I am SOOO Angry- WARNING

[dominobrown]

I have had a rug stolen off my horse today. Its a black (with white check) 6'6 mark todd lightweight turnout rug, which was stolen off her back today in the pouring rain.
If you see this rug in the upcoming Wigton horse sales it's mine!!
I am in Cumbria.... others beware.
I cannot not believe the B@st@rds would do this

 

[MiJodsR2BlinkinTite]

What a pain.

Don't know what TF is wrong with people.

You could look on e-bay too.

Hope you find your rug.

 

[dominobrown]

I probably never will, and I know there is nothing I can do, but whoever it is they are disgusting. Its one things to steal from a house or tack room, but off the horse's back in the pouring rain!

 

[Cuffey]

Did you report the theft to Police?
Sadly Cumbria Horsewatch has vanished with the retirement of the PC running it.
Farmwatch still exists, report to them
http://www.cumbriafarmwatch.co.uk/
Send description to Hopes Auction--http://www.hopesauction.co.uk/

 

[jrp204]

God, some people are awful!! Last week someone had their wedding on the farm, thieves broke into the marquee and locked trailer the night before and stole the champagne and food. Bar stewards!!
Hope your rug turns up and your horse is ok. What is it with people??

 

[babymare]

I understand your anger. I really do. Nothing is safe now. a hug though x

 

[dominobrown]

Did you report the theft to Police?
Sadly Cumbria Horsewatch has vanished with the retirement of the PC running it.
Farmwatch still exists, report to them
http://www.cumbriafarmwatch.co.uk/
Send description to Hopes Auction--http://www.hopesauction.co.uk/

Reported it to the police and will contact Hopes etc tomorrow.

 

[Marydoll]

I understand your anger. I really do. Nothing is safe now. a hug though x

My sentiments exactly

 

[moana]

I have had that done in the middle of winter one year to an old horse and another sick horse. Real scumbags out there.

 

[YasandCrystal]

so sorry OP I would be furious. The only thing you can do is paint your postcode across any replacement rug I suppose that may deter thieves. You know we had a spates of thefts of energisers and the like and my WB was so aggressive I really willed a thief to dare enter his paddock at the time as he was better than any trained guard dog.

 

[Kenzo]

Makes you sick doesn't it, I can still remember how fuming I was when both my saddles were stolen, nothing quite gets under your skin than a cowardly theft!

 

[Greylegs]

Trouble is you can't even insure rugs either so even more of a pain. Really sorry you've had to go through this. <<<< big hugs from me >>>>

 

[Echo Bravo]

A great reminder to get my bright yellow paint out next week and do my new rugs. I had a rug nicked off the back of my mare and I know who nicked it the person I bought it off as my mare knew her and would have stood for her to take it off, anyone else she would have kicked or bitten.

 

[Doormouse]

At least you still have the horse!

Sorry, couldn't resist. Seriously, you can't believe that anyone would just go and take a rug from someone's horse apart from anything else they could have been kicked to pieces. Then no doubt they would have tried to sue you!

Hope you find it.

 

[Costypop]

I've been told that knick things like rugs to order, we had a few by me last winter, all the same sort of sized horse and all good brands, who ever they were, they didn't like the cheap stuff!

 

[Highlands]

Grrr.... And in the rain too

 

[RobinHood]

Agree this is the most annoying thing, how dare they!!!??? We have them stolen multiple times every winter, sometimes they only take a few, other nights 20+. It makes no difference how much we deface the rugs with gloss paint, we've tried postcodes, surnames, "I have ringworm", they still steal them!

We've even had them stolen off fully clipped horses in the snow. Last winter we tried putting manky old rugs in top of decent ones, they just took them both off and dumped the old ones in a ditch.

The only thing you can try is visiting your local camp for people of no fixed abode. There are horses tethered near us next to a camp and they give our rugs back if we spot them on their horses, madness.

 

[Gingersmum]

Agree this is the most annoying thing, how dare they!!!??? We have them stolen multiple times every winter, sometimes they only take a few, other nights 20+. It makes no difference how much we deface the rugs with gloss paint, we've tried postcodes, surnames, "I have ringworm", they still steal them!

We've even had them stolen off fully clipped horses in the snow. Last winter we tried putting manky old rugs in top of decent ones, they just took them both off and dumped the old ones in a ditch.

The only thing you can try is visiting your local camp for people of no fixed abode. There are horses tethered near us next to a camp and they give our rugs back if we spot them on their horses, madness.

/\ my goodness ! I would have to move ! Couldn't cope with this

 

[cremedemonthe]

Sad to have it happen to the poor horses.
A local riding school I used to do repairs for on site used to be happy when a horse ripped it's rug requiring me to patch it up.
They asked me to put different colour patches on so it wouldn't match the original.
So you'd have horses in blue rugs with bright red patches etc!
Was a real eyesore but it helped stop the thefts of rugs off the horses, that and gloss paint thrown on them, anything to make them look unattractive and non sellable.
They took several off one night before this here on the North Downs in the ice and snow in temps of minus 15, utter scum.

 

[horseluver4eva]

Sorry to hear that some people really are awful! There seems to be a lot of things like that happening around cumbria, im scared to leave my horse out during the night now. Too close to home...

 

[hayley.t]

Where about in Cumbria? PM me if you want. I am on a few fb groups so will keep my eyes peeled if anyone is selling etc.

 

[Hairy Old Cob]

Two Words Verminous Scum

 

[vickyb]

Scum are everywhere. My partner's expensive mountain bike was stolen from a locked garage - only thing taken among many things that were of potential value. It's the thought that someone has seen something of yours, and thought 'right, I'm having that'. Stealing from horses is nothing new. In the seventies I regularly had headcollars, feed buckets and even water buckets stolen from fields, rugs taken from horses backs (yes, those horrible green heavy new zealands), and anything that wasn't locked up/taken home would vanish. I could never do that to someone. There is no morality for some people.

 

[montanna]

There really are some vile people in the world! I would be padlocking my horse into her rugs if that kept happening lol!

 

[lachlanandmarcus]

Post coding sometimes works but at our old place, the ones stolen appeared on the travellers horses quite openly a couple of weeks later complete with postcodes.

Police unwilling to do anything about it, so they get away with it. The only saving grace is that their horses were warm.

If they'd asked for some old spare horse rugs they could have had them, they didn't have to nick the new ones...:-(((

 

[pansymouse]

It would be worth alerting rug wash and repair places in the area too so they can keep an eye out. The non-matching patch repairs idea is an excellent idea too.

 

[benson21]

Just make sure you dont replace it with a brand spanking new one!!! The people who have nicked it obviously know you will be getting another, and may well come back for that one, so I would put a tatty old thing on for now!

 

[Coldfeet!]

I have had a rug stolen off my horse today. Its a black (with white check) 6'6 mark todd lightweight turnout rug, which was stolen off her back today in the pouring rain.
If you see this rug in the upcoming Wigton horse sales it's mine!!
I am in Cumbria.... others beware.
I cannot not believe the B@st@rds would do this

If it is one thing I hate its theiving! Im sorry this has happened, I was on a livery not so long ago and came up in the evening unexpectedly to find my horses nets emptied of the haylage! The horse stood with nothing to eat I actually had to padlock the net closed and clip the padlock to the tie up ring in the week it took me to move! I do hope you get it back!