My horse bit someone.. whay would you do?

Freddies Gal - if my horse is in its stable and some muppet starts to mess with it, and cant read the signals that the horse is unhappy as clearly the op's horse makes it know - then its no-ones fault than the person who's doing the messing.

I just wish folk would leave other peoples horses alone, and to smack them - he would get a snow shovel in his face if it were one of mine !
 
fidgeuk said:
Hi everyone,

Got told this morning that my horse bit one of the other liveries husband last Friday :eek:

Aparently he went to give him a cuddle! He has done this previously!! he approached with arms outstretched and was bitten on his inner arm between elbow and armpit. I've been told he has a large bruise and that he gave my horse a good old wallop across the head!

I didn't apologise and was a bit offhand saying i didn't think he should be cuddling other peoples horses when the owners aren't around and that he should leave the horses alone, especially when they're done and dusted for the night and that it was basically his fault he was bitten!

Everyone is aware that my horse is grumpy when it comes to his dinner/breakfast he pulls some right faces but i can wander in and out of his stable with no bother when hes eating, nobody else does though! Most of the other liveries steer clear of him when hes eating, which works just fine. Just recently hes become quite possessive of his steamed hay and i think this is why hes bitten that bloke, especially if he came at him with open arms!

I'm annoyed that this situation has arisen. I would never mess around with someone elses horse/animal unless i had permission to do so or maybe i needed to because of an emergency. I'm annoyed because on saturday morning my horse tried to bite me!!! This has never happened before and i'm quite shocked at him. He didn't connect with me, i just shouted at him and he shot to the back of the box looking suitably chastised.

Since then hes been fine :)

Am i right to feel abit miffed and annoyed or should i be putting a "don't feed the rabid horse" sign on his door and purchasing a muzzle?
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I'd just tell him to grow up, if you went messing with his car he wouldn't like that would he.The Muppet.
 
I wouldn't worry about it. It sounds like your horse sussed him out and won. Dumbo bloke will probably avoid him and think twice about how he approaches a horse next time!
 
I'm a little bit horrified that so many people are thinking that it's ok to have a horse that bites. Replace the horse with a dog and would you feel the same way?
 
I wouldn't do anything at all. The man probably won't approach the horse again and IMO biting is never acceptable no matter what the situation so I think the horse deserved a clout for it........
 
Gingerwitch said:
Freddies Gal - if my horse is in its stable and some muppet starts to mess with it, and cant read the signals that the horse is unhappy as clearly the op's horse makes it know - then its no-ones fault than the person who's doing the messing.

I just wish folk would leave other peoples horses alone, and to smack them - he would get a snow shovel in his face if it were one of mine !
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Regardless of signals, body language, what the horse was or wasn't doing - it bites, and people deserve to know. For the sake of putting up a bit of paper it's just a no brainer and I can't understand why anyone wouldn't. It's not a little fluffy hamster that will maybe draw blood, it's a 1000 pound animal which is potentially lethal.
 
Paulag - if someone came up to my dog and tried to cuddle it, and the dog was gowling and proceed to do it and then the dog bit them - i would punch the person's lights out ! how dare they risk me having to pts a dog because they are a muppet.

Now if the dog or horse had "attacked " unprovoked that would be a different matter.
 
Paulag said:
I'm a little bit horrified that so many people are thinking that it's ok to have a horse that bites. Replace the horse with a dog and would you feel the same way?
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I had a dobermann x in Australia, years ago. He guarded anything he was next to but wouldn't leave it to bite anyone. He was sitting in my car and as it was hot I had the wondows open, I had dived into a supermarket and no one was going to nick my old car with Harley glaring at them through the window. When I came out a man had been badly bitten he had put his hand in the crack of the window to pat Harley who had a good go at him. Why would that have been my dogs fault? Luckily man realised he had been a prat.

I never interefere with my horse while hes eating, I would hate it being done to me. (Haynets excepted) but I still wouldn't go and pat someone elses horse if I didn't know it. Respect works both ways.
 
Paulag said:
I'm a little bit horrified that so many people are thinking that it's ok to have a horse that bites. Replace the horse with a dog and would you feel the same way?
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If the dog was in it's own kennel eating it's dinner and someone it didn't know came and jumped on it I'd say exactly the same yes.

I ain't no fluffy bunny. I don't stand being bitten by my own horses but if someone else's bit me whilst I was being a clot it would be my own fault. Same if I approached a strange dog without checking first. No need to be a retard. People should think before they go waving themselves at new animals or face the fact they might get a nip!
 
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Agh!
Absolutely livid! No one should be handling your house without ur permission. It is idiots like that that give some horses a bad name.
 
If i went and wrapped my arms round a horse and it bit me I would think....................that wasn t a good idea maybe i won t wrap my arms round other peoples horses again.
 
My horses are all used for public displays. None of them bite, but all of them have signs on their doors saying "Horses may bite: do not feed"".
 
Read this and was about to type horse shouldn't bite and guy shouldn't of hugged horse. Then my phone rang, im eating my dinner and found myself rather anoyed that it was my mum calling i love her but do rather like my food, so i can see where the horse is coming from. In an ideal world horses and peple would be perfect sadly they are not.
 
FreddiesGal said:
I'd be more inclined to think it's the irresponsible owners that let it happen that give horses a bad name.
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how is the OP irresponsible:confused: the man walked up to a horse which isn't his and tried to hug it and the horse protested with a bite, i think the man was the irresponsible one for invading a horses space!! My big girl is not into cuddles and would probably protest in a similar manner if someone tried to fling their arms around her neck!!
I don't condone horses biting but they are animals and will react as such if pushed too far
 
I give up on this phone!
And the horse owner wasnt there. Even the assumed safest animal is unpredictable and will defend themselves if need be. A horse in its stable can not flee like its instinct tells them. The man didnt just walk near the stable door, he approached to fling his arms around its neck! If the horse ess lunging over the stable door at passers by then signs and warnings are a neccesity but this was not the case here
 
Ok - can all responsible horse owners please make a notice for their stables that says:-

Please if you fling your arms around me, and my ears are back and you continue to fling your arms around me to cuddle me - then i must worn you I will bite !

how ruddy stuipid !
 
Aren't there any lawyers on here?

This one is not at all straight forward! My solicitor warned me not to put up a sign stating, "Beware of the Dog", because in law that is apparently an admission that the dog is dangerous! He suggested "Loose Dogs" or something along that line. So I've got "Guard Dogs" and "Guard Dogs Patrolling" just in case someone gets licked to death.

But does similar advice apply to horses? I think probably not. It doesn't apply to cats, for example, because they are not considered as domesticated (?) to the same degree as dogs and are assumed to be unpredictable!

But where that leaves biting horses, I've no idea! I think I'd assume they were likely to be dangerous at all times and to be handled only with caution! So a bit like cats and small children, really!:D
 
FreddiesGal said:
Jesstickle - Put a notice up maybe?
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But the horse has never bitten before. So the sign is for idiots and just outlines things any horse has potential to do. ''This is a horse. It might bite, it might kick, it might trample, it might do any number of things because ultimately it is an animal with moods and opinions. Please don't be a complete retard''

Wouldn't that be considered common knowledge on a livery yard full of horse owners?
 
Maybe man shouldn't have gone with arms open wide, but he was right to wallop the horse. Not only this, but it's a natural reaction.
 
I would be bloody fuming serves him bloody right...what gives him the right to go anywhere near somebody else's horse whilst they are not there!!!.... & as for telling him off i would go nuts!!!! Serves him right & perhaps now he may learn that not all horses are sweet & cuddly!! (although he probably wont learn!!!).x
 
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