Stupidest Questions/comment you've been asked by non-horsey person

None of them seem that bad??


I've never seen some one look so shocked as when I told my city friend that no, horses don't eat meat... Now when I ask her what ponies eat she replys 'mix'... I should be a teacher
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I think I've just about taught my friends the difference between a mare and a gelding although we had some confussion when we added stallions and foals into the equation. Although this was the picture my friends drew me to prove she understod what I had taught her...
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My OH and I were watching Olympic Dressage and he turned to me and asked: so is that what you do with the mare then?
My thoughts shifted to the mare, bless her, with her spavin, pootling around in circles in the indoor on the days that it is too wet to go hacking... Yes dear, that's exactly what we do. Bless him.
 
I keep my trailer at home and was parking it up on the drive when I was asked if I kept my horse in it!
I was out hacking with my daughter a few years ago, she had a 12'2hh welsh B and I had a shire cross both geldings and we were asked if the pony was my horse's foal and would it get bigger!
 
not asked...but this tops most...


"I'd like a pony as a pet, more so than a Dog, because it's Vegetarian"!!!!!

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I took a non-horsey friend to meet Murphy. When we approached him in the field she stopped, looked at me blankly and said "Where's his saddle?!" I think she thought he wore it all the time
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I'm always being asked why horses are clipped in winter when you'd think they need the extra warmth, but not clipped in summer.

A while ago I was feeling ill and rang me mum to tell her I was poorly. She said "So, is Murphy looking after himself today then?"
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I replied with "Yes...I phoned him this morning, explained I wasn't very well, and we agreed that he'd muck his own stable out today, fill his own haynets and make his own dinner"."
 
We had a lot of walkers go past our fields in a particular livery yard and every few days in the summer someone would come up to the stables to ask us how the blind horses were coping - the ones with the flymasks!
 
Clipping and farriery questions are always popular, i think most have been covered but I just thought of a great one. At work we sell horse shoes to earn a few quid, our lovely farrier leaves shoes evertime he comes as he has to pay to get rid of them anyway so as he's pretty popular there shoes of every shape, size, weight etc and i as you may notice all our chaps are rather large, so family pick up shoe thats all 2 1/2inch by 3 and asked me if it was barnabys baby shoes..... ummm well sorry but thats the only time i've been unprofessional enough to laugh at someones face!
 
'Can I have a ride on your horse, I bet I could ride him, I bet I could jump, can I gallop on him etc etc' generally from fat up themselves men who've never been closer to a horse than a TV screen. I answer that my spooky under confident 14.2 would have them off in a second, and I wouldn't even let them in the same field as them! Funny, I'm becoming a lot less tolerant as I'm getting older.

And the other one, about the yearling, 'when can you ride it, and why did you bother to breed it if you've got to wait so long to ride it'. Obviously can't see that loving horses doesn't have to be about riding!
 
I had the Vet out to a swollen ankle on the horse I have on full loan last week. My Mum (completely non-horsey) asked "Do you have to pay the Vet bill for that then?"

No idea if she thought I should pop him down the equestrian NHS or whether his owner should foot the bill or what!
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totally non horsey builder friend had been working on a big house with horses out in the field next door asked me most seriously " why are all their horses blindfolded then? whats that all about?" took me a minute or 2 to work out he meant they were all wearing fly masks
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LOL, I get the "blindfold" one all the time too
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When the weather is REALLY bad, work colleagues ALWAYS ask- ''do you still have to go and see your horses?'.....Eeerm yes, because they still need feeding/mucking out/bringing in/turning out etc etc etc !! I've also been asked If I'm ever going to breed ( from my gelding)
 
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I had the Vet out to a swollen ankle on the horse I have on full loan last week. My Mum (completely non-horsey) asked "Do you have to pay the Vet bill for that then?"

No idea if she thought I should pop him down the equestrian NHS or whether his owner should foot the bill or what!
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"Ankle"???

surely you mean "fetlock"
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Someone once stopped me and asked why i was trying to suffocate my horse....that was me riding my 13hh sec B with a nose net on to stop him headshaking. I learnt something at that point, dont EVER try and explain things to someone who is obviously clueless, i tried to tell her that he has a condition like hayfever and that it helps stop the bad sensation, so she asked 'but how can it have hayfever if it eats hay?'
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And one time I was bathing my old mare on a glorious hot day mid summer, part of our yard ran adjacent to the lane and she was tied up in view of the lane. Some idiotic bunch of people drove past, turned round and came back and started hurling abuse at me and that they were going to call the RSPCA and how dare I be so cruel to the poor animal....
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The best one I had was when I was out hacking on my aged TB ex-racehorse who I just do hacking and riding club activities on.

