SOMEONE HAS STOLEN MY HORSES WATER BUCKETS!!!

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I got to my field today to bring in my ponies to find my Field bucket and one other Bucket completely gone. The field bucket was sitting in a tyre and the tyre is still there but the bucket is gone!!!


Who would steal water from horses??? And why just two buckets??? Now worried they will return
 
3 of mine live in a field on the main road that I go past every day to work. For water they had a big cast iron bath tub and it stayed therefor pretty much a year. Turned up to feed them one morning and found the bath tub gone. You could see the chips where someone had smashed it to pieces to move it and it would have made a HELL of a racket to break up! I had an inkling as to who had done it so walked past their house and lo and behold there was a smashed up bath tub in the back of their pick up truck. I rang the police Who told me that they could do nothing about it as we couldn't prove it was our bath. We could, when moving it from home to the field a corner broke off so if you rebuilt all the piece it would only have 3 corners. I explained that to them and they then said - well it will be no use to you now any way as it won't hold water. Whatever happened to the fact that he stole it? They wouldn't even come out and ask a few questions. It was theft plain and simple and the police wouldn't do a thing about it.

My ponies now have 2 big rubber buckets in the middle of the field which is a total pain in the backside to fill up. Theory being - they were scrappies and won't want plastic. The bath tub was 3/4 as well so they had to empty it out before breaking it up so there must have been at least 2 of them there! I'm surprised that they never took the field gats with them too!
 
the watcher said:
Perhaps you need to find a field that is slightly less isolated
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Easier said than done. It is right on the outskirts of town nextdoor to the A30 Dual Carraigeway so not excatly isolated however no houses nearby. But ive been there for years now and nothing has gone before.
 
Nothing seems to be safe these days does it? Leaving a horse without water is scraping the barrel even for low life thieves I think.
 
ISHmad said:
Nothing seems to be safe these days does it? Leaving a horse without water is scraping the barrel even for low life thieves I think.
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I agree. One bucket was a large trug bucket which was sitting in a tyre and the other bucket is the 3 gallon bucket i use to fill the trug bucket up with. Funnily enought the tyre is still there but the buckets have gone.
 
Assuming you never have to move them, what about painting the outside of the next one with soemthing really gross?
 
Obviously this isn't what happened to you, and is a bit light hearted, but I went up to the yard the other day, and my sisters horse is on box rest, so has a stable sized pen electric fenced off next to the others in the field. Twice I went up there and found his water bucket right in the middle of the other horses field, still full. My sisters poor horse was there in the hot sun with no water. I was sure some wierdo must be coming in and shifting it as it was a big trug, and was almost completely full.

My sister then found the culprit when she went up in the evening - my pony had been reaching though the tape, as not on, and was grabbing the trug by the edge with his whole mouth and was dragging it inch by inch under the fence and across the field...little toad!

We also have issues with the foxes, especially the cubs, coming to the yard and stealing stuff - they have made off with empty buckets, headcollars, brushes, horse rugs, anything left at naughty fox level!
 
Also not particularly relevent, but someone has been stealing all the hay out of my horse's hay nets!! Am not impressed to say the least! (The hay amongst other things too..!)
 
Well i felt abit silly phoning the police for a couple of stolen buckets but they assured me that they do take it seriously and that there has been several reports of things stolen from yards where there are no dwelling nearby in the Devon area
 
Some bugger nicked a crappy old bath that I used to collect rainwater.....it was right next to the fence and not actually on the yard as such. Plus it was knackered. And plastic. And pink.

They would have had to heave it over a 4ft fence so they really must have wanted it.

Takes all sorts.......:confused:
 
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