Horse riders should pick up their poo!!

If anyone wants to borrow my dog he would gladly help , he loves to grab a bit to eat 🙈

I use a mobility scooter in a semi rural area. Big dollops of horse poo in the middle of a path are an inconvenience. Picking poo out of the tyres before I reverse back into my house is a very unpleasant task. Fortunately the horse owners around here mostly know their pets habits and poo is deposited at the side of the path.

When I was a child in the 50s, we grew a lot of vegetables because rationing didn't end until '54 and any horse drawn carts down our road were followed by residents keen to be first to scoop up the horse poo to add to the compost bin.

You're being a bit daft as the rider is facing in the opposite direction to where the poo comes out lol.

Horses are outdated and serve very little purpose nowadays. Time to make them licenced, have insurance and tax them.

God, it's been years sine I've seen thread about this.

We recently had our road repaired. In between the spreading of the stone chips and the rolling, it got horse-shitted. So when the roller came, it rolled the horse-shit into the newly laid road. How lovely for us all. And how pissed off must the road-layers have been. I’m with you @Instagram.

Stupidest thread I've ever read.

Me carrying a plastic bag with 6lbs of Pooh trying to get back on my horse would cause a pile up - OP, are you on glue ?

I would love to see a rider dismount with a massive bag and shovel, just for that yanbu 😂

TrashyPanda, I said the horse was aggressive or untrained in response to this: "Unless you want to be kicked, it’s probably wise to continue to give horses a very wide berth!" Kicking is aggressive. I didn't make that up!

A horse kicking is not an aggressive action. It is a reaction from fear or alarm. Like a road user being too near them. Which is why the law states to give a wide berth.

If an animal is so inherintly dangerous that everyone must always stay out of it's attack range then it's clearly much too dangerous to take out in public
It is basic common sense to stay a safe distance away from any large animal. It’s actually inherent in most people as a basic preservation measure.

Other road users shouldn't need to be telepathic to protect themselves from your pet

The law disagrees with you.

The law states that drivers must know, understand and put into practice the Highway Code

Horse riders and horse-drawn vehicles. Be particularly careful of horse riders and horse-drawn vehicles especially when overtaking. Always pass wide and slowly. Horse riders are often children, so take extra care and remember riders may ride in double file when escorting a young or inexperienced horse or rider. Look out for horse riders’ and horse drivers’ signals and heed a request to slow down or stop. Take great care and treat all horses as a potential hazard

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It’s dangerous to zoom around a blind bend. Manure on the ground should be the least of a biker’s / cyclist’s worries. A biker or cyclist would come off far worse if they slammed into a horse because they were going to fast to stop than if their wheels went through a dollop of poo.

TrashyPanda, I said the horse was aggressive or untrained in response to this: "Unless you want to be kicked, it’s probably wise to continue to give horses a very wide berth!" Kicking is aggressive. I didn't make that up!
If an animal is so inherintly dangerous that everyone must always stay out of it's attack range then it's clearly much too dangerous to take out in public. Even if it only becomes dangerous when it's scared, if it's a prey animal and fear is it's automatic response then it is reasonably foreseeable that it might get scared and attack someone. If you know there is a risk that it might get scared and attack and you still choose to take that horse out then it's 100% your fault if it attacks someone who is using the road in the usual manner and minding their own business. Other road users shouldn't need to be telepathic to protect themselves from your pet. Just keep dangerous animals, like bulls, snakes and horses inside appropriate enclousers where they don't endanger the public. Anyway, it sounds like they're so scared that it is cruel to take them out near loud traffic and fast cars anyway.

Well this adds to the fun.

When I was much younger & hadn't lived in the countryside long, DH (who grew up rurally) & I were out for a walk in the forest & I saw one of these & genuinely thought it was a giant pooper scooper for horse poo DH could hardly breath from laughing so much!

What about deer shit? We have deer shit on our road what should we do about that? 😂.

I was on a thread on NM years ago and they hated horse shit, one poster was adamant that they needed horse nappies, I’m still awaiting an answer on deer shit...

I'm not so against it. There are horse diapers (bags mounted under their tails) available now. If a city or town has quite a few riders using shared paths, then why not enforce diapers. We don't have any riders in our town, but when we have a parade with riders or buggies, they are required to wear them.

Bloody hell Boris will do ANYTHING to distract us from those parties...

I ve read through the thread and no one said @BakedTattie was wrong to wish cyclists have an accident caused by her horse, so why should ior anyone else be bothered if my dog/car or 'cycle spooks your horse?

Respect works both ways i'm afraid.

Dog faeces can cause blindness. Toxoplasmosis. Which is why their owners have to pick it up. Dogs eat meat. Horses do not.

I am rather fed up of this thread reoccurring which is why I've replied to it

I live rurally. I don't particularly care for horses (I'm possibly the only person in our village who doesn't ride!) but YABVU.
Horse manure is basically grass / hay. It doesn't really contain pathogens like dog / cat / bird poo does and neither is it slippery like mud is if you happen to step on it / drive on it.
Every road / lane round here is covered in the stuff. Doesn't bother me one bit. You can't exactly expect the rider to dismount when the horse has a bowel movement and clear it up. What would they do with it? Bucket? Bin bag? How would they carry a shovel?

Replace horses with robot horses. Problem solved. You're welcome.

Reclines in comfy chair and gives out a smug sigh

Horses, like many other animals, can get frightened. That is what was referred to. It’s just basic common sense that you don’t startle an animal that is a lot bigger and stronger than you are.

What do you mean by taking “an untrained horse” on the road? Exactly how is a human going to make an untrained animal the size of a horse go down a road with them on their back? That ain’t going to happen

It takes a long time to break a horse to the saddle and then to train them to respond to aids. Trying to ride your untrained horse on a road is a recipe for disaster as well as stupidity of the highest order and no rider would ever attempt it.