I found a horse for full loan!

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I think we can safely assume that this isn't going to happen. Good luck with your search, Help me please, but your knowledge and experience is around zero. I would suggest looking for a part share so you can learn with people around you to help.
 
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At the moment - at least in my area - a good loan is in very high demand. If there’s been an ad up for a few days the owner will likely have been inundated with requests. And a responsible owner wouldn’t loan to a complete novice, let alone one who only wanted it for a month.
Op, you’re not ready for a loan yet. I took on a share after six years at riding schools and then loaned the same horse. I’d been volunteering for two years and working at a yard weekly for another two but it was still a very steep learning curve. I needed lessons and support and honestly I still do now. I think you need to realise what an awful lot you need to know to be able to look after a horse well. The pony club C plus test is a good basic standard - the syllabus is available online. See if you can volunteer at a local riding school and if you find it very easy then ask your parents about getting a share horse. That’s an arrangement where you’d be responsible for a horse for a couple of days a week, usually doing all the stable duties such as mucking out, grooming, waters and you’d get to ride it. Usually the owner and the yard will want younger teens and children need to be supervised by an adult, if they’re open to letting kids share at all.
 
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Ah to be young and think every pony is going to be the same as the one you ride in lessons.

Help me please, you are clearly excited by the thought of getting a pony and want others to be excited too but what you haven’t realised is that many of us are much older and in some cases wiser so will give our thoughts honestly for the benefit of both you and any pony.

Sometimes the biggest lesson one can learn is that they will never stop needing to learn.
 
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Hi,

I think its great that you are so keen and im sure many of us can remember longing for a pony of our own.

My suggestion would be to find a really good riding school for lessons but also, many riding schools now have Own A Pony days or weeks where you get to take care of a pony as if its your own and learn about all aspects of horse care. I think this will be great for you as it'll help you put all that reading in to practice. ?

Also a good instructor will be able to tell you when you are ready for a pony of your own.

Good luck! ?
 
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There's a really good riding school in Sheffield called "Smeltings Farm". They do things like own a pony days and have a loan scheme for the riding school ponies... at least they did in normal times. I would suggest you explore options for your birthday present based on what they can offer you there. It would be better value for you to do things like that with a lot of guidance than to just have a horse for a month with no support which could, frankly, be a scary experience depending on the horse and where it is kept.
 
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Everyone it’s time to let this thread die it’s probably a child or it could be someone with a learning disability it wouldn’t surprise me by the replies. It not possible to loan a horse for a month most loans go for a last year or longer. You should take horse riding lessons and then maybe loan a horse in the future.
 
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Buster2020 said:
Everyone it’s time to let this thread die it’s probably a child or it could be someone with a learning disability it wouldn’t surprise me by the replies. It not possible to loan a horse for a month most loans go for a last year or longer. You should take horse riding lessons and then maybe loan a horse in the future.
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A tad hypocritical surely - Pompous request telling others to let this thread die and not to continue to contribute to the thread, and then promptly do so yourself ! :rolleyes:
 
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This is why online forums get a bad reputation like seriously everyone you can clearly tell this is a child people should just ignore and stop adding foal to the fire. It’s cause unnecessary drema .
 
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Ish2020 said:
This is why online forums get a bad reputation like seriously everyone you can clearly tell this is a child people should just ignore and stop adding foal to the fire. It’s cause unnecessary drema .
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How very curious Ish2020 - do you have more than one account on here by any chance? Quite bizarre how your spelling errors and phrasing are remarkably like Buster 2020. Probably my imagination perhaps you are just very good friends or something, but do ignore an old ladies muddled thinking. Silly old me ;)
 
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Ish2020 said:
This is why online forums get a bad reputation like seriously everyone you can clearly tell this is a child people should just ignore and stop adding foal to the fire. It’s cause unnecessary drema .
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Crikey, don't mention foals! Next there'll be a thread about a weanling and how they're going to learn and grow together.
 
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Ish2020 said:
This is why online forums get a bad reputation like seriously everyone you can clearly tell this is a child people should just ignore and stop adding foal to the fire. It’s cause unnecessary drema .
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OP hasn’t even come back so more than likely two silly girls with nothing better to do. You only have to read her comments to tell that
 
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Mrs Jingle said:
How very curious Ish2020 - do you have more than one account on here by any chance? Quite bizarre how your spelling errors and phrasing are remarkably like Buster 2020. Probably my imagination perhaps you are just very good friends or something, but do ignore an old ladies muddled thinking. Silly old me ;)
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Silly you! ?
That poster is an older one with new account, not the 1st time either.
 
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This has to be a wind-up!
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Erm, yes. I am absolutely not usually part of the TrollTrollTroll brigade but this reeks of it. This poster is saying aaaalll the things guaranteed to wind up the forum. I reckon it's either a wind up or someone extremely young and either way, the thread should probably be ignored. If it is a child, they don't want to be giving away any more personal information than thy already have.
 
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