Little things that other people do that bug you

Jenni_ said:
Some warmbloods are stupid, some are smart, but one thing I agree on is that either attitude can be dangerous if its not addressed, along with the sheer size of some of them, and I, like you, have turned and chased quite a few 'smart' warmbloods for daring to show me their pearly whites or barging through me more than a few times.

At the risk of being labelled as an animal abuser here, I also bit the ear of a well known biter who would bite, and not let go. He turned his head round one day despite being tied up, got the sleeve of my jacket (luckily) so with me free hand I grabbed his ear and bit. He dropped me like a hot cake and although he continued to pull faces, he didn't bite again.
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More importantly, warmbloods are HORSES and I'm pretty sure they can be trained using the same basic principles that you'd use with any breed of horse. I couldn't believe this trainer told me that they were in fact fundamentally different than non-warmblood, American-bred horses. They were different, in that no one had ever bothered to train them, but undoubtedly some boundaries and consistency would have done the job. I reflected later that I should have said, "If you can train a horse to piaffe, surely you can train it to not run over you on the lead" (I personally have trained many horses to not run over me but have yet to train one to piaffe). But then, arguing with your boss if your boss thinks he's God's gift to equestrianism is never a good career move.
 
LaurenBay said:
Because my Horse has mild COPD I soak her hay. I leave it tied to the gate to let it drip and then put it in my stable. The gate is next to the hose. When people bring their Horses in to hose of their legs, they let their Horses eat from my net!! :mad:

I have come back before to find more then half of the hay missing. I have hid aorund the corner and watched and some of the liveries make no effort to stop their Horses eating my hay. Infact they encourage them too, so their Horse stands still to be hosed.

I now have to soak it and move it right out the way so it can't be eaten.
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Argh, people doing this used to drive me mad at last yard.

Hosing area and hay tied up, so I had to do a juggling act between keeping horse off hay and hosing down as there was no where to tie short enough so they couldn't reach hay. After pointing it out and even with a bombproof horse (not that she was) adding hay into the mix in a concrete 3 walled area with me in the middle was not safe. After hay was still there I left mine to eat it so I wasn't winding up a horse in a tight slippery area, not ideal as I'd rather she wasn't eating hay.
It also meant other horses would lunge for it on the way past. Ours was a hosing area not a feed store, there were plenty of other places where it could hang. (I hung outside stable, ground was tapered to middle so stable didn't get soaked and had an overhang so wouldn't get re-soaked in rain.)

Also people who left communal hay tied in tacking up area when done... I don't want mine stuffing her face when she doesn't need it. If you've put it up, take it back down after!
 
Caol Ila said:
More importantly, warmbloods are HORSES and I'm pretty sure they can be trained using the same basic principles that you'd use with any breed of horse. I couldn't believe this trainer told me that they were in fact fundamentally different than non-warmblood, American-bred horses. They were different, in that no one had ever bothered to train them, but undoubtedly some boundaries and consistency would have done the job. I reflected later that I should have said, "If you can train a horse to piaffe, surely you can train it to not run over you on the lead" (I personally have trained many horses to not run over me but have yet to train one to piaffe). But then, arguing with your boss if your boss thinks he's God's gift to equestrianism is never a good career move.
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Our warmbloods are far more trainable that the ponies on site :D I've found that stallion far too nice to not do as you ask. He's always been treated as a horse with obvious things aside and never had a problem.
Mare, she's asked and then will either say no with a face and you wait another second before she realises you aren't backing down, or she'll do as you ask straight away. This is more because she's older and allowed to get away with more, nothing to do with the breed and certainly wouldn't dream of running over on lead. Only faces really when you're worming her.

Every horse on site is trained like a horse regardless of breed/gender etc. Some work faster and some slower, some firmer etc, but that's down to the individual horse not breed and none expect to mow you down and get away with it!
 
