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I worked for it. I paid for it. That means that it is mine, not yours to take whenever you like without asking.

So thank you for taking my lunge line from the tack room and leaving it in the indoor school in pieces.
Thank you for taking my lunging whip off of my shelf and leaving it in the outdoor school covered in sand for to pick up.

I hope you don't mind if I return the favour and borrow something of yours without asking.. :mad:

Rant over.
 
This annoys me too :mad:, i am all for allowing people to borrow stuff as long as it is returned in the condition i lent it in!!!
 
no notice board but I could pin a note on the door of the store room.
tbh I'll probably end up hiding my stuff in the lorry so only I know where it is.
 
This makes me angry too! Nobody at my current yard does it but at my old yard someone would use my stuff and then I'd have to go and look all round the yard to find it :mad: How hard is it to politely ask to borrow something and then put it back when you're done?! There is a reason why I now have a lockable area for all my stuff...
 
blood_magik said:
I worked for it. I paid for it. That means that it is mine, not yours to take whenever you like without asking.

So thank you for taking my lunge line from the tack room and leaving it in the indoor school in pieces.
Thank you for taking my lunging whip off of my shelf and leaving it in the outdoor school covered in sand for to pick up.

I hope you don't mind if I return the favour and borrow something of yours without asking.. :mad:

Rant over.
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Hate this too, just just reminded me, though, that I've left my lunge whip in the outdoor menage (b*gger).
 
Someone once took Ned's girth, but the worst thing was, is they replaced it with a pony girth!! I don't own Neddy, but I bought him that girth and it was NOT cheap. His owner hadn't moved it (She respects that I buy him stuff that only I use on him, when others ride him they use his owners stuff)
I found it on one of the liveries saddles. I was not happy!

Someone also took his headcollar off and I found it in a stable, covered in poo! Now, until recently, Ned did not go in a stable, so it wouldn't have been on him when it found it's way in there. It now has his name on it in big, bold letters!

I usually have all my stuff in a big box in a portacabin, no one can touch that stuff at least!
 
i lock everything including my wheelbarrow away for this reason!!

I wouldn't of even minded the borrowing of the wheelbarrow if when she saw me arrive (knowing i'd want the barrow to take water to my ponies) she happily emptys it then trundles off to poo pick with it :mad: yet when i asked for it back she complains that im being mardy and its only a wheelbarrow. yeah but its only MY wheelbarrow!!!!


ETA: sorry that turned into a bit of a rant :o
 
How many people are there on your yard ?
If feasable, i would go round everyone of them and ask them individually if they used your stuff, then deal with your findings as you see fit
 
I am so with you on this, drives me mad. What really winds me up is a woman that after 3 years still doesn't own basic essentials has the money to constantly buy stuff like personalised saddleclothes & expensive tack lockers for her stuff, but still uses my tools. Really really bugs me. Not sure why horse people think its ok, I mean I wouldn't dream of asking to borrow my neighbours vacuum every day, or rooting through my neighbours shed for gardening stuff. Tramps. Rant over, feel better now.
 
there's quite a few and i rarely see them because I ride after hours most days.

I only noticed it today because I'd taken my whip back to the tackroom and it was there when I left.
we went back up to jump start the truck and it was back in the arena.

I've spoken to my YO but he'll
probably forget.
I'll say to one of the girls - they're more likely to know what's happening.
 
This is a thing peculiar to livery yards isn't it? I went to visit a friend at hers recently and I must say I found the whole thing a bit unnerving, a bit like a country bumpkin being dropped in the middle of Piccadilly Circus!!

There were loads of owners going about their routines, like worker bees in a hive - and each person had an old milking stall allocated to them for their tack, in a separate building to the stables. Someone had 'borrowed' my friends broom, despite the fact it had her name painted on it, she hasn't seen it since and had to ask someone if she could use theirs to sweep out her stables.

It made me feel rather naive and a little sheltered. I have only ever had horses/ponies at our own yard. (well Mum's), where everything is ours and the only mild annoyance is finding my best mate (like a sister) has commandeered my good stuff blatantly! I don't know if I could cope interacting with all the different personalities...
 
