just for fun-the worst horsey person you ever come across!

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we all know or have known at least one person.the worst one i ever come across was nicknamed The toothless wonder and it was worse livery yard ever been on for bitchiness.she was the yo and was the biggest bitchiest weirdo ever met.used to sit there drinking coffee and she would pull her teeth out in front of you.not false but real and say how we were her family!!!
 
I've known a few, ones who have been seen trying to get the horse drunk at a pub ( owner had already had their fill im guessing). The I rescue & tell everyone about it & the coversatiin about how awful such person is keeping their horse, ends up in a rspca case horses taken off, some horses pts at seen as that neglected.
 
There have been so many over the years!

One who thought it acceptable to stub a cigarette out on a horse's wither if it refused to go forward,

One who collected broken down horses like others collect stamps, then left them stabled for weeks on end with little food or water (the RSPCA stepped in eventually, but following conviction, she continued to 'have' animals, and just said they were 'owned' by her mother,

Two who would punish their horses for bad behaviour by leaving them stabled with no food for the rest of the day (worryingly, both were studying for equine related degrees and were high achievers at uni),

I could go on, but thinking about it is just so depressing:-(
 
I know one who takes a ftgh and has them sold for £50 before they're even picked up. Usually with a bunch of stolen photos and lies.

The other worst was the one who took all the ftgh and drove them straight from their home to the slaughter.
 
There was one who used to keep her horse near mine. The horse had large bald patches on both sides where the rider's legs sat. I drove up behind her when she was out riding once to see her jab with spurs on every stride and this was in walk :( I'm not anti spurs, I do use them myself occasionally, but surely if your horse was going bald you'd do something different?
 
Oh, that's what it means!

Yes, I know someone who has sold on several free horses, though she did keep them for a few weeks first. Not strictly illegal but certainly morally wrong.

My latest horse was a freebie, but I was asked to sign a contract which stated that he is not to be sold or moved on without first consulting the trainer (he was a racehorse).
 
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Thriller said:
The other worst was the one who took all the ftgh and drove them straight from their home to the slaughter.
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Looking at the poor, aged or completely broken FTGH that crop up on my FB being totally discarded as no use any more but owner doesn't want to do the decent thing. I'd say this person is doing a service!
 
glamourpuss said:
Looking at the poor, aged or completely broken FTGH that crop up on my FB being totally discarded as no use any more but owner doesn't want to do the decent thing. I'd say this person is doing a service!
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Potentially. But she was offering good long term homes.
 
that would be someone I used to call my best friend.
She had to sell her horse when living with her abusive boyfriend, with whom she also had a child. When the **** hit the fan she moved in with her mother. The horse ended up in Sweden and the new buyer threatned to send it to the slaughterhouse, so I payed for the horse to get it back to Netherlands. With the child and all the legal stuff with her ex bf that was going on I also regularly helped with the livery fee.

I had also bought a new house quite close to her (used to live an hours drive away) and she would help pay off her debt by helping with the painting and decorating etc......that never happened, she was never there, something Always came up, but she still wanted to mover her horse to my place. The fields were only just sown in and the horses couldn't go in them yet so I was walking my own 4 horses several times daily on the roads to excersize them, couldn'd cope with another (strange) horse and only having one sand paddock they could go in.

in a meanwhile she got the plan of moving out her mothers house to a rental house with her boy. I told her there'd be other houses and as she went thru her finances she wouldn't be able to pay for it all. but she said she could pick up giving riding lessons again (she does have real talent with horses) and make 300euro's a week with that.

I never said it to her, but wondered why on earth she needed me to pay her livery fee if that was the case. But I did tell her that with her kid going to school in 1 year (and having more time to work then) why not wait a while. But no, apparently she also had plenty money to buy the interior decorations and furniture for the house (at which point I stopped my financial contributions!)

Then one of my horses died, the last thing she said to me was "i'll Always be there for you" that was the last time she ever called me. Did get an email about 2 months later telling me what a horrible person I was for getting her in this financial **** by forcing her to buy her horse back when I knew she wouldn't be able to pay for it.......this person is 30yrs old in case you are wondering....
 
A nightmare livery who must have been to every yard in Surrey by now. She was the only person who was ever asked to leave our yard, in 11 years. As soon as she drove into the yard everyone's hearts would just sink.
 
I've been lucky and haven't come across that many, probably because I've always kept my horses at home so never had to put up with livery yard bitchiness and I try to keep to myself at events (just cant be bothered with nastiness). The worst I've seen was actually horrid behaviour from a Pony Club teenager! Was XC fence judging at a little PC ODE, she'd clearly fallen off already due to state of her jods, came to our fence horse napped and she came off again. She was clearly so angry she grabbed the horse and started yanking on its mouth unbelievably hard over and over again and was about to raise her whip to its face when we shouted at her to stop. The nearby paramedic saw it too, stormed over and took the horse off her while telling her to walk back while he was off to report her and speak to her parents. It was a disgraceful display, especially from someone so young (but old enough to know better - she must have been 15/16). I hate to think what she did to her horses at home if she thought this was acceptable! :(
 
