Instructors

[PandorasJar]

Does anyone actually end up with instructors using things like brooms on horses when not wanting them to and sit back and watch?!
People really worry me sometimes. Do people not have a mouth to say if they don't want them doing something... And where on earth do they find these instructors?!

I've watched a number of things being used to load and won't judge on that, but if someone is teaching this... Surely not :/

 

[Nosey]

Know what you mean! I had someone moan to me what a certain instructor had done to her horse in a lesson..she was clearly not happy & her friends were bitching about what happened too. What I thought was the stupid bit was why this person had allowed this to be done...not said anything..paid for lesson then moaned constantly about it afterwards!

 

[Wagtail]

One of my biggest ever regrets was not stepping in when watching an instructor (and high level dressage judge) teaching my sharer on my horse and working her so hard she was dripping sweat even on her back! I was very ill at the time and watching from the house. I had pneumonia and pluerisy. Maybe my judgement was flawed. But my mare's respiration has never been the same since. She came down with a massive lung infection a few weeks afterwards and has coughed ever since. I feel I let her down. All the time I was watching I kept thinking this top instructor MUST know what she was doing more than me. Biggest regret of mine ever. My mare means the world to me and I didn't step in when she needed me. I wish I could tell her how sorry I still am.

 

[PandorasJar]

I never pay a job I'm not happy with, always state exactly what I'm paying for at the start. I will pay for jobs not successful, but not ones I am not happy with.
I would never just stand there and watch someone doing something to my horse I wasn't happy with.if I question my vet (who is fantastic and explains why he's doing things) I certainly expect to question an instructor!

 

[PandorasJar]

I'll never understand how an instructor could push a horse like that wagtail. What on earth was she trying to achieve through it, neither rider nor horse get anything out of it at that stage

I was thinking more physically handling the horse and hadn't considered so much how long something was pushed for but just as bad. If someone smacked my horse they'd best move fast, if they hauled around on a mouth or used a broom to load etc they'd be asked to leave that second.