MrsNorris
Well-Known Member
What would you all do? 3 horses all on diy livery, set up is a large barn and yard with a round feeder and free access to the fields all year round. Horses are out 24/7 365 days, and we share the cost of round bale fodder as and when.
Problem is one owner just doesn't bother to come and check her horse every day. She will randomly just disappear for days at a time, sometimes weeks, sometimes she's not even in this country, and just expects us to do everything!
She knows full well that we will make sure there's enough hay, water is topped up, yard mucked out etc as we have to do it for our horses, and she totally takes advantage of the situation. We have had endless conversations about it, and she keeps promising to make arrangements for when she's not here, but nothing ever changes.
She constantly lies about where she is, and about who she has coming to check on the pony and we have just had another 5 days when no one came at all!
Myself and the other livery are sick to death of being forced to take responsibility for this pony against our will, cleaning up after her, making sure she has hay and isn't ill/injured.
The YO is a lovely elderly person who doesn't really want to get involved, we have explained the situation, and YO has spoken to the negligent livery, but this person just turns on the waterworks and makes the YO feel sorry for her, makes loads of promises that she doesn't keep, and the situation just drags on.
So what would you do? Myself and the other livery feel we're totally being taken advantage of, and it's causing a lot of bad feeling, to the point that the other livery is considering leaving altogether.
Problem is one owner just doesn't bother to come and check her horse every day. She will randomly just disappear for days at a time, sometimes weeks, sometimes she's not even in this country, and just expects us to do everything!
She knows full well that we will make sure there's enough hay, water is topped up, yard mucked out etc as we have to do it for our horses, and she totally takes advantage of the situation. We have had endless conversations about it, and she keeps promising to make arrangements for when she's not here, but nothing ever changes.
She constantly lies about where she is, and about who she has coming to check on the pony and we have just had another 5 days when no one came at all!
Myself and the other livery are sick to death of being forced to take responsibility for this pony against our will, cleaning up after her, making sure she has hay and isn't ill/injured.
The YO is a lovely elderly person who doesn't really want to get involved, we have explained the situation, and YO has spoken to the negligent livery, but this person just turns on the waterworks and makes the YO feel sorry for her, makes loads of promises that she doesn't keep, and the situation just drags on.
So what would you do? Myself and the other livery feel we're totally being taken advantage of, and it's causing a lot of bad feeling, to the point that the other livery is considering leaving altogether.