What is the cheekiest thing someone has done at your yard?

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What have cheeky people done at your yard?
So far I've had the following:
*Borrowing my trug tubs without asking, snapping the handles and then not owning up.
*Borrowing my shavings fork and leaving it in their friend's stable.
*Borrowing my wooden fences, creating a hole in the wall filler and then putting it back without owning up.
But today's - getting fed up with a random horse on the yard because it was banging its stable door so using MY hay (not their own) to shut it up - really took the biscuit.
I don't mind sharing any of my stuff (I pretty much have one of everything because I hate borrowing off others) but I'd like people to use it with respect. I'm sure people have had worse done to them, I'm continually surprised by this new horsey world I'm involved in.
 
Mostly borrowing my stuff without asking. I don't mind people using my things but takes the biscuit when I go looking for my boots and find them on someone elses horse! Just have my own here now much easier.
 
Taken my horse out of my stable to put their own horse in my stable! The reason, my horse ties up on the yard and theirs doesn't! I was livid! Tis the reason I am know longer on a livery yard (as such).
 
Not my yard but a friends- Pooh picking their field and putting into friends because it was closer than the muck heap.

I had leaving a note in the feedroom saying they have gone on holiday, could I do horse. I didnt really mind but would have preferred some warning!
 
Having a note left on my door saying that the owner had gone away for a week and could I look after the two mares. I was irritated.

However I was livid when I bumped into the same person in town. She hadn't gone away, she wanted a break! I don't know which was worse. Dumping me with the horses or fibbing about the reason.

Another girl gave me the sob story that she had to leave home at 5.30 am to get to work. Not being one to watch others struggle I did the decent thing and offered to put her horse out each morning. After a few months of this I was driving to work one morning at 8.30 and who should I be following in my car? You guessed it! I tackled her about it. She had changed jobs but was taking advantage of me so she didn't have to rush in the morning! Needless to say, turning out duty stopped instantly.

One day sitting chatting to a friend when Y/O daughter rode past on her pony using all my tack. She made a regular thing of using everybody else's tack apparently. I wasn't alone.

At one time I had a barn to myself and being kind let another woman keep a couple of bales of hay at a time in there to save her having to drag nets so far. The only caveat I placed was that she should sweep up any mess she made. Did she ever. More work for me again!

Last one I promise...Turing up at the yard (DIY) one winter's afternoon and by the time I had checked my texts/messages and read the notes left on my door realised I had 11 horses to bring in. I had not agreed to any of these. All favours withdrawn from that point forward needless to say!

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Well actually, today, I was clipping my horse, and a girl came up to me and asked if I could clip her horses tail (while she was on it!!) with my brand new clippers. I thought that was quite cheeky.

Oh and I said I would sell this girl a brand new numnah, used once, for £1 because it was too small for my horse, and she asked me to wash it first, I told her to sod off. I could keep the bloody thing for lunging, was trying to do her a favour. Fair enough if I was selling it for a tenner, but for £1
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Never really had a problem with people taking stuff, as I'm in a lock up with someone I really trust, and I know would never take anything, and if she borrowed it she would always put it back. Hopefully she thinks the same about me.
 
The worst thing anyone did was without asking taking my wintec saddle. They took it to pieces so they could put another headplate in it, then didn't put it back together properly with my hedplate - saddle hurt my horses back and I got bucked off. Then wouldn't own up to it - err - she was the only livery and screws don't undo themselves!!!!!!!

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Oh and I said I would sell this girl a brand new numnah, used once, for £1 because it was too small for my horse, and she asked me to wash it first, I told her to sod off. I could keep the bloody thing for lunging, was trying to do her a favour. Fair enough if I was selling it for a tenner, but for £1



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ha ha - same thing happened to me. Brand new silver clincher browband a girl had borrowed from me (she didn't have a large enough browband) - I offered to sell it for £2 (it cost about £15) and she said she would have to think very carefully about it. She is stil borrowing it weeks later - must remember to ask for it back!
 
Well my yard is pretty quiet though the new person caused a bit of a stir. First the dad was downright rude and nasty because I patted their pony (accused me of giving him apples???), then the girl told me she'd looked at one of mine's feet and thought she had laminitis as she was lame, but couldn't find any heat.