Ohhhh I could go on forever but :
1. leaving the hose pipe laying in the mud and Sh** only takes 10 secs to coil it up!
2. Using my fork and not putting it back
3. Helping themsleves to my feed! Buy your own - If you cant afford to feed it - sell it!
4. Not sweeping up the yard
5. wasting hay and straw

i could go on and on - but I have work to do :)
 
HeavyHorseHugger said:
My friend ties knots in the ends of all the leadropes, I know WHY she does it but for some reason it really irritates me :o
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Out of interest, why?!

Only thing I can think is rope halter? I'd never do this as just provides another point to break a hand on or get caught somewhere. After having broken a hand simply holding a rope (doctor said was comlete fluke on holding the right angle and pressure to snap) I wouldn't be happy adding a knot into the equation!
 
There are a few things that bug me
the woman that only sweeps the bit outside her stable door instead of helping us do all the yard.
Wasting hay
the fact that only 2 of us check the field water, so when ours were in at night and theirs out, there's ran out of water.
People can't use my tools as we all have separate rooms but that would annoy me
 
PandorasJar said:
Argh, people doing this used to drive me mad at last yard.

Hosing area and hay tied up, so I had to do a juggling act between keeping horse off hay and hosing down as there was no where to tie short enough so they couldn't reach hay. After pointing it out and even with a bombproof horse (not that she was) adding hay into the mix in a concrete 3 walled area with me in the middle was not safe. After hay was still there I left mine to eat it so I wasn't winding up a horse in a tight slippery area, not ideal as I'd rather she wasn't eating hay.
It also meant other horses would lunge for it on the way past. Ours was a hosing area not a feed store, there were plenty of other places where it could hang. (I hung outside stable, ground was tapered to middle so stable didn't get soaked and had an overhang so wouldn't get re-soaked in rain.)

Also people who left communal hay tied in tacking up area when done... I don't want mine stuffing her face when she doesn't need it. If you've put it up, take it back down after!
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In your case I would be annoyed.

However our yard is a totally different set up. We have a fence with 4 or 5 tie rings and twine. The hose is in the middle. There are also drains around that areas, so never really slippy (different if iced over) I put my net on the furthest away from the hose which is sort of tucked into a corner. They could use any of the other tie rings but they never do. Instead they lead their Horse to my net and then hold the Horse in 1 hand and hose with the other hand. I cannot tie my net outside stable as the drainage isn't great, plus its narrow, so means the Horses will be lunging at it as they go past (in their reach)
 
LaurenBay said:
In your case I would be annoyed.

However our yard is a totally different set up. We have a fence with 4 or 5 tie rings and twine. The hose is in the middle. There are also drains around that areas, so never really slippy (different if iced over) I put my net on the furthest away from the hose which is sort of tucked into a corner. They could use any of the other tie rings but they never do. Instead they lead their Horse to my net and then hold the Horse in 1 hand and hose with the other hand. I cannot tie my net outside stable as the drainage isn't great, plus its narrow, so means the Horses will be lunging at it as they go past (in their reach)
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Ah that's fair enough. Would bug me too then! I know it's not ideal but perhaps a bin or something similar cut away to hang over it? Might just make the point!
 
'Irrigardless'.

'Regardless' is a word - so is 'irrispective' - but you made the first one up. If it means anything it means the opposite of what you think it does...

People who are always getting under your feet in the arena. I don't think they're even specifically breaking any of the rules, there are just some people who are naturally always in the way :)
 
Can i have a list?

for some reason taking my headcollar off its hook, doing it completely up and then putting it back, when i hang it up by the nose so I can grab it and use it in a hurry if needed.

Using my tools and not putting them back or using them when they know i am going to be there.

Putting mucking out stuff and shavings etc outside my stable door meaning I have to either move them or go hunting for the person to move them when im in a rush in the morning.

People not poo picking the arena after use.

Not doing their leccy fence back up, shorting the rest.