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When I go to use a product to find what should be in the bottle replaced with water...what low life's..it seems small fry, but to get it they have had to go into my horses box while he is in it, into my cabinet and remove a full bottle replacing it with their empty one filled with water. It's theft plain and simple. Then when a padlock is put on said cabinet they break it open and try to make it look like the horse had done it..he hadn't..well not unless he can eat the said product, bottle and all, as it was missing.
Basically if they want something or run out of it, they go hunting around for it. I will lend anyone anything but ask first..
 
There's 30+ owners on my yard, so rather big. The other day one of the liveries was filling up her wheelbarrow full of hay, only to have the barrow collapse, some one had used it, and quite possibly their horse had sat on it making it all bent out of shape ( the wheel and frame) so the livery put a notice on the board asking who had broken it, only to have a message left saying that it must of done it it's self. Yeah right, a fairly new narrow suddenly breaks its wheel and twists its frame by leaning on a wall.
 
I feel your pain, it drives me utterly insane!!! Have tried the 'speak openly to the theif to request they desist' approach only to have them lie to my face (I know who it was, because I saw them lol!!). So now just lock things away. If it is 'only' a brush then why are you so keen to use mine?!!! Taking, using, then dumping on the floor when you are done makes you a low life, it doesn't make you better than me so quit looking down your nose at me! Phew, makes me properly mad!
 
Unbelievable - what awful stories. I think if I had my horse at a big yard I'd probably end up with a nervous breakdown!

My friend is at a lovely livery where haylage was provided for you to go and help yourself. They've now had to change that to restricting it to a certain number of nets a day, which are left by your stable, because people were stealing the haylage to give to friends elsewhere!
 
After losing almost 300€ worth of equipment, including a brand new Masta cooler over the course of 6 months, everything now comes home with me.

I have a lockable tack cupboard on the yard, but it is virtually empty, apart for my (new) very recognisable scarlet lunging whip and white dressage stick.

I spent a fortune labelling everything with Pintos name (boots, coolers, saddle cloths everything!) funnily enough, since I asked my privious share if she had seen my protection vest, nothing else has gone missing...

I'm still majorly p*ssed off about my professionals choice dressage girth though. I had to import it, as they are not available in my area of France, and consequently very distinctive (and expensive!).
 
When my mare was on livery I used to leave my stretch and flex boots in the back of her stable. I used to pair them up front and hind on the same side and went up one day to find one pair gone. My mare was on box rest so they'd had to go in behind her to help themselves. Probably thought they were getting a pair but ended up with the right front and hind leaving me with the left front and hind. No use to either me or the thief!!!
 
This really annoys me too! I don't mind people borrowing some of my stuff but at least ask and then return it in the same condition! There used to be a woman on the yard I am at who didn't see eye to eye with anyone else - basically nobody was on speaking terms with her after she interfered so much with other people's business. Despite not being on speaking terms, she still used other people's stuff without asking! She broke someone's wheelbarrow and didn't replace it but left it lying in the corner of the yard, persistently used my food stirrer and left it dirty and lying in the mud, and I turned up one day to confront her after she had been slagging me off to another livery and causing trouble, to find her using my wheelbarrow - only hours after slagging me off!!! :mad:

What was even worse is she used to brag to everyone how much money she earned!
 
Not at all. I have previously gone so far as to leave a list of often borrowed items with both their price & recommendations as to where they can be purchased.
 
I'm on a big livery yard, but everybody has their own tack room which are locked all the time. Or mine is anyway, I'd be fuming if somebody was stealing my things. And put a huge notice up!
 
well we have a separate storage room with a shelf each and all of my stuff is on the top shelf. you need a step ladder to get to it.
I suppose I could ask for a lock to be put on the door but that would probably inconvenience the other owners.

I'll pop a notice on my shelf. Are dummy cameras expensive?
 
blood_magik said:
So thank you for taking my lunge line from the tack room and leaving it in the indoor school in pieces.
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At least you found yours. Mine was taken out of my stuff never to be seen by me again. Hoof pick #1029034 vanished in a record breaking 12 hours. Drives me mad.
 
hmm.. true but not much use with the end hanging off :o

I've also managed to lose a pair of spurs :mad: although I suspect this is my own doing.

OM - I suspect one of the kiddies so mousetraps are unfortunately no-go. what else could I rig up? what about a bucket of soapy water? I'd have to shift some stuff to make sure no-ones stuff gets ruined but it would be quite effective ;)
I could put some food colouring in it :D
 
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