That's right, I said, she is lame - she has DJD (in her HIND legs). I thought that might have shut her up a bit but no, she then went on to tell me I should try No Bute instead of bute as it's bad for their livers long term. Yes, I said, only she is being pts at the end of summer so quite honestly it doesn't make any difference...

As you can see, they didn't make the best impression!
 
Some of these are very cheeky - I cant imagine anyone borrowing my tack without asking! As for leaving notes on doors to look after horses and then leaving for holiday/weekend away, I wouldn't dare! It's rude but imagine if note blew away and horse was left undone
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Most of the liveries on my yard are lovely - just odd things that are cheeky, nothing like ones mentioned here! In fact, in 1.5 year I've been on my yard, looks like my few incidents are nit picky!
 
Someone went into my stable and took my full hay net so that they could tie up a horse. Left it hanging empty with a big pile of hay scraps underneath.
Persephone's really take the cake though!
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Beside my stable block is a little shed where I store my wheelbarrow, skip bucked and my tools, the other 2 liveries from the block have access to this shed too.
One livery doesn't use it. However since the other person has arrived they have cleared the shed out, re organised everything and the moved my skip bucket that had my lunge rope, tendon boots and some other stuff in it out of shed!! What gives them that right?!! I don't move their stuff
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PLUS she is only up about 3-4 times a week
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PLUS yesterday she broke my broom.. she says she was just sweeping but the head hasn't only come off the broom, but the actual wooden bit of the broom SNAPPED so it looked like she was messing about with it and standing on the broom
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She came up to me last night and goes " I am replacing.. sorry not replacing.. buying a new broom, feel free to use it.."
I am stood there thinking, "WHAT?? You need to REPLACE, i.e buy ME a new broom you cheeky cow!"
And do add insult to injury she used MY wheelbarrow and then proceeded to leave it half full in her stable because she got bored.. HELLO!! Am I not allowed to muck out too?!!
Now I don't mind people borrowing my stuff.. but it is when it comes back broken and they don't even replace it that bugs me. Or when they leave it half empty in THEIR stable when you want to muck out.
We all have our own seperate tack storage bits on our yard, like little particians, but because there is limited room this girl has to share. Well. She didn't even tell me she was sharing with me. She didn't ask, nothing. Just moved in. I found out when I tripped over her bloody storage box.
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She is beginning to drive me nuts and words will be had
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And do add insult to injury she used MY wheelbarrow and then proceeded to leave it half full in her stable because she got bored..

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Do what I did once when someone did that with my wheelbarrow: empty it back into her stable. It never happened again...
 
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And do add insult to injury she used MY wheelbarrow and then proceeded to leave it half full in her stable because she got bored..

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Do what I did once when someone did that with my wheelbarrow: empty it back into her stable. It never happened again...

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She was still around on the yard somewhere, watching in the indoor I think
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.If she had left the yard I wouldn't of hesitated in dumping the crap in her stable
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I think I am giong to buy a new broom and get my bike chain back out and tie my tools to my wheelbarrow. She should get her own stuff instead of breaking mine.
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I think I might have the best one yet ......

After moving to a different part of the country, I went home one weekend. My pony was put on full livery and I told them I'd be back on the monday evening. Anyway, decided to go back on the sunday as the yard were holding a competition and I quite fancied watching it. Toddled into the arena to see MY pony being ridden in a jumping class by the YO's daughter.
To add insult to injury, she'd changed him out of his snaffle into a pelham.
I was fuming mad.
I left.
Not long after the yard closed never to be re-opened.
 
eep quirky, thats disgraceful! why would a normal person even consider that?!

My worst have mostly been thefts- stupid chavs. A brand new sweat rug, never used vanished within a week of getting it and never returned.

Also i bought a stable rug for the (15hh) old riding school horse i looked after for years- he's fine boned and i wanted to keep him snuggly warm in winter since he always drops loads of weight. All their decent rugs go on the daughters SJ horses, so he never has one longer than a week.

