Totally insignificant horsey pet hate

People who bring their horse in at the same time as you, then talk to you while you, feed, groom, muck out, fill up hay nets, water buckets etc etc and then when all your jobs are finished and you are ready to turn yours out, they remember that they also have a horse and turn it out.

People who cannot park their car parallel to others and park in the middle of the yard.

Bone lazy people who watch others struggle and not help.

People who leave the yard without saying good bye and leave you to put out their horse with yours
 
EKW said:
Yeah what's the fascination with ear bonnets?!? I know some horses need them same as any other piece of kit but surely not every horse in the country just because you bought the numnah, jods, hat silk and bandages to match. And why do they all now ride in bandages?!? If not done properly you can do far more harm than good?!?
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Ooh good thought I was the only ear bonnets hater! I don't even think they look good? Also seems to be a huge trend in eventing lately yet watching badminton etc in the 90's you didn't see a single one wonder why it's become so common?
 
Ooh thought of another. The fact horse stuff costs so much!

Whiskers being shaved

Haynets that take 2 sections of hay but not 3 even though they are the same size as others you have so the hay goes everywhere when trying to put it in the Haynet.

Rubber mats with no bedding
 
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JennBags said:
Also people who don't seem to know how to tie a quick release. You don't put the rope through the twine first, you make the loop through the twine. Otherwise it's not quick release. Do they just not teach this any more?
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Thank you! I was beginning to think I was nuts. No one at my current yard does it this way they all think I tie the horse up wrong.

I do also hate the haynet thing that others have mentioned. My parents are good at doing that and I then have to adjust it cursing them the whole time haha.

People leaving jumps in the arena. Its a tad annoying through summer as there is rarely a weekend they aren't up and you can't practice a dressage test as they are in the way. I won't put them away either I didn't put them up. I move things out if used.

I guess two annoying things with my horse in particular are the fact that I have to have an extensive wardrobe of rugs for him out of fear I will run out as he trashes them. I ain't made of money and you ain't providing any horse!

Also he used to have an annoying thing of if I went away for a few seconds to get something I would sometimes come back to find him loose and wandering around looking for me. Thankfully he seems to have finally realised he is meant to stay where I put him.

Oh yeah sorry to those who hate them but I have a v shaped browband. :P
 
LeneHorse said:
people who leave their stable door open (when horse is in) with only one or those stupid plastic rope things across the doorway. Then the owner disappears for hours. My horse would be through, under or over one of these contraptions in minutes.

there are many others but I don't have all day......
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Mine was on box rest for 2/3 months With only a simple chain across the front of his stable :p

Some horses respect a chain, some don't. The challenge is finding out what horse you have :D
 
People who just want things for free. Or cheap.
People who don't leave the kettle filled up at night with this kind of weather and that kettle of water is all you'd have had in the morning as the taps frozen.
Jumps left up in the school.
But the big one for me: Not cleaning feed bowls. A rinse off with the hose doesn't cut it for me. Mine are rinsed after each feed and scrubbed inside daily then given a full scrub inside and out each weekend. Not sure what it is but seeing bits of food dried on or mud caked on the outside of buckets makes me wince!
 
the fact that everything has to have bling on it as mentioned before. Also over clipping horses that don't need it and then replacing with too many rugs
 
People who use wheel barrow to transport hay/straw littering over half the yard.
I haven't sat on my horse but I have bought lots of useless stuff so it must be ready for dressage.
 
Gates left open ! Drives me bananas. Obviously it stops runaways, but left open they are dangerous and in the wind they bang and cause damage. Grrr
 
Just thought of another one - people washing the inside of feed bowls but not the outside, then stacking them all up inside each other so the bottoms dirty the bowl below. And people filling up water buckets without giving them a quick scrub to get rid of that line of dirt/slime you always get. Mind you, I don't know why I bother because my mare will drink very little in her stable and then go out and drink from the nearest muddy puddle....
 
ménage instead of manège
confirmation instead of conformation
phased instead of fazed
no timewasters
sawing on mouths (although that's not actually insignificant)
idiots standing on horses' backs
 
Totally stupid but teeth grinding peeve :

Baler cord/twine/string -whatever it is called - not cut off at the knot and not tied in a knot and put in a bag, also cord just pulled off and left in a loop.


