Really STUPID people - should they be allowed to ride, discuss

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I have debated for some time whether being as clever as I am - to the point where my brain weight a LOT, is an issue for Sienna - maybe it undermines her self esteem.
I am aware that there are quite a few stupid people out there who often seem to own horses, my concern is that if they are making fatuous statements, sweeping generalisations and generally gormless comments in public, what are they doing back at the yard - when there is no audience. Do their horses deserve this kind of treatment?
Sienna appreciates informed debate - are these other horses losing out on intellectual stimulation and could we perhaps push for some kind of equine brain challenges to be invented for the PSP.
This has especially worried me the last couple of days and so I thought I had to post.
Just going off to bore my horse now.
 
Probably not - you better come and take my horse off me.
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He's pretty gormless too though - so if you can have a big rider for a big horse then why can't you have a gormless rider for a gormless horse??
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I tend to meet quite a few of them were I work which is a real worry at times as they are buying animals...I wont let on where I work but it is a well known pet store.
We are actually allowed to deny people buying animals and I have done on several occasions as they just dont seem to be the brightest...Im not brain myself but I do wonder about some people sometimes....when they ask certain questions...
Ive put it down to just being a breed of people that are walking off of a UFO outside and into the store who are testing us each weekend....Im convinced shaun of the dead is true...!!
 
o dear i just read the last 'debate' on the weight of riders. were not going down this route again are we? maybe im just being a woose...

However im not sure that people are 'stupid' as such just not experienced enough in different fields.
 
I have consulted with my horse and her considered verdict is no. She would like to add that not only does she prefer informed debate (particularly fond of agriculture - arable, obviously) but she prefers her humans trainable using positive reinforcement, so a good temperament is, she says, ideal.
Unfortunately she got me! Ha! And if she's bad I sing! And I'm tone deaf! Call the RSPCA
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A very good point, your horse is so lucky to have you as her owner. Imagine if she were owned by someone stupid who may mistake her desperate plees for food at the gate as a sign that she wanted to be exercised. Now that woud ruin her life, what a waste
 
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A very good point, your horse is so lucky to have you as her owner. Imagine if she were owned by someone stupid who may mistake her desperate plees for food at the gate as a sign that she wanted to be exercised. Now that woud ruin her life, what a waste

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ROTFLMAO!!!
 
My horse is lucky because I am clever. She has been training me in Crapelli (TM) She tells me that it is a form of positive reinforcement. If I don't do what she wants me to, she waves at me with a Kebab Stick - not to be confused with any other type of stick and tells me how clever I am.
 
Luckily my clumsy horse has inadvertently hit his head on the stable door so many times, he is as stupid, if not more stupid than me, so we are well suited. Plus he's only 2, so can't ride him, so doesn't apply. So there.
 
PMSL you crack me up!!
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Hang on you are joining Blackdown RC my god you will be highly impressed with the lack of sense!!
 
My pony is actually a lot more intelligent than me. For instance, yesterday I placed a full packet of polos outside her stable door and merrily went off to find a yard brush, completely oblivious to the fact that I hadn't shut her stable door. When I came back it was kind of obvious who was the stupid one since I started looking for the Polos and madam stood grinning since she had eaten the bl**dy lot, silver foil and all. Should I sell her to someone with an IQ which is equal to her own do you think?
 
A friend of a friend recently gave her horse a whole carrot (ie not sliced lenghtways). The poor animal then got choke, frothing at the mouth, lying down wanting to roll, etc.. The stupid woman then admitted she didnt have a vet, but could she phone directory enquiries for the numbers of vets in the area, no, she wasted more valuable time by phoning her equally clueless husband and eventually a friend who gave her her vet's number...

if thats not an example of stupidity I dont know what is. I bet the horse would rather have a cleverer owner...

Fortunately the horse did survive. through luck I think.
 
i think maybe there should be exams to own any kind of animal and also to have children... i would happily take an exam if it meant less incompetence in the world in the standards of animal care etc

Sorry, didn't mean to go all serious.... this thread was quite amusing before i came along
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Siennamum - now look here, I'm stupid, but my horse is a stupid as me, so that's ok. I only have a problem if really stupid people ride really clever horses. See attached link of really, really thick bloke on horse which just graduated from Cambridge.
 
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