The things non-horsey people say

My mother thinks im cruel for not always rugging my horse......

flymasks...... "they cannot see"... (yes they can... :D )

took years of training for a coat to be now known as a RUG.....



my work colleagues are baffled to learn i go down to the yard twice daily.... i do tell them now and again i send her a text to get her own dinner

they have wised up since and stopped asking daft questions :D

(they do care and do ask so i dont mind ) :)
 
I've just been out to the first big stay away show of the season, and my recently new OH hasn't quite grasped it yet, I rang him in the morning and he was nattering about going to the bookies to place some football bets... small silence ... "can I bet on your horse race" (flat showing class....) ... gently explained why not. Text him a a photo later on that I had bought from the official photogs, a classic one of my baby connie doing a lovely pointy toed trot, and he text back that it didn't look like I was going very fast....

I do also work full time with horses, if anyone asks him what I do he tells them I brush ponies and put coats on them - like that is my entire job description... he's been to the yard half a dozen times on weekend afternoons where indeed I am catching in, grooming off and putting on stable rugs etc - there is a "little" more to it than that though!!!
 
My Non-horsey OH trys very hard but sometimes I really do wonder...for example, convo this weekend...

me: I just feel like Im not making any progress with Ben Pony
him: well why not just ride Alfa instead?
me: Alfas only 2
him: he wont mind though?
me: err he might, hes not old enough to be sat on and hes not even had a bit in his mouth yet!!
him: well we can go get him one from the shop
me: right so we'll buy him a bit, break him in and then take him jumping this afternoon shall we????
him: yeah?!
me: just no
him: give me a saddle and i'll do it for you

This was a conversation from Sunday, he sat on a horse for the second time in his life the day before. Bless him :) haha
 
My mum calls numnahs - "num nums"

and I have been asked do I have to go up to my horse in the winter and at Christmas - what I really want to say is nope I fold them up in a box and put them in the loft till summer and then get them back out again... (would put airholes in the box obviously!!) :)
 
Very recent, my YO has just put her filly up for sale, so she can concentrate on her other youngster. When I told my mu
She said "oh she can't sell one, they are from the same litter" I then had to explain to her that Horses don't have litters. I also got stopped on a hack and asked why my Horse was that color. I told them her mum was a Horse and her dad was a cow. The shocking thing was they actually believed me.
 
lexibell said:
My Non-horsey OH trys very hard but sometimes I really do wonder...for example, convo this weekend...

me: I just feel like Im not making any progress with Ben Pony
him: well why not just ride Alfa instead?
me: Alfas only 2
him: he wont mind though?
me: err he might, hes not old enough to be sat on and hes not even had a bit in his mouth yet!!
him: well we can go get him one from the shop
me: right so we'll buy him a bit, break him in and then take him jumping this afternoon shall we????
him: yeah?!
me: just no
him: give me a saddle and i'll do it for you

This was a conversation from Sunday, he sat on a horse for the second time in his life the day before. Bless him :) haha
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haha fantastic, wait a year and then let him;):D

I've had the 'why are those horses blindfolded' (flymasks) a few times and years ago 'is the big white pony the mum of the little white pony' to which the reply was no, cute and bearable coming from a child but not from an adult:rolleyes:
 
Haha my bf thinks it is ridiculous that horses should be kept inside and have to wear 'clothes', in some ways he has a point but I had to explain that some horses such as Arabians might not be able to tolerate snow, wind and rain very well what with them being from the desert! Then I had to explain they are often clipped as well so they don't get too hot, he is baffled. Don't even get him started on shoes!!
 
Said by the OH- "Why doesn't she like going in her horsey house?" He couldn't remember the word for stable :D

Brushing the horse for her to go out and roll in the mud again.
Dad- Well what was the point in all that brushing?
Me- Quiet you.

