oh dear..what should i do

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My horses are kept at my house, and I can see/hear them from my living room.
Last week a woman and her young son came to the gate whilst I was riding and asked to stroke my young horse. Fine, no trouble at all. They had bought polos for her and where so happy at being able to see a horse up close (have never seen one before). I think they may have mental disabilities (sorry, don't know how else to put it!) but again not a problem.
They are back again- I am sat in my lounge but I heard a kid and a woman shouting
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So just looked out the window and they are jumping up and down shouting "Laceyyy! Laceyy come heree!!" very loudly, and Lacey my 4 year old is now tearing around the field
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Obviously upset by it as she is usually so dopey and quiet.
Shall I just go out and get her in or hope they go away soon?
Oh dear I thought they had gone and now they're back
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I really don't know what to do! I did tell them when they came originally that she is only young so don't shout but obviously they didn't listen...

Oh help
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I am scared she is going to jump out into the field with my sisters horse who will kick her to pieces
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Tell them to bog off!! I never let anyone approach my horses for that very reason. You will get people thinking they are the horses best friend and can't get rid of them.
Just tell them that if you are not around they must not be near your horses as it is dangerous.
 
Yes go and tackle them now otherwise it might become a 'daily treat' to come and see the horses. Explain it frightens them if you shout and has upset them and so now you are upset too.
 
They have gone, thank heavens!!!
I just said,
"Excuse me, please could I ask you to leave- this horse is only young and she doesn't like loud noises and has got upset".
They said sorry but the little boy looked like he was about to cry
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So now I feel like an ogre!
They left so I hung around the yard for a bit and they came back to say (or should I say shout!) Goodbye to her, and then noticed me and left again.
Have managed to calm the horse down with a handful of food (glutton!). Just hope they don't come back...
Thanks guys
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Why feel guilty? The little boy has to learn that you cant always do what you want when you want and you have done it the nice way.

I am on a big yard and we have nightmares with 'parents'.

One lady brought a snack bucket and one of the comps said thank you very much grabbed the handle upended it in his stable and scoffed the lot.

A Mother was going round randomly stuffing carrots and apples down the throats of the hoses she liked. She asked me why do they kick the doors and when told she was teaching bad habits she said 'shall I go and give some treats to the ones I missed?'
 
I have same problem
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a mother and daughter who has mental disabilities and tell them every time not feed the horses and still they came with Polo's
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. they shout them over to the gate worst thing I did was tell them the horses names!
I once caught the daughter nipping maddie's noise and holding on to her top lip really hard like you would with a twitch
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,I had wounder why Maddie was suddenly head shy.
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like You I feel really bad when i have to tell them to leave the horses alone but they are my horses i know what right for them.
 
I am dreading when we get ponies at home next year hopefully. Our field is on the main footpath route from the estate to the country and is thick with dog walkers and pram pushers when the weather is nice. Fortunately we mostly have a thick hedge full of blackberry but it is the gate i am concerned about. You can imagine if only 1 in 10 families bring a treat for the ponies...
Am going to electric fence off round the gate and put a 'warning feeding ponies can encourage them to BITE' sign.

I recently found a couple of ladies + kids feeding a whole 5kg bag of carrots to a field of shetland ponies (on a field with not much grass because they are prone to being over weight) and asked them if they had permission to feed carrots and they thought it was an odd question to be asked and commented how they hardly any grass to eat poor things..till I explained why they hadn't much grass, and what all those sweet carrots could do..
 
"Do NOT touch or feed the horses....they BITE'


Friend has this sign on her roadside gate. Well meaning walkers were causing her big boys to lean on the five bar gate by feeding them all the time and it was an accident waiting to happen. The sign seems to have done the trick.
 
We have a couple of neighbours with kids who come round occasionally. The know that they are allowed to come round but have to see if we are in and if we aren't they don't go near the horses.

Frank is very good with children so we prefer to arrange a good time for us so they can come round and brush him etc.
 
Don't feel guilty. You wouldn't walk up to someone's back garden and start feeding their dog, so why would you feed someone's horse?
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Put a sign up and maybe put some electric fencing either inside the gate so the horse can't get near to it, or outside the gate so the people can't get to the gate. We have a sign up saying "do NOT feed the horses or come into the barn" as people randomly have done.
 
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Electric fencing just outside the gate

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I hope you are joking.

OP, did you explain about noises and moving things, it would have siftened the blow by letting them know the reasons.

Spaniel, signs never worked for me, I wouldn't rely on signs working, just hope that they do
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