why are poeple so annoying !!!

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it just really p*sses me off when people non horse owners can accuse horseowners of not caring for there horses and not feeding them propley and start feeding bags of carrots when asked not to but carry on doing it .when
(1) shed is full of hay and feed and have hay out daily morning and night and both graze if they have eat everything by 12 0clock
(2) both have under rugs and normal turnouts on
(3) both have access to water 24/7
(4) both have feet trimmed regualy
me and my parnter caught this woman who weve had problems with for a while for nearly two yrs know feeding our horses when weve asked her not to ,partner had a go and she gave my partner aload of abuse and call me she which really did upset my partner .
ive tryed signs but is there anything else i can do ?? im getting to a point i want to sell and give up as im intears because of it , or move, but its cheap, its close to my home ,i shouldnt have to move as she doesnt own horses she drives by and feeds them .
can i get rspca to come and check ,and get them to sign something to say these horses are reseving the proper care , or have i got legal grounds ,
i need to do something as its driving me mad
 
Is she coming on to your property to feed them? Or leaning over the fence? If she's coming onto your property, then you could mention to her that she is in fact tress passing..
 
sounds like she does not understand about horses at all. As in that they are happy and healthy. You could always go down the old, if you feed my horse you will make it ill and then she will have a huge vet bill ! Might work as I am sure she will stop when you say that a Horse vet bill can run into over thousands per incident !
 
That would really annoy me too, my girl is a laminitic so has a special and restricted diet so this would be a massive concern to me.

Is there any way to put round a high level of electric tape, or is your field big enough to fence them back away from the perimeter.
I am not sure this would really work in truth, this woman needs to stop and clearly is not listening to date.

Where do you keep your horses? Is it on a rented field?
 
no there is a road up the side of my field she stops in her car and feeds them .
ive try fencing around but she just throws them over .ive put up signs she has ripped down
its rented. im very much conserned because your not talking one or two carrots your talking either a tesco bag of carrots or one of the orange bags you can get of carrots
 
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thats what i was going to do,
weve ask her nicely 2-3 times before ,caught her and her daughter and she gave us fully on abuse , bring not only our horse but our kids into the aquasion
 
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report her to the police. get vet to write a report saying the horses are fine and well fed and cared for. if she's stuffing them with carrots they're at higher risk of laminitis (very sugary, carrots... i know a muppet who gave her "on a strict diet" chronic laminitic pony loads of carrots and sure enough he went down with it really badly.) get police to pay a visit and tell her to leave your horses alone and NOT feed them. or, if police won't go around, ask local RSPCA Welfare Officer or similar, or go around yourself with vet's letter and insist she listens to you, and reads it.
look on the bright side, at least she's not giving them grass clippings. :( :( :(
 
yer i suppose thats a plus side !!! give her time tho this has been going on for two years so i wouldnt put it passed her to have feed them anything else
 
if your field is big enough I would put up a line of electric fencing far enough away from the roadside edge to prevent her from being able to throw them far enough.I would also either run electric tape along the roadside edge to prevent her leaning across or climbing your fence to get to the horses.
 
it about 2 acres but where we are we cant leave boxes out etc otherwise there gone i can only do it for a 2 days un noticed then i have to take off as no electric which in that time if she comes with carrots youngster leans for the carrots and relises its not on !! so back to square one , ive tryed , fencing ,signs asking and she still does it ,im at my wits end
 
This is something I wont miss when I move yards tomorrow, people faffing with my horse at the fence and feeding goodness knows what, you have my sympathy.
 
The field where I keep my mare is in the middle of a large village, and the owner had serious problems with tourists feeding the horses, to the point where one ended up dying.
She had a sign made for the gate which says something along the lines of "We belong to Bourton Vale Equestrian Centre, please don't feed us, it causes fighting and can cause illness. RIP Smartie, killed by kindness 2004" and then the number of the yard at the bottom.
The horses in the field were also constantly being reported to the RSPCA because they had finished the the hay in their feeders and there wasn't much grass in the field. My mare for one is a REAL fatty, and as she can't be ridden, or exercised at all in hand due to losing most of her sight, not having any grass for a couple of days was not going to kill her!
Good Luck!
 
What's her concern with your children?
Also, people don't just go spending their own money feeding an animal that doesn't belong to them, unless they feel there is some neglect. So why does she feel this?
 
The problem is, Rotchana, that some people think leaving a horse out in the rain is neglect. If your horse isn't wearing a 15 tog duvet, it's neglect. If there is not a huge bucket of carrots given daily, it's neglect. Or heaven forbid your horse should be out in a field in winter, because they live in stables, don't they???

There's a woman in my village who gives a bucket of feed to horses nearby, thinking that because she doesn't see buckets in the field, they aren't fed. I have warned her that she really shouldn't do this and it was her who was horrified when I told her my ponies live out 24/7 (with access to shelter). I had to EXPLAIN the difference between horses' needs and our own. People really are that dense!

I do sympathise, OP. I used to have some stupid woman feed my 12hh pony a carrier bag full of carrots regularly. I had signs up, too, but it didn't stop her or others shovelling bread into nearby ducks, then turning round and feeding my ponies (one of whom is a laminitic and I explained what that was on the sign). I had to get quite rude with some of them and yes, you do get abuse, including "f**k off and mind your own business". At the time, Henry was quite fat, but I was neglecting him, you see.

