To have just shouted at a horse rider outside my house

[BigRedBall]

Have namechanged for privacy.

I am so angry right now. We sometimes (twice a year at most) get horses going past our house as we live around the corner from a small private farm. We live in a city, so it's quite a novelty when we hear the sound of "clip clop" outside.

About 20 mins ago we heard the sound of clip clop and I took DS to the front room to look outside. As we watched the horses go by one stopped and kind of turned around and SHITTED RIGHT OUTSIDE MY DRIVEWAY. Not a small bit...a big arse full of horse shit. And the rider laughed at her other horsey friends.

As soon as I saw it I put my shoes on and ran outside and the rider was going on her way again. Her friends had gone up ahead. I ran up to her shouting "excuse me" and she wouldn't stop. I shouted at her if she was going to clear up the horse poo outside my house and she replied "stop shouting at me" without even turning around to see I had a toddler in my arms.

I couldn't go any further because I was holding my DS and had left a sleeping baby inside.

Now I have a pile of horse shit outside my house, and I want to actually KILL this horse rider. Our road is a school route and I don't want children stepping in it but why the fuck should I have to clear it up? I am so pissed off. I want to get into the car and hunt down the fuckers and pull them back by their ears and tell them to clean it.

[Troglodad]

YABU and momentarily mental.

[KirjavaTheCat]

Free manure.

[MajorGrinch]

Nice one ormirian, when you're finished talking horse plops have a look here -

Horse Nappies

I first saw a similar thing on a camel at the Taj Mahal. Not everyone likes shit, no matter how good it is for roses....

"Horsey Friends" are probably the pointy nosed, large toothed girls in unflattering jodhpurs that the chief shitter was associating with.

HTH

[FunLovinBunster]

YABU.
The past tense of to shit is not "shitted".
It is SHAT.
Gavel.

[Gruntfuttock]

Now I'm imagining a horse-sized changing mat, enormous wet wipes and a barrel of Sudocreme.

[FoxesRevenge]

Horse shit catchers

[SoftSheen]

YABVU. It's not practical for a rider to pick up after their horse, and in any case, horse poo is not offensive like dog poo.

In addition, by shouting at a horse you risked causing it to panic, putting yourself, your child, the riders and any other road users at risk.

[BuzzardBird]

I think so Dawn . We live in a 'danger of high horse shit area'

[yegodsandlittlefishes]

YABVU

The horse lwft a gift for your garden.

Do not shout angrily near horses by a road.

You seem to have anger issues if somwthing.like this makes you want to kill someone.

I speak as someone who has run to give a bag of dog shit back to the owner when he left it outside the school opposite. He ran away from me. I shouted after him (he was a long way off). I put the bag of shit in my own dustbin and left it at that. So I also had to remove the offending dirt myself and dog mess is a whole lot worse tham horse mess, believe me. I didn't feel like killing him, just letting him know residents on our road care about that kind of thing. He hasn't done it again. Do think about how anger and frustration make you feel, OP.

[Cakebaker35]

Can you shovel it on a Jiffy bag and post it to me please? Really want some for my garden.

Calm down dear.

[Only1scoop]

Yabu....it's nothing like dog shit. The horse hasn't purposefully done it next to your house.

Shouting around horses ....a bad idea.

[thegreylady]

YABU of course riders don't clean up. Horse poo is great stuff for gardens and pretty inoffensive in general. If you were screeching and shouting behind a horse and it shied or lashed out you would be responsible.

[VenusOfWillendorf]

You shouted in the vicinity of a horse whilst carrying your child?
Are you completely mad?

[mateysmum]

YADBU. OK, I see that you don't want horse poo outside your house but your reaction is U and OTT. You want to kill someone because something happened over which they have little control. Calm down dear.

What did you expect the rider to do when the horse started to shit? You can't stop 'em you know. It's a horse, of course you get "an arse full of horse shit" - did you expect a bunch of flowers?

How did you expect the rider to clear it up? From your op sounds like it was on the public highway anyway.

Shouting like that in the presence of horses was pretty silly and potentially dangerous.

You clearly have little experience of animals or the countryside. If it's such a huge pile, kids will see and avoid it.

[VisualiseAHorse]

My toddler does not play in the road - we live on a sporting estate - the road I am talking about has a 10 mph speed limit, and runs through a field (often covered in mole hills).

[PooroldJumbo]

So what? A horse went to the toilet on the public road outside your house. I think you are massively over reacting.

With regard to dog mess I have a strong idea that it's only an offence for a dog to mess on footpaths and similar but legally okay for it to be left on a road.

[ifyourehoppyandyouknowit]

People buy horse shit. Put it on your garden and consider it a gift.

[Sparklingbrook]

makes a great change from a cat poo thread I have to say.

[KirstyJC]

Well, it is a bad idea to shout around horses but I must admit I would be really cross too. Why is it OK for someone to leave a steaming great pile of poo on someone's property? Given how many people get cross about a cat poo, which is also something that cat owners are legally not expected to pick up, it seems a bit odd that horse poo is OK. OP I think a lot of horse lovers are on here!

OP - if you know for sure that they came from the place round the corner, I would pick it up in a bucket and then dump it in front of their place. Maybe outside their front door? Or perhaps by the driver's door on their driveway by their car?

[WandaDoff]

My Mum used to say that when she was a child, the milkman had a horse & cart & my Grandad used to send her outside with a bucket & shovel to collect the horse poo for his garden.

[iamsoannoyed]

procrastinatingagain

Well, yes and no. Older horses usually are, and those that can't cope with all the noise and traffic don't generally get ridden on the roads (well, if the rider is sensible and responsible, hence why I say "generall").

Younger horses won't be quite so settled, on the whole, and the only way to get them used to roads is by going on them.

Also, any horse- even the most reliable schoolmaster- can be frightened at times. Shouting and being ran at may scare even the calmest of horses- they are flight animals after all.

[KirstyJC]

Assuming it was on your property of course - if it is actually in the road itself then you are maybe getting a bit more wound up than I would, but still I can see why you were cross.

[EauRouge]

You can tell you live in a city! There's horse shit all over the place where I live. Scrape it up and chuck it in your compost bin, it's great for the garden.

Shouting at horses is dangerous, some of them are easily spooked. So YABU for shouting.