Little things that other people do that bug you

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This is not an offensive thread but just one for you to say which 'daily'horsey things annoy you that other people do?

Mine just now has to be- putting the horse's feed in stable and then bringing it in for it to barge over you to it's dinner! >:(

Not my horse but there's a girl that does it every day at the yard. To me it's just encouraging bad manners!
 
Wasting bedding when mucking out, hate seeing people pushing their full wheelbarrows to the muckheap and i can't see more more than 5 pieces of poo...
And using MY mucking out tools.. they are mine and you have yours so you feel the need to use mine because?
 
Not sweeping outside their stable when finished mucking out

Not putting my things back after borrowing

Tipping out water in the winter where it can freeze and be lethal
 
People who borrow things and then leave them lying around so they end up getting lost. I don't mind certain things being borrowed, but if you use something, put it back where you got it. Not in livery any more, but on a few occasions I arrived at the yard to see my stuff just thrown somewhere. Drove me nuts.
 
Not a lot annoys me there!
But, we're all meant to chip in with the jobs in the mornings. I hate it when people get their ponies straight in and don't bother with the jobs, it means we all have to catch up and tack up quickly, or leave that pony tacked up for ages :\
 
Taking my new headcollar then dumping it in their cubby instead of returning it.

Using my tools and putting them back where the horse will stand on them or worse, dumping the broken broom outside my box! :mad:

Feeding my horse a massive haynet which he certainly does not need! :mad:
 
holeymoley said:
This is not an offensive thread but just one for you to say which 'daily'horsey things annoy you that other people do?

Mine just now has to be- putting the horse's feed in stable and then bringing it in for it to barge over you to it's dinner! >:(

Not my horse but there's a girl that does it every day at the yard. To me it's just encouraging bad manners!
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I leave my boy's dinner in his stable - but woe betide him if he even thinks about barging me - that is basic manners
 
Yes I will do it if I have someone bringing him in for me but he is very well mannered. This girl does it every day so the horse expects it. God help us if she ties it up to groom before hand as it just dances about in anticipation!
 
holeymoley said:
Yes I will do it if I have someone bringing him in for me but he is very well mannered. This girl does it every day so the horse expects it. God help us if she ties it up to groom before hand as it just dances about in anticipation!
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I do it everyday - my boy knows that when he is in his stable he gets to eat - but outside his stable he has to behave himself. Sometimes, he gets brought in and he has to
a) be ridden
b) be groomed including feet being picked out
c) got ready for lunging
d) gets put into the stable

Nothing wrong with putting feed into the stable, what you do before you put the horse into the stable needs to vary
 
holeymoley said:
Yes I will do it if I have someone bringing him in for me but he is very well mannered. This girl does it every day so the horse expects it. God help us if she ties it up to groom before hand as it just dances about in anticipation!
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I do this every day too.....and I take my horses headcollars off outside the stable and they just wander in on their own....if I wanted to tie them up, or groom them or anything else, I would and they would accept it, but I don't see anything wrong with putting their food in for them!!!?

Perhaps I'm missing something.....!
 
Maybe I'm the irritating one because right at the moment there's nothing I can think of off the top of my head (at the yard anyway) that is annoying.
 
I've put my horses feed in the stable for her ready almost every day for nearly 22yrs. She has yet to barge anyone, ever. And done the same with plenty of others, none barge.
As for what bugs me about people? Mainly just the fact they exist. Though tbh, lifes too short to stress about others habits. If they affect me, or are cruel, I'll say something. Otherwise I don't get bugged by stuff.
 
Well that's your choice if your horses are well mannered. What I'm saying is the fact that it happens every day and each day I have to listen to person battling and shouting with her horse as it barges its way through her and the door to its food.
 
Maisy said:
I do this every day too.....and I take my horses headcollars off outside the stable and they just wander in on their own....if I wanted to tie them up, or groom them or anything else, I would and they would accept it, but I don't see anything wrong with putting their food in for them!!!?

Perhaps I'm missing something.....!
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I do this. Feed is in the stable but they have to stand and wait by the open door for their headcollar to come off before going in by themselves.

One of my bug bears is not teaching horses to lead correctly and having them ambling behind you.

It drives me mad at work.
 
people who tie a haynet with the knot at the end - it infuriates me no idea why but it really grinds my gears :o

people who use my mucking out stuff... actually using my stuff at all - get your own!!

people whos horses constantly break through electric fencing and never replace it and that electric fencing happens to be mine...

people who dont bother to muck their horses out and know full well that their horse will be the last out so i will have to bring it in, muck it out and give it hay and water because they cant be bothered to come up and do it them selves... im not a full livery service!!
 