Tying up on my tie outside my stable meaning I have to ask them to move back to their own else my youngster goes nuts if I have to tie him up on the opposite side of the yard and leave him. Oh and then them leaving a mess outside my stable when they have moved their horse!

im sure there must be more but i cannot think at the moment :D
 
When other people can't sweep up their dropped straw outside my stable. Just because I'm on the way to the muck heap doesn't mean it's outside my stable and I want to sweep up your mess every sodding day!!! Grr
Also when people don't pick he hosepipe back up or leave a puddle of muddy water on the yard which freezes over night.

Oh and when your hoof pick goes missing and your barrow is full of other peoples dirty and not
Emptied!!!
Only small things but very annoying
 
Floxie said:
'Irrigardless'.

'Regardless' is a word - so is 'irrispective' - but you made the first one up. If it means anything it means the opposite of what you think it does...

People who are always getting under your feet in the arena. I don't think they're even specifically breaking any of the rules, there are just some people who are naturally always in the way :)
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Plenty of dictionaries beg to differ :D Though it's "Irregardless".
 
People who let their horses have bad manners then complain about it!
For instance bringing said horse from the field who pulls and barges through then tries to wash feet, horses dances and gets away and doesnt lead back to try again and instead puts him in the stable with dinner and hay and says to him 'aww we dot do hose pipes do we! Had to walk away from that one.

Also incorrect use of the dually despite going to monty demo and him specifically saying how to use!
 
LaurenBay said:
Because my Horse has mild COPD I soak her hay. I leave it tied to the gate to let it drip and then put it in my stable. The gate is next to the hose. When people bring their Horses in to hose of their legs, they let their Horses eat from my net!! :mad:

I have come back before to find more then half of the hay missing. I have hid aorund the corner and watched and some of the liveries make no effort to stop their Horses eating my hay. Infact they encourage them too, so their Horse stands still to be hosed.

I now have to soak it and move it right out the way so it can't be eaten.
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Completely understand why you have to soak your hay, but turning this around I get irritated when I want to use the hose and somebody has tied their haynet up right next to it!. I don't want my horse to eat somebody else's hay, but I do want to use the hose! Have you ever tried hosing your horse's feet and trying to stop him eating hay at the same time|? Take my word for it, it's impossible :D
 
NikkiF said:
Completely understand why you have to soak your hay, but turning this around I get irritated when I want to use the hose and somebody has tied their haynet up right next to it!. I don't want my horse to eat somebody else's hay, but I do want to use the hose! Have you ever tried hosing your horse's feet and trying to stop him eating hay at the same time|? Take my word for it, it's impossible :D
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My net isn't right next to the hose though. There are about 2 tie rings on the left of the hose and about 3 to the right. I keep mine in the corner on the far left tie ring. Most liveries tie their Horses on the Right and don't have a problem. A couple don't do that however and lead their Horse to my hay and let them nibble whilst they hose there legs down.

I can imagine it being a pain though if the net is right next to the hose.
 
A couple of things, not picking out feet is one, some people I know rarely do it at all, one was then shocked that her pony was lame, surprise surprise, stone in his shoe.

Mainly though, bargy or rude ponies. When my yard was a riding school a lot of the horses were a little bargy going to the field because the grass on the way there was better, people would let them stop and have a munch or be dragged this way and that. When I took them, all it took was an 'AH' and they behaved (apart from the naughty cob, who would try a few times before realising I still wasn't going to let him). They would stand still whilst I opened the gate, walk through and stand still, not dragging me around, whilst I shut it. Silly thing I know but when people excuse it with, oh they always do that, they looked shocked when I say they don't with me! :p

I'm another who doesn't like knots of haynets at the end. When you have to give them to 14 horses and I waste so much time undoing them.

Can I also say that the horse who repeatedly poos in his electric water then bangs the wall to tell you he's thirsty??? I know he's not a human but GOD its annoying! :p
 
When people over feed my ponies because multiple people come and feed them :eek: when people throw my grooming tools,halters,rugs,tack etc on the ground so my dog takes them and gets them covers in dirt and bugs
when people hit and scream at a horse when its doing nothing wrong
And when a girl i known sees a horse goes directly to its backside:p:mad::(:confused::D:):rolleyes::eek: :cool: :o
 
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