I found a horse for full loan!

[Widgeon]

https://www.horseforum.com/horse-boarding/making-money-board-buy-horse-818325/
Has no one else thought to go and look up the original thread she's screenshot?!

Didn't see that.

OP the people on the other forum are right, the best way to get access to horses as a teenager without much money is to go and find a local riding stables or charity etc that will take young volunteers. It's probably not as easy to find now as when some of us were kids, but if you keep looking you should be able to find somewhere that will take you on as a helper to sweep yards, muck out, fill haynets etc., even if you don't get to do much with the horses at first. You can learn lots like that, then in a few years when you're a bit older you'll be better set up to find someone who maybe needs help caring for and exercising their horse.

Good luck, it's hard but should be doable, I think most of us have probably been there.

 

[18hhOlls&Me]

That’s great, good luck and I’m sure you will have a great time together...finding the right loan is hard especially after lockdown.....

 

[18hhOlls&Me]

Didn't see that.

OP the people on the other forum are right, the best way to get access to horses as a teenager without much money is to go and find a local riding stables or charity etc that will take young volunteers. It's probably not as easy to find now as when some of us were kids, but if you keep looking you should be able to find somewhere that will take you on as a helper to sweep yards, muck out, fill haynets etc., even if you don't get to do much with the horses at first. You can learn lots like that, then in a few years when you're a bit older you'll be better set up to find someone who maybe needs help caring for and exercising their horse.

Good luck, it's hard but should be doable, I think most of us have probably been there.

So true my parents could have bought me a horse but instead made me spend my weekends and evenings at the age of 14 or 15 helping at the local stables, I used to cycle there at 5am, crazy but I got free lessons and to exercise the horses. It got me the basics and I learnt how to care for horses not just show up and ride......

 

[brighteyes]

https://www.horseforum.com/horse-boarding/making-money-board-buy-horse-818325/
Has no one else thought to go and look up the original thread she's screenshot?!

No, I gave up the will to live. It's dreamer territory.

 

[18hhOlls&Me]

Im a bit worried about this as I found her posting about putting on pony parties to afford a mare and foal; also £25 a week for livery? Seems unlikely. I don’t want to squash her dreams but at 15 I biked to my nearest stables and worked for FREE to get lessons and exercise the horses. Books will only take you so far......

 

[18hhOlls&Me]

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.

Unfortunately I have to agree. If you really want to be a responsible horse owner or loaner in the future you need to work hard to learn and show you are prepared to get all the practical experience (not just riding) that you need. Don’t let overly nasty people on other forums get you down, instead offer free help to perhaps a riding school where the horses and ponies must be very safe and easy to handle. You will get there in the end! But I do agree that from what you have said you may not understand what a loan/lease is, let alone be experienced enough to handle a horse or pony alone. And putting on pony parties with children when you yourself are young and inexperienced could be a recipe for disaster. You have the rest of your life to loan/share a horse or pony and to do it with experience and therefore confidence

 

[18hhOlls&Me]

No, I gave up the will to live. It's dreamer territory.

I feel a bit sorry for her but that could end extremely badly.....

 

[Mrs. Jingle]

Don’t let overly nasty people on other forums get you down

let me start like this... I am moving myself to this forum because the people on another forum forgot that I had feelings so please be nice.

One 9f the pictures is the mare and the other one is how the other forum people just jumped to conclusions about my horse experience.

I am sorry but I dont agree anyone here or on the other forum has been harsh or nasty with this 'child'. Honest yes, harsh no. Nobody has jumped to conclusions about her horse experience as she claimed - all conclusions have bene based on the information she has given the other forum and this forum. Under normal circumstances IF I believe its a child posting I do try to guard my words.

However this poster comes across to me as very spoilt and like a foot stamping toddler trying to play one parent/adult of against another. She posts on one forum and they give her excellent advice and tell her she most definitely is not yet ready to loan a rabbit let alone a pony and give her good advice on how she might eventually be in the position to loan or even own her own pony.

