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Enfys

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People sorting their own comfort before their horse's. This is my real bugbear, I suspect because I can't do a thing about it and will appear hypercritical and interfering if I say anything. If you come in from a ride, jump off, change into your comfy boots, get your hat and gloves and coat off, and then get your phone out to post a picture to Facebook of "my muddy pony after our hack", with the poor thing standing there sweating, stirrups dangling, girth tight, and all your riding gear in the background, I will be judging you.

This was one of the 'Golden Rules' I learned as a child, along with the usual, feed according to work done, walk the first and last half mile, etc, etc. Every bookshelf should contain the Manual of Horsemanship.
 

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......in the horse world?
Mine is people that buy horses that quite clearly cannot afford to keep them, and are clueless.....you cannot keep a horse on a shoestring....if I could not keep one to a reasonable level, then I would not own a horse!!!
:And people that give advice, but quite clearly do not have any idea what their talking about!

Over to you for your thoughts.

Oh dear not sure I really want to start pulling at that thread! Could be the longest post in HH history lol!
 

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People who have a horse on a diy only yard, no services offered. Horses live out so they don't come down every day.
 

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Overly opinionated people who force their opinion on people.
People who buy really nice horses that they can't ride, then blame the poor horse when it all goes wrong.
People who slate other peoples horses or aspirations (or lack of)
People who say 'arabs don't....'
 

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Livery owners who are as sweet as pie when they come to view the yard and then morph into the bitch from hell, you are all wrong, I am right, i want that, my horse is special etc, etc livery once they have their boots in the gate.

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Haynets tied with the knot at the top so when you pull the string as quick release it sticks to the knot
Pessoa and their encumbrant owners who think their horse is on the bit when all it is is trailing its hocks, on the forehand and head between its knees
People who think it costs a lot to keep a horse the best kept ones are usually owned by those that struggle to make their horses happy they appreciate them more
Disposable ponies/horses/tack etc look after stuffand work with your horse not against it
Pot hunters
but the only thing that would make me give up horse ownership would be if I couldnt find them somewhere to be turned out 24/7 or at least 12 hours per day every day no exceptions
Passing on old, sick, lame or dangerous animals becasue you are too mean or sentimental to do the right thing and PTS
I suppose with very few exceptions I prefer animals to people
 

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since I brought my horses home to my own place-nothing! no horsey folk around and its fab.

thick horses though (luckily none of mine), you know, the types that never work out which way the gate opens and just stand there like idiots.
 

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Owners of mares who breed from them because they can't ride them even though they are completely unsuitable as brood mares.

Over weight horses and ponies, there's no excuse for it.

People who buy youngsters because they are cheaper but don't have the experience or skill to do a proper job of bringing them on and spoil them.
 

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People riding in wellingtons - it's dangerous. People with long hair and not tying it back - you look scruffy. Adults wearing jodhpurs - jodhs are for kids - wear breeches. Horses in ill-fitting rugs - you get what you pay for. People not wearing hi-vis because they think they look stupid.
 

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People who claim to have 'rescued' a horse from the meat man then a week or so later are looking to sell it on...

And then request money for its care. If you rescue, then be prepared to pay for it and don't ask for others to support your choice financially.

People opening livery yards and having no clue so horse don't get appropriate care then accidents happen.

People persuading 'friends' to buy totally unsuitable horses who are too much for said friend. Why?!

People who slag off particular types, TBs, cobs, whatever, when they have a) zero experience of said type b) there's nowt wrong with whatever type someone gets, as long as they can cope with it and look after it properly.

People who breed endless foals for no good reason or let the stallion run with mares with no thought to what will happen to the foals.

People who think they know it all when they simply haven't got a clue or those who think that because they've been riding since childhood, they clearly know better than others.
 

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People not looking after their horse properly (many of the different ways in which this can happen have already been mentioned)

People getting violent with their horse especially when loading
 

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People who won't adapt to change. They were taught how to do things one way five, ten, twenty, thirty years ago, and they refuse to try anything new.

The general high price and low quality/efficiency of riding wear. Most of what I see in riding catalogues is what I'd class as just fashionable clothing, not stuff to wear for doing such an intensive sport in. 100% polyester stuff I'm looking at you.

The 'not my problem' syndrome. By that I mean people who will happily let a horse go without water after it has knocked a bucket over rather than fill it if the horse isn't theirs, or let a horse stand there with a torn rug hanging off their back rather than go out and fix it because the owner should take care of it.
 

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The list would not be printable. Everything annoys me. I probably do everything on the list, or have at some point, but they all still annoy me.
 

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...People that ride like a sack of potatoes, have no balance, gob their horse in the mouth and 'God only knows how' still manage a clear round ! (You know those honest poor horses that just put up with it!).

People not being tidy.
People not sweeping.
People feeding hay in the arena.
People parking so close to the stables they're practically in a stable.
People leaving smelly, stinking numnahs in the tack room instead of washing them.
Tack left in a pile.
Buckets continually left in fields and never brought back in.
Litter/fag ends! On yards.
Loud people.

There's lots that annoys me so I will stop there. I could clearly go on.
 

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People that think they can ride/understand your horse better than you can because they watched me ride him for 3 minutes and have seen him in his stable once.

When you're trying to syringe something and the beggar spits it all down your face and neck.

Any sort of invoice I receive from the vets..

And.... When I have beans and ketchup on the same dinner, and they accidentally start to mix and none of it tastes the same anymore.
 

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YO / YM who are all smiles when showing you around the yard, but once you have a foot in the door, take psychosis to a whole new level .

This ^^^^^

And "experts" people who dish out the advice whether it be in riding, or stables management yet you've never seen them ride although they say they used to ride at affiliated level regularly, and their own stable management is somewhat desirable!
 
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as long as someone's horses are fed, watered and comfortable nothing really annoys me! If I saw something that annoyed me I would point it out in a friendly 'suggestive' way there and then. The only thing that continually annoys me (and I continually question people on it) is the weekend! I am there by six am every day. Your horse does not understand that it's the weekend, you went out, and need to sleep off a bottle or three of wine. At last ask sow one to turn out for you for god sake!!!
 

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Too much tack. Hate the amount of bridlework you see on some, especially when I suspect that all that stuff is to compensate for a lack of decent training. Perhaps I'm just too stupid to be able to cope with more than a simple bridle and a saddle.

Horses that are kept in all the time. They all need time to be out, socialise and just be horses, unless there is a VERY good reason why this is not possible.
 

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1. People who assume those who keep their horse(s) on DIY are lousy horse keepers or poor/chavs when in reality it's because they have the time to care for their own horse(s) therefore do not require part or full livery.

2. Those who don't have the time to look after a horse, but bought one anyway and have it on full livery, but think they're better horse keepers than those on DIY..

*For the record, my horses are at home with me, but I have friends whose horses are on DIY and they're sick to their back teeth of the snobbery.
 
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People endlessly repeating supposed truths ... for example; the mad Arab one, the one about oats/Lucerne/protein making horses fizzy, the one about mares - like it's some sort of disease! etc, etc.
 
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