"To go to knowledgable home that is open to vetting"...

[Abi90]

Just seen that phrase on a horse advert and thought the second half of the sentence seemed a bit odd. Seems the sellers are stipulating that they want the horse vetted? It's an older horse sold at a lower value so well within the realms of where some people would not bother.

I get everything vetted because I don't know what I'm looking at well enough, just seems odd that a seller would ask that you had one.

 

[Auslander]

I read it as, the current owners want to vet the new home, so they know where the horse is going

 

[minesadouble]

Maybe they mean they want to be able to vet the new home rather than the horse?

 

[FfionWinnie]

They want to check out it's new home.

 

[notsobad]

i took it to mean that the current owners wanted to vet the new perspective owners facilities.
Either way they can vet all they like it doesnt mean the horse has any more chance of a secure future.

 

[DaisyMoo]

I'm with other posters and I'd take that to mean that they want to vet new yard, although this is a pointless exercise as nothing stops them selling pony or moving yards once previous owner has dropped it off.

 

[Abi90]

Ah yes! That makes sense now! Didn't even think of that

 

[Pearlsasinger]

It means that the vendor will only sell to a home that they have 'vetted'. Whether that means that they will actually visit the prospective buyer's yard, which is surely only feasible relatively locally, or that they will question all viewers very closely about the home that the horse will be going to, isn't clear.
I will say though that it is not only sellers who don't always tell the truth though. I know of a horse that was bought locally by someone who told the vendor, whom I also know well, that the horse would live at home with the pony that she was going to buy for her son. Vendor would not have sold the horse, which was used to living in a mixed herd, to someone who would keep it on its own and told the buyer so. The pony never did materialise and the horse lived out the rest of its life by itself.

Horses are often sold as 'open to vetting', which only means that it may be vetted, not that it must be.

 

[fburton]

What form would such a vetting take, and are there generally accepted limits to its invasiveness?

 

[Goldenstar]

What form would such a vetting take, and are there generally accepted limits to its invasiveness?

No idea, I have bought horses where that sort of thing was said but they never actually came to the house .

 

[FfionWinnie]

What form would such a vetting take, and are there generally accepted limits to its invasiveness?

Check if you've got clean pants on I think.

Nonsense anyway. If you were dodgy you'd take them to a nice yard and claim you were keeping it there!

 

[Pinkvboots]

thing is you can try and make sure your horse goes to a decent home but they can be sold on people circumstances can change and they may be desperate to sell so horse could end up anywhere, a friend of mine sold a cob that didn't suit her daughter a local woman like him paid for a 5 stage vetting which he passed, he wasnt a cheap horse either woman said she wanted him to do a bit of everything with friend knew where he would be kept, a few months later friend drove past where he was kept and was horrified at the state of him looked like a hat rack and I don't think the new owner ever rode him just left him in the field from what she managed to find out.

 

[Red-1]

I don't mind being vetted, in fact I do the same on the rare occasion I sell a much loved pet - yard visit and everything.

I took exception to buying one though, whose owners wanted to sell to someone who would let them come for coffee every week Wasn't at cheap money either

I also bought one where a year after purchase the previous owner rang me and announced that they had retired now and would be available to come and exercise. That was an awkward phone call...