People who can't be arsed to push their wheelbarrow to the actual muck heap (it's not hard to spot ffs) and dump their barrowful in this weird arc adjacent to the heap leaving a right mess.
 
There are a couple of little things that my sharer does that irritate me, but I never mention as I just feel so petty-

1 not washing feed bowl and then the chaff etc gets dried on and is much harder to get off. I wash bowls every day without fail.

2 I always take head collar on and off with the clip under throat, but she undoes the buckle, but always leaves it done up on tightest hole so I have to loosen it and I usually forget until I'm struggling to get it on in the middle of the field.

3 I always take the girth fully off the saddle and when I tack up get the numnah, saddle and gel pad all nicely lined up before reattaching the girth, but she always leaves the girth attached on one side so it dangles around and gets in the way when I'm sorting the saddle out.

Look I said I was being petty :D
 
Every horse I've had or dealt with has been well mannered, if not initially then asap. And I expect manners to hold regardless of circumstances, food or otherwise waiting I don't allow barging, hence they don't.
 
not on this lovely yard, but in the past:

walking past me tacking Em up with their neds tea, couldnt poss wait the 5 mins it takes for me to get in to the school out of the way???

getting a text asking if the yard can borrow some of my hay 5 mins after ive arrived on the yard to see them wheeling 5 bales of it out of the barn as the YM hadnt paid any hay bills for so long nobody would sell to her!

hearing the cd player i took up the yard when i was on my own suddenly going silent, turned out the YOs kid had chucked it on the floor as i was playing Queen instead of her fave teeny bopper track, then getting told it was my fault??

the worst one has to be - waving a fellow livery off on a long hack whilst i was mucking out, then as i went to lock up i found her 6 month old kid left alone in a buggy in the tack room!!!! couldnt leave it on its own so was stuck there for another 2 hours waiting for her to get back, then her saying "oh she would have been fine, you didnt have to stay with her" WTF?? :eek:
 
tipping water buckets anywhere apart from down the drain... then complaining when the yard is an ice rink the next day

leaving feed bags/dropped feed everywhere, then complaining about the mice

not forking their wheelbarrow of muck to the back of the trailer

leaving the tack room unlocked when they wander off for a 2 hr hack

not wearing hi viz (a basic tabard!), is just beyond me

leaving lights and radio on on the yard

bent leg stirrups on back to front

haynet knots - have to be in the middle of the net and not at the end of the string!

people who borrow my things and don't put it back where they found it - drives me bonkers, have absolutely no problem with people borrowing my stuff as long as i think it's never been borrowed lol!

i could go on but would make me look a right anally retentive nightmare :D (who am i kidding - i AM an anally retentive nightmare!!)
 
you see i like the knots on the string of the haynet to be at the end, and it drives me nuts when it isn't. :o

people borrowing stuff without asking and then returning it in a lot worse condition than when they borrowed it :mad:

borrowing mucking out tools and stacking them up next to their stable, not putting them where they found them.

smacking my horse with a leadrope round its face when leading past, because she pulls faces, even though it has been explained to everyone that she would never ever actually do anything, she doesnt even reach out or stand pressing herself against the door, she just stands near the door pulling faces, so please just leave her to it and ignore her, let her be a grumpy bum if she wants to be, you're really not helping by smacking her round the face! :mad: :mad: :mad:

people spreading their hay everywhere and not cleaning it up

and i'm sorry but one of my biggest hates is people smoking around the horses, fair enough if its your own horse, whatever, but please do not stand by my horses stable puffing away with your horrible stinky fags, especially that said horse has copd plus the horses are stabled in a indoor barn so its not like it just floats away, people smoking indoors just generally bug me.

one last one, those that fall for my dogs tricks to get them to carry her around :rolleyes: you can't really blame them, she's a white mini poodle, and her trick when she's sick of walking around is to find a person that pays attention to her, sit in front of them, flatten her ears and make her eyes look huge (like the cat from shrek) and shake, pretending she's cold. she's not, she never is, she wears a waterproof fleece lined coat and has fur of her own, she is not cold, she just want to be picked up and carried, and when people fall for it, she suddenly stops being ''cold'' and looks very pleased with herself :rolleyes: funny little dog :D
 
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