Told you it was a silly thing :(
 
Crazy_cat_lady said:
Ooh good thought I was the only ear bonnets hater! I don't even think they look good? Also seems to be a huge trend in eventing lately yet watching badminton etc in the 90's you didn't see a single one wonder why it's become so common?
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They are just daft ! Not sure exactly what their purpose is but I imagine it has something to do with flies in summer. However I see people using them year round and indoors too. They look silly.
And as for bandages - why had the horse world gone totally bonkers for fancy bandages ???? If money is burning a hole in their pockets, either send it my way or invest it in training. Sometimes bandages can do more harm than good. It must take some people longer to get their horse ready than to actually ride. The mind boggles
 
Turitea said:
Ear bonnets, matchy matchy, ...
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I call them Fly bonnets and for three seasons of the year my horse wears one every time she is out.
Actually I hate the look of them, even with the lightest cotton ones she sweats through them, but she HATES bugs. Mosquitos, midgies, deer fly anything buzzing around her ears and she goes nuts, for me, fly bonnets are the lesser of two evils.

Matchy, matchy haha, there is a reason I buy everything in black and white, nothing clashes and I don't have to worry about matching, not that I do.

I. Don't. Care :)
 
We had a sharer once who would fill a haynet, then tie a knot in the string, then hang it up... try getting that undone when it's been pulled tight, and repeatedly doing it even when showed correctly. She also always split a new bale for the haynet, despite one already in use. (She didn't last long)
And people who allow their horses to stop to poo when hacking, no, we are working. I have irrational bouts of rage when walking the dog and seeing solitary piles of poo on the track..maybe I need to get out more;)
 
I don't think I have a pet hate tbh but I like all bottom doors shut when I leave the yard, even when boxes are empty. I don't like open doors! I used to shut all the top doors too until someone pointed it out to me as being a bit unusual! I can now leave doors open but prefer them shut!
 
Tack that doesn't match...as in brown bridle and black saddle etc, it really breaks my brain ..!! This is my own current trauma :(

People who stick their kids up on horses "just for a pic" etc with no bloody hat on!!!

People who don't wear hi-viz or say thank you when out hacking.

People who smoke while they ride or are on the phone (esp on a road!!).

People who want to buy second hand hats for their kids...wtf?!

People.
 
People who fill the huge barrow full of crap and leave it at the muck heap to magically empty itself. Or they tip it right at the front and don't bother to chuck it on the heap!

Yeah, the knot at the end of the haynet thing drives me mad too!

People who can't be arsed to sponge the sweat off their horse after riding.
 
So many of those already said (and I'm possibly guilty of a few!).

Most definitely the haynet thing
Paddock gates left open and swinging
Clipping 'pulled' tails
One of my horses being very adept at finding the muddiest spot in the field to roll in...
Lights left on/turned on unnecessarily
Taps left running/dripping
Water spilt on the yard when it's going to freeze (and leg washing in the same conditions)
Not picking up poo on paths to fields etc.

Blimey I'm a grouchy old witch! There's probably a load I am missing off as well.... Having said all of that I'm on a fab yard with an amazing bunch of people!
 
Pearlsasinger said:
People who worry too much about the way others do things with their own horses.
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Oh yes, fair point - I am only bothered by the haynet thing when I have to undo them, so usually when someone hangs a net for me :o I always leave mine ready filled with the knot against the net, so they've gone to extra effort to find the knot to hang it like that :lol:
 
- At a venue I compete at fairly regularly, they have advertising banners in the indoor school, the one closest to the viewing gallery, is for insurance or something and the main image (huge) is a girl on a horse and the horses neck head and chest is in shot. The horse in the picture is so badly plaited it makes me cringe everytime is see it!

- I always put my head collar on/ off like a bridle with the throat lash undone (do up once its on) so its always left with the throat lash undone. There is one person who works on the yard and i'm yet to work out who, but they undo the buckle to put it on off and its really difficult to put back again, hence not undoing it normally!

-Haynet strings tied with the knot at the end, not next to the haynet.

-V shaped browbands, <3 the curved ones though!
 
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