Went to see the ponies on Christmas day, Dad walking across the field too. J boy goes marching on over wondering who this new fellow in his field is (Daddy) and the look of sheer panic in my Dad's face as he said "Quickly, quickly, throw a carrot at it!" :D :D
 
My mum is pretty good at coming out with daft horse statements, bless...

We've had "aren't you going to paint her toenails?" (Kevin Bacon on her hooves)

"Why is she wearing shin pads" (Brushing boots)

and all the usual "has she got her anorak on today" type statements.

The best though was when a friend had bought a new horse, my mum asked her about it and was shown a picture. My mum asked what colour the horse is, and the friend said she's a fleabitten grey. My mum's response was, "that's not very nice, she doesn't look fleabitten to me! How's she got fleas?" :o
 
"There are wild horses in the field over there - sometimes they come right up to the gate!"

(There are a lot of native ponies living wild in our area, so the comment wasn't that surprising. But I was fairly surprised to see two TB types and what looked like an Arab in the field...)

"What, those 3 there?"

"Yeh. They are wild, aren't they? They've not got collars on. [Pause] Or coats. A lot of the pet horses around here wear coats."
 
RiderLizzie said:
Said by the OH- "Why doesn't she like going in her horsey house?" He couldn't remember the word for stable :D

Brushing the horse for her to go out and roll in the mud again.
Dad- Well what was the point in all that brushing?
Me- Quiet you.

Went to see the ponies on Christmas day, Dad walking across the field too. J boy goes marching on over wondering who this new fellow in his field is (Daddy) and the look of sheer panic in my Dad's face as he said "Quickly, quickly, throw a carrot at it!" :D :D
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I love your Dad! Hilarious! x
 
My OH totally non horsey always calls Vardi's anti rub vest "Vardi's Bra" usually gets a look of horror from the other liveries when he calls out "Does Vardi need a clean bra on"

He has also convinced himself that Vardi can communicate through stamping his feet (he can't at all and I can only think that OH watched too much Champion the Wonder Horse as a child) we have had the following exchanges;

OH: "Darling what's he trying to say"

Me: "What"

OH "he is really stamping his left foot he is trying to tell me something"

Me: "Probably that there are a lot of flies about love"

OH: "He really is smart isn't he"

And the all time classic when I asked him to check if Vardi had finished his food and was ready to come in;

OH: "Do you want to come in mate?" "Darling is it one stamp for yes and two for no or the otherway round, he has just stamped once?"

I keep smiling!
 
I had a chap do some work around the place and his grand farther was a rag & bone man in London who still had a horse & cart. He told me that every two year he would sell his horse and go out and buy a brand new horse.
 
Not so much what non-horsey folks say, but...

A fellow yardie once told the story of how she'd asked her OH to fill a haynet for her whilst she was mucking out and eventually had to go and seek him out because he'd been so long - apparently he hadn't realised that the haynet opens at the top and he didn't actually need to poke the hay in, bit by bit, through the holes... True! :D
 
Fidgety said:
Not so much what non-horsey folks say, but...

A fellow yardie once told the story of how she'd asked her OH to fill a haynet for her whilst she was mucking out and eventually had to go and seek him out because he'd been so long - apparently he hadn't realised that the haynet opens at the top and he didn't actually need to poke the hay in, bit by bit, through the holes... True! :D
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LOL! kill two birds with one stone there- keeping the OH busy for hours, resulting in making something for keeping the horse busy for hours :D
 
Billie1007 said:
And a close second would be 'my wife's sister's daughter's friend went on a horse once, I told her you had a horse and she wondered if she could come up and ride it.'


