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If you are having money trouble, relationship issues .

Why THE FOOK does the horse suffer ?????

Why do you supply inadequate food for said horse ?? infact none at all ????

Why do you leave said horse in a stable with no turnout for weeks on end, never cleaning it out for 2 weeks ?? leaving it to stand in sh1te up to its hocks ?

Why do you leave its feet in that state ? ie so its tripping over them ??

Why do you never groom this animal ? ?

why do you never water this animal ??

why do you think its ok to let this poor animal suffer ?

Why am I left to take this poor thing for a walk ??

Why do you think all the above is OK ???


And why the hell am I so naive in thinking that she will at some stage get her finger out of her hole and take responsibility for this horse ?
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Relationship matters or no relationship matters ..... no excuse !


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Soooo angry and sad at this present minute .
 
by any chance a livery on your yard?

Sounds like a really difficult situation! I agree with what you are saying and I just hope you continue to care for the horse as long as she isnt doing and that she appreciates what you are doing for her (even if she doesnt realise it right now)

keep calm and strong and always remember to breath!
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Awful situation by the sound of it, and from what you've put above I think it would be time to report her, if its feet are in that state and it's not being fed and watered let someone from an appropriate welfare organisation have a chat with her. She should be named and shamed and if nothing's being said she's just being allowed to get away with it. I'm sure it's not an easy one to resolve but sounds to me like something has to happen sooner rather than later.
 
Sounds like a terrible situation - do you not have a yard owner to go to? I seriously would report her to the World Horse Welfare (ILPH) or your equivalant. Shutting a horse in and not feeding/watering it is full on cruelty.
Hope you can sort this out - poor pony.
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There is no excuse for the above, and personally my animals all come first and I would radically change my way of living to provide £ for my horse, (And we have really been struggling very hard with money lately).
Many of the above things involve work and not money. Is the owner normally lapse with some things? I am wondering if some of this is down to laziness or ignorance? It may be that she is having a complete breakdown and cannot cope. If she needs help desperately as she cannot cope then maybe people could help for a while. I'd speak to her if I were you, but I TOTALLY understand your concern with this very bad situation for the animals.
 
absolutely hellish for poor horse and you. What choice have you got, other than to report her to ILPH (not their current name, i've forgotten it) or similar and get the horse taken away, she is not fit to own an animal. Cases like this should be taken to court and she would the be banned form keeping horses.
Stay strong, get phoning the welfare folks. I've done it in the past over skinny horse and they gave me feedback so i know it was the right thing to do.
HUGS to you.
 
I agree - I would rather live in a dirty stable than let my pony spend a night in one. I have very similar issues at my pony's yard and it's sooooooooo difficult.
 
Yard Owner has been out of the country for a few weeks, She is returning today, I am going to have words with her, also had news that she is moving the horse to her own home . This person is quite a nice person, shes had problems in the past, but for her to keep treating her horse "that she supposedly loves etc etc " .... its not bloody on
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For instance, she has had no haylage left since thursday, I have been feeding her from my own forage . I rang her to ask her when she would be down, giving that she never was down last night, she said that she had bits and pieces to do ! Its now 1 o clock and the horse has not been given anything, apart from what I threw her in this morning .

No amount of problems would stop me from caring for my horse
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id also be writing up a bill for the part livery work that you have been doing for her!!!! esp if you are using ur own forage to feed her horse!

KUDOS to you tho for obv being such a caring person (even if the person responsible is not)
 
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There is no excuse for the above, and personally my animals all come first and I would radically change my way of living to provide £ for my horse, (And we have really been struggling very hard with money lately).
Many of the above things involve work and not money. Is the owner normally lapse with some things? I am wondering if some of this is down to laziness or ignorance? It may be that she is having a complete breakdown and cannot cope. If she needs help desperately as she cannot cope then maybe people could help for a while. I'd speak to her if I were you, but I TOTALLY understand your concern with this very bad situation for the animals.

