the other horses in the proper stables and have to enter through a narrow front door. I call it their penthouse suite. When it is a full house (pardon the pun) I have three horses in there one in each room!!!. They are turned out on the front lawn when in residence
I am seriously going to put up a "rotary washing line " for horse walking - simple but brilliant
Fairynuff
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I can remember Willie Ryan keeping 2 racers in the coal shed out the back of his pub in Hospital! They had homemade tattie sack rugs and were the shiniest and fitest horses Ive ever met. They got the guiness slops (served in a bucket) every Friday night after closing!
Hullabaloo
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as i read the advert it actually sounds really sweet- like they are trying to make a point of just how child-proof the pony is. now it might not be the most 'responsible' thing to write in an advert but you don't know that the seller isn't going to vet the purchaser carefully...similarly, it might be the most professional advert in the world and yet the seller might sell to a complete numpty. i think the advert wording really isn't an issue- its the steps taken by the seller when perspective purchasers come along that you should be getting your knickers in a twist about...
Agree with this. The advert reads like the pony is much loved and she looks well cared for so you would hope the seller would want to make sure she went to a good home.
She is so cute!