The things non-horsey people say

I volunteer sometimes at an open farm so lots of non-animally visitors with all sort of comments.

The one thing I've found bothers them most about horses is their chestnuts, they always spot them, ask what they are, and look very disbelieving when I say it's just a normal part of their legs. I'm sure they think they've got some awful skin disease or leg cancer. Willy size is another highly interesting factor and of course there is one lad who loves to let it all hang out when he has an audience. Same boy lays flat out sparko in his stable every afternoon for a nap and people think he is dead.

People think we are 'cruel' to send the lambs away yet if you ask them, they eat lamb...where do they think it comes from?

I've been asked if we dye the pigs (lairy ginger things).

My dad still insists on calling jodhpurs 'jod-fers' as he knows there's an h and a p in there together, and thinks they are the other way round making an 'f' sound. this is after 40 years of me saying jodhpurs.
 
I've had the hamster one too! When a friend saw my horse in his nice clean shavings bed

'They're just like massive hamsters really aren't they?'

I couldn't stop imagining her with one of those water bottles and a nice wheel on one wall for exercise!!
 
my uncle came to watch me ride once with my pony-mad cousin. I trotted off round the field and when I came back he said to my cousin "See, she was going so fast she was almost bouncing off the horse! did you see her going up and down?"
he looked very puzzled when I explained rising trot!!
 
Oh Ive had people fascinated by my horses private parts, he had it half out and when I answered my brothers question saying its twice that size he nearly passed out!
Also tried to teach my brother to muck out, instead of simply attacking the shavings to loosen them about, he picked up little hand fulls and spread it about like you would in a gerbils cage! Lol
My mum also calls rugs blankets, which I don't know why but it really annoys me.
Like other people have said - my mum is baffled as to why we clip in winter and not summer...
 
This post is soooo funny!!

“That horse isnt as shiny as he was last year Vicky, have you been neglecting him?” This was mid-winter and had a coat like a woolly bear … yes mother, I don’t feed him/look after him anymore .. :rolleyes:

“You must be rich if you’ve got two horses” actually no, Im probably the poorest person you know and have a constant smell of horse poo surrounding me! :p

“I don’t know what the fuss is about riding, you just sit there and 'tell it' where to go” OK, here are the reins … off you pop … :eek:

“ohhhh shes like a princess can she fly?” from a little girl a while back when I let her ride my arab up from field bareback … too cute but unfortunately no she cant fly :D

OH calls my jods 'jompurs' not sure wher ehe got that one from !
 
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wts said:
Hahahaha loving this thread! My favourite was courtesy of my non-horsey mum last year, following me taking my baby horse to the summer dressage regionals (which it was a huge acheivement just to get there!)

She likes to show interest so asked to see my score sheet, which had the show photographers card attached. She studied the score sheet for a while and then said 'well at least you got a nice photo'.

I was a bit confused until I realised she was referring to the photographers advert- errrr no, that would be Charlotte DuJardin doing a lap of honour complete with sash, rug, top hat and tails..we had just come 23rd in the prelim... :rolleyes:

I couldn't even begin to explain to her what was so comical about the comparison!
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Priceless!!!

This thread has given me such a laugh!

My 7 year old horse has recently gone barefoot and after a couple of months his hooves have changed shape so much that he has grown out of his hoof boots. I was chatting about this to the dad of a teenage girl at our yard (he has been around horses for most of his life) and he asks me

' grown out of his boots?, why, what age is he?!!!!'

Thought his daughter was gonna disown him
 
This thread has really cheered me up, been chuckling away to myself. My OH always asks when I am going to start jumping proper jumps, he says he will be more interested then. This started with newly broken 4 year old jumping cross poles, tiny course etc, said horse is now jumping BN/disc which is still not big enough to be really interesting yet although he gets a bit more excited when we school over some bigger grids etc at home. He would only be happy when I was jumping 1.40 courses I think, which probably ain't going to happen. He then tells me "I should let him ride him and show me how it's done, it can't be that difficult! And that he would be jumpin much bigger jumps, hedges etc and would gallop everywhere"! Bearing in mind husband has ridden all of two or three times as a child on family holidays in California!!?

Needless to say he has not been on my precious boy! If I try to persuade him to learn he says he doesn't need to he can ride perfectly well, plus he has far more important things to do!!
:rolleyes:
 
I keep my horse at a country park so on the way to the field I meet lots of people. Always get children asking me questions but one kid after spending about ten minutes quizzing me about my horse then asked if i liked horses.

ALso family that critise and think they know everything about horses when they know nothing always makes me laugh
 
OMG these are so funny!
My mum is the same and i was visiting her once and i asked if i could have a carrot from the veg garden for my horse, She looked really pleased as to the thought of being able to be involved. When i went to visit her the next time a bowl of mash and peas and general food left overs was on the garden wall woth my horses name on it !!!! BLESS !!

She has never been that horsey and when i was was yonger would take me to pony club, pull up and get out her chair and book and leave me to it, this is when u see full on horsey mums looking confussed, I think that was the best!
 
Was asked by someone @ work the other day (nice to actually have someone ask about/ be interested in the horse for a change) "how old is he?"
"15" i reply. "So has he stopped growing now then?!" :eek:

My boss summed him up v well- i was describing how he's scared of most things etc and he sais "so he has special needs then!"
 
