Pet hate at the yard?

Luckily I have all of mine at home so I have no need to have to deal with other people. At work what annoys me is DOGS!!! If you can't control your damned dog then don't bring it to work! Plus the fact that there are too many - too many in total, too many entire males and too many entire females, I have NO idea why we don't have hundreds of litters of puppies!
 
Wagtail said:
You are obviously into showing? Personally, unless a horse is being shown I prefer the mane to be on the side that it naturally falls. So if it falls to the right, that's great, but if it falls to the left then I pull it to the left. You get a far neater result if you don't do battle with a mane.
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We do show, but we are not showing people.:)
I was just taught by very old fashioned grooms, to do my horses.
Standards seem so low to the older generation.
Can i ask you do you plait your horses mane on the wrong side too:( I really hate that, it's like finger nails on a blackboard to me:o
 
frustrated said:
We do show, but we are not showing people.:)
I was just taught by very old fashioned grooms, to do my horses.
Standards seem so low to the older generation.
Can i ask you do you plait your horses mane on the wrong side too:( I really hate that, it's like finger nails on a blackboard to me:o
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I'm with you on having the manes on the offside of the horse. Except for one horse I look after at work, I keep his on the wrong side as he leans out of his stable and round to nick food out of the next door stable and has a small bald spot - unnoticable when the mane comes over to the offside to be plaited :D I really should just stop he leaning around the wall lol! My manes have to be pulled straight as well, always pulled, never cut.
 
Moggy in Manolos said:
People leaving lights on

People leaving things in the way, and people leaving things in your designated area of the yard!

People being snobby and unpleasant about others on the yard, I do not want to hear it or be involved thanks...

There may be more but these two spring to mind :D
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When i added the third i forgot to change the last line! worrying as i am an accountant lol! I meant these three things...:rolleyes:
 
Hanging headcollars on light switch when there is a hook about 4ins from said switch...they eventually come away from wall.
Leaving sacks out of bins gaping open to invite rats.
Not sweeping up o/s boxes so crap blows all over yard.
Regularly not refilling water butt after they have drained it of water.
Right now time for my evening primrose ;.)
 
EKW said:
I'm with you on having the manes on the offside of the horse. Except for one horse I look after at work, I keep his on the wrong side as he leans out of his stable and round to nick food out of the next door stable and has a small bald spot - unnoticable when the mane comes over to the offside to be plaited :D I really should just stop he leaning around the wall lol! My manes have to be pulled straight as well, always pulled, never cut.
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Oh good, I have to pull manes as well, in fact if people are willing have pulled other peoples just so they look nice:o
 
People who walk right past your horse's face with feed buckets when they can see that said horse is already wound up about something, it's even worse when there are a billion different ways to get from the feed room to where they are going without doing it.
 
Pet Hates at the yard?

Hmmm. Well, my dogs aren't allowed at the yard, so I don't think their hates count. Nor the cats.

Rosie HATES it when the other horses are taken out on a Monday morning and she has to wait for me. STAMP FOOT!!

Son's-pony doesn't hate anything because he's such a laid back pony :) but his field-mate hates it when son's-pony is taken out to do fun things without him.

And the yard dog HATES the postman. And the chap next door. And men in uniform. Silly girl...

Oh - and the yard sheep hate being disturbed, but I don't know if they are pets?
 
when i have my greedy cob tied up at the communal block and another horses owner brings a bucket of feed for her horse tied there too - my cob is not fed hard feed at the time so goes absoluteley mental and i feel so so guilty :mad:
 
People who think they know it all when in fact they know F all.
People that don't poo pick
People that don't sweep up
People that don't ever help out others, despite the fact that others help them out all the time.
I could go on......but I'll stop now as my blood pressure is rising just thinking about it...
 
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JustFindingTheDecorations said:
Do you have badly behaved wheelbarrows then? :confused: :D
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Yes :P
I often over fill to save myself time and the ground isn't the smoothest up to the muck heap XD When kids are running around or infront of the wheelbarrow shouting "Em, which bridle is for this horse? Which horse am I riding? Can you tack up my horse? Can you catch my horse? bla bla.." I almost want to tip it all over them!
 
People riding with mud and stones in there horses feet then asking my why it feels a bit lame!!!!! Well doh!!!!:mad:

Cut manes!!!!

Bad clips done by people that have charges a fortune!!!!! I can understand some liveries have a set and need practice but when somebody charges 50 quid and does a crappy job!!!!

Dirty numnahs!!! Ewwww

Oh and the usual people who dont sweep up, oh and when im draining my ponies hay and somebody stands chatting to somebody letting there horse munching at it!!!!:mad:
 
rhino said:
I do! One tripped me up today :D
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My haybarn has a sheet of tarpaulin hanging down the open side (/doorway), which I never bother to pin up when I'm taking forage to the field. Every bloody time I leave my wheelbarrow outside and carry half a bale out to put it in the wheel barrow, I get tangeld up in the tarpaulin, trip over the effin' wheelbarrow and drop half the sodding straw :o Maybe the wheelbarrow is conspiring against me?

