Stop taking my ******* girth!

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Aaaaargh.

My loan girlie has just phoned me to say she's gone to tack up and there's no girth. This does my head in. We're on a professional yard which is also a riding school and time after time the girls who work there take my girth off my saddle in the livery tack room and I find it on a school horse. I'm now going to have to be the weirdo that paddocks their girth to the saddle rack!

Can anyone recommend the most effective way of stopping your girth being nicked without resorting to "if you take this again I will kill you. And your dog" type signs :D
 
I would take it off the saddle and keep it hidden away under rugs or something or get a thin chain and pop it through the buckle and saddle rack with a little padlock on it. if you want to give them a suprise you could tie a bit of ribbon to it with a note saying mitts off :)
 
That would get my goat :mad: Lock it up, if they can't be bothered to supply enough spare girths, then it's tough on them, they really shouldn't be using their clients tack..
 
you could just have a saddle cover and put the girth under it too, it will definitely be less convenient to take your girth then. If not, just a thin chain with small padlock through the buckle to the saddle rack, have one key for you and one for your loan girl :)
 
NOT acceptable for school to be helping itself to a livery's tack and v unprofessional imo.

id be seeking out the YM/person in charge of the riding school horses ASAP and having a non too happy word in their ear about it.
After id made my feelings clear about finding my girth missing and turning up in the riding school tack room id expect it not to be happening again and if it did i'd bill them for it!
 
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I wouldn't be doing anything to stop it being taken eg. padlocks. However I word be having a stern word with the YO.
Not acceptable at all!
 
God that's awful so unprofessional and rude using a liveries tack without asking! I would be fuming! I don't mind if people ask first. I'd be speaking to YM or YO about it, and nothing wrong with a few notes! ;) or hide the girth then put a note where it would normally be saying looking for something? GET YOUR OWN GIRTH!! :) ;)
 
I would get a small lockable combination lock and a small box and lock up girth and stirrups too!!! B and q have boxes for 10 pound with a hole in lid for a lock.
My mares headcolar and reap went walkabout few wk ago, searched high and low, it was found few days ago in the field, not my field, filthy and sodden, it's in washer now, I had to buy a new one too cos needed one.
 
If they're using your girth id be worried about them 'borrowing' other things (bridle...saddle?!). Cable tie one is a good idea, plus a word with YO. You'd think girths would be in abundance, at least one per horse and spares, surely?
 
They'll use my saddle once and I'll, as we say here, have them! They can take my stirrups, hate the things but if they use my beautiful saddle I will combust. It's just so disappointing to have to lock stuff away. It's just basic respect not to use the clients' things. The yo has her own tackroom which is no doubt full of girths suitable for her larger school horses. I'll be pointing that out to her when I have a word.
 
I`d be FUMING !!!! Yes i would be locking it up somehow, AND putting a note on saying "mitts off" AND having a word with yard manager .... disgraceful !!
 
Discuss this with the YO. It is not right to use tack belonging to other horses. Also can the YO guarantee that the rest of your equipment on the yard is safe from unauthorised use.
Personally, I like the combination lock. :D
 
It's so annoying when people take things. My mum phoned me this morning to ask where our shavings fork is, so I replied outside Murphy's stable where it always is, but it wasn't there & she couldn't find it anywhere so I will have to look for it tomorrow :mad:. I don't mind people using it as long as they put it back. So when I find it I shall be moving it out off site so no one can borrow it!
 
Dont get me started! My pony's advent calendar went missing and never turned up, things have been broken and not replaced or just generally stolen. Hay goes down a lot quicker than it should too and my friend went to ride yesterday and the stirrups on her saddle were not hers!! Like others have said I dont mind people borrowing, but put it back!!!
 
The only things I don't keep locked up in my tack locker, apart from the hoof pick hanging next to the box, (and that goes walkies too sometimes), are my lunge whips, obviously given their size. I keep them in a tube next to said locker. They still go walkabout from time to time. I don't mind them being borrowed (well, not much!) but I do object to them not being put back where they belong, as I shouldn't have to traipse around looking for MY stuff! last time it went walkies, I wrote upon the message board requesting that whoever 'borrowed' my whip would have the courtesy to (implied 'damn well') put it back. It was in place the next day. I bought a hot pink 2m one yesterday, so everyone will know whose it is, should anyone 'borrow' that one!
 
lula said:
NOT acceptable for school to be helping itself to a livery's tack and v unprofessional imo.

id be seeking out the YM/person in charge of the riding school horses ASAP and having a non too happy word in their ear about it.
After id made my feelings clear about finding my girth missing and turning up in the riding school tack room id expect it not to be happening again and if it did i'd bill them for it!
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TinselCat said:
I wouldn't be doing anything to stop it being taken eg. padlocks. However I word be having a stern word with the YO.
Not acceptable at all!
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Exactly what they said! Extremely unprofessional. :(

My stuff went walkies a lot when I moved to an RS until I had gentle words with the helpers. My broom was borrowed and put back outside my box broken as if to say 'Get a new one, I broke this one'. :mad:
 
What sort of rack do you hang the saddle on? Most racks will have bars that you can fasten a bike lock round. I doubt it's the yard owner most likely one of the helpers, but making it very obvious you do not wish to have your stuff used (apart from anything else ringworm or lice can be passed on through sharing tack) should solve the problem.
 
When we were on working livery at a RS my stuff always went missing. Obviously the tack should be used on my pony but I found it was being used for other ponies as well....cos it fitted better than the schools own tack!!

We had a locked plastic box that was broken open so somebody could use my stuff.

Now we're on a private livery yard and although people borrow things like wheel barrows and forks, they mostly put them back when they're finished with them.
 
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