How well do you take it...

Never been in that situation, only the reverse where I loaned and then co-owned. The owner was fab and never interfered.

I think if anyone said that about my horse, I would get very annoyed. I'm very precious about who rides my horse and a possessive cow, so I'd be peed off.

Who's doing it with yours?
 
Just as a general thought really lol...It's nothing major, just someone excited about having ahorse to ride but just wierd to me reading it on FB etc really lol.

I'm probably just dithering and being over-sensitive I guess!
 
I had to constantly remind people Lucy was actualy MINE :mad:

No such worries with the horrid one though noone else would admit to owning him ;) :p :D :D
 
Have to say would hate it, have never been in that situation however when I shared a horse was always very conscious to state that she was the horse that I shared and X was her owner
 
Hmm. Its difficult. If someone else said that about Puzzle, I'd probably rip thei head off...

BUT I'm constantly being told off by my OH (and his mum) for saying "my horse", "my mare", "my Dotty" etc etc. Because she is in fact owned by my OHs mum. However, I find it extremely difficult NOT to, as I do so much of the looking after, and I love her so much. I also find it extremely annoying when I'm expected to say "the horse that my OHs mum owns" as its so long winded!

So although its annoying, I'd try and decide whether they're saying it because they're wanting to pretend he is theirs, or whether its because its just slipped off the tongue!!
 
Lucy - Haha :D :p

I don't think for one minute it's a case of them implying they own it or anything, just a general harmless wording. Just can't help but get a bit posessive though, as he's my horse and I love him to bits and have put so much into him.
 
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A young girl rides my mare and she does this. She added me on facebook and all I can see is 'I luv Ellie, she ma horsey' etc etc. I really don't mind what she tells her friends, I just don't want to see it! Esp when she puts up pics that I have emailed her of me riding her and captions them 'This is ******(me) riding ma horsey'. I think I might block her from my news feed :p
 
My horse is 500kg of attitude - if anyone thinks he is their baby they are sadly deluded and I would probably assume they were bonkers.
If they want to refer to him as their horse they are welcome, provided they are also happy to cough up for "their" livery bill, "their" vet bills etc
 
EllieBeast said:
A young girl rides my mare and she does this. She added me on facebook and all I can see is 'I luv Ellie, she ma horsey' etc etc. I really don't mind what she tells her friends, I just don't want to see it! Esp when she puts up pics that I have emailed her of me riding her and captions them 'This is ******(me) riding ma horsey'. I think I might block her from my news feed :p
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YES. This right here. Haha. I'm glad I'm not the only one!
 
One of my horses made multiple human friends at my livery yard whilst on box rest, and seems to have ongoing relationships with many of them.
I did get a little confused when random teenagers would suddenly appear as I was mucking out, hug her round the neck and declare how cool she was, and how much they loved her... :D
It's great though - they keep an eye on her when I'm not around.
S :D
 
flamehead said:
Hmm. Its difficult. If someone else said that about Puzzle, I'd probably rip thei head off...

BUT I'm constantly being told off by my OH (and his mum) for saying "my horse", "my mare", "my Dotty" etc etc. Because she is in fact owned by my OHs mum. However, I find it extremely difficult NOT to, as I do so much of the looking after, and I love her so much. I also find it extremely annoying when I'm expected to say "the horse that my OHs mum owns" as its so long winded!

So although its annoying, I'd try and decide whether they're saying it because they're wanting to pretend he is theirs, or whether its because its just slipped off the tongue!!
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that's my problem - sometimes its too complicated to say "the mare I started to part loan but now more or less loan" so I generally put on here "our mare" (which I hasten to add now, the owner calls her too!!) I hope nobody slaughters me on here for it!! :P
And even though owner won't let me pay now even when I'm going down every day to hack with her, if I can get to that vet, farrier etc first with cash...I will do! And I buy feed if we are low, and help out with other horse if needed.
 
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I wouldn't like it most probably. I am very possessive over my boy, the only time anyone else apart from me ever rides him is once in a blue moon. I had a sharer a couple of summers ago, but it only lasted a month as I decided I wanted him back to myself. :o That sounds really selfish but I love him so much and couldn't stand the idea someone going around saying he was 'their horse'.
 
It annoys me, especially when it's my little sister (who does not ride, look after, or have anything to do with Dylan at all) telling her little friends he's her horse just to impress them.
 
We had Benson on loan for 9 years, and I always referred to him as 'my boy' 'my pony' etc, I cared for him, paid everything for him, done everything with him, his owner through different circumstancies wasnt really around, and it didnt cross my mind to refer to him as 'my loan horse'. I guess it could possibly cause problems when you phone the vet for some treatment refering to him as a loan horse, would the vet have to ask for owners permission?
And at the end of the day, i couldnt of loved him any differently if I owned him.
 
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I was wondering that now my mare is on part loan would feel really weird not sure if i would like it, but in one way it may be nice i guess as most people are afraid of the mare so if someone else wanted to claim her.
 
Binky01 said:
when people who just ride your horse refer to them as 'their' horse/baby/etc?

Just out of curiousity.

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No one rodes my horse, but where he is kept a girl comes a max of 3 times a week and regards one of the larger ponies as ' hers', it makes my blood boil, if she is soo interested she should come more often, plus, it not hers,, it is not in jest btw, it has already been said if anyone wanted her then she would have first refusal, so where does she have the right. Would she expect everyone else to look after ' her pony' the other 4 days? I agree, it gets me cross :s
 
abigail621 said:
I was wondering that now my mare is on part loan would feel really weird not sure if i would like it, but in one way it may be nice i guess as most people are afraid of the mare so if someone else wanted to claim her.
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That's like Kelly - she doesn't take to new people very easily and had a bad rep on yard so owner was very very pleased she was comfortable with me and has said (after 8 years of me part loaning her ponies) she won't end our agreement type thing (even when I live away at uni for months at a time, I just come back to her when I'm home - she knows if she was really stuck on a weekend I'd drive back), and I'm with her for life! :D I couldn't ask for anything better and I would love her no more (not possible!) no less than I do if she was fully mine.
 
benson21 said:
We had Benson on loan for 9 years, and I always referred to him as 'my boy' 'my pony' etc, I cared for him, paid everything for him, done everything with him, his owner through different circumstancies wasnt really around, and it didnt cross my mind to refer to him as 'my loan horse'. I guess it could possibly cause problems when you phone the vet for some treatment refering to him as a loan horse, would the vet have to ask for owners permission?
And at the end of the day, i couldnt of loved him any differently if I owned him.
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Undoubtably :)

Full loaning etc would be a different matter to me, my mare is out on full loan and I see her every now and then and it's lovely seeing the girl growing with her and really doing well and besotted with her...but I was just on about someone who has one they come up to ride/part share a couple of times a week I'm on about. It's just a bit much to me, all at once after only a couple of rides, going on about diff tack, jumping 4ft+ etc and their new pony...

It's only meant in banter and having fun I know and I'm flattered about admirers etc....but I've worked rather hard with him and don't want either to come to harm :/ I just need to subtly say tone it a little bit and just enjoy and get used to him gradually I guess...He's not a project pony nor an unloved one sat there doing sod all bless him, I work him as normal...Just thought I'd be nice and if anyone local wanted a horse to ride a couple of times a week then they could, as I always had the same to me when I was younger, so just feel it as 'repaying' the gratititude I guess :)
 
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