I went up at the start of this year and he wasn't in it and it wasn't in his stable. I looked around and found it on an 11/12hh pony... It drowned him, so clearly not good/safe anyway, and they said 'oh we didnt know who's it was' even though i wrote his name on it.... GRR. You would think they would be greatfull of someone else forking out for their horse... but clearly not.
 
Years ago, Not on this yard. I went up to ride to find someone (not a clue who it was or even her name) riding my pony. I said to her "whose pony is that?" she said I don't know. I said "its mine so get off". She had got pony out of field, got all my tack, tacked it up and was riding it. Never saw her again after than and still do this day don't know who she was or who said she could ride my pony.
 
Mattilda, your siggie is WAY too wide and is making reading posts very difficult. Would there be any way you could reduce it's size please?
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Unfortunately, having been on livery yards for many years, none of this surprises me. Especially with other people riding ponies without permission. Have seen it happen many times and probably happened to me, but proving it is the question and causes so much bad feeling, that I have to move due to trust issues.
 
Never had anything happen as far as riding my pony without permission (especially my old mare who was a bucker!). The yard I'm at is pretty good, but I do get annoyed when people borrow my tools and don't put them back how they were (you have to put them a certain way or they fall off the wall, which startles my pony who lives opposite!), and for a while there was somebody using my poop scooper thingy. I don't mind that, but they could have at least emptied it!!! So I laminated a little notice and tied it on with baling twine saying 'If you borrow me, please empty me!'. It hasn't happened since! Tiny things I know in the grand scheme of things, but very annoying!
 
Wasn't at a yard, but at a competition. We were sat in our lorry having a cup of tea, decided it was time to get the pony out. As we went to let the ramp down, we saw some people had tied their two ponies to the side of OUR lorry and were grooming and tacking up! They did apologise and say there was no-one to ask (you would have at least thought they would knock on the lorry door though
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). Even when they saw our pony was unloaded and there was nowhere to tie her, they didn't move, offer to move or even get a hurry on! I was too gob-smacked to say anything really, so OH held the pony whilst I tacked her up!
 
do you know what Nic? im so glad ive got my own place. ive forgot loads of crap that used to go on the livery yards and its the reason i left.
Just a few:
* taking feed because it was cheaper to take someone elses than buying their own.
* not putting hay out in the field because their horse didnt eat it!
* putting their horse in with my mare and foal because the field was nearer than theirs was.
* putting their horse in my "poorly" paddock as my horse was having treatment for sarcoids so had to be kept isolated, but they thought i was getting special treatment, yes ended up with special treatment from the vet once their horse had beaten my horse up and ripped its flank open!
* tying their horse outside my stables so it could eat my tied up haynets
* not clearing poo from outside my swept stables - soon stopped when i just threw it outside theirs
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* borrowing my wheelbarrows but leaving them full of muck - soon stopped when i emptied it back into their stables
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* we had just bought a wagon, and a girl asked us if we would take her to a local show, i was working that day so went along after work, only to find people nosing round inside when no-one was around. when i challenged them, they said that the owner said they could have a look round it as it was their new box - it was the girl we took to the show that was making out it was hers! she never got took anywhere after that.


god there is loads more, i could go on forever.
 
My favourite one was when my horse was 6yo. I had full lunging equipment, and was about to lunge when a fellow livery, let's call her 'Iris' with a 3yo asked to borrow cavesson, roller, everything.
I said fine, would lunge in a headcollar as my mare was good to lunge.
Then Iris said she didn't want to share the school, as my mare might upset hers.
Fine, I said; I'll lunge in the straw stubble field opposite the school, in my headcollar alone.
Start lunging, my horse is trotting through the straw stubble quietly. Iris starts shouting 'Can you stop lunging?! The noise of your horse's feet is upsetting mine!' I gave up.
THe final straw, though, was the next morning, after a night of rain, I drove past the school and saw lunging equipment lying in the surface.
In the stable block I called 'Someone's left their lunging gear in the school!'
You guessed. 'Oh, that's yours!' said Iris 'You had gone home before I finished with it...so I thought you could put it away today'.

Iris is still alive. Just.
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Flippen hell. Nothing like that in any of hte yards I've had mine at. The worst thing Ive had happen is no one offering to help me cresote the fencing
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