Scariest thing you have heard a person say that owns horses

A 'back person' who claimed to be a chiropractor thought the cervical bones in a horses neck went along the top of their necks just under the mane!!!

Needless to say she came nowhere near my horse..
 
Amaranta said:
Ok little scenario here your horse naps on the road (naps NOT spooks) into the path of a car. Would you:

a) Say there there darling and hit the car anyway?

or

b) Give it a short sharp reminder and you both live to tell the tale?
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I suppose it depends on your definition of napping, I have heard so many different scenarios.

My mare reverses, fast. I have to hit her!! How on earth else would we be able to contine safely? Yes she naps due to lack of experience hacking on own, but we're not talking about beating the animal, just a short, sharp back up to my leg, "That's naughty!"

I would rather she got a little smack than put me, and herself in danger.

She is learning to listen to Mum!
 
An "experienced" friend recently said to me that her old fell pony looked "a bit lami" yesterday. "she is the size of an elephant at the moment". Friend was staying with me for the weekend and the YO was looking after her.
I said "aren't you worried? I assume she is in till the vet comes then".

"no I have put her in a small area with not much grass - anyway the ground is good and hard":confused:

Me "how big is the area?"

Friend "about the size of two arenas":eek::eek:

Me "what makes you think she is lami?"

Friend "she's got that stance with all her weight on her back legs. She looks a bit stiff".

Me "you don't think you should get the vet and keep her in?"

Friend "No the yard owner will call me if she goes down":eek::eek::eek::eek:

I left the conversation there as I was lost for words.
 
woman on our yard is psycho her cob got mud fever she insisted on scrubbing his legs every day they bled and bled and EVERY DAY we told her not to and showed her the problems she was causing of course we are only lowly helpers of course she knows better!!

same woman came onto yard was empty just her and she was trotting up and trying to look behind her as she went i said "oh no is he sore here let me help i can trot him up for you" she goes"thank you but i think i know how to trot up my own horse!" looooooooool no its so u can see you idiot!!!
 
I was once at a yard where 4 new liveries arrived (2 mothers with their respective daughters). The 4 horses were all very different and had all been purchased from the riding school where they had learnt to ride. They were all ridden in pelhams and WAIT FOR IT with draw reins through the bottom ring of the bit and nothing at all on the top ring. AAAAAAAGGGHHHH. All the other liveries were mortified as it became apparant that they were all very novicey. Well me being me I had to ask! Their reason for doing it was that that was the way all the horses at the riding school were ridden and although they knew it was wrong were unsure of how to go about changing it. I advised them to get some reins on the bits and to leave the draw reins where they were but with a knot tied in them so they would only use them if they felt the need. Within a couple of weeks they were all happy without and horses were regularly ridden and hacked out. They were saints weren't they. It could have all been very different. Think that is the worst horror story I have come across.
 
Amaranta said:
Thank God! Not just me that thinks this then :D

I think they have probably never sat on a napping horse in their lives, actually sometimes I wonder if they have ever sat on a horse at all!
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I 100% Agree, I cannot stand people that are against giving a horse a smack when its being naughty! and napping is the one thing the requires a smack the second it starts.
 
Novice rider; ' I've got a budget of £800, I'm going to the sales to get something.

Same person...do you like my new horse ? I got this saddle off ebay, looks okay, doesn't it ?

Next day, same person, after being air lifted to hospital... 'Well, I thought I'd take him on the back fields (the one next to a main road with open gates) for a canter, only my balance isn't that great and he suddenly took off...'
 
"Bambi is 13.7hh, it's very rare to get a horse of that height"

"Bambi is a better pony because he goes in a gag with roundings"

"Don't muck that stable out, mix the dung in with the shavings, it keeps their legs warm at night"

"I know a lot of people just feed dry sugarbeet pellets..."

"Just put the jumping saddle on her, I don't want any more said about it"

'jumping saddle' being a large 17.5"
'her' being a 12.2hh pony

Later on..

"The only reason she was bucking and rearing was because you didn't ride her properly" !!!!!!!!!

Thank goodness I'm away from there!
 
