If I gave you a bonfire...

Cardboard bedding (b****rd to muck out)
Happy Hoof - how is a feed covered in molasses good for lamintics?!
Overreach boots that flap around and make a loud noise, scattering the surrounding horses in the collecting ring
 
String girths. I used to hate the look of them as a child. I'd frequently be on ponies with galls and sore sides where skin would get trapped and rub. So glad they seem to have died a death now.

I hate coloured bridles too! I'm a huge fan of bright colours and garishness but no horse of mine is ever gonna be seen sporting a pink or blue bridle!!
 
I'm another one for chucking long rubber riding boots in!
Happy Mouth bits
Pelham Roundings
Rugby Pelhams
Wilkies!!!!!

I'm sure there are many more but I can't think just now!
 
Oooh. I dislike long boots too! Find it so hard to put my leg in the right place with them.
I hate the new trend for zippy-up jod boots too!
 
Horse flies
Midges
Any molassed feed
Lotions and potions that don't work.
Restrictive tack.
Horseshoes
Pressure halters
Tradition
Fireworks
People who light fireworks
Unreliable cars
Lunge lines and whips
Mud
Winter
Anyone who thinks animals are dumb
Bankers
Anyone anti Parelli
 
following on from another thread people who leave ignorant comments on youtube videos that clearly show something dangerous and damaging to horse and rider (mainly horse)
 
YO's that don't communicate.
Cruel people who mistreat animals.
Mud.
Tight nosebands.
People who pick their horses up and put them down as it suits them.
Inconsiderate drivers.
Matching bling.
Other people's dogs that steal anything you put down
 
AndySpooner said:
Horse flies
Midges
Any molassed feed
Lotions and potions that don't work.
Restrictive tack.
Horseshoes
Pressure halters
Tradition
Fireworks
People who light fireworks
Unreliable cars
Lunge lines and whips
Mud
Winter
Anyone who thinks animals are dumb
Bankers
Anyone anti Parelli
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But a Parelli halter is a pressure halter, and you can't get much more restrictive than a cradle bridle!

Edited to add, Parelli shoe their horses! Perhaps the aren't so perfect after all.
 
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Rubber riding boots
Petal over reach boots-can't stand the noise!
People handling horses in a chifney when they have no idea how to use it properly(chuck the people in not the chifney they can be useful in the right hands lol!)
People whose horses are obese for the show ring
People who breed foals with the idea they will sell them on for thousands and are then surprised that the market is full of far better quality youngstgers for less money.
People who put any old mare in foal just cause she is lame.
synthetic bridles
coloured bridles
ragwort
riders in wellies

ooosh i feel better now!
 
Hey I love my Parelli halter, but yeah in the wrong hands they are harsh, uuuuum .......... Rubber riding boots, people who have lovely gorses as ornaments, ignorant horse owners, bling bling and more bling, any KP products on adults (kids I can understand wanting pink and bling) will quit before I have effigys made of me. By the way this is us going to be a HUGE bonfire.
 
Rubber Matting
Rubber Riding Boots
Petal over reach Boots
Ever bag of feed being covered in molasses
My huge vet bill
My ex-yo
Gadget in novices hand
People who let you down
Ragwort
Weeds in general
Horse Flies
Spiders
Rugs that constantly slip
Haynets
Laminitis
Scarcoids
 
Yard owner!!! .. who says don't fill the trough in the field because there is a stream, even though its been the dryest March for fifty years! and its down to a trickle.
Yard owner.. who says, as she is not riding much she don't want to worm her horse because she don't want to spend the money on her mare.
Yard owner... who won't have EDT even though her poor mare has a deformed Jaw and needs her teeth doing every six months.
Yard owner.. who calls me spitefull because I moved my horse..
so glad to have my own yard again. :-)
 
Can I also add in the hands and minds that think that to get a horse to work correctly in a pelham, double or the likes is to just hold onto the curb rein as tightly as possible.

I'm not a fan of zip up jody boots either.
 
Not that I'm complaining or anything Team Barney, but I don't really see why I have to get into justifying what I want to put on the bonfire. No one else has had to, but I know that the Parelli's shoe their horses. I've never said they are perfect, who is?
I'm aware of how much pressure a Parelli halter can put on, but its not a modified halter specifically designed to exert extra pressure through a mechanical squeezing effect.
Don't forget that horses communicate through the appropriate application of pressure and subsequent release, so pressure itself is not on my bonfire.
 
With all due respect Andy, I ndid post a whopping great big disclaimer at the beginning that this was not to inflame, insult or intentionally cause ruccus. PLEASE pretty please don't turn this thread that way, its making great reading, quite impressed with myself for a bored Friday timewasting moment!
 
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