Over cautious owners

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Does anyone else have these at your yard?

We're on DIY so most people aren't TOO bad but there are the odd few who will shut every single stable door is and request all wheelbarrows, buckets etc are moved before their horse is allowed to walk down the center aisle between stables?

Or those who will refuse to walk their horse within 10 miles of your horse's bum when he's tied up despite your reassurances that there's plenty of room for a bus to get past and if I thought for a second that my horse would ever kick I wouldn't have tied him with his arse facing into the middle of the path in the first place??

Just a mini rant. Not actually angry at these people, I give my horse a lot of credit for being reasonably sensible enough that he's not somehow going to entangle himself in a stable door which is a good several metres away from him, but I understand that some people don't put quite so much faith in their horse's common sense or ability to avoid chaos around every corner (and that includes not putting so many rugs on him that he can't move in the field - I didn't pay £200 for a heavyweight turnout to have to put ANOTHER rug underneath!)

Just really wanting to hear of other slightly over protective people - maybe you are one? Or maybe you have a few on your yard? Just to make me laugh a bit whilst bored at work
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I think it is sensible to be careful but you can be too careful and sometimes I think it can be good for your horse to have to negotiate obstacles and be sensible about them.
 
Erm no - I have some issues with some people at the yard and what they do with there horses, but I do not say anything.

My horse has 2 rugs on
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And they are 2 NZ Rugs!! He has a full clip and his legs are clipped out and his face.
 
Your horse may be as safe as houses 99.9% of the time - it only takes an off day and wham! broken leg. You should always give plenty of distance between horses - no matter how good you think they are.

I would ask for the buckets to be moved too.......

Nothing makes a safe yard like a tidy yard
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Yes but I was more annoyed by the person who left both their stable doors open opposite eachother on the yard with a handy tub trug positioned in the middle of them and then went home ???? I'm not precious at all about this sort of thing but why would you leave your bucket and doors blocking the entire yard before you go home? How would you not notice?

That said I prefer it to the attitude of my last yard where someone complained so we all got banned from tying our horses up outside our stables (funny that it didn't apply to her horses)
 
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My horse has 2 rugs on And they are 2 NZ Rugs!! He has a full clip and his legs are clipped out and his face.

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My horse also has multiples on - three at the moment. Plenty of room for a few more
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yes we have a few.

Example: Yesterday my youngster got out (he can undo the door bolt) and ran to another liveries stable and stuck his head over the door to say'hi what you got to eat' . When I went over (I thought it was funny) I laughed saying he wouldnt hurt or do anything nasty he is too daft. she was giving her horse lots of fuss assuring him that it was all ok and the 'there there' and not to worry etc etc. Thing was her horse didnt seem slighlty bothered, I think she was!! I thought she was being a little OTT but??????

I could say other things but better not.
 
Leaving a mess is a different matter, the yard should be tidy, but when, as per this morning, my door was open and my wheelbarrow in the doorway of my own stable while I was mucking out, and the door opposite was shut leaving about 2 horses distance for the horse and owner to get through, the owner pushes my door shut and tips my wheelbarrow.

Necessary?
 
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Leaving a mess is a different matter, the yard should be tidy, but when, as per this morning, my door was open and my wheelbarrow in the doorway of my own stable while I was mucking out, and the door opposite was shut leaving about 2 horses distance for the horse and owner to get through, the owner pushes my door shut and tips my wheelbarrow.

Necessary?

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No - rude actually....
 
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Leaving a mess is a different matter, the yard should be tidy, but when, as per this morning, my door was open and my wheelbarrow in the doorway of my own stable while I was mucking out, and the door opposite was shut leaving about 2 horses distance for the horse and owner to get through, the owner pushes my door shut and tips my wheelbarrow.

Necessary?

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no, thats just downright rude IMO
 
RE: tegoz_marianos post about the knocked over wheelbarrow - god what is the matter with some people! HATE rudeness and attitude - NO NEED!

i have a thing about stable doors, i always close them behind me. a horse at the place i used to ride got a door stuck underneath him - long story! i wasn't there at the time but i can just imagine the panic so i always close doors behind me. and i move buckets out of the way, but i think thats just because i like the yard to be tidy - and not for any horse to get a foot stuck in it. i have seen and heard about so many accidents at yards it makes me cautious!

however saying that if Frankie wanted to sniff someone over the door, or vice versa, i would not be the kind of person to be like 'oh my baby keep away from him!' thats not me
 
The business with the wheelbarrow and door was rude, but I must say I wouldn't like to walk my horse within kicking distance of another either, however much the owner might reassure me.

Thankfully, though, I keep my horses at home, so don't have to worry about other livery owners!
 
I must say i had a livery like this - it went in the field and got a small rip in its rug (i mean 1/2 inch) by rubbing her bum on the fence the owner was in tears and said she wanted a field of her own - lets just say she isnt with us anymore !!

