Real yard rant - sit down and fasten your safetly belts

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I've just put my Selecta up for sale and I thought 'Hang on where are the dressage knee rolls?'
I looked everywhere: in all my tack boxes, on the lorry, in my feed room, absolutely everywhere.
Then I had a good look round the mess of the tackroom and I found the Albion dufflebag on someones tack-box and one of the rolls covered in mud at the bottom of a dirty plastic box. The other one turned up similarly filthy state at the back of the tackroom in yet another location.
As there was a full complement of liveries on the yard I just lost my temper and let everyone know just EXACTLY HOW FURIOUS I REALLY WAS!!!!!!!:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
Someone had been into one of my tack boxes, removed the dufflebag then removed the pads from the dufflebag then taken the pads onto the yard, dragged them through the mud then slung them back into the tackroom.
Trouble is there are a lot of spoilt under 12s on the yard who just help themselves to kit then drop is when they get bored.
No one has ever seen me so mad before.
Chocolates and Rum Babas all round.
 
I get pi$$ed off if someone opens or shuts our stable top doors because they think they are helping so like you I would have lost it big time if some numpty touched my gear
 
I would have been incandescent, in fact my stomach is rolling just thinking about what my reaction would have been in your situation - little barstewards!
 
It seems to be unique to the horseworld. The same people who regularly 'borrow' would probably never do the same to their neighbours. A good rant always makes you feel better!
 
Drives me absolutely bonkers this help yourself mentallity that a lot of horse owners have - on my last yard, huge place, 70+ horses and loads of liveries, I put my rubber feed buckets (£20 a pop) in the container at the top of the yard along with some rugs as I wasnt allowed to use my own feedbuckets as I was on full livery, nor was I allowed to keep more than one outdoor and one indoor rug out at a time - when i was leaving to come back to my DIY yard, rubber buckets and rugs were nowhere to be seen - after I ranted a bit, YM tracked down the rugs, sopping wet and stinking in a binbag - someone had chucked them back in the container - but no sign of my rubber feedbuckets, someone had blatantly helped themselves and they had vanished into thin air. Really grinds my gears as I would never dream of helping myself to something that did not belong to me - its stealing. I work hard to be able to afford my horse and I am not paying out my hard earned money to help someone else have things for theirs.
 
Thankfully this has never happened to me...yet! I would be very cross, especially as I'm happy to lend stuff if people ask and return afterwards!
 
Yep Hevs you're right it is stealing and in the case of my Albion flaps wanton damage as well.
There are a lot of unruly kids on my yard unfortunately. I brought the lorry round to load up, dropped the ramps and opened the jockey door then prepared to load. In the meantime the bloody kids and the dogs were running through my lorry from front to back like it was some great game. Bloody parents are hanging around saying nothing. I yelled." Stop f$$$$$$$ about on my lorry!" It worked but why did I have to get mad with them?
I suspect its the same kids who were responsible for nicking my dressage flaps.
 
I know exactly how you feel some little sh** bags actually helped themselves to my horses after i said no i wouldn't share or let them ride them as they dont pay or work as hard as i do for them!!! Then they were seen by some local walkers tying my one boy up and hitting him with bamboo canes and chasing round the field they were also seen riding the other horses and when i went round to talk to the parents - oh our little darlings wouldn't do that !!!

two months later they fed my horse painkillers and he nearly died - i had put up cctv by then and even though i had them on camera the parents refused to look and actually tried to say my horse had attacked there daughter and broke her arm when they were in the field!! what was she doing in the field!! but i knw exactly how she broke her arm -falling off our cold backed stallion - stupid cow luckly they moved a month after nearly killing my horse !!!

I even got the police involved and the kids/parents just blamed it on the farmers daughter - who i have know for 10 years

I am so glad they haave gone now i considered selling our fields they were that awfull my poor horses are all now headshy and very difficult to handle :(
 
trefnantblackknight said:
I know exactly how you feel some little sh** bags actually helped themselves to my horses after i said no i wouldn't share or let them ride them as they dont pay or work as hard as i do for them!!! Then they were seen by some local walkers tying my one boy up and hitting him with bamboo canes and chasing round the field they were also seen riding the other horses and when i went round to talk to the parents - oh our little darlings wouldn't do that !!!

two months later they fed my horse painkillers and he nearly died - i had put up cctv by then and even though i had them on camera the parents refused to look and actually tried to say my horse had attacked there daughter and broke her arm when they were in the field!! what was she doing in the field!! but i knw exactly how she broke her arm -falling off our cold backed stallion - stupid cow luckly they moved a month after nearly killing my horse !!!

I even got the police involved and the kids/parents just blamed it on the farmers daughter - who i have know for 10 years

I am so glad they haave gone now i considered selling our fields they were that awfull my poor horses are all now headshy and very difficult to handle :(
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Sorry for hijacking your post i just get very upset when i think about spoilt brats messing with stuff!!
 
trefnantblackknight said:
Sorry for hijacking your post i just get very upset when i think about spoilt brats messing with stuff!!
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Quite right too. I wouldn't dream of touching anyone's tack let alone their horse.
Poor you.
Trouble is there seems to be a fallacy around certain types of horse owners that goes 'What's mines mine and what's yours is mine'. Never got it myself but it drives me $%^^&&**(( bonkers.
 
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