When I first started college, a new friend genuinely thought that Jack was my son, for months (!!!) :eek: Even after describing how I was going to fence him a small patch in a field using electric fencing because he was getting too fat, the penny still did not drop....
 
Mother in law asked me yesterday if the kids' ponies (both mares) were spayed. When I said, no they aren't, she asked if that would cause a problem... could they get "got " by one of the male horses at the yard. (Plenty of geldings at the yard but no stallions).

One of the ponies has clearly bred in the past- probably several times looking at her belly (quite low-slung) so I can understand her thinking there might be a foal on the way!
 
This is a good thread! Very entertaining :)

My husband insists that the things I wear are jodhoppers and that reins are steering ropes. I'm another one that now calls rugs coats after hearing it so often :rolleyes:
Oh, and I caught my husband saying 'Paw please' to one of my horses when giving him a carrot. I really want my horse to do that now...
 
I posted a video on Facebook of my ex racer winning a race - an ex work colleague asked 'is that you riding him?'. Still not sure if he was serious, as he's a real joker :confused:

Another friend was amazed when he found out I had 3 TB's - 'wow, I didn't realise they were thoroughbreds, must have cost a fortune!' Yep, my latest one was literally hundreds of pounds, lol! Just because you might read about racehorses being sold for hundreds of thousands, don't think I've got that kind of money! I keep being offered them for free! :rolleyes::D
 
nona1 said:
People think we are 'cruel' to send the lambs away yet if you ask them, they eat lamb...where do they think it comes from?
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I used to work on a small farm that took animals to local schools and we'd have this frequently. Ironically not a single kid minded, but some of the adults went nuts if you told the kids where it was from :/

What worried me was that we do a food exercise 'where does it come from'. Veg fruit etc.
Kids kept on putting strawberries with the cow.... strawberry milkshake :eek:

Then one teacher said how worrying it was about how little they knew about their food and they then had to be corrected later on that eggs were not dairy.... How many cows do you see popping them out?!!!

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I love this thread, so funny, have heard a lot of these before!
Work colleagues are really funny, they try to get involved... The other day one of them said so far I've managed to work out that horses are the most expensive hobby in the world (parcels always arriving to work with new boots, rugs, supplements etc etc etc) now that is not such a stupid comment :) same girl also thinks my next horse should be a shire- now I love shires but maybe not first choice as a general riding/ jumping horse :)
Favourite thing my OH says is... 'cowboy horses' = skewbald, piebald horses. His fav word is numb-a-nah (pretty sure that reads how he pronounces it)
He is getting very good with his lingo and can understand lots of things, but as soon as I ask him if he wants to help groom, lead etc he declines, but he does love feeding carrots and polos and is totally fascinated watching the horses drink :)
 
my OH asked when i bought my horse if he could re name it to "sinbad michael angelo" he was very dissapointed when I said the horse was a girl and she already had a name..

I once asked him to change her rugs and the took the one off okay and then when it came to putting the other one on he decided to do it like a table cloth and just fling it up there! luckily i have a rather unflappable horse but also impressed with him as this horse wears 7'0 rugs so quite heavy and a long way up lol!

I let him ride my horse once and he wanted to make her "go fast".. he got on and she was walking, he asked me to make her slow down then!
 
Friends down the track from me, told me I could just take the horses to theirs to graze the grass... um, no theres no fencing and they will bugger off... reply, oh, cant you just tie them up? you know with a long rope... um, no they have never been tethered before.. bless, nice of them to think of me though

Friend who can ride, asked why didnt I just put the stallion in with the others...(they all live out) um.... because I have 2 mares in there, 1 being his mum..

and also been asked why did I need lessons when I can ride..... best reply I give, I ask if they can drive, and then tell them its like have advanced driving lessons, then they seem to understand..

mine are all barefoot and I get asked where the shoes are..

why do i have to feed them 3 times a day?... um, no grazing at all, they have to eat something,

where do i keep them in winter as I have no stables, um.. outside, they are horses and wear rugs
 
Someone told me that she's been terrified of horses ever since she's had a horrible experience with one as a child.
A horse sneezed on her...
 
Love this! They are so funny a little girl on a rather large DIY livery yard once ask me if stallion was the breed of my horse! When I explained that stallion meant he was a boy horse I got Ohh so that means Bertie (her little gelding!) is a stallion!! Now how do u explain that one to a 8 year old!!
 
My best friend's girlfriend came with us to the regionals, on the way home we were in the back of the lorry in the living and I heard her on the phone: "yeah we have been to a horse show thing we are on our way home now though."

Silence while the person on the other end obviously asked a question.

"Yeah the horse is with us, it's in the boot."

I nearly wet myself thinking about Blitz in the back of my Ford Focus! :D
 
i was doing a pure & part bred heavy horse class & was the only 15hh with everyone else at abuot 17hh, overheard one woman saying the little baby one is cute it should win! hes 6 so hopefully wont grow anymore!
also one of my bar staff thought he had bootcut legs ( his feathers)
 
I've spent so long explaining to non-horsey people that my boy has arthritis in his front ankles and back elbows that I merrily chatted about his 'ankles' to the vet the other day...
 
People at work think I'm rich because i have a horse.....

Unfortunately I'm not as most of my earnings go on the feed, the bedding, the supplements, the farrier, the wormers etc etc!
 
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