Things Non Horsey people say....

One of my boys (age 4) said in great joy after finding a picture of a horse in a rug "Look, they do fancy dress!"

From other people...

"why do you need to go up twice a day?"
"I thought they changed their own blankets!"
"how do you get on?"
"sure, I can ride! Kick to start, pull to stop and tug left or right for direction" - er, yeah sure, why don't I just let you try my 5 year old KWPN then......!!

A stranger comes into the yard "Can I ride this horse?"
Me - "No - it's not yours!"

Argh!!!
 
Horsey person but not at all into the world of eventing and some of her comments made me smile!

Watching the XC, horse heading towards the first fence: "oh my god, look how sweated up it is already, look at its legs!!" - "...no, that's grease!" ;)
 
Friends hubby said when asked to go and help one of the kids tack up "i know where the bridle goes but how do I put the seat on "
We still chuckle a little over that one !!
 
Looking at horses in a field during a walk last weekend, my boyfriend looked very concerned and announced 'there's something wrong with its paw.' It was all black with a white hind leg :)
 
Bettyboo222 said:
3 or 4 times this week I've had 'it's just a horse, get another one!'
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I just don't think non-horse owners 'get' it. :(

I had a friends daughter come over to have a ride on my horse, I was telling her the names of the other 5 horses in the field, when she asked
'Are they all the same family? Which ones are the mummy and daddy?''
Apparently because people living in a house are usually a family, she thought all the horses in the same field would be - can't fault the logic!! :)
 
My oh regularly asks if Shetlands are fully grown, and when I tried to explain that yes it was and it was just a different breed eg chihuahuas vs great Danes he just said "poor thing".....
 
starryeyed said:
Horsey person but not at all into the world of eventing and some of her comments made me smile!

Watching the XC, horse heading towards the first fence: "oh my god, look how sweated up it is already, look at its legs!!" - "...no, that's grease!" ;)
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My sister was watching the olympic eventing the other day and I left the room for a minute to do something. I came back and she said 'there was this really cute pony with really cool markings, he had white all down his legs!'

I thought she meant it had socks or stockings but no, when I saw a picture of the horse it just has grease down its legs! She was so disappointed when I told her!
 
My friend asked me if my horse was male or female - cue mare/gelding/stallion explanation - when told he was a gelding, they then asked if I still had to plait him as surely plaiting a male creature would be far to feminine!
 
We often have people that comment on the 'lovely mummy ponies and their cute babies' which are in fact 2 male donkeys and 2 elderly shetlands.

I also had a friend ask me where horses came from because 'you never get horses in the wild'. I told him to visit the new forest sometime.

Also a rather annoying know it all type had overheard people talking about their horses feathers. Later I was grooming and remarking on the amount of moulting hair coming out and she 'corrected' me that horses don't have hair but feathers!

The funniest one I've heard is somebody telling me that their friend went horse riding and 'caught laminitis' :D
 
hehe keep them coming these are great :D

I often get the fly mask- can they see question, which if you think about it logically is stupid, why would we blind our horses then put them in a field!! lol! honestly :D
 
We've actually had our horses fly masks cut off of their heads and left in the field, or had eyeholes cut into them!! Unbelievable really, they must be do-gooders thinking we've actually blindfolded our horses! Can't wait to catch the culprit.....
 
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