"Pick your droppings up from the road" Anyone else think xper

I would never ride on a pavement or mown grass. If I had to and my horse did a poo I would move it off that area. Horse riders are looked at as snobs by a lot of people and tbh reading this I can see why. Well done to people who go back and clear up from pavements and villages.
Why do we all think horse poos, which are about 100 x bigger than a dog poo is OK right outside your front door where you park your car? (for instance).
 
Clodagh said:
I would never ride on a pavement or mown grass. If I had to and my horse did a poo I would move it off that area. Horse riders are looked at as snobs by a lot of people and tbh reading this I can see why. Well done to people who go back and clear up from pavements and villages.
Why do we all think horse poos, which are about 100 x bigger than a dog poo is OK right outside your front door where you park your car? (for instance).
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Perhaps because dog feaces carrys diseases which are transferable to people, where as horse faeces does not. People need to understand the difference between herbivores and carnivors and omnivors.
 
Those of us (all of us on here, I'm sure) who deal with horse manure on a daily business do not regard it as in any way "disgusting". I, like the rest of you, think horse poop is actually sort of cute and wholesome. The general public do not distinguish between the faeces of dogs, horses, or anything else that randomly craps on the ground. How do we feel about a dog defecating in our garden, or on the street? How about someone leaving a used nappy lying around? Perspective is everything, and being rude to people who object to your horse's leavings is possibly not the way to create a horse-loving environment.
 
YorksG said:
Perhaps because dog feaces carrys diseases which are transferable to people, where as horse faeces does not. People need to understand the difference between herbivores and carnivors and omnivors.
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So you wouldn't mind getting horse poo on your pushchair wheels and then on your carpet or in your car? I agree with Cortez. Horse poo doesn't bother me at all, but I completely understand people not wanting it where they walk.
 
hmmm well i live on a deadend country lane with a couple of farms off it and a few houses. There are lots of dog walkers (who dont always pick up) but Im the only rider in the area. When my horse has gone, right in the middle of the lane Ive gone back later and kicked it into the side. I wouldnt have bothered 10 years ago but Im aware now that not everyone feels the same as we do and there are a couple of townie type folk up the road with posh, very clean cars. They are lovely folk and its been an eye opening thing for them meeting a horse a rider ; my young highland when she was newly backed this summer was a bit sticky at times and wobbly with cars and they were all so patient when they met us,pulling in and turning engines off etc. Id hate to risk that good relationship and see it now as a courtesy. I did hold one of them up the other day when i jumped out of my own truck to kick droppings over that we’d left about 20 mins previously... they stopped and said hello and did pointedly mention the droppings had been noticed and they’d had to drive round them ;)

I can see where people are coming from who refuse to move them and I wouldnt do it everywhere but you have to look at the bigger picture sometimes and times are changed, sadly.
 
It is obviously (to us) far too dangerous to get off a horse in the road and try to clean up manure, but being rude to people who ask you to do and don't understand why you don't isn't a great idea and just creates enemies. Why not just explain that's it's not harmful and too dangerous for you to try and clean it up but perhaps say you'll pop back later to clean it up? Or suggest they spread on the garden (in a nice way!).

If you live in a small town or village why not try to get an article in the parish mag?

Where I used to live they would fight over it, horses couldn't poo quick enough for the demand :)
 
If it is in the village I will always go back and pick it up. We live in a nice village, not everyone finds horse poo so inoffensive and I don't really want to cause any bad feeling. It's absolutely no hardship
 
We have to pick up our horses droppings if our horses poos in the lane as we leave our yard only if it's directly leads to someone's driveway!! We do it to keep the peace with our neighbours. I've only had to do it once in the last year.
 
JillA said:
Similar appeared on our local village FB group recently - it seems some people genuinely expect you to drive around your route later and collect them!
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I used to with my old mare because she always went in the same place, right outside someones garden gate and they used to cross directly to the bus stop! It would have annoyed me so I just used to hop in the truck with the shovel, brush and plastic bucket. Didn't do it anywhere else though! Never quite worked out the appeal for my mare in this same exact spot each time....
 
Pedantic said:
Repeat after me, NOT A LEGAL REQUIREMENT SO AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN NOT A LEGAL REQUIREMENT SO AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN NOT A LEGAL REQUIREMENT SO AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN NOT A LEGAL REQUIREMENT SO AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN NOT A LEGAL REQUIREMENT SO AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN NOT A LEGAL REQUIREMENT SO AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN NOT A LEGAL REQUIREMENT SO AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN... just keep repeating until said person shuts up goes away or you are out of hearing distance from them, works for me.