Meems said:
A nightmare livery who must have been to every yard in Surrey by now. She was the only person who was ever asked to leave our yard, in 11 years. As soon as she drove into the yard everyone's hearts would just sink.
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Wonder if its the same one i know? Been chucked out of every yard round here for non payment.
Also has a very nasty streak, disgustingly rude, stole under the guise of borrowing. Drink drives and often on state handouts whilst working :rolleyes3:
Most YO's round here know of her (mid 40s with a horse she won't ride)
 
leggs said:
that would be someone I used to call my best friend.
She had to sell her horse when living with her abusive boyfriend, with whom she also had a child. When the **** hit the fan she moved in with her mother. The horse ended up in Sweden and the new buyer threatned to send it to the slaughterhouse, so I payed for the horse to get it back to Netherlands. With the child and all the legal stuff with her ex bf that was going on I also regularly helped with the livery fee.

I had also bought a new house quite close to her (used to live an hours drive away) and she would help pay off her debt by helping with the painting and decorating etc......that never happened, she was never there, something Always came up, but she still wanted to mover her horse to my place. The fields were only just sown in and the horses couldn't go in them yet so I was walking my own 4 horses several times daily on the roads to excersize them, couldn'd cope with another (strange) horse and only having one sand paddock they could go in.

in a meanwhile she got the plan of moving out her mothers house to a rental house with her boy. I told her there'd be other houses and as she went thru her finances she wouldn't be able to pay for it all. but she said she could pick up giving riding lessons again (she does have real talent with horses) and make 300euro's a week with that.

I never said it to her, but wondered why on earth she needed me to pay her livery fee if that was the case. But I did tell her that with her kid going to school in 1 year (and having more time to work then) why not wait a while. But no, apparently she also had plenty money to buy the interior decorations and furniture for the house (at which point I stopped my financial contributions!)

Then one of my horses died, the last thing she said to me was "i'll Always be there for you" that was the last time she ever called me. Did get an email about 2 months later telling me what a horrible person I was for getting her in this financial **** by forcing her to buy her horse back when I knew she wouldn't be able to pay for it.......this person is 30yrs old in case you are wondering....
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Get her on Judge Rinder!!!!

This is complete guilty pleasure at the minute ;)

Sorry liking hovering over the thread but haven't yet met any real devils like these! Thank goodness!
 
I've had some horrors over the years in my little yard..but the ones that seem to annoy me the most are the ones claim to love horses,but collect them,throw them out in the field and then completely ignore them for weeks and months at a time......why on earth do they do that ?
 
The Fuzzy Furry said:
Wonder if its the same one i know? Been chucked out of every yard round here for non payment.
Also has a very nasty streak, disgustingly rude, stole under the guise of borrowing. Drink drives and often on state handouts whilst working :rolleyes3:
Most YO's round here know of her (mid 40s with a horse she won't ride)
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No this one was very wealthy and I'm sure always paid her bills, was just mad as a box of frogs and extremely rude/very manipulative with it! Used to literally stamp her feet like a petulant child when things weren't done 100% the way she wanted. Unfortunately she was always changing the goal posts as to how she wanted her horse cared for but would forget to tell the actual staff looking after her horse. And then would take great pleasure in pulling you up on doing something wrong. Aaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrggghhhhh.
 
Unfortunately a very well known stunt rider. He has several of their own stallions and deems it acceptable to punch them in the face. I'm all for firm handling, but not punching them in the face.. When walking his yard with him, all of his horses would shoot to the back of their boxes with their ears back when he was there, but would happily wander up to me for a fuss on my own.
Said Man is also extremely arrogant, sexist and pig ignorant. Makes my skin crawl and isn't popular with many people.. Unfortunately the unknowing public seem to keep booking this man for work and so he can carry on. What happens behind the scenes is unfortunately different to what happens in front of cameras.
 
A livery who conned our YO. Turned out she was mad and bad
Collected equines and couldn't afford them. Took them to yards and never paid a penny. Con artist and so good at it. Don't think there is a single yard in Colchester Essex area she hasn't duped. Last I heard she had gone suffolk Norfolk area.
 
One of the worst I knew gave horses on the yard sugar cubes. We're talking handfuls of the stuff.
I got on the horse bareback and I'd barely sat on her when she went bunny hopping around the yard block. Weeks later I was told this person had given her handfuls of sugar cubes. I was livid as not only had my horse been hand fed without me knowing, but I'd fallen off her onto the concrete yard and injured my wrist.
 
Was fence judging once at a BE event .Somebody fell off and broke their bridle and me being me had a nearly new top of the range bridle for my event mare on the back seat so I leant it too them . Took me six weeks to get it back and it had been trashed and the bit was gone.
Luckily the event organiser replaced my bridle and bit and said rider is not allowed to enter any of their events anymore and they hold several every year.
 
The 'animal communicator' who decided to hang round my mare's neck whilst we were giving wagon rides.
My girl hates people putting their arms round her, stroke and pats - yes please! Full on hugs no thanks!
She couldn't tell from my mare's body language, fidgeting and flat back ears that she was very unhappy.

Then again my girly is French and maybe the communicator didn't speak French.
 
People who stab you in the back when all you've ever done is help... Even found a recent post on here about me!

