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putting your three strange horses ( two not belonging to you) out with two ponies in a field not even yours??

We take a field off a neighbour..we have two old (19 and 25 ) 13 and 14.2hh ponies in it. Tonight we went up to check and sometime today (neighbours were in donegal-knew nothing about it!) a distant neighbour has put a 17hh, 14.2 and 13hh pony in with them, the field is only big enough for two, has not much grass and none of the horses bloody know each other! We have needless to say removed our ponies, as both were quite distressed (neither of them needed that-one has a heart condition) and no word at all from the other neighbour! We know them quite well, have told them in the past not to put their (at the time one) pony in with ours in case of fights...
Steaming is one word for it!
 
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Is it usual for people in your part of the world to randomly put their horses on someone elses land without permission?

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That's what I was thinking? Why would someone just put their horses in your field or the field you rent from a neighbour?
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no!
They do use our sandschool occasionally and have used that field before (without permission, neighbour used to have horses but child who rode them off to uni) with no horses in it 'just for 3-4 days' which while bad, was just acceptable, they didn't ask us, just assumed it would be ok??

flowerlady-I think the field they planned to put them in (another neighbours) has been occupied byt he man who pays for it! (with highland cows) and they have reseeded their own field perhaps assuming they could use neighbour 2's field? Not our problem though, and to put two sets of strange horses in a relatively small field ??!
 
shouldn't have! land owner is back today and as confused/annoyed as us! they are good friends of ours (better than the neighbours who are 'new' to the area and seem to be falling out with everyone!)
 
Ah, that sort of neighbour, we have one lot like that, they were stealing part of our drystone wall and thought we should be grateful as we were 'getting our wall mended for free'!!!! We always get our walls mended for free as my sisters bloke is a dry stone waller (master craftsman etc). They were trying to take 3 courses off the top, then pretended they thought it was theirs.
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Crikey!! What rude and presumptuous behaviour!!!! I cannot believe someone would ever think that is okay. Hope it gets sorted!

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very much my line of thought! although my thoughts werent quite so polite!
 
We'll see, tricky deciding how to approach it as are our neighbours so difficult to do it amicably..even though it is obviously unacceptable!
Think their horses are still there too..
 
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