Ideas please!

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Montyforever

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Having my ponies tamperd with, feed nicked, ect.

Know exactly who it is but dont have any proof so YO keeps on letting it slip by failing to see what everyones telling them!

So have thought.

Cctv - to expensive
Staying up there all night/day. - Mum wont let me!
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Fair enough i should lock up my stuff and i'll be getting lockable feedbins asap
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But i dont see why i shouldnt be able to leave a hoofpick in my stable while ponies out, and not come back in the afternoon and find its been nicked!
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Ta in advance!
 
What do you mean, your ponies 'tampered' with? If you know exactly who it is, nick some of their feed back! Not a very moral response but they deserve it quite frankly. Sensible answer is of course to lock everything away. And move to a yard where there aren't any dirty robbing thieves.
 
Talk very loudly about how things keep going missing when who you think it is is in ear shot but don't accuse anyone yet...if they know that you are aware then it may stop, if not I'd be temped to name and shame or just lock everything away. Good luck, its such hard work on livery yards, always politics and different opinions, so silly when we all have a shared love of horses! xx
 
not worth trying to nick feed back as they won't have any thats why nicking it. Had this trouble when I was at livery, so kept feed at home and took down feed buckets in the morning it was a nuisance for awhile but saved me money and the horses didn't have to waite for their grub while I made it up for them
 
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Mouse traps and then take the bulb out of the feed room!!!!!!!!

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That is a bloody amazing idea .. !!

I love you!!
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Haha nooooow oof to buy some mouse traps
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get yourself a steel feed bin and put a padlock on it! otherwise leave notes(change daily) i am watching! oops i have caught you! etc til it stops!
 
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Keep us posted please. Good luck.

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Will do .. pictures of the brusied hand?
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I can understand feed going missing. But its ALWAYS at my pony not the one i share with my mum. Only her feed/brushes/stuff.

+ shes old enough to know better!
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Probably the most infuriating thing you can do is ignore it! This person obviously wants a reaction from you which is why they are targetting you and no-one else. I think the piggy alarm thing is good - but I would suggest that if you talk loudly about it or leave notes etc you will just be giving them what they want.

You need to think smart and out smart them. Believe me once you start to think of how much you're going to annoy them by not reacting it does get quite fun!

I do like the oinking piggy alarm (I've been through patches of having my feed nicked / tampered with so I know what it feels like.) Only leave your second best brushes etc out - otherwise put them away with your mum's stuff or in the car or something. Totally ignore the person doing it. They are less than nothing to you. Be polite when you need to be otherwise - they don't exist and nothing they do bothers you. You will drive them nuts!

It might get worse for a while. Once they are reacting and not thinking they may well put a foot so wrong that one of the adults will have to take notice. And it will be them who gets into trouble and not you. Or they'll give up and go away. Either way you've won.
 
You could buy her a hoof pick 99p and give it to her.

Be friendly but explain that you thought you would treat her to her own one because you need to know that your hoof pick is in your stable when you need it.

Or an alternative approach is to keep your hoof pick in your yard jacket pocket so that you always have it with you.

For the food you could let your bins run empty and then bring the feed with you each day to the yard - a real faff I know, but she will have to look elsewhere for her pony's food. If asked why you were bringing your feed daily you could say you think your bins are contaminated with something and until you can clean them thought this would be best.

It's really difficult to know what to suggest as I don't know if she's doing it because she hasn't got her own stuff, can't afford feed, or if she's just being malicious.
 
Having had my stuff used by another livery without permission recently and not put back and left dirty, asking nicely not to use it didn't cut it, bollocking her very loudly in the middle of the busy yard one Saturday did the trick. Not the way I intended to tackle it but walked on to the yard to find her with my stuff again and blew my top, particularly as she refused to accept she had been told/asked not to use my stuff before and refused to apologise. Hasn't done it since though...
 
Haha. mouse trap idea is pure genius. I had some of my feed taken once and the food scoop disapeared. the next day it was back and there was feed at the top in my bin that was slightely different to mine, so the person who did it must have run out but replaced it which was good of them. Just confront the person who does it or ask friends to keep an eye out on them aswell so you have whitnesses of what they are doing to tell the YO.

Good luck on catching them!
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