Next time someone builds a housing estate right across your riding area, ask them if they are going to pick up their concrete and brick crap...
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BRILLIANT very well said!
 
JillA said:
I think the current very large horse (and human) population is probably a factor - when there were far fewer horses around no-one had a problem with the occasional dropping or three. This island of ours is desperately overcrowded now, even relatively ruyral areas where everyone wants to Escape to The Country
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This is so very true.
 
Horse droppings is one thing, but dog crap left in bags lying around is another! Why only do half the job by putting it in a bag, then not bothering they're backside to bin it?

Dog faeces can carry Toxocara that can lead to blindness.
 
I think a lot of riders have a very cavalier attitude to others when it comes to this subject. A little more consideration all round might generate better will and feeling from those who don't understand how impractical it is to have to clear it up!
Having had a passing horse crap over my drive recently and my partners car run it in to my driveway causing us to spend some time cleaning it up I can thoroughly understand non horsey folks annoyance at it!
 
We usually have a lot of droppings on the local roads after the Marymass Parade passes by in August, but the locals are used to it. Being on a pedal bike, I just either gently avoid it or go through it...
 
Second class citizens, don't ride on the roads don't ride in traffic at works time school time fun run sponsored walk time cycle event you name it don't ride it anytime, don't ride on the path don't use cycle track don't use bus lane don't get in anyone's way on a bridleway particularly cyclist and joggers and pushchairs don't forget to grovel wave and smile when a car actually slows down going past you don't upset dog owners basically just don't do anything with your horse, thank God I am nearer the end of my riding days than the younger ones on here, as with wimpy lack of backbone attitude evident in the horse fraternity it's obvious there won't be an equestrian activity outside a field if you can find one that hasn't got a housing site commercial park or McDonalds built on it, maybe everyone should sell their horse's and buy a farty papa nicole piece of crap or Toyota Anus to run around in for fun, at least you won't have to muck it out and the deadly fumes are out of sight out of mind for the drones, plus you can illegally park all over grass verges and paths and no one cares.
If you buy a house near stables expect horse poo, if you don't like the church bell don't live near a church, if you don't like farm smells don't live near one, not complicated.
 
Pedantic said:
Funny how authorities have no problem picking up everyone else's syringes with HIV and Hepatitis and crisp packets chewing gum lager cans bottles fly tipping etc etc etc etc etc etc, but all of a sudden we are a special case with a bit of minced up grass and hay, funny how they can build 300 houses next to me generating 600 vehicles filling my air and lungs with cancerous particulates and that's not a problem, repeat after me, WE ARE NOT SECOND CLASS CITIZENS WE ARE NOT SECOND CLASS CITIZENS WE ARE NOT SECOND CLASS CITIZENS WE ARE NOT SECOND CLASS CITIZENS WE ARE NOT SECOND CLASS CITIZENS WE ARE NOT SECOND CLASS CITIZENS WE ARE NOT SECOND CLASS CITIZENS
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Arzada said:
I'm hoping that someone will collect the diesel etc fumes swirling around my house and my walking, cycling, riding routes
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Pedantic said:
Second class citizens, don't ride on the roads don't ride in traffic at works time school time fun run sponsored walk time cycle event you name it don't ride it anytime, don't ride on the path don't use cycle track don't use bus lane don't get in anyone's way on a bridleway particularly cyclist and joggers and pushchairs don't forget to grovel wave and smile when a car actually slows down going past you don't upset dog owners basically just don't do anything with your horse, thank God I am nearer the end of my riding days than the younger ones on here, as with wimpy lack of backbone attitude evident in the horse fraternity it's obvious there won't be an equestrian activity outside a field if you can find one that hasn't got a housing site commercial park or McDonalds built on it, maybe everyone should sell their horse's and buy a farty papa nicole piece of crap or Toyota Anus to run around in for fun, at least you won't have to muck it out and the deadly fumes are out of sight out of mind for the drones, plus you can illegally park all over grass verges and paths and no one cares.
If you buy a house near stables expect horse poo, if you don't like the church bell don't live near a church, if you don't like farm smells don't live near one, not complicated.
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I agree with every word you say! If we had some kind of british horse society, you should definitely be the president!
 
