Would you be p*ssed or just chalk it up to an accident?

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HiPo'sHuman

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Was at the yard this morning, put pony's bed up and left my wheelbarrow and tools in her stable until evening and her tea outside the stable. Got down at 5:30 to find said pony in her stable, fed, with the bleeding tools left in there :mad: - fork, brush and shovel, wtf? We have a 'no horse left out alone' policy which is fine and I don't have problem with but hadn't expected them in before I got down and wouldn't have left my stuff in there (and obviously bedded down, hayed etc.). I'm just so relieved that nothing happened to my very immature 4yo toddler equivalent pony! I assume she'd been fed because there was no hay in there.

Do you think I'm blowing this out of proportion because of the initial panic when I realised what had happened or would you be p*ssed too? Of course, I will never leave my things in the stable again and risk this happening again. It's a large yard and communication between everyone is very poor so not easy to find out what everyone is doing/bringing theirs in. Aside from this, I'm extremely happy with the yard. The person I suspect to have done this is a bit crazy so I'm loathe to bring it up with her. Maybe just a quick chat with YO and see if she can send out a group text to ensure people check stables should they have to bring in another person's pony?

P.S. wheelbarrow had been removed (thank god!) so someone has obviously been inside the stable rather than just 'chucking' her through the door.
 
I think you should just be relieved that no harm came to your pony and never leave anything in her stable again.
 
bonny said:
I think you should just be relieved that no harm came to your pony and never leave anything in her stable again.
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You're right, I've just read through my rant objectively and ultimately the blame would lie with me :( lesson learnt. Still think it's very careless behaviour OP's part but yes, it would have been me to blame should anything have happened. It's really upset me, haven't stopped going over it all evening.
 
I would think they were rushing about trying to get her in, as per yard rules, and saw the barrow but missed that you had left the tools in there, or maybe meant to go back and got distracted, if the yard policy is to bring in then it is really down to each owner to ensure the stable is safe and ready every day just in case they get brought in, I would be cross if a livery left tools in a stable as I sometimes have to bring a livery in and always bring in two together expecting the box to be safe for them to go straight into.
 
be positive said:
I would think they were rushing about trying to get her in, as per yard rules, and saw the barrow but missed that you had left the tools in there, or maybe meant to go back and got distracted, if the yard policy is to bring in then it is really down to each owner to ensure the stable is safe and ready every day just in case they get brought in, I would be cross if a livery left tools in a stable as I sometimes have to bring a livery in and always bring in two together expecting the box to be safe for them to go straight into.
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Totally right, think I was so caught up in the situation that I couldn't think it through clearly. Good job I didn't go in all guns blazing ;)

Leaving the stable half done is something I've probably only done a handful of times, ever! Just a combination of things today that meant I was unable to finish. It won't be happening again :(
 
I can see why you are annoyed, and with good cause, but take a breath and think about the long term effects. It happens, it is nasty and we learn. I have left doors open, and horses un-hayed. We sigh and move on... :)
 
Nothing bad happened, no one died no horse got hurt. Just move on and if you know that it is likely that someone else will bring yourvhorse in, leave the stable ready and safe.
 
Just been chatting to my friend about it and apparently my pony was brought in early because she followed her friend and 'wouldn't let' other livery get her horse out. I have never seen any evidence of her acting this way but of course it could possibly be the case?

Anyway, lesson learnt and operation 'save for my own place' continues ;)
 
As you say, leaving the tools in there was really you're fault. I've been at yards where the bed was up for the day with the horse in, so bed up wouldn't necessarily mean "half done" to me - though if they noticed the wheelbarrow you would hope they might have noticed the tools too. When I've been at a yard I always left a filled haynet in the stable and no tools, I started this after they were all bought in at an unexpected time due to (unwarned) appearance of the local hunt in our fields.

I would be more annoyed by bringing the horse in because she "wouldn't let" them not, surely that's only going to re-inforce that behaviour. I would probably want to talk to YO about that, maybe a change in turnout arrangements is needed or an electric fencing box around the gate.
 
Maybe I'm unreasonable but I don't think that's acceptable at all.

I would expect my horse to be treated with care, as I'd treat anyone else's horse. How careless do you have to be do miss a bunch of tools in a stable? Did they even bother to check if pony had water?

If you're going to do something, take an extra half a minute to do it properly.
 
I would be a little annoyed personally. Yes they shouldn't have been left in there but as a matter of course I would expect yard staff to check any stable is safe and as LadyGascoyne said in a previous post at least had water before leaving a horse in there. I'm not saying a lengthy check of every box or anything daft but casting the eye over a stable as you take the horse in takes just a second!

I appreciate sometimes things can be missed so forgivable as a one off but I would say something if this or similar things continue to happen.

Perhaps the standards I expect are too high... But I pay a lot for livery and having worked on many yards myself over the years I know how they work and feel that hazards that can compromise the safety of the horse should not be missed.
 
I personally would never put a horse in a stable without checking it had water and, therefore, would see and remove tools. However, not everyone is up to our standards :) so I would take it as lesson learned that some people don't engage their brains and that you have to cater for stupidity as far as humanly possible.
 
This happened to me, but I got moaned at for leaving tools in my stable! To be fair this is was a fellow livery not paid for assistance, and she obviously saw it as doing me a favour by not leaving my horse out on his tod.

Does make me smile how everyone is concerned about the horse....my horse broke my wheelbarrow and my broom. It was an expensive day! I wish I still had the photo of the carnage.
 
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