Poster/toddler does not want to hear this, she stamps here feet goes to parent/adult/forum 2 with a wobbly chin claiming the other parent/adult/forum were mean to her and hurt her feelings so please be nice to her. i.e toddler language translation, disagree with everything she has been wisely advised, tell her of course she must have the pony, of course she is very experienced and everybody is mean and nasty who tell her she cant have a loan pony. By post 5 on this thread she was already starting to wind herself up to a full blown tantrum - wanting to delete the thread and rush off to her room slamming the door behind her.

If this poster child/adult or whatever they are took on board some of the suggestions, showed some slight sign of recognising and accepting wise words from those who actually ARE experienced horse people I would have been more than happy to give my two penny worth and wish her every piece of good luck in the world with her intentions. However, I never have played the 'poor little spoilt you' game with spoilt toddlers or even spoilt adults and fail to see why it is harsh to be honest and merely reinforce what excellent advice the other parent/adult/forum have told her.

 

[southerncomfort]

Anyone remember when #BeKind was a thing?

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[Mrs. Jingle]

Anyone remember when #BeKind was a thing?

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Anybody remember when children were discouraged from being selfish spoilt brats? And if they asked for advice from experienced adults in a given field, then encouraged to listen to the advice given and politely thank those experienced adults for taking the time to give their help and advice?

 

[18hhOlls&Me]

I am sorry but I dont agree anyone here or on the other forum has been harsh or nasty with this 'child'. Honest yes, harsh no. Nobody has jumped to conclusions about her horse experience as she claimed - all conclusions have bene based on the information she has given the other forum and this forum. Under normal circumstances IF I believe its a child posting I do try to guard my words.

However this poster comes across to me as very spoilt and like a foot stamping toddler trying to play one parent/adult of against another. She posts on one forum and they give her excellent advice and tell her she most definitely is not yet ready to loan a rabbit let alone a pony and give her good advice on how she might eventually be in the position to loan or even own her own pony.

Poster/toddler does not want to hear this, she stamps here feet goes to parent/adult/forum 2 with a wobbly chin claiming the other parent/adult/forum were mean to her and hurt her feelings so please be nice to her. i.e toddler language translation, disagree with everything she has been wisely advised, tell her of course she must have the pony, of course she is very experienced and everybody is mean and nasty who tell her she cant have a loan pony. By post 5 on this thread she was already starting to wind herself up to a full blown tantrum - wanting to delete the thread and rush off to her room slamming the door behind her.

If this poster child/adult or whatever they are took on board some of the suggestions, showed some slight sign of recognising and accepting wise words from those who actually ARE experienced horse people I would have been more than happy to give my two penny worth and wish her every piece of good luck in the world with her intentions. However, I never have played the 'poor little spoilt you' game with spoilt toddlers or even spoilt adults and fail to see why it is harsh to be honest and merely reinforce what excellent advice the other parent/adult/forum have told her.

In all honesty I hadn’t read every post going back to the OP so maybe I got the wrong end of the stick,
and I don’t think ppl on the H&H forum have done wrong at all, I just sometimes think we don’t know the whole story maybe she struggles in life and it’s just a way to escape in her imagination, who knows.......everyone on here made good points to make sure she understands the reality but if she is having a tough time piling on the same points over and over is maybe a tad unnecessary.......? When you are that age it’s easy to get your confidence knocked, well it was for me sometimes lol

 

[18hhOlls&Me]

Anyone remember when #BeKind was a thing?

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I do think bullying can be an issue in yards and some areas of social media especially for younger people not an oldie like me!!

 

[Mrs. Jingle]

.everyone on here made good points to make sure she understands the reality but if she is having a tough time piling on the same points over and over is maybe a tad unnecessary.......?

May I politely refer you back to your post on the matter (post number 66) Well down the thread attail end of page 3 where all advice has been given and confirmed to the OP. But apparently your are NOT 'piling the same point over and over...... and maybe a tad unnecessary' but everybody else is? I think perhaps pots and kettles leaps to mind with that one.