I don't pick it up off the road, but if we cross a pavement and he does one I will get off and kick it into the gutter, or if it is a tarmac multi-use then I will do the same. My horse is another who has habitual poo places, happily they are on country lanes, so no issue. Amazing how much mess one horse can make if it drops a poo every day in the same place...

OH got a round of applause when Jay dropped a poo on the beach, where families were playing, and he got 3 Tesco bags out and scooped that poop.
 
Farma said:
I think a lot of riders have a very cavalier attitude to others when it comes to this subject. A little more consideration all round might generate better will and feeling from those who don't understand how impractical it is to have to clear it up!
Having had a passing horse crap over my drive recently and my partners car run it in to my driveway causing us to spend some time cleaning it up I can thoroughly understand non horsey folks annoyance at it!
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Well I'm a non-dairy farmer but I never thought to complain to the dairy farm that I hosed my car off at least twice a day after driving through a river of slurry aka a lane which the dairy cattle walked up and down 4 times a day between their field and the dairy. Horse poo pales into insignificance ...
 
Arzada said:
Well I'm a non-dairy farmer but I never thought to complain to the dairy farm that I hosed my car off at least twice a day after driving through a river of slurry aka a lane which the dairy cattle walked up and down 4 times a day between their field and the dairy. Horse poo pales into insignificance ...
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We have this too with dairies and cows all round us, right past our gate sometimes, never bothers us either!
 
cremedemonthe said:
We have this too with dairies and cows all round us, right past our gate sometimes, never bothers us either!
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I used to live near a dairy farm and the cow poo had dissolved 100 m of tarmac. If I did something which dissolved the road surface, the country council would open a can of whoop ass on me.
 
IMO the best response to this question is "No, it's fine, you can have it for your garden". Takes the wind out of their sails.
We do pick up if ours muck on the lane to our yard, because there are several neighbours who have to cross to get to their cars.
 
Once had a couple ask if I was going to pick up the poo from a very rural country road that their house was on, that they has recently bought, which was right next to a livery yard and slap bang in the middle of cow country. The YO was all ready to tell them where to shove it.

On the other had, walked pony through local housing estate years back to visit a friends aunt and said pony decided to splatter fart poop all over the pavement. She got a shovel and a brush and was very excited as she grew roses.
 
Pedantic said:
Second class citizens, don't ride on the roads don't ride in traffic at works time school time fun run sponsored walk time cycle event you name it don't ride it anytime, don't ride on the path don't use cycle track don't use bus lane don't get in anyone's way on a bridleway particularly cyclist and joggers and pushchairs don't forget to grovel wave and smile when a car actually slows down going past you don't upset dog owners basically just don't do anything with your horse, thank God I am nearer the end of my riding days than the younger ones on here, as with wimpy lack of backbone attitude evident in the horse fraternity it's obvious there won't be an equestrian activity outside a field if you can find one that hasn't got a housing site commercial park or McDonalds built on it, maybe everyone should sell their horse's and buy a farty papa nicole piece of crap or Toyota Anus to run around in for fun, at least you won't have to muck it out and the deadly fumes are out of sight out of mind for the drones, plus you can illegally park all over grass verges and paths and no one cares.
If you buy a house near stables expect horse poo, if you don't like the church bell don't live near a church, if you don't like farm smells don't live near one, not complicated.
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That attitude is why so many people think horsey people are a bunch of entitled snobs.

Why would you not pick horse muck up, if you know it is going to cause bad feeling in your local community? We all live here and love the place, just because you have a right for your horse to crap everywhere doesn't mean you should exercise that right.

Why should the local council furnish your hobby? Asides from walking, cycling and general recreational areas which are used by a large percentage of the population, what other hobbies does the council fund? If you have a scrambler you have to find private land to ride it, if you want to go fishing no one provides the river banks free of charge - why are horses so different? There are huge swathes of the countryside which don't lend be selves to McDonalds, Industrial parks etc and those places are still a nice place to ride, believe me.
 
Yea well not everyone is as entitled and as well off as you to go swanning off to find huge swathes of countryside after work at the drop of a hat, the rest of us who live in the real world have to get on with what we have, not everyone has transport either, no wonder there is such a divide in the equestrian circles of "happy" hackers looked down upon and "hunting fraternity" classed as toffs etc, the horsey communities lack of togetherness over issues will be it's downfall.
Of course then there is the jealousy factor creeps in so much in the horsey game, because one's horse can't even ride off the yard without crapping itself at a plastic bag, never mind even go near traffic, so then anyone that does is ohhhhhhhhh such a bad rider person blah blah.
 
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