Festive_Felicitations
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It is just a small yard (10 people) and DIY, there are about 7 'permanents' and the remaining 3 places are a bit of a revolving door.
Unfortunatly the 3 places also seem to attract mad women - characterised by owning a totaly unsutable horse and a completly irrational approach to life. We have had a few in the past and either managed to subtly suggest they move on or put up with it till they diecided to move on.
But the most recent installment takes the cake, and shall go by her horses name - Rosie. We had dealt with, and survived a few explosions (her totally loosing her rag and going on a major angry rant at someone - always in the evenings. Then looking sheepish and apologising the next day and completly changing her tune, in 2 months she managed to do this to 8 of us. But these were mere warning tremors leading up to Wednesday explosion.
We all put down rat bait as the feed room has a small rat plauge at the moment, out of politeness we always leave a note on the board saying where we have put it and when, and care is taken that there is no way it could accidently end up in a horses feed.
Anyway Wed AM I put up a note re-fresh poison, Wed PM Rosie finds an empty container near the bin, her horse had been scavenging around there (where it shouldn't have been). She decides that her mare has eaten a large dose of poison goes completly hysterical and calls the vet to come an basically pump out the mares stomach. Now the only reason the container was near (meant to be in the bin) was becasue it was empty in the first place...
She then goes on such a major angry rant making threats and being so unpleasent that one livery packs up and takes her horse away there and then as she is worried what Rosie might do next, by this point convinced that she was unhinged. I get a phone call accusing me of having deliberatly tried to poison her horse (becasue if I put down fresh stuff AM I am obviously responsible for the empty box in the bin (?)), this then progress to a general conspiracy by all to poison her horse
All this stuff attracts the YO who comes out to find out what the hell is going on, Rosie manages to include her in the conspiracy and starts demanding that the YO/me/anyone at hand pay the vet bill and that the YO returns this months rent (fat chance!).
The end results was that she was asked to leave the property there and then tak eher belongings and not return.
She went to a place down the road, lasted 2 days before that YO had enough and asked her to leave.
We are all so glad that she has gone as everyone was dreading having to feed evenings incase it was your turn to be victim of one of her (unprovoked) rants, it made going to the stables unpleasnt not what you need after a day in the office. But really I feel sorry for the horse who, while fed well wasnt exercised enough and over the whole poisoning thing was given large doses of Vit K (I think) as well as having parrfin pumped through her to 'purge' her system for hours (the poor vet didn't leave till 1am having arrived at about 5pm)
So 3 questions I would love an answer to are:
WHY can't we vet new borders?
WHY can't horse owners be vetted????
WHY on earth does our yard attrach nutters??? The rest of us are sane enough!
PS if you know any SANE people looking for DIY livery in Syndey, NSW tell them to PM me
Unfortunatly the 3 places also seem to attract mad women - characterised by owning a totaly unsutable horse and a completly irrational approach to life. We have had a few in the past and either managed to subtly suggest they move on or put up with it till they diecided to move on.
But the most recent installment takes the cake, and shall go by her horses name - Rosie. We had dealt with, and survived a few explosions (her totally loosing her rag and going on a major angry rant at someone - always in the evenings. Then looking sheepish and apologising the next day and completly changing her tune, in 2 months she managed to do this to 8 of us. But these were mere warning tremors leading up to Wednesday explosion.
We all put down rat bait as the feed room has a small rat plauge at the moment, out of politeness we always leave a note on the board saying where we have put it and when, and care is taken that there is no way it could accidently end up in a horses feed.
Anyway Wed AM I put up a note re-fresh poison, Wed PM Rosie finds an empty container near the bin, her horse had been scavenging around there (where it shouldn't have been). She decides that her mare has eaten a large dose of poison goes completly hysterical and calls the vet to come an basically pump out the mares stomach. Now the only reason the container was near (meant to be in the bin) was becasue it was empty in the first place...
She then goes on such a major angry rant making threats and being so unpleasent that one livery packs up and takes her horse away there and then as she is worried what Rosie might do next, by this point convinced that she was unhinged. I get a phone call accusing me of having deliberatly tried to poison her horse (becasue if I put down fresh stuff AM I am obviously responsible for the empty box in the bin (?)), this then progress to a general conspiracy by all to poison her horse
All this stuff attracts the YO who comes out to find out what the hell is going on, Rosie manages to include her in the conspiracy and starts demanding that the YO/me/anyone at hand pay the vet bill and that the YO returns this months rent (fat chance!).
The end results was that she was asked to leave the property there and then tak eher belongings and not return.
She went to a place down the road, lasted 2 days before that YO had enough and asked her to leave.
We are all so glad that she has gone as everyone was dreading having to feed evenings incase it was your turn to be victim of one of her (unprovoked) rants, it made going to the stables unpleasnt not what you need after a day in the office. But really I feel sorry for the horse who, while fed well wasnt exercised enough and over the whole poisoning thing was given large doses of Vit K (I think) as well as having parrfin pumped through her to 'purge' her system for hours (the poor vet didn't leave till 1am having arrived at about 5pm)
So 3 questions I would love an answer to are:
WHY can't we vet new borders?
WHY can't horse owners be vetted????
WHY on earth does our yard attrach nutters??? The rest of us are sane enough!
PS if you know any SANE people looking for DIY livery in Syndey, NSW tell them to PM me