 

[Pearlsacarolsinger]

Anyone remember when #BeKind was a thing?

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It is not kind to allow/encourage an inexperienced child to plan to risk her (?) own safety by contacting someone who may, or may not, have a pony for loan, which is advertised on the internet. Neither would it be kind to allow/encourage such a child to have charge of a large animal, with all the problems and safety issues that could cause.

 

[18hhOlls&Me]

May I politely refer you back to your post on the matter (post number 66) Well down the thread attail end of page 3 where all advice has been given and confirmed to the OP. But apparently your are NOT 'piling the same point over and over...... and maybe a tad unnecessary' but everybody else is? I think perhaps pots and kettles leaps to mind with that one.

I agree with you I just thought maybe the point was made and just to take into account she sounds very young. It’s a hard line to draw I suppose between everyone making their point without potentially putting someone off continuo g

 

[18hhOlls&Me]

I agree with you I just thought maybe the point was made and just to take into account she sounds very young. It’s a hard line to draw I suppose between everyone making their point without potentially putting someone off continuing to use forums to gain knowledge. You may see pot kettle black but I try and see both sides

 

[Mrs. Jingle]

****You may see pot kettle black but I try and see both sides *****

Absolutely nothing to do with seeing both sides MyBoyPuck - all to do with you (and some others) criticizing other posters for doing exactly what you are doing yourself. Perhaps I should have put it more plainly than the old pots and kettles saying.- your post was very hypocritical indeed IMO.

 

[Summit]

I just shuddered when I read ”pony party”.....this young girl needs to rethink her dreams in about 10 years

 

[shamrock2021]

 

[18hhOlls&Me]

****You may see pot kettle black but I try and see both sides *****

Absolutely nothing to do with seeing both sides MyBoyPuck - all to do with you (and some others) criticizing other posters for doing exactly what you are doing yourself. Perhaps I should have put it more plainly than the old pots and kettles saying.- your post was very hypocritical indeed IMO.

Whatever you say mrs jingle, you have a right to your view as do I.

 

[shortstuff99]

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That depends on what it is. Opinion shouldn't be confused with fact. This is what has lead to people disregarding science in recent times as they believe their opinion = scientific fact. Sorry random tangent ?

 

[Pearlsacarolsinger]

That depends on what it is. Opinion shouldn't be confused with fact. This is what has lead to people disregarding science in recent times as they believe their opinion = scientific fact. Sorry random tangent ?

And grammatically correct English would help!

 

[Tiddlypom]

Anyone remember when #BeKind was a thing?

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You mean, #BeWeakandInsipid?

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Haha, that’s not even literate!

Fact, not opinion btw.

 

[criso]

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And the way to act on it in this case would be to go and get experience, take lessons, help out at yards till you are in a position to make your dream come true.

 

[ester]

That depends on what it is. Opinion shouldn't be confused with fact. This is what has lead to people disregarding science in recent times as they believe their opinion = scientific fact. Sorry random tangent ?

It's ok we were all thinking it . My inspiration is triggered not boosted

 

[criso]

That depends on what it is. Opinion shouldn't be confused with fact. This is what has lead to people disregarding science in recent times as they believe their opinion = scientific fact. Sorry random tangent ?

Someone at my last yard "didn't believe in science" as it's just someones opinion.

 

[9tails]

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That's a terrible meme, if you're going to pick one make sure it's legible.

 

[shortstuff99]

Someone at my last yard "didn't believe in science" as it's just someones opinion.

This always gives me the rage. Especially when you show all of your research and sources etc and they reply with 'well that's just your opinion '. Arghhhhhh!

 

[Summit]

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where’d you find this? It’s dreadful

 

[18hhOlls&Me]

That depends on what it is. Opinion shouldn't be confused with fact. This is what has lead to people disregarding science in recent times as they believe their opinion = scientific fact. Sorry random tangent ?

Lol ?