Farrier told me about a previous client, who was meant to be a RS instructor. He put a full set on her TB, asked her if she wanted to rebook for 6 weeks time and she said no, not necessary. He thought fine, and went on his way - 6 months later he got a phone call to say one of the shoes had come off and could be come back out to fix it or give her a refund!!!

on previous yard my mare coliced one afternoon in the field. One of the other liveries was poopicking in the same field as mare, when she got back to the yard an hour or 2 later she told YO about my horse who was sitting up like a dog, kicking her tummy and violently rolling - I think her words where along the lines of 'what a silly mare, she does look funny when she plays' YO realised mare wasnt playing and called me straight away. Unfortunatly we lost the mare :mad: I have never been able to forgive the womens ignorance :(
 
Some of these beggar belief (the stanley knife??? *shudders*). Mine's minor in comparison but it still made me spit.

Fat horse on good grass, not working (even though could have), companion to much fitter working horse but no effort made to restrict intake by e.g. muzzling (he wouldn't like it...) had a lami scare, both fronts abcessed... Response to query about weight loss and grazing restrictions was "I'm not prepared to make any more compromises in his lifestyle. If he gets laminitis I'll have him put to sleep". Which might have been a mercy, though I can't think of a bigger compromise to his lifestyle than being DEAD!!! :rolleyes:
 
KristmasKatt said:
Groom about horse with comic waiting for the vet "awww look she's lying down bless...."

Not being funny but my mum who is sooooo unhorsey knows you don't let a horse with colic lie down!
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Actually that's not strictly true. My friend's horse colicked last year (360 twist of the large intestine) and the vet had no issue with him lying down, we were advised to keep him walking until the vet came, vet arrived and she said to let him go down as clearly the drugs that she was giving him weren't working so what ever was damaged inside had already been done, horse was much less stressed being allowed to lie on the floor with the odd roll than to be made to keep walking. I'm of the thinking that the theory around this has changed and that the rolling is a symptom of the colic and not a cause (they roll to try and relieve the pain, like a footballer that's been kicked in the shin).
 
In my local tackshop, I over heard the person behind the counter saying that their horse had really good feet, she only needed to be shod every 11 weeks...bet they looked fab after 11 weeks... :(
 
JenniferS said:
"I know a lot of people just feed dry sugarbeet pellets..."
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Now that is true, I was told that quite a few racehorse trainers feed dry sugarbeet (handful at a time) in the belief that it will absorb excess stomach acid in ulcer prone horses. I believe it's also common in America to feed it dry.
 
After hacking my horse out one day I turned him out without his rug on (this was beginning of February, after all snow had melted, fields were soaked but was quite warm and he is a heavyweight cob who hadn't been clipped since November) On bringing him back in a couple of hours later was told by another livery "I can't believe you have done that, now you will have to brush him"!!!
You should have seen the look on my boys face, he was soooooo proud of himself, he had had a great day. :D
 
IHK said:
"Horses shouldn't have haynets when they travel as they should be concentrating on standing up" - wouldn't you love to ride with THAT driver?!
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Well, I know a large university vet hospital that recommends you don't travel with a haynet as it causes choke.
Some of these 'stupid comments' aren't stupid, just a difference of practice.
S :D
 
I think the thought of colic management has changed these days, my mare was very colicy to start with I was advised by vet keep moving her don't let her roll or lie down but after her colic op I was told as long as she wasn't thrashing around likely to get hurt or cast leave her. My vet said what do you want to do when you have stomach pains lie down and curl up or go for a 5 mile walk think about it that way
 
similar when we suspected colic in my (now 31) 24 y/o mare we were told by the vet to let her lie down as she will not have the strength to fight it if we walk her constantly. He did say to try and keep her calm and not let her roll if possible though.
 
cptrayes said:
Scariest thing I have heard is in this thread from several people:

that there is never a time or a place to hit a napping horse.

