Would you be angry if someone hogged your horse without your permission?

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Seeing as I keep traditional cobs I would be so angry I'd probably spontaneously combust!

I think if you sent a horse with a full mane then they should assume you want the horse with a full mane, esp if he's only going for a very short period of time!
 
Approach the yard with lightening speed hog the yo and when she is upset say ohhhh sorry as you hogged my horse I thought you wouldn't mind being hogged too, ooops my mistake! lol
 
As everyone else. It's the height of impertinence, and I would put something in writing to the head of whatever establishment it is. Hogging is not just a slip of the clippers. It is radically altering the appearance of your horse - you don't say what breed it is, I think - and to grow it out totally is going to take at least a year. Perhaps a little compensation is due....? supposing it's an Arab, and you were hoping to show it!!
 
I would be livid... in fact im pretty b***** cross thinking about it... I hope they buy you a massivr bunch of flowers and crates of chocoate and wine to apologise!
 
We had the opposite problem with Hartpury, when my dad's mare came bac* from there, she loo*ed really scruffy. They hadn't bothered to pull her mane or tail, which was also virtually touching the ground!
 
I would be livid. And I wouldnt be sending my horse back there. Although I wouldnt send a horse of mine to a college at all. I've been a student at two and wouldnt choose the lifestyle at a college for my horse.
 
Think I would cry ! Also why clip his summer coat presumably you want to stick him back naked in a field when he returns.
 
Id go and take my horse back and say never again, but then hun you know of my experiance with them, least your lad isnt lame.

I know some people say it could of been a communitcation glich but i dont think so, the YM tends to know best and do as she pleases!
 
I used to own an Arab and was totally gutted when someone pulled her mane without permmission so I can imagine how you feel!

Go kick ass and take your boy home!
 
Havent read all of this but I would be crying. My old horse was clipped by a student and she clipped a long Bridle path into his mane I never got a satisfactory apology so I logged it down in my list of people I dont trust.
 
It's hardly the worst thing they could have done... Yeah they should have asked but on the other side you should have specified if it's really that important. It'll grow back!!!
 
Last year my horse's mane was pulled really short, and a bridle path clipped between his ears. I'd been trying to grow the bridle-path out as his forelock is wispy and I prefer a longer, thicker mane so I can plait... I was off sick for weeks with the flu, and when I went up, he'd been shorn.

I was nearly in tears ... thing is it's SOP to pull and trim the competition horses at the yard, and presumably someone assumed he was still one of the competition horses and went about their business ...

I've asked for his mane to be left alone this year and so far, so good, his forelock is starting to fill out now!
 
As OP was fine with hogging the same horse before I can see how this happened.

Having said that I personally like horses as they were intended to be... with manes to keep flies off! (And tails for that matter... go shave off/pull out your own hair if you need to people!)
 
When I first got my Anglo Arab he had a hogged mane and I've not touched it since- he's got lovely long hair and that's the way God intended! If someone hogged his mane I would through a wobbly.
 
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