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Anyone with any knowledge of horse literature will know what im talking about lol

Anyway.. I was up the farm today, and i asked the farmer if it was ok for me to stick Ted out with the other pony. He came back to me and said he would be happier if I kept him in with the cows.

He explained why,
The owners of the other pony come up once a week and empty a bag of moli-chop and a bag of nuts.
They also are not great at horse care and the farmer said he aint happy wit them being there anymore anyway.

I was talking to its owner and one of them asked what i wanted to do.. I said i wanted to be a Farrier.. their reply???

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What a Farrier?

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Now is it just me that sees this level of ignorance as appauling?

Lou x
 
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That is unbelievable.
 
Lol the reason i movedo nt he farriers was becuase the pony is growing anice pair of flippers.

I'm gla its not just me then.
They asked me how coem Ted was so shiney and stuf... I was like.. he gets groomed twice a day
Lou x
 
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It is absolutely terrible, maybe they call them a blacksmith like people used to in the old days!! lol

I think there are far too many people out there with horses and not a clue or a care about how to look after them. It is sad.
 
I sold a brand new bunk bed once and the lady who came round noticed my photos of ponies. She ask me what is the cheapest she could buy a pony as her 4 year old daughter likes ponies (this lady was a non horsey person).
I could only say that you get what you pay for, suitable ones arnt cheap!! I mean what do you tell someone like this, that you can pick up ponies for £50 at the local sales!!
I hear quite a few horror stories about novices and they all seem to go for the really cheap ones (with lots of problems too)
 
I welcome the new licence system that I hope will come in soon then it will stop idiots like this from running yards and owning horses.

Last year we had a woman bring a horse to the yard who had bought a horse for her children who'd had a few lessons and wanted a horse.

Apparently, they went to view the horse at night in the middle of a field by torchlight......

When the little mare arrived, she was emaciated, had rain scold and her feet were awful. They did not have a clue about feeding or horsemanship in any form. The poor pony had COPD and was wheezing away, I suggested the vet and they was surprised that they would have to pay......

With the help of the yard owner and all the other knowledgeable people on the yard we managed to keep this little mare alive. After a winter the kids became bored and the mare was given away, thankfully to a women with a bit more knowledge........

This is why horses end up with psychological problems, its not the horse, its the bloody people they come into contact with.
 
Lets hope so. I used to work with a guy who asked me why his shetland kept lying down all day. It turn out he had no horse care knowledge at all. He had brought the pony as a pet for his kids 7 months earlier from a market and traveled it home in the back of his van (he actually laugh when he discribed how it had scrabbled around the metal floor all the way home)
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. The pony hadn't seen a farrier since he had got it and was living with a goat on a 2 acre paddock. I never saw the pony, but assumed it probably had laminitis as it was late spring and the pony was apparently very fat and hardly stood up.
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He was surprised and shocked when I told him to get the vet immediately and to contact a farrier (hope he did as he went on long term sick shortly after, so I never got an update).
 
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