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Smacked your youngster across the nose for getting a bit over excited when they were walking through her field with a bucket of food?

When I say 'someone' it is someone I know quite well and I was quite surprised when I saw them do it. Makes me think it probably wasn't the first time it happened either
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I am not against hitting horses at all (within reason) but I don't think other people should hit/slap/smack my horses just like I wouldn't there's.

Me being the Muppet I am didn't say anything to them
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Kind of depends on who it is - having said that, any field arrangement that requires them to walk through your field with food to get to theirs is less than ideal - can you temp fence an alleyway?
 
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but like you I probably wouldn't say anything......but I would boil over it and explode eventually over nothing.....


you should say soemthing really
 
I would be more than pissed off and want to know why they were walking through the youngsters field carrying a bucket of food in the first place thats just asking for trouble!
 
Depends what your youngster does IMO.
One of Sol's fields friends comes to mug you for anything you have so he will get a sharp thump for it.. but thats because the pair of them are too big to get in the middle of if they start fighting..
 
If the horse deserved it i would not be cross if someone smacked it but only if appropriate and within reason (i.e. for safety of prson). However, i would not walk through a field with a bucket of food and then smack a horse for trying to eat it. That is totally unfair. Like taking a kid in a toy shop and then smacking it if it touched a toy....
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Yes because by walking thru a field with food is asking for trouble, you couldn't blame any horse for being interested in it!!

Tbh if it was me I would try an attempt at a tactful approach of I saw x was interested in the food you were carrying through his/her field, I know he/shes a gutsy sod, would you walk another way round so as not to encourage him/her? Then if it happened again I would deffo say something quite direct...
 
The trouble is she was trying to catch one of the ponies that my youngster shares the field with so I can understand the need for the feed.

I was really windy today so all the horse were a bit wound up, Pixie has been really good lately but today decided she wanted to bounce around a bit. She is only 13hh so it's not as if she could squash an adult (although I am aware she could injure someone at the size she is).

I think the thing that got me was she had her hand out ready to smack her as soon as she headed towards her, it was a 'planned smack,' if she had tried to push her away first and then smacked her if she didn't listen I don't think I would have minded as much
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Walking through a field of horses with a bucket of feed is asking for trouble and only to be expected, so yes I would be annoyed.
 
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I think the thing that got me was she had her hand out ready to smack her as soon as she headed towards her, it was a 'planned smack,' if she had tried to push her away first and then smacked her if she didn't listen I don't think I would have minded as much
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This part does it for me, if she doesn't even try to tell your horse off first, in a reasonable manner, she has no right hitting your horse on its head. What would she feel if you did the same to her horse? :angry:
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Hope you can solve the situation before she maybe makes your horse difficult to catch.
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I would be hopping mad and maybe point out that if she didn't go round hitting horses in the head she might not need buckets of food to catch them.
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If the horse deserved it i would not be cross if someone smacked it but only if appropriate and within reason (i.e. for safety of prson). However, i would not walk through a field with a bucket of food and then smack a horse for trying to eat it. That is totally unfair. Like taking a kid in a toy shop and then smacking it if it touched a toy....
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Ditto this.
 
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Oh, for goodness sake - get a grip!
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Me?
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I was only seeing if I was right to be slightly P!ssed of that someone slapped my youngster (who is less then 12 months) across the face (in front of two children I might add).

I'm not seethingly angry I am just slightly annoyed and wasn't sure if I was overreacting which according to most of the replies I am not.

I don't want a head shy youngster neither do I want a pony that is difficult to catch
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I would and have been annoyed about someone smacking my horse around the face. She was being bought in from the field (on full livery) and she 'dragged' someone to some feed and honestly my horse doesn't drag - all you have to do is give her a pull on the leadrope and she leaves it - but the person didn't even try, just yanked her and smacked her in the face. Needless to say I was annoyed.
 
Yes I would be pissed off as it is policy from our yard owner/manger not to walk into a field full of horses with food, you take your own horse out the field to feed it away from the others, damn common sense, I dont have a problem with another owner giving mine or any others a "tap" with a crop or lead rope and being assertive if they crowd the gate when fetching in or out, as you need to be in control and have the other horses respect, but going in with a feed bucket !!!! nooooooo....
 
I must say some of you guys are very lucky indeed to have such reasonable and flexible livery that you never find yourselves in the position where one field is accessed through another or horses have to share a field.

Sometimes walking through a field of horses carrying feed is unavoidable and yes, it is scarey to be mugged - especially by youngsters who do tend to be rather persistent - when you are trying to catch your own pony.

My pony WILL NOT be caught without a scoop of nuts. Yes, I am working on this but I sacrifice far too much for him to just not ride him until he decides to come in without food. So I take out a scoop of nuts and at times I have been mugged by other horses in the field. This is very unpleasant and can make catching my horse even harder as he's very submissive and the others will chase him off.

If a firm no, a shove or waving my arms doesn't work, I have been known to give the other horses a slap on the nose. Sorry if owners don't like this but I'm not going to risk my health and safety getting myself caught in the middle of a horse fight or spend my (limited) riding time trapsing after my pony for 3 hours trying to catch him.

Specifically to OP though, the fact that she went from nothing to slap is a bit out of order with someone else's youngster, especially as you were there. Better manners would be to ask you to accompany her, explaining your youngster was a bit 'over friendly' with the food bucket and ask you to help her.

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I feed the Little Cigar and Sofanor in their paddock. I take a bucket in, which they both recognise and they do get quite excited. I will not tolerate any crowding or bustling (this mostly comes from the LC!) and he will get told off in no uncertain terms. If a smack is what it takes, so be it. Having been at the receiving end of his bolshiness, I know that even a little foal (he's 6mths now) is STRONG and can be dangerous. I've not had the need to smack him across the face though.
 
Dear Devil! Horses don't have permission to just take whatever feed they want...you wouldn't let your child just pig at food if you were in a supermarket with it, would you?
If a slap across the nose for rudely barging at a feed bucket is the worst that ever happens to 'Pixxie', then she'll lead a happy life.
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I was always taught never to go into a field with a bucket as it is usually asking for trouble.

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Or if the owner is there atleast ask her to hold/ move away from field/ distract little pony for a while so she is able to catch the other pony or come and ask the owner before if the horse is going to be a real pain if the go in the field with a bucket of feed.
 
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