These adverts p*** me off

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missshell

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Have just been looking at Horsemart. Theres an advert for a horse and one of the pictures is of 2 women on a horses back. One standing, one sitting, without hats of course to prove how bombproof the horse is. Whatever.
These adverts instantly make me look at the next advert. Whats the point! Am I the only one that is totally put off by this??
 
Ohh that sounds like one the adverts from that very dodgy dealers, does it with all the ads. Yes for some mad reasont hey do think it encourages people to buy.
Fact is rest of us know the poor bugger is to ill/unsound to do anything about it.
 
Yep, I hate the ones where they get a child to lie on their belly across the horse's back. Propaganda. If they did it with an adult it wouldn't appeal to our sensibilities so much. I also avoid them.
 
I also saw one where they had a woman holding a baby on the horses back. I mean wtf?? Oh you held a baby over the horse so i must buy it. Grr
 
It's like when I bought George and the woman who sold him to me said something along the lines of her niece can go under his belly without him taking any notice. Her niece was about 2ft tall, and G is a 15.1 cob!!! I also think that's irresponsible because even though G is a very safe horse as they go, he has moments where he'll get spooked by something that's can't be heard by the human ear!!! It's absolutely ridiculous to do this kind of thing IMO.

And a woman I phoned tonight about livery was asking me if G is safe because he grandchildren tend to run around the fields and play cricket at the bottom of the field where G would be, which she said she would separate with electric fence. What did she expect me to say? Yes, he's like a fwuffy ickle pussy cat, never bolts or gallops round his field and will stand willingly for hours while children run round his legs. Ugh. Anyway, slight tangeant!! Just got me thinking that people seem to think that 100% bombproof horses exist - they don't! Horses are fight or flight animals.
 
I saw that advert as well, Mr Sewell's horse's if I remember correctly
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i have stood on my horse without a hat but she isnt so bombproof wen i take her hack a hack n she f***s off LMAO so actually wen i see that it doesnt mean much to me.
 
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