What complete and dangerous nonsense.
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Amaranta said:
Thank God! Not just me that thinks this then :D

I think they have probably never sat on a napping horse in their lives, actually sometimes I wonder if they have ever sat on a horse at all!
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I totally agree dont normally ride with a whip if schooling in the menage but always out on a hack, sometimes that back end will swing out and a quick sharp smack will bring it back in line before a vehicle takes the hind quarters out
 
When I was on the horse-hunt, I got a phonecall from a woman with a horse to sell. I asked her if it was snaffle-mouthed, she said "oh god no, not at all," but in a very positive tone of voice. So I asked her what she rode it in, "a bridle and saddle." I explained that I meant what type of bit, "oh, a normal one... the plain one that most people have". Erm, right. :rolleyes:
 
Re: colic, my vet's advice was that if they were rolling violently and leaving themselves at risk of injury or becoming cast then keep them walking to prevent it. If the horse wants to lie down quietly, let them be. Most sensible, I thought. :)
 
where i work, we have a guy who knows everything,
well he said that he and his wife had a horse some years ago,i think they had it for a couple of years,.
so out of curiosity i asked how much it cost him in them days to have it shod.
his reply was, oh it came with shoes on ::::
mind boggles
 
I have one particular woman who is a gem of insightful comments!

Everything I did whilst I mare was pregnant and then when she foaled was wrong. Apparently I shouldn't have mucked her out, just built up a nice deep bed. The fact Dorey scraped down to concrete during some pretty violent contractions just proves she was right (I dont think 2ft of rotting bedding would have stopped it!) and my foal is a violent demon creature.

Despite the fact her mare was pretty badly injured during foaling, tried to kill the foal, hated the foal every day until it was weaned and the foal then grew up to be an ACTUAL devil horse who tried to kill me one day!
Despite ALL this, when devil foal died last summer, owner announced she was putting the totally unfit mother back in foal again to replace devil foal..

She also has a friend with an albino.... ?

She doesn't believe in removing wet bedding - ever.

Devil foal was an idiot because she couldn't physically chew, despite being a walking hat rack!

Her old eventer was "fine" with a dodgey home made bandage and months and months of box rest, without a vet in sight. As soon as he went sound, she would take him on sponsered rides, hammer him, and then have to put him straight back on box rest...

She saw nothing wrong with taking a rottie and one of her horses into Dorey's stable when foal was only a day old...

Devil foal's totally unfit foal hating mother was jealous of Dorey having a baby...? (even though the behaviour that proved it was normal - Devil foal's mother being Devil Mare!)

Devil Mare attacked a group of horses in the field and ended up kicking Devil Foal.
"You stupid bitch, how could you attack your own daughter? Well, no more turnout for you!"

Her grandkids ponies, suddenly at risk of laminitus where they hadn't been before, needed to use Dorey's maternity paddock for a couple of hours in the evening but were fine grazing 5 or 6 grassy acres with the others for the rest of the day???

Oh, and the biscuit imo... "Dorey loves me".
Yeah, Dorey loved her THAT much that she kept her legs firmly crossed until she'd left the yard and then went into labour!

I quite like doing everything wrong though, at least my horses are ridable and can be handled by anyone!
 
Slightly off beam.....but here goes:

25 yr old girl on being told that Carl Hester was gay.....wistful expression "Are you sure...no you're kidding right...you'll be telling me that Spencer is too"
 
An old livery of mine had a horse which we found in the field dragging his hind leg, he was on three legs with the other just trailing. it looked like a stifle injury. We got him in, it took forever and once he was in we phoned her to tell her. Her response, oh its just his arthritis, turn him out to walk it off. I refused and insisted he stayed in and told her to call a vet. She left him in for 2 days, then i was away for the weekend, so she turned him out. 20 mins later one of my liveries found him on 3 legs trailing the same leg so brought him in, again it took ages. They called the owner who said, just turn him out, he needs te walk it off, he was sound in the box, so it is just his arthritis. They refused. I got home to discover she had put him in the very small sick paddock by the stables. He was dragging the leg behind him. I brought him in and called the emergency vet. Horse had serious damage to his stifle, never in work again. She had never called her vet out to see him. Who is so stupid they think that a trailing useless leg is going to be 'walked off.
 
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