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?

[SuePurblybilt]

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

[JillySnooper]

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

[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.

[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]

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.

[BombayBlue]

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

[PIMSoclock]

Eats shits and leaves???

[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!)

[Eve]

Just don't do it on the pavement.

[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.