Annielusian said:
Yes :P
I often over fill to save myself time and the ground isn't the smoothest up to the muck heap XD When kids are running around or infront of the wheelbarrow shouting "Em, which bridle is for this horse? Which horse am I riding? Can you tack up my horse? Can you catch my horse? bla bla.." I almost want to tip it all over them!
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LOL.

I'd throw the pitchfork at them... There's a reason I don't "do" yards :D
 
i forgot the worst - the newcomer who you really like and make friends friends with - then after a while she proceeds to bitch about everyone on your yard who you have been friends with for years.
Always the sanme format - a nasty bitchy comment or statement followed by "dont tell anyone i told you!!!!"

I really feel like getting a sweatshirt printed with - "if you dont want me to tell dont bloody tell me!!!!"

Hate it - doing that is including me in their nastiness - worst thing is we never ever had no nastiness till she arrived!!!!
 
The 'mushrooming' of the big round bales.....OMG.....WHY???? :mad:
Its blummin annoying AND hurts your hands AND takes forever to fill your nets....AND I hate doing nets at the best of times....rant over :D
 
People who think the wheelbarrow fairy will empty their muck onto the muckheap.. we only have 2 barrows and they are always just left full when I get there after work so end up having to slip and slide my way up the muckheap plank twice.
 
shadowboy said:
People who think the wheelbarrow fairy will empty their muck onto the muckheap.. we only have 2 barrows and they are always just left full when I get there after work so end up having to slip and slide my way up the muckheap plank twice.
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How rude!!!! This I think, would push me over the edge. Its hard enough work doing your own!!!!
 
I love my yard but something that really gets to me is others using my wheelbarrow as it gets flat tires, god knows what they do to it!! And its obvious who it is as everyone owns their own apart from one person (only one on a particular type of shavings too.....).

Also my stable is by the hose and it really gets to me when people just throw their water buckets - even in winter when not frozen it makes a mess with the mud from horses hooves!! I salt it before doing anything in winter and dig a path to the school/field :).
 
frustrated said:
We do show, but we are not showing people.:)
I was just taught by very old fashioned grooms, to do my horses.
Standards seem so low to the older generation.
Can i ask you do you plait your horses mane on the wrong side too:( I really hate that, it's like finger nails on a blackboard to me:o
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No, I plait to the right hand side.Both my horses have their manes on the right, but others I have had in the past have fallen to the left. A couple of my liveries' horses manes fall to the left and I pull them that way and my clients are happy with that. But if I was turning them out for competition I would plait to the right.
 
shadowboy said:
People who think the wheelbarrow fairy will empty their muck onto the muckheap.. we only have 2 barrows and they are always just left full when I get there after work so end up having to slip and slide my way up the muckheap plank twice.
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YO friend has the perfect solution for that. She empties the wheelbarrow back in the offenders stable.
 
Not a lot to moan about really, well not now the wee numpty has gone! I would sweep up and she would promptly stomp around with a pile of hay under her arm trailing it all over the floor as she went! when the horses were off the soaking wet fields but she would put hers out as it needed it, well so do the others numptyheid! borrowing my knife and not putting it back! grrrr
I would like a rota up as there are only a few of us who actually sweep up the communal areas. people finishing the haylage bale and not sweeping up the mess or opening a new one. who do they think does it, the haylage fairy?
Thankfully i have my stable and own wee area in the corner of the barn so it is kept clean and swept all the time. people leaving mess outside it would drive me nuts.
 
People who insist on hanging around when you are consulting with the vet, just plain rude. And hoardes of people gathered around sick horses all putting in their verdicts, just go away and leave the owner to it. If people did this to me I'd tell them to bog off, it would be just myself and a trusted friend, not the world and his wife.....makes me mad.
 
Not sweeping up when briniging horses in and out. Or not sweeping up after picking out feet at tying up area.
Feed left out for the rats we're trying to get rid of!
Tack room being left unlocked when other livery goes out hacking and the YO isn't at home/i'm not at yard.
YO's dogs peeing/pooing on or near my hay yuk yuk yuk!!
My perfect shavibgs bed being kicked out of place by others because the lightswitch is stupidly placed in my stable!
Said lightswitch not being by door where we come in
The other livery has 2 children who constantly ride their bikes around the yard where the horses are (mine are scared of them) and parents not telling them to keep out the way! (YO has but do not listen) also the fact that one of my plastic boxes in the feedroom/rugroom being smashed and broken on one side (probably by certain bike riders!) and then turned round and left so
I wont notice!!
Same children not leaving me alone and asking questions when i want to get on!
 
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