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Mickeymoo

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Why are some people soo evil. I am on a small private yard to escape "big yard politics" and this morning I got a call from my yard owner - someone has rang her and told her I am moving my two horses - which I have no plans to do.. and can they have my stables! They wouldn't leave their name so it was obvious they were out to backstab.

Why can't people enjoy having a horse instead of being so evil!
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I'm afraid that although there are wonderful people in the 'horsey community' there are also so really wierd, strange, & some down right nasty people as well...........& it seems the latter get most of the press
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sometimes small private yards are the worst! Friend of mine is on a yard with two other people and it is unbelievable the things they do to each other! Emptying full pots of cortaflex on the floor, taking up electric fencing, letting horses with laminitis into the main field with lots of grss, fighting over space in the tack room, where muck is dumped on the muck heap, who has what hay.... the list is endless. I'm so glad that I have a yard to myself and don't have to go through this anymore.
 
Gah! Some people.

How was your YO about it? What sort of relationship do you have with her? I think, in your position, I would make it crystal clear that if, and when, you decide to make any alteration to your boarding arrangements that YOU will have the courtesy to tell her IN PERSON, and until she hears otherwise from you everything else is malicious gossip and has absolutely no foundation at all.
 
I think people like that are sad and need to get a life of their own instead of poking their nose in to others business,shame really they feel the need to gossip you have to pity them
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My YO was really upset as we are really good mates and I help her out with her horses. I feel better now than I did this morning about things. I accept that horsey people have a gossip and a bitch about things, but if my YO had been a horrid person my boys would be out on their ear by now, and I have a 20 year old horse with a suspensory injury who needs to be in a small herd - he shouldn't even be out, but because the herd is so good he is fine wandering about.

I suspect 2 people who could have done this, one would do it for spite and one for their own gain. I don't mind being battered, but it's not fair to put my horses at risk of loosing a good place to live. After all, they would be suffering a lot more than me.

Whatever they were trying to achieve, it hasn't worked anyway. I'm just happy I don't have to stoop that low to get my kicks.

thanks for your support guys. xx
 
Don't assume all big yards are bad. Mine are in a 40+ horse yard and I couldn't wish for better. It's professional, with (gasp) things like contracts. The YO is a qualified instructor (also my good friend). The horses want for nothing, and, judging by recent postings, it's not expensive. All the liveries get on well - the one or two who have spoilt it in the past were soon out on their ears. There are advantages - bulk buying of bedding and feed, people around all the time so (hopefully) anything amiss gets noticed. As I said, I wouldn't change it, and I feel very lucky.
 
I've not long moved my pony off a yard where I also exercised a horse and had done well on it and the yard owner got the greened eyed monster.
He told the owner I was beating it, and told her some horrible lies about me, I heard him talking and lying about me to other liveries too.
I absolutely adored the horse and looked after it as if it was my own and I feel I have let it down as now I have left she isn't having her teeth done, being ridden in an ill fitting saddle and having her head strapped down in one of his inventions because he can't get her in an outline. He also lets his horses get very thin in the winter, which will include her, I will be reporting him this winter though!
 
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