To think that if you have a Horse...

[Piglet28]

you should have to scoop up their crap! If you had a dog that messed on a pavement there would be outrage if you didn't pick it up, but if you are riding your horse and it craps everywhere you can just ride off and leave it?

What do you think?

[baguettecut]

Visited my grandmother recently (leafy Surrey) horse poo all over the pavement, loads of the stuff (narrowish pavement, poo along the length) she is reg blind with a tiny bit of sight so could have stepped right into it on her oy route into the village to shop. Shit is shit when you've got it on your shoe.

[Eve]

Just don't do it on the pavement.

[PIMSoclock]

Bombayblue, I'll give you the toy out my kinder egg if you try it as an experiment!
Please keep us posted on the outcome. (pictures might help!)

[PIMSoclock]

Eats shits and leaves???

[BombayBlue]

I'm a vegetarian.
Like horses.
Can I shit in the street too?

[Maisiethemorningsidecat]

Yadda yadda, puddles are awful and so is snow, and really, when it blows and leaves fall off the trees it's just about the end of the word.

I'm not sure exactly what point (if any) you are trying to make, but lets face it - if you let your animal crap somewhere that makes it difficult or unpleasant for people to walk then you're being a bit of an arse. Roads, fields, verges, etc all fine. Outside someones house on the pavement or on a pedestrian walkway not fine.

Now please. Enough. No more spurious reasoning.

[Tchootnika]

Maisie - humans have of course benefitted from their relationship to horses for several thousand years now, but I don't think anyone's yet found a way of not letting them crap when they need to.

As said above, it would of course be possible to return to the poo-scene, but for many centuries man has relied on rain, wind and other humans looking where they're going.

While we're on this subject, though, puddles are terrible too, aren't they? Why haven't local councils got around to removing them/filling them after a spot of rain? I've mastered the skill of stepping around puddles, but I've heard that some poor folk step in puddles and their feet can get quite wet. Why isn't our government addressing this? Something really should be done!

[Maisiethemorningsidecat]

Some of you are confusing the country with urban areas, where - shock, horror - people ride horses. If you're riding in an urban area then you don't let your horse crap on a pavement or a pedestrian footpath. If it does then you do the decent thing and remove it later. Not hard, and no scraping required because cars won't be on said pavements/footpaths.

As for townies driving - pah! We drove like loonies round the lanes back home.

[JillySnooper]

There was a woman on another forum who swore blind Sevenoaks was living out in the sticks.

[SuePurblybilt]

And the silage! The smell. Waitrose doesn't even sell silage, I don't know who buys it .

[Tchootnika]

Don't say it, Jilly, you'll frighten orf the townsfolk. Think what damage you're doing to property prices.

[Tchootnika]

Off to shout at all the farmers driving through, there's straw blowing off the trailers and mud falling off their wheels.

Quite right, Sue... you tell those feckin' bumpkins with their self-centred, straw-strewing ways. The sooner we all get them farmers shifted and some naice little barn-cottage conversions done the better.

And maybe we should pave over some of those stinky fields with their scary livestock, too. Astroturf would be so mauch nicer, no?

Will also be feeding all horses in the neighbourhood Immodium from now on, so as not to allow offence to the smart new neighbours.

[JillySnooper]

" My brother used to hide behind bushes and as the horse rode past he'd jump out and chuck massive lumps of horse poo at the rider whilst screaming "shit faces" at them"


If some moron had done that to my horse they'd be eating iron horse shoe.
When will some people realise that frightened horses are can kill you, very easily and very quickly.

[OpenMouthInsertFoot]

I live in the countryside too. I find the opposite - it's the locals who drive like bloody maniacs, while the tourists go round the narrower roads at five miles an hour, straddling the white line and looking terrified

We have the mcdonalds rubbish problem too. You have to drive about 10 or 12 MILES to the nearest mcdonalds. There's none round here. So why why why, when they are clearly in a car, can they not just keep their rubbish in it? I mean - they're going home in the end, right? where there's a bin, right? so why throw rubbish out of the bloody car?

[Saggyoldclothcatpuss]

I live in the country. What pisses me off more than anything, (besides the ten mph sightseers), is stupid townies driving round blind bends at ninety miles an hour, hurling their litter out the window as they go. I'd rather see a pile of horse shit, than leftover mcdonalds wrappers!

[SuePurblybilt]

. When my dog comes back from a walk on the roads through my (very rural farming) village, he is mud up to his belly. And he's a big dog. Nothing to do with horse shit - dogs will trail mud and muddy water into houses unless dried beforehand. I'd be willing to bet they do in towns too.

Off to shout at all the farmers driving through, there's straw blowing off the trailers and mud falling off their wheels.

[Tchootnika]

cricketballs - if there really is that much horse shot on the road, and it's right outside your house, and it's as easy to pick up and transport as you say it is, then if I were you I'd count this as a blessing: it must be dead easy to shovel it into a bucket and stick a sign up offering fertiliser for sale, or for free if you're more community than business minded.

How do you manage in the countryside with a dog? All that badger and fox poo for it to roll in...

[catgirl1976]

As every other sane person has pointed out - do you really expect riders to get off, hold thier horse, shovel and get back on? How dangerous that would be.

Its horse poo - its a non issue. Just pick it up if it bothers you. I don't shovel up after mine on the roads. I don't usually ride on the pavements but if the traffic is bad and / or there are idiots driving past and it is the only safe option then I will if I need to.

[OpenMouthInsertFoot]

They could always wear nappies

[MitchiestInge]

who has dogs and carpets and lives in the country though? surely it is not just horse poo that gets on paws, what about all the mud?

[cricketballs]

oh sorry alpine I never thought of that so I'll chop the dogs paws off as well shall I?

What about the shoe cleaning as well etc? Will the horse riders do that for me?

I have no issue on picking up my dogs mess and I understand that horses' muck is not dangerous and there is a lot more to clean up, but sometimes it really drives me nuts that I have to walk in the middle of the road so I don't have to tread all in it...

[Eve]

Don't live in the country then if you are not prepared to be tolerant of a small amount of inconvenience that someone enjoying their time may cause you!

Bit like someone who moved into our village and complained about the combine harvester on the road! Where did they think it would go... Down the motorway???

[AlpinePony]

cricketballs Have you considered taking your shoes off before trailing "the outside" all over your house?

[cricketballs]

I agree with you op! Where I live there are loads of horses and no pavements. Therefore in order to walk my dog, ds and I have to navigate the horse shit (which often means walking in the middle of the road) as I really don't want shit trails on my carpets.

[Maisiethemorningsidecat]

Tchnootnika - that wasn't about horse crap in the road, it was about horse crap right outside your front door as in the case of daimbardiva. I was presuming by that she didn't mean to vault the pavement and head straight for the road. Like your idea of a shovel though.

Don't know why it's such a big deal tbh - we used to ride our horses away from the suburbs and towns (town was too far away, so not really an issue) and certainly didn't let them crap on pavements. That's not fair on the folk who live there and who want to be able to manoevure prams without scraping it off the wheels or older people who don't have the ability to leap the stuff.