:D X
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YES!! that really annoys me too hahah!! just because they have ridden or even seen a horse in their life therefore means they HAVE to come and ride mine!!!! when it comes to ponio....i dont like to share :p poor mouse has had a few days a pony ride pony....he wasnt impressed and neither was i!!! :D
 
lexibell said:
My Non-horsey OH trys very hard but sometimes I really do wonder...for example, convo this weekend...

me: I just feel like Im not making any progress with Ben Pony
him: well why not just ride Alfa instead?
me: Alfas only 2
him: he wont mind though?
me: err he might, hes not old enough to be sat on and hes not even had a bit in his mouth yet!!
him: well we can go get him one from the shop
me: right so we'll buy him a bit, break him in and then take him jumping this afternoon shall we????
him: yeah?!
me: just no
him: give me a saddle and i'll do it for you

This was a conversation from Sunday, he sat on a horse for the second time in his life the day before. Bless him :) haha
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HAHAHAHAHAH!!! thats brilliant, bless x
 
While at work the delivery man came just as we were covering a mare with a foal at foot. He was interested in racing and what we were doing so started talking about the horses. Then went on to ask how can they have a baby when they all ready have one there?
With that we tryed to palm him off on the boss. bless him.:)
 
Persuaded some none horsey friends out on a hack the other day whilst on holiday and was told by my friend that I anthropomorphize far to much when trying to explain how horses benefited from their domestic relationship with humans using a herd as an analogy (thought I was being quite good really) only to hear her asking her pony kindly to step to the left or that if he took two bites out of the bush now he had to walk twice as far before he could stop again :rolleyes:

she also named him Geoffrey Arnold the third :cool:
 
RiderLizzie said:
Went to see the ponies on Christmas day, Dad walking across the field too. J boy goes marching on over wondering who this new fellow in his field is (Daddy) and the look of sheer panic in my Dad's face as he said "Quickly, quickly, throw a carrot at it!" :D :D
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AHAHAH thats brilliant!!! if all else fails...pelt it with carrots :p
 
Fun Foals said:
While at work the delivery man came just as we were covering a mare with a foal at foot. He was interested in racing and what we were doing so started talking about the horses. Then went on to ask how can they have a baby when they all ready have one there?
With that we tryed to palm him off on the boss. bless him.:)
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sorry i dont like it when people dop that, poor mare gets no peace :-(
 
The first time my bf came to meet my horse, he asked if I he could bring her a treat, said 'yes she really like mints'. Short time later he called saying he was at the shops and 'would she prefer beef or lamb' he completely thought they ate mince meat!!! 6 years later and I have NEVER let him live it down.

Also, when my gelding gets his bits out he makes comments such as 'that's my boy', which is quite frankly, a bit weird.
 
I was working with carriage horses, driving tourists. A (non-horsey) bar maid I knew said she was interested in doing the job as well. She was horrified when she discovered you had to actually look after them, not just drive them. It turned out she thought they spent the entire summer between the shafts - 24 hrs a day. I had this vision of them standing in their stalls with their carriages sticking out behind!
 
Lizzie0682 said:
Also, when my gelding gets his bits out he makes comments such as 'that's my boy', which is quite frankly, a bit weird.
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Haha!! your bf sounds so funny!! I think thats man talk cos my ex-bf used to make fun of my tb for having a little one - would love to think what he would say about my new yearling seeing as its huge and black... :p lol
 
My boyfriend used to refer to jodhpurs as JOGpurs....he is much better trained these days.

My mum, although trying her best, is also fairly clueless. The other day I posted a pick on fb of two of my friends out hacking. I was driving up behind them so just took a snap. I spoke to my mum on the phone that night who said 'oooo...I see you've been out for a nice hack'....'errrr no mum, one of those horses is chestnut, the other is a coloured'....'oh, well, I didn't look that closely!'. My horse, who I've now owned for two years is dark bay verging on black. *sigh*
 
My OH cannot get his head around the farriers visits & thinks they are a complete waste of money.

I mean, "why bother taking the shoe off to trim its 'nail' & then put the shoe back on?!! Why not just get a knife round it while the shoe's still on?!! "

& trying to explain to him why we clip in the winter not summer when its hot just makes me want to bash his head in!!!
 
my friend thinks that all white horses are stallions :rolleyes: no idea why! and she also wonders why 19yo Charlie is smaller than 5yo Boy (14hh and 16hh)!!!
 
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