The cost of a discarded deinks can

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Is 300 hundred pounds :eek: and a total of ten days box rest for a three year old filly :(
The three year old came up lame, a day after we had found a crumpled, discarded, new drinks can in the field. When the vet came a couple of days later, he found a thin cut on the sole of her hoof, which he thought was probably caused by the drinks can. The cut did abscess, despite the treatment and so the vet had to come out again, IV sedation again and chop a piece the size of a 2p piece out of the sole. We have had to retrain her to pick her feet up, as she didn't like the idea after all the messing about with it.
The filly is now sound again and the bill came today, 300 quid for the two visits and the treatment, so that is the cost of a random stranger chucking their rubbish over our wall from the footpath :eek:
 
How frustrating! Glad your filly is ok now. Could you write up this story to make a sign for the path? Might make someone think twice?
 
Oh how upseting.

There is a carpark further up the road from us and all the fields either side of the lane to it are full of cans, thankfully not ours, but it still drives me mad to see it. I think half the numpties that throw the cans out would think it hysterical to chuck things at a sign saying don't drop littler, sadly.
 
Selfish, lazy idiots. One careless action causes so much distress. Glad she's mended now.

I can't understand the mentality of litter droppers. If I see someone drop it in front of me, I pick it up and hand it back to them saying 'Is this yours?'.

I used to litter pick our road (a country lane) for the Parish Council. I would get several bin bags worth in a couple of hours, including plenty of drinks cans and bottles :(.
 
How infuriating. Glad your girl is OK.

Local lads park up by our field to smoke weed and we find the odd dealer bag in our field. We're on the edge of the peak district national park..you'd think they could find somewhere more secluded!
 
I once found a black bin bag full of rubbish from a restaurant in my garden. I phoned up the restaurant to complain and they were furious with the employee that had deposited it and really apologetic!

Once when I had a property for sale along a dead end country road that people used to park and have their lunch, MacDonalds, etc, I used to regularly litter pick it when the house was up for sale, to make the area look better. It was so disgusting, much of the rubbish was MacDonalds stuff, coke cans and glass drinks bottles. But there were quite a few soiled nappies and the thought makes me feel quite squeamish even now.
 
I may give putting the story up on the wall a try, you never know, it may prick someones consience. There is a piece of common land at the top of our road, people come to eat their lunch there, to look at the beautiful views and then throw their empty drinks cans and bottles and polystirene cartons out of their car windows! We also get a lot of runners and cyclists, who all seem to think that they are on some sort of organised do, and that there will be people to come round after them and shift all the plastic bottles they leave! We are high on the pennines, in an area of Outstanding Landscape Amenity Value, and covered in rubbish!
Mithras, your nappy story made me feel somewhat ill! I bet the restaurant was displeased, for one thing it was fairly traceable!
 
YorksG said:
I bet the restaurant was displeased, for one thing it was fairly traceable!
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The hotel opposite the Common once left a sofa at the side of the road for a week. We assume that they had taken it across the road for a bride to sit on for photos. They were lucky to get it back, though as I was going to ring the council and report fly-tipping!
 
Someone threw a J20 bottle into our garden once which broke. Our stupid boxer bounced on it severing his tendon and artery. Luckily we heard him yelp and managed to get pressure on it and into the vets ASAP. Final total of a dog with a slightly club paw...£1200!
Litter droppers should all be put in stocks, there is no need to be so thoughtless and lazy. Glad your horse should be fine, but it's not a bill you want before christmas really.
 
Oh that's awful - but thank goodness your filly is going to be ok. I saw a well known showing rider driving in front of me the other day throw rubbish out of her car window in broad daylight. It wasn't accidental - I was right behind her and saw her hand go up to the open window to throw it out. So it's not just always non-horsey people despite what I would like to think!
 
Holly Hocks said:
Oh that's awful - but thank goodness your filly is going to be ok. I saw a well known showing rider driving in front of me the other day throw rubbish out of her car window in broad daylight. It wasn't accidental - I was right behind her and saw her hand go up to the open window to throw it out. So it's not just always non-horsey people despite what I would like to think!
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Good grief, that really is ridiculous, you would hope that she would know better.
 
We have a scrap yard and a layby right at the end of our field. You would be amazed at the car parts we find, luckily OH does a regular field patrol when they have access to that end.
 
fallenangel123 said:
Someone threw a J20 bottle into our garden once which broke. Our stupid boxer bounced on it severing his tendon and artery. Luckily we heard him yelp and managed to get pressure on it and into the vets ASAP. Final total of a dog with a slightly club paw...£1200!
Litter droppers should all be put in stocks, there is no need to be so thoughtless and lazy. Glad your horse should be fine, but it's not a bill you want before christmas really.
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Putting litter louts in stocks is a great idea fallenangel123
OP - how infuriating. Poor horse, I hope she recovers quickly.
 
fallenangel123 said:
Someone threw a J20 bottle into our garden once which broke. Our stupid boxer bounced on it severing his tendon and artery. Luckily we heard him yelp and managed to get pressure on it and into the vets ASAP. Final total of a dog with a slightly club paw...£1200!
Litter droppers should all be put in stocks, there is no need to be so thoughtless and lazy. Glad your horse should be fine, but it's not a bill you want before christmas really.
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Glad to hear that your boxer did recover, if slightly damaged! I am beginning to think that litterers should be shot! My Dad decided to fully retire from work, aged 71, after one of his dogs cut her foot on broken glass in the wood, fortunately it was in daylight and he managed to get her to the vets in time, he stopped working as he could then make sure he only walked them in daylight, as he was convinced that she would have died if he hadn't been able to see what happened.
 
The amount of litter is disgusting one of our gateways use to have xxx rated porn mags and condoms, but Chinese lanterns and balloons really annoy me, glad horse has recovered now.
 
I am currently fuming about the beige plastic fish and chip/burgers take away boxes left in our country park. The nearby secondary school kids congregate in the local chippy every evening on the way home and then chuck their empty boxes on the footpath. I think I may have to complain to the headmaster/mistress as its so bad
 
Non horsey, but I work at an outdoor swimming pool and this summer some idiots threw a glass bottle over the wall which subsiquently smashed and spread shards of glass all on outside of pool and in it. All made worse by the fact we had kids and swimmers in there at that exact time.

Hate litter droppers no need for it.
 
YorksG, we have the same problem - near to our livery yard, there is an "unofficial" layby which offers a stunning view across the bay. There is a wood nearby with red deer and squirrels to be seen - so what do people do? Sit in their cars there, eat their McDonalds and throw all the rubbish out of the window to spoil the view for everyone else and endanger the wildlife. My reward for picking it up came when, one day, someone had chucked a £10 note out with their rubbish - Karma!
 
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