would you be annoyed?

I haven't read all replies here; but when mine was on working livery someone hogged him without my permission. I was just ballistic.

No-one but no-one has EVER got the right to trim anyone else's horse without the express permission of the owner.

I'm another who is totally against trimming whiskers, ever.

If I was in OP's position I would be vapourising by now.

This is NOT acceptable.
 
TC - I'm glad that the whiskers were still on. :) I hope that the schooling has had a positive effect once you get him back home. Does your daughter have regular lessons on him?
 
Thanks faracat, we have an instructor just up the road from us so I'm either considering a weekly or fortnightly lesson or a weekly escorted hack with the instructor on her horse. I think tuition out hacking will increase my daughters confidence and keep it fun for her and it will be good for charlie too
 
They should have asked you first, OP, and personally I wouldn't be happy about it, especially as I don't agree with trimming off whiskers. However, it sounds as thought they did it with the right intentions and otherwise everything else sounds great, so I would just simply say can you run this by me next time. Keep it short and sweet.
 
tinycharlie said:
Thanks faracat, we have an instructor just up the road from us so I'm either considering a weekly or fortnightly lesson or a weekly escorted hack with the instructor on her horse. I think tuition out hacking will increase my daughters confidence and keep it fun for her and it will be good for charlie too
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The escorted hacks sound like a brilliant, confidence giving idea. Daughter and instructor will be able to chat, enabling daughter to relax, so pony will relax and if there are any problems RI will be able to intervene immediately.
 
I do object to whiskers off any horse, and I also object to mane pulling if it is badly done [and pulling a mane seems to be a lost art] If horse is left sore I would be fuming.
If horse is being exercised it may need clipping to prevent sweating, and stabled horses should really have the beard off unless it is expressely declined by owner...... A friend was charged for clipping her horse which was on working livery, to me this was a scandal, as she also had to pay for sedation by injection, and it was only their use in the school that meant her horse need a clip.
I once asked someone to help me with clipping, by which I meant pulling his leg forward and so on, before I could stop her she took the clippers off me and removed his whiskers!!!!!
 
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The escorted hacks sound like a brilliant, confidence giving idea. Daughter and instructor will be able to chat, enabling daughter to relax, so pony will relax and if there are any problems RI will be able to intervene immediately.
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Yes I think this will be the way forward when he comes back and if it goes well I'll increase the amount of times she'll hack out with her. Charlie has been out with this instructor before with another rider and my daughter is quite keen on the idea and also the instructor will go at their pace and assist with any issues along the way 😃
 
My youngster went to a friend for road education last summer. They asked if they could clip a bridlepath, I refused. Bridles sit better imho if allowed to sit flat in a natural break in the mane, rather than held up on stubble. I trim her beard in the winter, as it can catch in buckles, but would never trim whiskers of pull the mane. The point of trimming or clipping is to make the horse more comfy when they work. It should be functional to help them, not just to appeal to our personal whims. But then, I don't like dog trims like poodle clips or tail docking when they are no longer working dogs who require it for functionality.
 
I would be as she wasn't given permission, how would she like it if you cut off her horse's tail? But it's done, and the hair will grow back so I guess it's not worth stressing about.
 
I was taught that horse needs a bridlepath but forty years on I think they are a complete waste of time. To get them really flat they have to be done with clippers, who wants to set up blades once every three weeks just for that? They suffer from mission creep and end up getting bigger, and I hate the razored away look when they loose six inches behind the ears. When you leave it alone you can pinch a bit like a combover when the forelock gets a bit thin, or more a bit back to even a plait. Who knew hair could be so contentious, step away from the scissors.
 
If you go "raging" or with an attitude of "heads will roll" that someone trimmed the horses whiskers, I'd doubt that they'd ever have your horse back in for schooling.

If no specific instructions were left, there's not much you can do about it!
 
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