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

MiJodsR2BlinkinTite said:
Apparently the member of staff concerned has been subject of disciplinary action; so all I can do is leave it there.
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:eek: Disciplinary for hogging a mane? Blimey, thats a bit harsh, seeing as the horse is a cob thats previously been hogged at the yard and you gave permission for him to be clipped. Ok, so the staff member should have asked but you can see how the mistake happened. Its not like the horse had a long mane which was obviously meant to be long.

Why was the horse being clipped in June anyway? :confused:

Hope it grows back quickly
 
Faracat said:
The horses really did have extensions put in their manes and apparently they enjoyed the extra pampering. ;) :D
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Thanks for letting me know as I think I am going to have to look into some of those as I did really like the glittery one, would be fab for fancy dress or a special event I think :)
 
I sympathise with the OP; there's nothing worse than trying to grow out a hogged mane once, never mind twice.
I feel really badly for the member of college staff who is being disciplined though - and am surprised that such a lovely poster as MiJods really wants to make someone else unhappy for what is a trivial thing.
Life is full of enough unhappiness without us creating more (knowingly) for others.
I hope you reconsider, MiJods, and ask for the person NOT to be disciplined.
S :(
 
OK. So I've thought hard and long as to whether to post this; and balance the "risk" of just bumping this topic up again ....... but I think some things need clarifying, so here goes:

Firstly, I have not named the college, nor do I wish to as this was not my intention to name & shame, nor will I. Not publicly, or PM, or in any other way. The college in question is somewhere in the South West of England - where there are a number of colleges with equine units attached to them. Enough said.

Secondly, the reason for my OP was to attempt to clarify my thoughts and establish in my own mind whether I had a genuine gripe or not .... it was NOT my intention to set off a process whereby there was a trial-by-internet situation.

If course, in hindsight, it would perhaps have been better to have not posted in the first place TBH as inevitably everyone has an opinion and has different ways (some helpful, some not) of expressing it and even if "humour" is attempted in order to diffuse a potentially tense situation, then because forums like this are remote/in cyberspace, the danger is that this can be very misunderstood. I hadn't any idea this would be such a contentious subject.

The college concerned has done absolutely everything they could to resolve the very unfortunate situation and I am satisfied that my horse is being taken the very best care of possible. This particular horse, was sent to college three years ago being totally green, had never seen the inside of a school before, but is now a different horse - and all credit to the college for that IMO. I realise that this was a genuine error which is deeply regretted. It would definitely not stop me sending any horse I had to this particular college again.

So perhaps now this topic can now die a natural death???
 
fburton said:
I was thinking about starting a new thread asking "Would you be angry if someone hugged your horse without your permission?" but am having second thoughts now. :D
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Lol :D. I never cease to be amazed by how so many seemingly innocent threads turn into such a 'hoo hah' on this forum.
 
I would be furious but after being at an equine college it doesn't surprise me as one of the yard managers hogged someones horse then without any permission what so ever
 
Yes I would, and I would go and see the Yard Manager and say so.
Although the horse is on working livery major decisions such as that must always be checked with the owner.
We had a helper start here and she asked if she could trim our ancient shetland. We said no, and left it at that.
When we came back she had trimmed his mane dead level with scissors in a straight line, cut his forelock to three inches and cut half way across his tail leaving a step about 8 inches from the top.
I was like you, so furious I couldn't speak, but eventually explained that if she ever tried that trick again (when challenged she said she "forgot"") she wouldn't ever set foot on the yard again.
You really must say something or as it grows back they will take it off again...
 
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