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I don't see how op is being rude in the slightest, because she and YO have been nice enough to let the 2 original children come play ponies for a day does not mean that the parents should take liberties and invite people she doesn't know and making assumptions.

As stated above, if you were invited to use someone's hot tub/holiday home etc etc it doesn't mean that you should then start inviting three friends to join you.

I let people stroke my boy and have had small children groom my friends pony but I damn well wouldn't invite them without asking, and I wouldn't let strangers ride my boy.
 
Was just about to say the same thing HaffiesRock, when I was younger and horseless riding at a riding school weekly wasn't enough so used to get my horsey fix any way I could whether that be at a petting zoo or even for free at the city farm I would never have dreamed of asking to visit other peoples horses. If I was offered I would be grateful and act in the way set out by the owner but there are ways to visit horses without being rude and imposing yourself on others if it is really just the contact that you want.

People work hard for their horses and shouldn't have to share with any tom dick or harry if they don't want. Its not selfish its life. I want to sit in a farrari so anyone lucky enough to have a ferrari is selfish for not letting me as I am so underpriveleged not having my own.
 
Gentlegiant88 said:
I don't mind generally people riding him, he's well behaved and a big softy. However dropping hints is cheeky and generally pee's me off. Plus droping hints then expecting to just turn up and ride annoys ne, if you don't mind riding you shouldn't mind mucking out, not just turn up to a well groomed tacked up horse ride and begger off, I'm not a free rs.
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A very good friend of mine moved out from her parents and took her one horse with her, but visited home regularly to ride the four horses that were left on the farm (all were hunting horses - her father was the master). Her brother had been having romantic relations with a girl who is a bit crackers, to put in mildly, who on one occasion when my friend went home, came downstairs and said to my friend 'oh, what are you doing here?' (it's her house...?), and then when she received the reply 'I'm here to do the horses', continued with 'I'll come riding with you sometime. I can borrow one of the horses for hunting as well, that'll be fun'.

Ummmm, no. That won't be fun, or indeed safe or sensible either. Thankfully friend's brother has a new girlfriend now who has a horse of her own to bring hunting!
 
Littlelegs said:
Good point pearlsasinger. I'm sure there are horseless kids in daughters school etc who would just love to play ponies even as a one off. But as far as I'm concerned, I don't expect other parents to invite her for expensive day trips, so why should I provide relatively expensive activities for their kids for free? Plus nobody has volunteered to accompany their child to do the jobs at 6.30am, so I don't see why they are entitled to the fun stuff. If my child is willing to do her pony herself before school, then she can be as selfish as she likes about sharing at wkends or long summer evenings.
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Absolutley.

And have you noticed how people only want to visit on sunny weekends and summers evenings?

Oddly enough, no-one is ever keen to come visit at 6.30am in February.....
 
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