Worried :(

[Equus Leather]

I have had my horse on loan now for 7 months and, bar the odd injury here and there, we've had a successful time. I've kept the owner up to date with emails and pictures and texts, all quite happy. The owner lives away and is back this weekend and, quite rightly, wants to see her horse.

Horse is in brilliant nick, a little porky, but she came to me skin and bone after having a foal. She lives out at the mo with 3 other mares, all very happy.

The owner is a little neurotic and i'm worried she's going to pick faults with:

a) her weight, saying she's too fat
b) the field she lives in. Fencing isn't bad at all (not considering where she was before) but it does have a small bit of pig wire and barbed wire.
c) the stables - currently have no bedding in them as aren;t used except for tying them up when they come in to be ridden.

OH thinks I'm paranoid and to stop worrying. That because the horse is happy and healthy she shouldn't have a problem with it.

It's hard though. She's also going to see me ride...I'm not brilliant, but better than the last time, but I'm still worried.

ARGH!

 

[sachak]

dont worry the horse is clearly happy and healthy so you cant be oing far wrong!

 

[cellie]

You will be ok just remember she picked you to look after her horse so she must have felt comfortable with you.

 

[Gorgeous George]

try not to worry (but I know what you mean), you are brilliant for her horse and hopefully she will see / realise that.

Good Luck!

 

[_OC_]

Well if you had my horse on loan...(TBH, I really don't know why your getting so worked up!).....I would be delighted at the fact it was clearly well loked after!

PS:-Do you want a fat cob,15.1,jumps and is a nice bomb proof hack,etc...on loan!

I thought you would say'Thanks for the offer,but No!'

What I'm trying to say is you sound like a good loaner.......Stop worrying.and if she picks fault it will be for something minuscule.....as there will be nothing to pick fault with!

 

[Chumsmum]

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try not to worry (but I know what you mean), you are brilliant for her horse and hopefully she will see / realise that.

Good Luck!

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ditto

 

[Equus Leather]

Thanks everyone

I think I might be a bit fat for a 15.1. otherwise I'd jump at the chance!

Off to the yard now to spruce her up and then we're hacking over to her mums house....yard inspection tomorrow I think.

 

[Spyda]

If the loaner has any sense she will realise what a gem she has found in you. You keep her up to date with everything, send pictures and email her regularly. If it were me I would be THRILLED to have someone who was SO prepared to keep me in the loop with how my horse was doing. So many horses go out on loan and you have to chase, chase, chase just to find out how they're getting on in between visits.

Everything you've raised as a potential problem is minor if the horse is happy. If you're worried about the bare stables, have you a few un opened bales of bedding stored somewhere close by? Surely if you have, you can just explain that the stables are left bare in summer but that you do have some emergency bedding incase any of the horses have to be stabled at short notice. That should be sufficient and something you should do anyway, just in case.

Unless she expressly asked for the horse NOT to be kept in a field with wire you should be okay providing it is as safe as it possibly can be although barbed wire is a real horror horse-wise. Is there no way that the barbed section could be swapped for something else? Just for the welfare of all the horses. It's sod's law that a horse will find that strip of the fencing to get caught up in if it's ever going to happen.

All in all though, I think you'll be just fine

 

[Flibble]

It is so nice to meet another paranoid worrier and its as if looking in a mirror. Dont worry you are doing fine.

When it all boils down to it :

If she thinks you are great you have made yourself miserable for nothing.

If she does think you are rubbish then

a) she is a picky mare
and
b) You will have doubled the time you are upset which is pointless!.

 

[Equus Leather]

Spyda (great name!), you are totally right. We do have bedding as a 'just in case'.

Anyhow...we hacked over to her mums, and schooled a bit and had tea. She was really pleased with how she looks and she rode her and and said she felt better than she did before I got her

Turns out she'd hacked passed our fields earlier and saw my horse in the field, she didn't mention the fields or anything, and she's not coming over to visit tomorrow as she's happy.

She said my riding had improved and noticed I'd lost weight too

All good stuff.

I'm such a bloody worrier! Wish I could stop.

Thank you all for your lovely comments. It's nice to have nice things said every now and then.

 

[Spyda]

Sorry!

Only just caught up with your follow-up post. Excellent news! She obviously know a good loaner when she has one. But I bet you're 100% relieved now that's over with