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This is my fear too, thing is I have told her I will feed etc, if she provides the feed, That is not a problem at all ! She has been having a lot of problems, I have told her I will feed, she then comes a week and feeds and everything is going fine, then out of the blue, she stops turning up, I dont know whether to think that she expects me to know when she hasnt turned up ? A phonecall or a text is all it takes .
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I really dont know what to think anymore, I know she works but if you have a horse you have to be commited 100% not 40% .

Anyhoos ... I have to head out now but thanks folks .... have calmed down a little and will have a word with the yard owner today, and hopefully a heart to heart if and when I see owner .


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have a word with both YO and owner
is she thick? she sounds like a total nightmare!
one of reasons why i cant stand being on a livery yard, as it happened to me, except there were 3 of them and one was a colt....
hope it gets sorted, its heartbreaking when you are there.
 
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She would not sell her, plus the fact the poor thing wouldn't sell anyways, shes an ex race horse . Nothing going for her .

Yard owner has arrived back today and has seen the stable and is disgusted, I wasn't there when she seen it but was told from another livery that is going to have words with said owner . Her water bucket was full of sh1t, so yard owner got her some clean water, The water situation hasn't been great as with yard owner away, the pipes burst, but we all bar her managed to get water out to our horses .

I am only back in from the yard and she was still not there attending to the horse, I gave her a section of my haylage, I was tempted to stick her out, but she would only upset the other horses by galloping and farting about, I am not prepared to do that . The last time I helped clean her out, I took out 12 barrows of sh1te . Its really getting to me, her standing in that crap, if I do it then shes basically going to think its ok ... yeah colleen will do it. I ain't doing it anymore .

Will see what the outcome is with YO and hopefully she will stick to her word and basically give the owner a kick up the backside .
 
God, this sounds soooooooooooooo like what's going on at my (soon to be ex) yard. It's the basics that just are not done - proper clean bed, clean water, not pea soup, good feed and forage, and plenty of exercise/turnout if appropriate.

How hard is that ? If she treated her child like this, social services would remove said child. Maybe tell her that ?
 
hun, ive just bought a horse kept in the same mannor.. its trained to grand prix level dressage and is such a state. rspca case, appraoced yard owner and he didnt care. pm me if you want to see the needie.. currently 18.2 bone! poor fecker.
 
Is this person supposed to be keeping the horse on DIY livery? I shudder to think what an appalling physical and physiological state the horse is in, especially if it's a thoroughbred!

Hopefully the yard owner will have some serious words with her, and make her realise the gravity of the situation. It sounds like she needs to put her horse on part livery. That would be the responsible thing to do.
 
Hiya,
from reading through this thread, it sounds to me like you've tried being supportive and helping her out as much as you can.
I think there comes a point where you will just need to tell her in no uncertain terms that what she's doing really isn't on, and she needs to pull her finger out and sort it out!
It's not a nice thing to have to do, and you may lose a friend, but you will anyway because your understandable resentment towards her for putting on you.
Unfortunately, the more you do for some people, the more they will let you, and not think twice about it
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Hope you get it sorted x
 
I think you are doing a great job for this poor horse. I have been at a few yards over the yrs but have never encountered this kind of thing.
I think she does need a dressing down now as this has gone way beyond a joke. If you weren't looking after this horse, presumably it would have no clean water, no food and basically neglected totally.
Impossible for you if she is not consistent in what she does or does not do.
Maybe you and YO could meet with her and lay things out plainly and with a lot of force. I dunno if this would work, if it doesn't you will presumably need to go to the authorities for help. Well done for caring. You sound great.
 
Indeed pedantic
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Mickey, thankfully yard owner had a word with her and kindly told her that the horse should never have been left like that and hoped that she would improve her care and wished her well with the horse at home, She subsquently moved the horse this morning, Owner told me that she has 5 fresh bales of shavings in her stable and ample haylage, Owner has 4 acre field, so shes told me that she will get turnout .

I do hope now she will stick to her word, I will of course take a wee sneaky trip up some day this week
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. I know the owner has had a hard time lately and I did explain to her that it was still not fair on the horse
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, she seemed genuinely ashamed that she let her get like that
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. She told me that she would have more time with her now that she didn't have to travel to the yard .

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I just read your last part of your post mickey
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. No I am sure any other person would have done exactly the same thing
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but thank you
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Col x
 
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