Public footpaths and folks ignoring the "Do Not Feed" signs

EKW said:
I caught a bunch if kids in my field feeding the beasts jelly tots. How I managed to extricate the 5 of them whilst fending off my tb who was incredibly food aggressive - fine if you have it, hell mend you when you run out!

I put up signs saying that I had installed cctv and would be sending anyone who fed my ponies the vets bill. Since then I have only had one person come and feed them bread so yet another sign went up saying that they were all on a strict diet and bread was dangerous for them to eat. Since then they have stopped being fed and so have stopped following people up and down the road!
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Putting up CCTV signs is a great idea :) Did you put up dummy camera's too?

I had a big ruckus with some laagered-up teenagers not so long back who, having gone to the far side of the field well away from the footpath, argued the toss that they were not doing any harm having photo's taken with one of the ponies and that they were only pulling up grass from outside the paddock area to feed them, so it wouldn't do them any harm. It could have been grass recently sprayed with week-killer for all they knew. It could have been rye grass which is bad news for my two. It took 15 minutes and my completely losing the plot before they decided to leave. And that was only because I started to phone the police.
 
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