YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF

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What the hell do some people think they are doing when they buy a horse????

Someone i know has recently bought a yearling filly, she is a fresian X.....

Last week she fully clipped her
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why???? just to see if she could
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i mean ok, by all means run the clippers near her or even over her but who fully clips a baby without good reason??

Then she said.....
When she's 2 i'm putting her in foal to a cob stallion
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Wtf WHY????

And then if that's not crazy enough....... Then all i have left to do is back her
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YOU WHAT!!!!!!!!
Her reply " they break racehorses at 2"
Is it just my thinking or should some people be allowed NOWHERE near animals
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If you are really concerned, you could contact your local BHS Welfare Officer, through the Stoneleigh phone number. They are experienced horse people who could go and give advice. They are a bit more "official" than just a concerned friend, but before things get to needing more intervention.
Their role is advice really. They might even get your friend to take the Horse Owners Certificates, which start at the bottom of simple everyday care right up to pretty advanced stuff, Levels 1 to 4.
 
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If said test was anything like the BHS stages it wouldn't be worth taking - I know a few AI's who know less about riding than people who have never even tried it

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Aw, did you fail your Stages?
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If said test was anything like the BHS stages it wouldn't be worth taking - I know a few AI's who know less about riding than people who have never even tried it

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Yes I know a couple of them too!!! But the NVQ's and Diplomas are up to date horsemanship and are readily accessible. You can even do the diplomas as home study I believe.

Seriously this girl in the OP needs some advice. Whether she takes that advice or not is another matter!
 
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On the positive side she appears to have acquired an easy going youngster - as opposed to one that could have kicked her head in

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Lucky her
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If said test was anything like the BHS stages it wouldn't be worth taking - I know a few AI's who know less about riding than people who have never even tried it

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Aw, did you fail your Stages?
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I passed mine and I share that opinion (sort of)
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Theyre like driving tests really - you pass on the day then forget it all
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Do have to agree with BHS standard .Girl once insisted she'd put travel boots on right way when I pointed out they were upside down and 'she had put them on that way at exams at the local equine college and had passed 'The reinforced 'black' bit she put at knee level then the narrowed rounded bit was to cover the front of the hoof to protect it !!Left her to it.
To OP bloody idiot springs to mind!Is she on a yard?Would YO have a word?or someone she admires/trusts?
 
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If you are really concerned, you could contact your local BHS Welfare Officer, through the Stoneleigh phone number. They are experienced horse people who could go and give advice. They are a bit more "official" than just a concerned friend, but before things get to needing more intervention.

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Not my friend
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I heard this from a mutual friend
 
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Why not try and help educate her?

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You can't educate pork
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She knows all there is to know
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been around horses since she could walk!!
One of these people you can't tell anything. With any luck she'll get bored and sell the poor girlie.
 
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Aw, did you fail your Stages?

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No chance - I refuse to pay through the nose to be taught how to spoil horses and riders BHS-style. I have no reason to take them thankfully - I teach ponies, not people
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besides, I'd probably fail them on principle for arguing with the examiners

OP - is she on a livery yard? I'm surprised nobody's said something to her...
 
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Aw, did you fail your Stages?

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No chance - I refuse to pay through the nose to be taught how to spoil horses and riders BHS-style. I have no reason to take them thankfully - I teach ponies, not people
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besides, I'd probably fail them on principle for arguing with the examiners


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While I also share your opinion of some AIs (and some Is, for that matter
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) the BHS provides a much needed standard for safe, sensible horse care that is exactly what people like the knob described in the OP need ramming down their throats. Plus what's the point teaching ponies if you don't teach other people how to apply your methods, or the ponies will only ever be any use to you?
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There was a chap on my place who had his horse fully clipped despite the fact it hadn't been ridden for months (and never was again until he sold it 6 months later thank god) simply because the other folk at that end of the yard had had theirs clipped. It got left out in November in pouring rain and blowing a gale, no shelter available and no rug. Then in the summer, he put a heavyweight turn-out on it and went away on holiday(without asking anyone to keep an eye) when the temperature was in the 70s! The poor animal regularly went in excess of 16 weeks with the same shoes on, and got a big bucket of food about once a fortnight. The moron was a proper know it all, but knew diddly squat in reality.. Hopefully the stupid owner of the fresian will simply lose interest when the filly turns into a bolshy 3 year old old and sell her on before any more damage is done. Foals are cute, rude, sit on your head youngsters aren't.
 
BHS exams are great for showing you how to bandage properly, and the 9 rules of feeding..... Oh and how to sweep a yard nicely and do the muck heap.

Great, grounding....

BUT then you have to come into the real world and learn to ride and break and have some bollox, which quite frankly most AI's dont have...
 
I only take on horses via word of mouth, and do work with their riders before they begin riding them again - but I don't charge them for "lessons" as it were - meaning no insurance issues and no need for BHS exams
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Horses I break/school and sell on only go to carefully vetted homes. (The anti-BHS camp is bigger than you might think!)

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the BHS provides a much needed standard for safe, sensible horse care that is exactly what people like the knob described in the OP need ramming down their throats.

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Feel very sorry for the poor neddie in the first instance, have just left a yard where the other person regularly did this sort of thing.

However, on the subject of BHS exams and those who have taken them, please don't tar us all with the same brush.
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I have those 'letters after my name' and pride myself on being an open minded listening sort who has the best interests of the horse and owner / rider at heart. I also agree that the BHS needs updating and changing to encompass a LOT more ideas and teachings, but am still proud to be qualified. It wasn't so easy when I passed 12 years ago (the exams appear to have been 'dumbed down' of late) and at least I can say I worked hard and applied myself for a long time. Just wish the BHS would hurry up and join the rest of us in the 21st century horsey world
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Poor horse.

I knew someone who bought a lovely little Exmoor pony for his daughter (all complete novices). They clipped the pony out fully "cos I fink they look nice all shaved"
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. Then left it out with no rug and wondered why it then cost them a fortune in vets bills went it caught a massive chill
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*bangs head against wall*.
 
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