A lady dog walker stopped me and was talking about how well Zara Phillips had done in a comp that had been on TV. Then she just said 'Do you know her?' I said no I had never met her and the lady said ' I thought you all knew each other, well if you see her pass on my congratulations'

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When I tell my non-horsey friends that I am having a riding lesson... that always causes confusion 'but I thought you knew how to ride!'
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Another one is when I tell them that I have a show to go to at the weekend, they ask what I have to do and EVERYONE says 'Oh, Is it like show jumping?' I have found the easiest way to explain it is to say it's like Crufts but for horses!
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I think it would be too much to explain to them I have a show cob!
 
A livery at my yard had her non horsey friend come and see her horses, she said she was going to give them a bath....the non horsey person said "what kind of bath do you put them in"

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I have been asked how many years horse's shoes last, and they are always horrified by the £62 every 6 weeks answer!

The lesson one always gets people, 'I thought you knew how to ride'

My in laws like watching me ride and ask me to make George run faster and leap (canter and jump!)

And yes the do you have to go up everyday, ride, feed etc.

Bless em, mind you I would be the same if someone asked me about sailing for example!!
 
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These are all so true!
I get the lesson incredulity stares all the time at work. I try to remember to say "I'm having a session with my coach" they seem to take that better.

Another gem I've just remembered was overhearing a small boy chatting to his mother as they walked past our field in the winter: "Mummy look! the horsy is wearing an anorak!"

Lol!
 
if i had a £1 every time i was asked - WOULD YOU RECOGNISE HIM IF YOU SAW HIM AGAIN - after my horse was stolen id could have replaced him several times over

i wanted to knock their heads off - but instead politley but firmly replied - WOULD YOU RECOGNISE YOUR KID IF YOU LOST IT IN ASDA
 
My Dad asked me why I was still having lessons when I've been riding for ages, when I replied I was going to a dressage trainer my little girl piped up ' but you've got some trainers mummy you bought them the other day!'

A scaffolder asked me why my horse was blindfolded (fly mask) the other day.
"When's this pony going to grow up to be a horse?"

Axels first ever dressage test he was very spooky, my Mum afterwards said he looked lovely doing all that posh sideways stuff......it was a walk and trot test lol!
 
My favourite one at a show was hearing a small girl say to her mother "Mummy, when I get a pony, can I have one with squares on its bum" - re quarter marks!
 
Some one on the road said we had a 'nice little 4-in-hand of foals' We were like err...they are adults. Then we had to go through that a pony is smaller than a horse, regardless of age, and ponies can be hogged which to some people, apparently makes them look like foals.

Why have you got 4 horses pulling a carriage, why dont you just get 4 carts was another one.
 
Not stupid but my son(*) and daughter(11) were talking about our new foal. She asked if we'd have to bath her if we take her to a show. I said it'd depend on the weather but in preparation I've already started picking up her feet, leading her etc. My son said,
'So teaching a foal is just like learning Maths then? The sooner you learn your tables the better you remember them.....'
 
"Why aren't you riding them"

...to us walking two very obviously yearlings out in-hand...

... from two horse riders themselves!
 
we get alot of driving ones, not always from the non horsey but they always seem to be regarding the weight of our vehical, too much or too little (whats the point in having two horses) they never seem to get that our waggonette brake is only 20 years old and even I can push it about the yard on my own but that when you have 14 people on it and are going up a devon hill you might need a bit more power!

Also we constantly have dads joking "Oh we have 2 horse power! thats alot less than my car" then I have to explain that horsepower is a mathmatical equation (although based on a 14.2 pony) and that our two boys when fit could pull well over 2 tons!
 
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My OH and I were watching Olympic Dressage and he turned to me and asked: so is that what you do with the mare then?

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Ah, that is like a colleague at work - I was sneakily watching some olympic video on the puter and she asked if it was me riding. Imagine her dissapointment when I actually showed her some video of me riding (prelim dressage)
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"Ankle"???

surely you mean "fetlock"
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Oooops slipped into non-horsey-speak mode there!!!
Bendy bit at the bottom of his leg. LOL
 
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