names on stable doors

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just out of curiosity, i was wondering if anyone as name plaques on their stable doors.
my god-daughter wanted to put them on mine, but i said no,as if anyone wanted to steal our horses,they would know their names.
 
Where I used to work when I was a teen had them.
I dont have stables
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Wouldn't even cross my mind a theif knowing their pet names
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Mine doesn't have a plaque but as I am on a livery yard, his name is on a wipe clean board outside outside his stable with a list of instructions etc.
His name is also on his rugs etc and so even if his name wasn't outside, then all a thief would have to do is look at the tag on the rug!
I also hadn't thought about the risk of a thief knowing his name.
 
How would someone knowing their name put them more at risk?
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We don't have them, as generally the stables are interchangeable.
 
yes, brought at your horse live yesterday. I'm on a busy livery yard and right outside the YO's house so wouldn't worry about theft but can't imagine that knowing their names would help, if anything it would make them very trackable if they used their names.

However, with dogs i definately wouldn't put names on tags as they could be called away but somebody calling their name.
 
As mine doesnt exactly come to his name I dont think it would make a blind bit of difference if a thief knew it. Both of ours have name plaques.
 
Sidney did have a name plate and I didn't worry about him being taken as he bit and kicked and was generally an evil bugger to strangers. if he classed you as "family" you were generally ok.

Ru doesn't have one yet but she will do eventually. At the end of the day if thieves want her they will take her and I am not sure that they would take notice of names anyway.
 
We have name plaques at the livery yard for the 8 horses who live in. The others all live out all year round, so obviously there's no point in getting plaques for them! They all have their names on their rugs though (kind of necessary when you've got 18 horses and about 100 rugs
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) so any potential thief would soon find it out. Not that I think it would help.
 
Yes it makes life so much easier, and your idea of it making them more vunerable to thieves is utter rubbish, in my opinion. I waas on a livery yard/riding school for 20 years that had over 65 horses on it each with they're names on doors and not one was ever stolen.
 
Mine will have them for Christmas pressie, sad I know! But no chance of Cappy getting nicked, he hates strangers and approaches anyone new with ears flat back and sometimes teeth bared. Fany, well she is anyones for a carrot anyway! They live on a yard with lots of noisy dogs and the owners live on the yard too.

I do worry about theft from the field, but Cappy is very anti strangers and both his Fany's fields are internal fields overlooked by the YO's kitchen window, all the fields at my yard can only be accessed from the yard itself, so relatively secure.
 
I have my mares name on her stable, if a thief as targeted your horse i don,t think their knowing the name or not comes into it. Also if a thief was determined to know a a horses name after they have stolen it they would only need to read the following press articles on the horse they had just stolen.
 
I have name plaques

To be honest, if the horses were to be stolen (heaven forbid) it would make me feel slightly better if they were still being called by their names rather than them having to get used to being called something else. Perhaps I'm soppy...
 
I think every horse on our yard has one except maybe one, they look nice & I don't think a theif would base thier choice on a name. We got ours at TopSignDesign.com, they brighten the place up. I gave my horses them for xmas! (and a snuggyhood - sad I know!)
 
Yes all 30+ horses have name plates in the same design. All rugs and head collars are named too which makes it much easier for new staff, work experience students etc.
 
I had a brilliant one done by pretty plaques on facebook, going to get the others done soon as i can as well, must admit i did consider the thing about names but as someone else said its not qutie the same as dogs
 
All the horses at my barn have them. I really appreciated it when I first moved there and I was trying to tell the barn owner something about one of the horses :o

Every barn that I've been at has had them. I don't think that anyone would want to steal my yak, but even if they did, knowing her 'barn name' wouldn't get them anywhere anyway.:confused:
 
I don't......obviously not knowing the horses name will protect them from thieves:rolleyes:

No, the stables can be seen from the path along the next field which kids use as a shortcut.......2 of the horses will come to call and I'd really prefer passers-by not to know their names.

Probably daft, I know..:o
 
I have Ruby's name on her door and will have one made for Chico.

The way i look at it if someone is going to steal one of my horses they will probably either take it from the field or if they do take from the stable it is hugely unlikely that knowing the horses name will make any difference. A dodgy dealer will change a horses name anyway to try and avoid it being traced.
 
I think if they are going to take a horse then they'll take one.

Name plates are useful if you have other people dealing with horses, easy then to tell them to feed x,y or z, or that the Paint with the blue blanket, (as opposed to the other 5 Paints without blankets) goes in the stall marked 'Z'

I don't have them, occasionally a name is scribbled on a door with chalk, but more likely it is instructions "No contact -ISOLATION!" etc.

Apart from the indoor boarders all the stables are used on a free for all basis, if it is empty and unbedded anything can go in there kind of system.
 
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