Also the ones that when there horse is pawing tied up go over there and talk calmly saying 'no no now your not supposed to do that its ok mummy here' and they carry on and on till i shout at them to stand up for gods sake and the horse soon stands like an angel xx arghhhhh
 
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however saying that if Frankie wanted to sniff someone over the door, or vice versa, i would not be the kind of person to be like 'oh my baby keep away from him!'

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I think that's quite interesting - I wonder how many other people have similar views??

To my mind that is massive accident waiting to happen. We never let horses do that.
 
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Also the ones that when there horse is pawing tied up go over there and talk calmly saying 'no no now your not supposed to do that its ok mummy here' and they carry on and on till i shout at them to stand up for gods sake and the horse soon stands like an angel xx arghhhhh

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I thought the best thing to do with a pawing/banging horse was to ignore it. Isn't it a form of attention seeking and by shouting at it they may stop but only because they've been given attention? I've almost completely eliminated Daisy's door banging by actively walking away from her when she does it. It winds me up when other people on the yard shout at door bangers because surely that is what they want?

I'm willing to be shot down in flames on this, I accept I'm less experienced than most but it has worked for me
 
I always try to avoid my horse sniffing others as he passes and vice versa - it spreads germs, and we have had ringworm in our yard a couple of times from new horses coming in so am always concious of that sort of thing. The woman next to me stands and waits for her horse while it sniffs at all the others along the corridor - really annoys me, completely irrational I know, but she is potentially putting other peoples horses at risk of infection not just her own
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Regarding the point about walking behind tied horses - you as the owner may know he won't kick...but the other person doesn't, and probably doesn't want to take the chance.
How many times have you been told a horse does/doesn't do something only to find the opposite?
I presume then, that as your mobile livery service, you'll happily put 6 rugs on a horse if asked then?
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LOL StaceyTanglewood, that's the same as me!

Major has this really cheeky habit of absolutely deliberately putting his front leg over his lead rope when he's tied up alone because he knows someone will run to his aid. I've been mucking out and I was told that he did it 5 times in as many minutes.

I've actually stood and watched him do it before and he is doing it absolutely for attention. So if I know he's done it I'll keep a very close eye on him but not unhook his leg from it until I'm finished mucking out - attention is the best reward for him and he's stopped doing it because I no longer give him any. Obviously I'd never leave him tangled if he was struggling but he doesn't, he just stands perfectly still with his leg up under his chin.

Smart things are welsh cobs!

But several people on the yard have said "awww poor Major" and gone and patted him and untangled him in the past and that's what started it all in the first place! lol!
 
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Leaving a mess is a different matter, the yard should be tidy, but when, as per this morning, my door was open and my wheelbarrow in the doorway of my own stable while I was mucking out, and the door opposite was shut leaving about 2 horses distance for the horse and owner to get through, the owner pushes my door shut and tips my wheelbarrow.

Necessary?

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Are you on my yard???
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That could have been me... a fellow livery was mucking out, left the barrow outside the stable in the middle of the aisle whilst she went gossiping, and my horse tried to squeeze past and knocked the barrow over.

She was furious with me for leaving her to clean up her muck whilst I checked my horse hadn't injured herself on the barrow handle
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At our yard if we want our stable doors open they have to be pinned back, that's what the YO wants to do as she doesn't want doors banging which is fair enough. Also your stuff doesn't really get left on the yard, if you put your buckets outside your stable then they go just outside the door. There is no written rule it is just how things are done!

In your case, if there is enough room to walk a horse through safely then it's just ridiculous that others feel the need to move your things. However I do have a pet hate of wheelbarrows, but this is due to seeing a friends horse get it's hindleg stuck through one and slashing through all the tendons and arteries. Wasn't pleasant.
As for people worrying that another has gone up to it's stable door!!! The horse probably welcomed the company!!
 
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Major has this really cheeky habit of absolutely deliberately putting his front leg over his lead rope when he's tied up alone because he knows someone will run to his aid. I've been mucking out and I was told that he did it 5 times in as many minutes.

I've actually stood and watched him do it before and he is doing it absolutely for attention. So if I know he's done it I'll keep a very close eye on him but not unhook his leg from it until I'm finished mucking out - attention is the best reward for him and he's stopped doing it because I no longer give him any. Obviously I'd never leave him tangled if he was struggling but he doesn't, he just stands perfectly still with his leg up under his chin.

Smart things are welsh cobs!

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Smarter than people by the sounds of it.

I'm gobsmacked!!!
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LOL fairhill no worries, it wasn't me, I travel far enough to get to the yard without having to go to England every morning and night
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I'd never leave it in the middle of the pathway but in my own stable door I would have thought was fine lol!

And Shilasdair, although I may think it's excessive I would do whatever the owner wanted without comment...but then be so grateful when I got home to my own hardy boy that I had so much more time to ride instead of faffing about piling on the rugs
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