charli_
Well-Known Member
Sorry all, but I am so annoyed...about 5 or 6 weeks ago I arrived at my building to find not 2, but 3 horses in the field. I called my boys up and they came, with the other horse following. They both seemed quite calm but the mare was distressed, she had a cut (not big, just needed cleaning type of thing) on her leg and she was snorting and trotting up and down the fence line. I managed to calm her down, checked her over carefully, not lame, cleaned her leg and fixed it up etc. There is a livery yard about a quarter of a mile up the road, where my friend keeps her horses and I happen to know that this mare was from there, because I've seen her when I've been helping my friend there. I called my friend, asked her to tell the owner (I don't know the owner) and she said the owner had been looking for her and they would come right away. They got there a few minutes later and the woman was screaming and shouting at me, accusing me of stealing her horse! I told her very calmly that I hadn't stolen her, I'd arrived and she had been in the field already, but she had a small cut on her leg and I had cleaned it up. She then started screaming louder and accusing me of purposefully hurting her horse so that 'she couldn't get away' I told her that I would never do such a thing and that I would never hurt an animal. She then started shouting that I was a liar, over and over again!
While all this was happening my friend was in the building consoling my children, (my two daughters were crying, they don't like shouting) and the mare and my boys were distressed. I told her could she please stop because she was upsetting my horses, my children and her mare and me, and that she can take her mare, I don't want her and I'm sorry that she has hurt her leg, but she will be fine and the woman promptly untied the mare and stormed off up my drive with her! I might also add that she took Wellie's headcollar, nothing of value but still the principle, and left my children me and the boys upset. After a lot of consoling and carrots everyone was okay and me and Em (friend) looked around the field, there was no damage, so we think the mare jumped in over the gate and then the fence. (Too high for my boys but the mare is about 17h).
Anyway managed to forget, and then about 2/3 weeks ago my mums friend was telling me about how a chestnut mare had got into her paddock today (she lives a mile away) and that the owner had come to get it shouting and screaming and taken it back to the livery yard. She said how appalled she was at the woman's attitude and that if one of hers got out then she would be thankful it was safe.
Anyway fast forward to today and I get a call from Em asking me if I'm at the horses. I say yes and she just said 'you're not going to believe this' and the line went off. A few minutes later said woman arrives with Em in tow screaming at me (once again) that she wants money from me because one of my boys has gotten her mare pregnant! I looked at her blankly for a while before telling that she must be mistaken because my boys are both Geldings. Then she is telling me that she doesn't believe me! I'm annoyed because I'm in the middle of something and I now have to go and get my two boys who have been gelded since they were probably 1, and their both in their teens, to show some arrogant woman that they don't have any balls. Reaalllllyyyyy annoyed now.
And then, when I bring them up to the yard and tie them up and the woman starts looking at their 'areas' trying to inspect for balls!!!! And THEN, she starts putting her hand around there to see if she can flipping feel their balls!!! After me telling her over and over that they are certainly both Geldings, she STILL doesn't flipping well believe me!!! She's actually telling me that she wants proof that they're geldings!!!!
So there's me, standing there with my three children staring in shock as a woman feels our beloved pony and horses 'balls' as Em shakes her head and I give her instructions as to where their passports are at my home. Ten minutes later she arrives with the passports and the woman looks at them, checks them over and she looks at me and tells me that these passports must be wrong! I seriously cannot believe her, I am still in shock now that she actually thought that they were Stallions. I then lost it, telling her that they are CLEARLY Geldings, she's already felt for any balls, checked their passports and I told her straight that it would be ridiculous for me to keep them as stallions (even though I bought them as geldings) because they are only used mainly as hackers, they jump and do some shows but that's about it, they aren't used for breeding and I let my three children around them! She then looked at me, dropped the passports, turned around and walked away! I can't believe her! So annoyed that she has verbally abused me, made my horses and children and me upset, taken my head collar and lead rope (again, principle) and could've damaged my horses passports had it been muddy. UGHH!!
Sorry but just needed to rant
feeling very upset...sorry about the essay!
While all this was happening my friend was in the building consoling my children, (my two daughters were crying, they don't like shouting) and the mare and my boys were distressed. I told her could she please stop because she was upsetting my horses, my children and her mare and me, and that she can take her mare, I don't want her and I'm sorry that she has hurt her leg, but she will be fine and the woman promptly untied the mare and stormed off up my drive with her! I might also add that she took Wellie's headcollar, nothing of value but still the principle, and left my children me and the boys upset. After a lot of consoling and carrots everyone was okay and me and Em (friend) looked around the field, there was no damage, so we think the mare jumped in over the gate and then the fence. (Too high for my boys but the mare is about 17h).
Anyway managed to forget, and then about 2/3 weeks ago my mums friend was telling me about how a chestnut mare had got into her paddock today (she lives a mile away) and that the owner had come to get it shouting and screaming and taken it back to the livery yard. She said how appalled she was at the woman's attitude and that if one of hers got out then she would be thankful it was safe.
Anyway fast forward to today and I get a call from Em asking me if I'm at the horses. I say yes and she just said 'you're not going to believe this' and the line went off. A few minutes later said woman arrives with Em in tow screaming at me (once again) that she wants money from me because one of my boys has gotten her mare pregnant! I looked at her blankly for a while before telling that she must be mistaken because my boys are both Geldings. Then she is telling me that she doesn't believe me! I'm annoyed because I'm in the middle of something and I now have to go and get my two boys who have been gelded since they were probably 1, and their both in their teens, to show some arrogant woman that they don't have any balls. Reaalllllyyyyy annoyed now.
And then, when I bring them up to the yard and tie them up and the woman starts looking at their 'areas' trying to inspect for balls!!!! And THEN, she starts putting her hand around there to see if she can flipping feel their balls!!! After me telling her over and over that they are certainly both Geldings, she STILL doesn't flipping well believe me!!! She's actually telling me that she wants proof that they're geldings!!!!
So there's me, standing there with my three children staring in shock as a woman feels our beloved pony and horses 'balls' as Em shakes her head and I give her instructions as to where their passports are at my home. Ten minutes later she arrives with the passports and the woman looks at them, checks them over and she looks at me and tells me that these passports must be wrong! I seriously cannot believe her, I am still in shock now that she actually thought that they were Stallions. I then lost it, telling her that they are CLEARLY Geldings, she's already felt for any balls, checked their passports and I told her straight that it would be ridiculous for me to keep them as stallions (even though I bought them as geldings) because they are only used mainly as hackers, they jump and do some shows but that's about it, they aren't used for breeding and I let my three children around them! She then looked at me, dropped the passports, turned around and walked away! I can't believe her! So annoyed that she has verbally abused me, made my horses and children and me upset, taken my head collar and lead rope (again, principle) and could've damaged my horses passports had it been muddy. UGHH!!
Sorry but just needed to rant
feeling very upset...sorry about the essay!