I suggest taking the number plate of her car, OP and reporting her to the police as persistently feeding a horse who is under medication and a strictly controlled diet, under the trespass laws. Is there a large vet bill you can produce as a warning to her (handed to her via the police), that the next one will be through her door? I wonder if the RSPCA would also consider giving her a call? Good luck. I know how frustrating this is, having been there first hand.
 
I am so lucky, public can't get to our 2 and our neighbour when she goes away leaves a note on our step with her (v nice Waitrose Chardonnay) carrots saying 'if any good give to the horses if not please compost '

I would take registration number of her car and then ask police to follow up.
 
Non horsey people just don't understand do they. I remember the yard i was on as a child had a horse that was on box rest, they came down to find a bucket full of unsoaked sugar beet pellets in his stable, luckily the horse didn't like them unsoaked. But non horsey people seem to think a horse should be fed 24 hours a day either with hay or hard feed.
Solicitors letter should do the trick!
 
We had a mare who was intolerant of just about everything excet grass! It was a nightmare when we were on livery as footpaths ran through the fields. We caught one man feeding bread, explained the problem, and he ignored us and appeared to think we were telling lies. When we moved here no footpaths was one of the big things. There is a footpath runs down the side of one field and we did have a bit of a problem at one time. One of us found a bag of boiled sweets tucked into the wall, ready for someone to hand out to the horses, that went on the fire. We have fewer problems now. I think a solicitors letter is the best way forward, but must admit I don't hold out much hope that it will make any big difference. People seem to think that we should keep our horses like people.
 
Good lord people are freaks...

OP document everything and if you can get an independant witness so much the better. Record time, date, activity everything!

Get others on board neighbours/vet/farrier etc

What does the landlord/lady have to say about it? If you are a good tennant they may not want to loose you.

Could CCTV help?

If you know where the woman lives/works get a BHS/WHW welfare officer to pay a visit or print off a heap of info in very basic English.

Good luck.
 
solicitors letter.
find out where she lives, cant be that far from the field.
Say in the letter that you will take court proceedings against her
if she is seen near the field or feeding the horses again.
Tell all neighbours that she has been officially warned and to let you know if shes
been near the field.
cheap cctv can also be put up. i have done that before, to get evidence.
 
If she parks in roughly the same place each time she stops to feed them, a trickle of roofing nails along the side of the road may create enough punctures to piss her off.
 
Rotchana said:
What's her concern with your children?
Also, people don't just go spending their own money feeding an animal that doesn't belong to them, unless they feel there is some neglect. So why does she feel this?
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rotchana , she fills this because i do my horse early which in this case ,it usally gone by 12 oclock and they are grazing much of the time till i go down at 2 -3 oclock to give more . if there is no hay out or buckets which i stack away inless i have to leave quickly she presumes they are not feed .
there is another horse next door who is a cob . her daughter rides him for the woman who owners him . and the both feed carrots to this cob (your talking a bag mostly each day)who really doesnt need it either but , not my cornsern really .
but they always feed my that are in a totaly different field ,ive asked her not to because with my youngster being so young and also the effects a bag of carrots each day can do !!!
unfortually this woman has a problem with everyone that owns a pet ,she even told awoman she crawl for letting her cats stay out and not letting them in !!!
as to kids most of the time they come to the field with me which means they have there own seperate clothes to field and play/going out clothes which means she always comment on there field clothes a remarks that we should be putting clothes on there backs . our kids have never gone with out my partner is a high payed worker , we own our own boat, own horses, a range rover sport , etc and kids are always in clothes , they have there shoes and feet measured from clarks which are 35-50 a time each , both have ds, nitendo wii , xbox 360 these kids never go with out and because she sees them in clothes for fields ,she marks silly remarks about my kids clothing ,i think it just a woman who basicly hates me ,ive never done anything to her said or apporch her in a way that shes like this . this is her .
 
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Tamba said:
solicitors letter.
find out where she lives, cant be that far from the field.
Say in the letter that you will take court proceedings against her
if she is seen near the field or feeding the horses again.
Tell all neighbours that she has been officially warned and to let you know if shes
been near the field.
cheap cctv can also be put up. i have done that before, to get evidence.
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temba i know defently where she lives , two mins where i live
 
Might it be worth while talking to your local anti social behaviour team - in particular if they have people who own and understand horses?
 
ischa said:
unfortually this woman has a problem with everyone that owns a pet ,she even told awoman she crawl for letting her cats stay out and not letting them in !!!
as to kids most of the time they come to the field with me which means they have there own seperate clothes to field and play/going out clothes which means she always comment on there field clothes a remarks that we should be putting clothes on there backs .
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Actually, going off this comment, it sounds as if you are dealing with someone who is mentally ill, not just well-meaning and ignorant. I think you do need to involve the police, and possibly Social Services (although the police will do this). This lady is probably already known to them if she makes a habit of pestering people with animals and children.

Make a complaint to the police, and possibly to your local council's anti-social behaviour team. In the meantime, do not respond to ANYTHING she may say to you or the kids, and tell the kids to ignore her as well.
 
I always worry about people doing this to my ponies as there is a footpath running alongside their fields. Although Ethel generally doesnt eat anything other than her breakfast/dinner and hay as mints, carrots, apples etc are all very weird :P Shes doesnt really "get" them haha. But Ted will eat anything you give him, a particular favourite being dolly mixtures which I admit to feeding to him in the past but soon stopped (he was only ever given one on the rare occasion I actually had a bag). Neither of them are lamantitic or have anything wrong meaning they cant have certain food, I worry that they'll start harrasing people over the fence and maybe ending up with a smack or worse from some non horsey person (or even people with horses)
 
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