Is it ok to release a pony into the wild if you really, REALLY don't like it?

I'll add my TB mare to the mix. She's black, no markings, they'll never trace her back to me! Bugger! Forgot - she's freezemarked! :( Anyone got some black hair dye?
The front end bites, back end cow kicks, her nickname is PsychoBitch horse from Hell :D
 
Not going to offer annie to the mix, she would prob lead them all home then cause chaos by herself! But you do need to plan what time of day your 'setting them free, back to nature'. my vote would be xmas day morn, when all do gooders sat at home with presents... your safe then until at least boxing day by which time you can have moved house and changed your name before anyone spots them! :)
 
Such a funny thread - brilliant entertainment for the evening!


Very nearly managed to "lose" one of mine but was rumbled. Riding through farm tracks and had to get off to open and close gate as said horse was acting like a t*t. As I tried to shut gate, horse pulled away and wandered off. No real panic as I knew gate at far end would be shut. Annoying ba***rd then proceeded to wander off and refuse to be caught. No dramatic galloping off, didn't even trot, just wandered off with me trailing in his wake. So I'm walking behind him threatening all sorts and calling him every name I could think of. Temper finally snaps so I stop, stamp feet and scream "****** you then you piece of sh**" before turning to stomp off and leave him .... only to walk in to some cyclists who'd clearly been watching the whole exchange :o:o

The humiliation. Stupid creature then stood there and let me catch him. Oh how I hated him just at that moment!! :D:mad::D
 
moana said:
Absolutely not:mad:
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Why not?

Seems like a great solution for a lot of people with problem neds. If you'd asked me two weeks ago I'd have had one to add to the pile but I discovered that he's fine if I cook him before I ride him. In the oven for 20 minutes, done. :D
 
I'll send my idiotic wb youngster then. The fuel will be much cheaper than constantly replacing the rugs he shreds off the backs of the others. Plus the broken wheelbarrows, snapped electric fence posts, you get the idea. What he hasn't figured out yet is that the loud, exciting noise coming from across the woods every day is actually hounds' dinner time...
 
patterdale said:
I really really really dislike my sister in laws pony.
He's just awful, just tried to barge over me in the gate, shoved him babk with my elbow and he did a stupid little half rear and struck out with a front leg, barged me again and I fell over in the mud. Very narrowly missed kicking me in the face.
I would just love to release his ugly hairy ass out onto the moors and never see his horrid little face again.
I think it would be win win, he obviously hates captivity and I hate having to deal with him. He could live wild and free, and maybe fall into a ravine one day.

Would that be ok do we think? Anyone else get these urges or is it just me?
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I had the same urge with a HORRIBLE welsh sec c filly!! I part exed her at a dealers for my ugly, but lovely coloured chap!!
 
And another thought - a friend and I were discussing that if we wanted another project we would just round up something that had been released - Blimey! After reading that lot, I've changed my mind!!:eek::p
 
Feral ponies, roaming the land, smoking fags, hanging round outside the shops cos they've got nowhere else to go, spitting at passers by, making funny grunty noises, ASBO ponies! :eek:
 
You could set him wild and free, give him a pony suitcase with some pony nuts and a salt lick for if he's desperate.

Or you could give him to the (must be crazy) lady who took the horrid bagging sec c from our yard, who gave me numerous rope burns and bruises from not realising it's better to walk around people and not into them... For the sake of my hands we were going to get the chifney, but this saint like woman came and usherd him away.

She said she was going to try join up. I don't want to see how that ends.

In his first week he broke a stable door and kicked her poor sec A in the legs, after breaking the fence to get to her. And she still hasn't sent him back.

He also tried to mount my 17hh, silly move pony, grumpy old man doesn't like ponies more annoying than flies.
 
Ooo- team chaser, I'd forgotten about that... The dementa-welsh dumped me (nose first over a XC fence) when I was out hacking alone about 5 miles from home. As soon as I was off (slow-mo crawl up his neck as I'd gone forward to jump and he hadn't, then dropped his nose onto the deck on the other side o the solid fence) he lifted up and buggered off. Didn't even stop to graze. Between him and the yard at that point was about two miles of tracks then three miles on 60mph roads- blind bends, the lot. So I burst into tears and called my dad, then everyone on the yard at home to get out in cars, legged it up the 1in 10 hill after him and called the police. I was totally panicked and got worse when they told me in no uncertain terms that there was no chance of them scrambling the helicopter to stop said pony hitting the crossroads and therefore oncoming traffic (looking back, I have NO idea why I ever thought they would!! :D ) and when we caught up with him he was about a mile off the main road, on a smaller side road. We were (by then dad and I) about 50 yards behind him walking. If we sped up, so did he. If we slowed down, he did too. He skirted the oncoming car (fellow livery) and merrily continued, snatching grass as he went until two kindly cyclists used their bikes as a roadblock- he was so sure that they would move that he actually tripped over one of the cyclists!! That slowed him enough that my 67 year old dad rugby tackled him. Why dad? Because at that point, I'd worked out what he was insured for and how far away the road was...

I'm sure I'd have managed to set up some form of road block before he hit it... Well, fairly certain! :) he was made to go back the way he came and all he accomplished was to increase the distance of the hack by three miles!!
 
cptrayes said:
I fully support all your plans to release your nutters into the wild but will you please note that the Peak Park has no native herd.

OMG, now you'll tell me we need one and be on the way in an unmarked horsebox! Should've kept my mouth shut.
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the peak district definately needs a wild herd and cos everywhere else in the uk have pony herds it should be a over 15hh herd and
 
Didn't work with my lot. The farmer who owns the property where they graze let them into the forest next door - to be fair to him, he didn't mean to. They were in there for several hours, but were all waiting patiently by the forestry gate when I arrived at dinner time. :rolleyes:

So, I'll just have to stick with the well tested "going cheap, not necessarily to a good home". :D
 
Please can I send one too will even provide transport. Little get broke my ankle and knee and now I need a new knee. She ran through a fence and dragged me with her what did I do got up traipsed after her treated her rope burns went home had a shower and shaved my legs then went to A&E was in plaster for weeks she has a few grazes. Would happily send her out onto the moors she hates people is a greedy pig and needs to be turned into a hearth rug or better still sausages
Love her to bits though so maybe I should hang onto her just thought this thread has made me realise there are fools out there that might even buy her if I get killed in the attempt to keep her
 
FionaM12 said:
Haha, throughout my childhood dogs ran loose like that. :D You just chucked yours out, and it joined a pack (perfectly described above, mine was one of the scruffy mongrel types :D) and it came home when it felt like it.

No-one seemed to think it was wrong. :o
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Same here, except it was us kids!
 
Can I add my pony to the clan, sorry should say sisters pony which she never bothers to look after or pay for, so i'm left to pay for 3 horses :mad:
She is a pain in the a**, extra electric fence is required otherwise she escapes, she'll eat anything proven by the fact she just ate a plastic bag :confused:
I have given up trying to get my money back as it just causes arguments, so if I could just deposit her somewhere ;) sister wouldn't even notice ;)
 
This could be a way to kill two birds with one stone - give him to someone as a Christmas present (someone you don't like....mother in law) That way they are ticked off your present list and the pony is GONE!
 
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