Sensitive about your horse?

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I know we all love our horses but how do you deal with people that aren't quite so complementary about them?
Are you sensitive to comments made about your horse? Do you get annoyed whn people make comments that you rather they didn't? Do you take criticism of your horse well and look objectively at him/her? Or do you take it all personally?! Do you get protective and defensive if things are said about him/her? Does it depend on who says them i.e. if it were your intructor/YO is it ok but not if it is another livery?

Just curious!
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I know my horse is ugly, I dont mind at all when people comment on it. It's lucky she can jump, if anyone ever insulted her jump I probably would get upset!!
 
No I wouldn't get sensitive if someone ever said anything about any of my horses which was not complimentary. People all like different things out of horses and it wouldn't bother me if my horses were not their cup of tea....they are exactly my cup of tea and that's all that matters
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I'm same as boss, my horse is no stunner to look at so it wouldn't bother me if people say he's a big ugly sod. If people criticised his jumping it wouldn't bother me either I don't because I know he is fab!
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If someone said they didn't like him though I'd prob take it to heart.
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Ditto Tia...Its not important to me that anyone else likes my nags. I love em and thats what counts although its always nice to have someone else say they like them too. I wouldn't ever say to someone that I don't like your horse but just that its not my my cup of tea. If I was sensitive like that I'd have killed myself by now!! I do own a shetland and a coloured hairy cob.....
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I get very sensitive about my horses! If you read my recent post about a man slabbering that im cruel with my horses, putting them out without a rug, even though they are heavy cobs!

Hubby keeps telling me that those that critise are those that are jealous. Well the guy did want to buy one of my horses and i refused to sell her
 
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Has someone been insulting the big hairy elephant?
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Lol! Not really! Someone with a very different shaped horse (little fine TB) was very surpised when I said she was 1/2 TB, then proceded to say "she is a very good doer isn't she"
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Wasn't sure how to take it to be honest!! Lol! I am not usually that sensitive about her (I tend to insult her the most of all
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I get pissed off when people comment negitivly on a passed horse, there is little need, its just insenstive.

Theres a difference between constructive crit and putting some one down.
 
I remember one early autumn day when a rather large lady looked down her nose at my horse and said "He's summered well hasn't he?" - to which I replied sweetly, "Haven't we all?" - she never commented about my horses again!

I don't care if people don't like my horses cos I love them, but I get fed up with ignorant comments like "it's a bit short in the neck" because yeah, they are IDs and they are made like that!
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Not really, no matter what they say I am going to love my horse and she is here to stay but if someone says something negative I will look objectively at it and sometimes I may agree, others I may not agree with.

Someone at our yard is always negative about mine and our previous horses but I have put it down to jealousy as we have sold 2 of ours no problem when one was very lame she came back into work sound as a pound and went back competing. This person however can't sell their horse and said horse is forever lame!!
 
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I remember one early autumn day when a rather large lady looked down her nose at my horse and said "He's summered well hasn't he?" - to which I replied sweetly, "Haven't we all?" - she never commented about my horses again!


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Lol! That's a classic
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wish I had thought of that!
 
If anyone was rude enough to make an off the cuff umpleasant remark about someones horse they probably aren't worth paying attention to anyway
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I didn't buy my horse to make anyone else happy, I bought her for my pleasure and she is beautiful to me. Why would I care what they all thought?
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On the whole I am not too bothered. Some people may find my horse threatening in the stable (he pulls a lot of faces at times!!). Because they are wary/not confident around him they may try to criticise. If you are confident he is fine, but he'll spot a nervous person a mile off!! Similarly, some people have been jealous of his recent success out at dressage competitions and thus may not be complimentary. That's just them showing jealousy. Glad I'm not like that!!

TBH it would be a rare occasion that such comments would bother me. Anyone with any sense and knowledge can see that he is a super horse. He has limitations, but then every horse does. I know he's great, the people that are important know he's great and the judges love him. That overides any negative comments in my view.
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Somebody once described my horse as a 'spastic', offensive both to me and anyone who happens to suffer from the condition- I nearly chinned her on the spot!
 
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Remember it for next time Lucy.
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I will Tia
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Since my horse seems to be a part-bred elephant I am going to have to get used to these people that can't see past her voluptuous figure to her inner beauty!!
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not if its true, but if you cant ride then dont blame my horse!
(he was on loan for a while and had lots of numptys riding him who were not very complimentary to him)
 
It really annoyed me when someone asked me if Beau was a 'failed ex racer!' , this was just after Id put 3 months hard work into getting weight and condition on him, mind you the woman who said it knows NOTHING at all about horses.

And someone else asked me if Lance was a cob
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Ive had people I know try and 'pick' at Beau, espec the people I know whose horses are just plain janes, when we first got him he looked very poor and everyone was praising him soo much, as soon as they saw him move in the field, he has super big floaty paces, well the commpliments reduced, and as soon as the weight and condition went on, they just about stopped!

Let them get on with it I say.
 
I hope that's the half that's not related to my horse - otherwise I might get sensitive!
I'm very rude about my horse and a couple of other people have permission to be rude about him too. No-one else is allowed!
 
Depends on who it is. I say mean things about him but he knows I don't mean it! My instructor is allowed to comment, some friends are allowed to and I don't mind come people at the yard commenting, but there are some others at the yard who I cant stand making comments (then again, those people are the ones who would comment on anything/anyone so you're not singled out!).

i'm not really sensitive about it, I love him to bits. He's not everyone's cup of tea, but equally I don't like every single other horse on the yard. Personal choice!
 
My mare is exceptionally beautiful to me. Its rare that anyone says anything negative about her because she is such a 'lovely person' and everyone comments on that, but on a couple of ocassions things have been said that I didn't like and I will remember then FOREVER (I've toyed with sticking pins in ephergies). I can take it from instructors as any negative comment is I know intended to be constructive. A couple have said she is built downhill - it pained me, but I force myself to admit that its true so I can work with it.

Short answer - I don't like people critisising my babe and if they do, they need to watch out or I may become a 'bunny boiler!'
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I think if someone called my horse ugly i would laugh at them and say well he borrowed the stick off you!!!

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