However the real worst has to be people who blank you or are downright rude when you've just lost your horse of a lifetime.... Followed by snidey remarks behind your back just because they didn't bother to get the full story. Ask me and I'll tell!
 
Either the alcoholic who ruined what could have been a nice pony by letting it get away with murder and turning it into a horrible stroppy brat, or the middle-aged woman who gets a kick out of bullying teenagers.
 
A previous YO, who started off as very nice and welcoming, but turned out to be properly mad and with unpredictable mood swings. One day she is lovely and agrees to everything, the other she is a screaming banshee, calls you late at night to scream at you about utter nonsense. Then proceeds to tell ridiculous lies about you to other YO's in the area and tries influencing them into not accepting you as a client when you leave her yard - well, just because! Luckily, she didn't succeed. Said person also prefers keeping her horses inside and rugged almost all winter (hardly ever ridden, on too much feed and too little hay) and her idea of letting the horses stretch their legs is leading them down the road for a km or so, then setting them loose so that they gallop home unsupervised, then rinse and repeat for a few times until horses are dripping wet under their rugs. After that, they're just tossed back in the stables without even walking off.
 
4-H instructor beating her horse with a whip, then a rope, for not standing still. As if he could stand still while you're beating the hell out of his legs! Worse, she did it in front of her students.

All the jerks who bullied and beat my first mare before she was 3 years old resulting in a very scared horse that took me years to rehab.

The trainer (who had supposedly trained many champions) who I saw literally tie her horses head around to his saddle to teach him to "give". Every one of her horses had sores on their mouth.
 
The livery on a yard I was at years ago who bred one of their horses. He was IDxWB and a 17hh tank of a 5 yr old. They had kept him at a rented yard before and never led him anywhere just opened his stable and let him out. He would get away from them and was so strong and opinionated and generally a nightmare.

The bloke was one of those people who knew everything (more than a vet about workers as he'd done an animal husbandry course) and was not liked. His wife was lovely and had had a strike do was very weak on her left side. He used to leave her to sort their 2 horses on her own (it did her good he told me) and we had to rescue her from the youngster a number of times. She was frightened of the youngster (she told me so) but wouldn't tell her husband.

His solution to the youngster problem was to hobble him on the yard and beat the crap out of him. Children and novice liveries watching and not stepping in!! A friend and I turned up and put a halt to the situation (she started wacking him with the whip - I had to stop her). He then made our lives miserable. He was friendly with the non horsey yo's and got us thrown off the yard, the YM had to ask us to leave and was crying whilst doing it. A few others left in protest too. Vile vile man who I think did get what he deserved.
 
The mad drunk woman who was found in my stable threatening my mare with a pitchfork for apparently biting her.

What had actually happened was my friend who was always up the yard late had seen her come out of her stable and bend down and come back up under my horses head. My mare was standing with her head over the front wall of her stable near the woman’s stable door, she somehow managed to head butt my horse who shot to the back of her stable thinking she had been smacked.
My friend then heard some shouting and came out to find said mad bird in my horses stable with a pitchfork staying that she had bitten her and ‘needed a lesson’ . Anyway my friend is lovely but you wouldn’t mess with her, told her to get out of my horses stable before she stuck the pitchfork somewhere the sun doesn’t shine or words to that effect. Everyone up that yard knew that my horse didn’t have a bad bone in her body and wouldn’t know how to bite you if you opened and closed her mouth for her.
When I was told, I was livid but I also knew that she had far too many screws loose and I didn’t trust her to not do something to my mare so I went to my YO. I told her what had happened and she said she will be gone. As I said my mare was a sweet heart, everyone knew there was no way she would have bitten her and that my friend wouldn’t make something like that up. She did go around saying to others on the yard about how dangerous my horse was but everyone just laughed and ignored her or told her she didn’t have a clue what she was talking about.

Mad lady was gone within a week, nothing happened to my mare (think mad woman was too drunk to remember my nasty aggressive lunge at you over the wall horse, for more than a day anyway) other liveries stopped having their feed and hay stolen and she left a nice pile of dept.

I’ve met a lot of bi***y, 2 faced, just plain irritating people at yards but she was possibly the worst.
 
A friend recently went horse shopping.
Visited a dealers yard and a co-yard run by an eventer. The eventer yard was so overstocked that standard stables were housing 2 horses and the remainder spent the night on the horse walker.
 
ljm said:
People who stab you in the back when all you've ever done is help... Even found a recent post on here about me!

However the real worst has to be people who blank you or are downright rude when you've just lost your horse of a lifetime.... Followed by snidey remarks behind your back just because they didn't bother to get the full story. Ask me and I'll tell!
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This happens a lot in the horse world doesn't it? I have helped lots of people over the years, only to find out that some of them have bitched and bad mouthed about me behind my back! I assume it's jealousy but with some people I think they are just nasty through to the bone. Like the saying goes, 'no good deed goes unpunished!'. I know this isn't strictly what the OP was asking about, but tbh, if I had to list everyone I've met over the 40 odd years I've had horses that were either, horrid, weird, cruel etc etc etc, wow! We could be here a very long time!
 
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