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Trying not to be un-PC here....

but......bear with me..please????

i have a large, heavyweight cob youngster for sale....

had a call from a young girl, 23 yrs old, who mentioned she had physical and learning disabilties.....

i politely declined her offer of a visit and purchase of my cob.

2 hours later i had her mum on the phone saying i wasn't a very nice person for refusing to let her daughter see my cob. i'm sorry, but he is 16 months old, built like a brick sh1thouse, and very opinionated. i pointed out to mum, that i, as his owner, couldn't condone selling him to someone who, IMO, wouldn'tbe able to cope with such an animal....needless to say, she wasn't impressed and mentioned discrimination????


i'm astonished.
 
Sadly, you are legally required to discriminate against anyone who is not able to cope, surely? Otherwise you get nicked for knowlingly selling her something that could hurt her? Did you say it was the daughter or the mother with the problem?!
 
lucky perhaps that she has no recourse to prosecution in this particular case on the grounds of discrimination - I wouldn't entertain anything other than a fit competent and able adult for a horse that young but i guess it does hang on the extent of her disabilities and what adjustments her yard or parents could make to support her
 
Often I am placed in similar situations with the trail riding. I used to not know quite what to say back in the early days - I knew there was absolutely no way I was taking any person with any disability out on my trails; the liability is too great for me to even consider this.

Anyway 3 years on and I am proficient at saying no in a round about way. You have to turn it around and say that it would not be safe for the person and the risks would be too great for you to, in my case take them out on a ride, in your case sell this horse onto someone where you think there is a risk of injury to the person.
 
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Sadly, you are legally required to discriminate against anyone who is not able to cope, surely? Otherwise you get nicked for knowlingly selling her something that could hurt her? Did you say it was the daughter or the mother with the problem?!

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Daughter....
 
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Did she mention what these disabilities were?, perhaps the daughter bigged it up to her mum.

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she mentioned mobility problems....and some learning difficulties...i didnt ask any more...
 
Sorry, but she may be a very proficient rider and I think maybe you should have found out more, and explained if need be that this horse is not sitable, but not until you know.
 
It sounds to me that really she needs a bombproof schoolmaster given her situation really or a horse/pony that was used in RDA work rather than taking on a well built youngster like yours.
Caz
 
good for you. he's a youngster, and if he's half as strong-willed as some cob youngsters i've known, he would be very unsuitable, if not dangerous for her. that's not discrimination, that's honesty and common-sense.
you did the right thing, imho.
 
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Sorry, but she may be a very proficient rider and I think maybe you should have found out more, and explained if need be that this horse is not sitable, but not until you know.

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ummmm...i think i did.

i buy and sell ponies EVERY week and there is NO WAY am i going to risk my rep by selling a pony that, IMHO, is totally unsuitable to young lady who, by her own admission, is disabled!!!?
 
i completely agree with you. you have done the right thing. itd have been alrite if she'd have come to see him, got knocked/barged out the way.......of course... itd be your fault, in todays societys eyes!
 
This always annoys me.

If she feels she shouldnt be discriminated against then why mention to you that she has mobility problems? If she thinks she can handle what's advertised then better for her to say nothing, but in telling you she's effectivley asking if you think it would be suitable, which you quite rightly said you felt it wasnt.

Good on you.
 
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