Ignorant, interfering people!

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Grrr so annoyed.

Obnoxious Pony wears a muzzle in summer as he can escape from almost any field. So yesterday morning Mum brings in OP in, puts muzzle on & goes to work. Mum comes home from work to find OP munching away quite the thing minus muzzle. Muzzle found on fence post next to road, UNFASTENED!

Now talented little git that he is, he did not manage to unfasten the buckles himself. Bl**dy interfering do-gooders do they not realise I don't enjoy seeing him with a muzzle on but the alternative is a laminitic pony!
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Rant over you can come out now.
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P.s need ideas for a short sharp message to attach to muzzle.
 
Personally I would go for signs pinned to the fence stating that the pony wears the muzzle for medical reasons, and anyone found removing it will be liable to pay the hefty vets bill swhich will be incurred by its removal, plus will be responsible for causing unnecessary pain and suffering to said pony.
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Tw*ts

"Removal of this muzzle will result in death"
"Removal of this muzzle will result in the loss of you balls"
"Look tw*t face this is on my pony for a reason"
"This pony bites"


Hbx
 
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Tw*ts

"Removal of this muzzle will result in the loss of you balls"
"Look tw*t face this is on my pony for a reason"

Hbx

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PMSL, we have a winner!
 
Grrrrrrrr, how annoying.

How about

'If removed, I will eat myself sick'

(short and to the point but gramatically incorrect with dangling past participle - others may have better ideas)
 
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Personally I would go for signs pinned to the fence stating that the pony wears the muzzle for medical reasons, and anyone found removing it will be liable to pay the hefty vets bill swhich will be incurred by its removal, plus will be responsible for causing unnecessary pain and suffering to said pony.
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I'd go along with that, although a couple of HB's suggestions made me giggle too
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defo agree with "This pony bites" or:

"Removal of this muzzle may cause death - his and yours"

or

"Get the f**k away from my pony you interfering busybody"
 
Muzzle is part leather & pony is part tank, If he'd got caught up in something he'd just have snapped it, he does that regularly with leather headcollers
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(not get caught up, he just deliberately snaps them!
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I like Hbs [ QUOTE ]
"Removal of this muzzle will result in death"

[/ QUOTE ] perhaps that could be painted onto the muzzle with Tipex.
 
I had the same thing with my lammi pony last year. I put signs round saying "do not remove my muzzle or you will kill me! if you have any problems with me call my mum on ....". It soon stopped but a month or so after it stopped I caught the culprits in the field. They asked why the pony was muzzled as they were the ones who were taking it off. I went ballistic to say the least and proper ranted at them. Ended up saying they might as well give me their credit card details so why I call the vet out I can charge it to them.

I put up about half a dozen A4 signs around the field and then put a credit card size one on each side of her muzzle.
 
I had this happen the first day I put ponio out in his. They also had the cheek to hang it on the fence after.....

I had (and still get) many many comments about "how does he drink?" "he looks like Hannibal Lechter" "that's cruel" etc. I'm happy to talk to people about it, and have told all the adults and kids who've shown an interest that he HAS to wear it or he'll die. A little education goes a long way. So a sign explaining why he wears it will make people stop and think. Also electric fence him in, so people think twice about reaching over and messing....
 
Used to keep mine in a field with a public footpath and it used to worry me sick about people taking it off.

I actually wrote on the muzzle itself in the end using a kind of 'paint' pen available from stationers and never actually had any problem.

I think you were very restrained tho if I'd caught the culprits would have probably given them a right seeing to!
 
There was a blind pony in a field near us once and they were forever getting complaints to the Rspca about her. The owners got their vet to write a letter and sign it and posted it around the field to say she was healthy and ok. Maybe your vet could do a similar thing?? Sometimes when someone in the know i.e vet writes it, it sinks in more with people.
 
It would have peed me off more to know someone had been in my field, tampering with MY horses! Totally understand where you're coming from though - what morons. In my area a neighbour had been reported to the RSPCA because their ponies are on small paddocks (due to laminitis). Apprently the passers by thought the ponies were "starving to death". Good god...... they have no idea!
 
Not sure if they made it into the field or if Gus was just standing at the fence looking cute & needy for passers by.*Rolls eyes* He normally chases people he doesn't know
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Grr how can people be so lacking in common sense. Do they assume I am making a fashion statement instead of trying to stop him getting lami!
 
I have had this problem since my horse got laminitis. I had her in a starvation paddock for the first couple of years after she had it. I put posters along the wall asking people not to feed her and that she was ill. But they still kept feeding her. I ended up having a letter off the vet. There was the dry stone wall with a wire fence in side that, then the electric fence inside that to keep her away from them.

She now has a muzzle, I put it on a couple of weeks ago and someone has already stolen it off her. So I have had to get another one. I also spend time explaining laminitis to anyone who even mentions the muzzle. It is so anoying that people who have never owned a horse think they know more about them that you do.

I went into to get a new muzzle from the tack shop and was having a moan about people interfearing. They said that they had had someone go into the shop for horse feed because they has seen a horse not being fed, another person who knows nothing about horses taking it into their own hands!
 
I thought it was just me that had this problem. My pony is up a 200 yard private track and people have been going up there to feed her bread and cakes when she's in her starvation paddock. So in desperation we put her into a muzzle and turned her out even further away from the road. The first few days her muzzle was taken off and left in the field then when we kept putting it back the muzzle was cut off with a sharp blade. There is no way she could have caught it on anything and done that sort of damage.

So now instead of being able to see her friends she's had to come and live at home by herself so that we can keep an eye on her.
 
after the first few time of my ponys muzzle being taken off and me putting it back on the clever little sod decided to rip the straps off mine so I had to buy her a new one and take it home to stitch it back together. The following day the new muzzle had all its sides ripped apart.
When I found out who it was I told them that i they wanted to report me to the RSPCA or ILPH then I would make the call for them and then let the inspector tell them what idiots they were being by removing the muzzle as I was the one making the pony happy by not locking her in her stable or keeping her away from her mates but they were risking her becoming seriously ill.

Its awful lammi and I cnt see why people dare interfere. I wouldnt dare do anything to anybodies horses unless it was in a dangerous situation and needed freeing (like my mare did when she hooked herself on a tree and couldnt move - some kind sole saw her and released her!)
 
Sadly there are always people who think they know best and ignore your requests which does not always result in the best being done for the horse in question - it is beyond me why so many people (even those who would consider themselves experienced) think they know better than you do after all of five minutes of seeing your horse....I feel signs are the answer here, a bit of education goes a long way.
 
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