Personal safety - during these dark nights

[filly190]

Do any of you consider your personal safety during these dark nights, when you are on your own at the stables.

Is it just me, I dont like creeping about and often wonder if there is anyone out there. We have lights, but when they are switched off and I'm walking away, I dont much like it.

 

[JessPickle]

Well our YO lives on sight and we have a guard dog who is around a lot so i really dont feel like that at all.

 

[Tia]

I know no-one is lurking around my place as we live at the end of a dead end road and my dogs would alert me if anything was untoward......however what we do have is lots of large and vocal critters!

For this very reason my main barn which is surrounded by all the fields, is lit at all times during darkness hours, inside and out!

If the dogs bark then all I have to do is peer through the window to see what they are barking at. I very rarely go out at night time - once I'm in that's it. Not because I am particularly nervous more because generally there is no need to.

 

[Mid]

Maybe carry a shooting stick? Those things are lethal o_o

 

[riotgirl]

I'm lucky because our stables are basically in our back garden! However, I do have a major fear of the dark and since about the age of 10 I have been convinced that there is a tramp or similar who shares the stables with the horses. I always walk down there while chattering to myself so that any interlopers will have the chance to move

 

[Mid]

Did you hear about that girl who let a tramp live in her room for 3 months before her parents found out?

 

[RunToEarth]

I feel quite safe at my yard, my house is all of 14 steps from them, im more worried about tripping over the barrow when I have switched the lights out

 

[icemaiden113]

My stables are only a few steps from the house, but i feel safer down there than in the middle of town on a night out! If someone is near my house and yard they are so lost! Were in the middle of no where! And my dogs would soon let me know! Oh and the 34 and a half couple of foxhounds in kennels!

 

[Haflinger]

I relatevly safe at my yard, as YO house is only a short sprint away from the stables and there are lights. I get more concerned about falling in the pond or over one of wheelbarrows!

 

[Twiglet]

Well at my yard there's been reportedly a tramp in the woods, a mental patient from the local hospital, and the infamous Beast of Brentwood puma all visiting in the past.....and no-one lives on site so can be pretty spooky at night!!

I carry a personal alarm, and lock the gate behind me when I'm there on my own.

Not a lot else I can do really other than carry my phone and make sure someone knows where I am at all times.
To be honest I'm more worried about what would happen if I fell off whilst riding at night, and wasn't able to call anyone......doubt my boyfriend would notice I wasn't home until the cats started asking for food!

 

[Chex]

I'm scared of the dark too, don't like being up there on my own in the dark (which is every night lol). The farmer lives there, and there are 3 dogs which I bribe to keep me company. Although I think its ghosties I'm scared of! Lots of scary tales about the farm and a 12thC graveyard in the nearby field! I would be very suprised to find a real person in the fields, so probably why it doesn't really scare me.

 

[Grey_Arab]

Not really ever on my own in the dark. But we do have very close neighbours and 4 dogs that live on site. Have been a bit more nervous since one of the dogs was stollen, and when teenage boys were setting of massive and I mean massive fire works in the yards feilds!

 

[Christmas_Kate]

Well the yard is just around the corner, but as dad drives there (he lives opposite us) as he needs the 4wd for work i get a lift in the mornings and walk back. The yard has the yard owners on site.
At night I don't feel too bad, but do have a personal alarm and a huge maglite, oh, and a penknife, so God help anyone who tries to kidnap me.

 

[Moggy in Manolos]

I do get jumpy in the dark thats for sure, i am such a big wuss in that respect, but i am lucky, the yard i am at has the owners living on site, so i dont feel scared.
Funnily enough nearly all the hose get spooky as we walk to and from the fields, daft things,when its nice and light and sunny they are fine though,but a dull day with just a bit of wind gets them thinking there is something in the bush thats going to get them!

 

[Salcey]

I know what you mean. The stable yard is ok cause the owners live on site, but I have a 5 minute walk down the lane to get back to my car - Creepy!

 

[lilym]

i carry a huge maglite, ideal for belting an attacker with!!

 

[Marianne]

Yobss have picked our farm for their drinking place. The farmers no use as hes "in bed" at 7 :S so yes I do hate it! Yes I am moving off in 2 weeks