To have just shouted at a horse rider outside my house

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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.

tailtwister for a moment, I thought you meant that horses doing the Charleston wore a sling under their tails, to stop them pooing on the dancefloor.

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I wouldn't be thrilled either, but I don't think there's much to be done about it. It's a social convention that horses can shit wherever they like and their riders are not responsible for cleaning it up - not that they could really. I imagine it seems worse in a town where there aren't usually any horses.

Why would you think all MN users liked horses?

I'm not fussed TBH. I'm a 'Townie' though.

I never thought I'd see the day when someone demanded more horseboxes on the road!

TillyTellTale I think we should have more caravans too. And the packs of rollerbladers who go through the streets near me on the last Friday evening of every month.

I like them, probably because I'm far too unco-ordinated to trust myself on roller skates and admire anyone who can do it. And it looks like fun.

They are very well-organised and quick. They're a very urban phenomenon too, so that should be all right. Doesn't stop some town drivers getting pissed off about them even though I've never seen them cause any serious problems.

Maybe there's a class issue there. Rollerblades are quite expensive, aren't they?

I think it's that some people just don't get the public part of the public road.

I just didn't think they actively disliked them. Or their owners. That would be odd. Like disliking someone just because they had a dog or a cat or a hamster rather than how they actually behaved.

They are always doing it round here and it pisses me off as much as dog shit but the horsey brigade don't like anyone criticising a horse so there.

I like talking to horses in their fields, but I like a big fence in between us. They're so big. Also, they try and lick you, otherwise. And horse saliva is proper disgusting on a jacket.

I don't particularly care about horse poo, because I only care about dog shit. Grr. There isn't any rage left over!

My mother had a huge row with the neighbours once, after their cat used her onion planter (shaped exactly like a litter tray) as a litter tray, and put an abusive note through their door. Then the woman next door stood on our lawn, underneath the bedroom window, screaming abuse back.

I don't care where cats poo. Just dogs.

'the horsey brigade' - you see there is always that chippiness about horses isnt there?
imagine if i started on about the 'hamster brigade' or similar!

The manuro-phobics, and indeed the rest of us, should certainly be grateful that flying horses don't exist anymore!

I used to have a hamster. Can I join the hamster brigade? Do I get to hibernate when the temperature drops?

gosh yes imagine Pegasus with diarrhoea

I've never seen anyone riding a hamster.

I wouldn't be bothered about a tiny little hamster shit on the road.

No I think it's the horse owners or lovers who get chippy.
Seriously I've never heard a good argument for horse shit being more acceptable than dog shit.
So it's made of hay, so what? Dog shit is made of meat, both equally gross and equally unwelcome!

But a hamster shit could OBSTRUCT an entrance.

Help, I need a box! I don't have a horse, I have never riden a horse, but I like looking at them in the distance. And I live in a town centre.

Am I horsey? Can I be horsey?

Horses scare me with their big teeth and slobbery mouths.

I love this thread. OP, horse shit is not offensive, and is used widely as manure and fertiliser. If you buy organic vegetables then they have been grown in poo, so get that. I see it regularly being turned down on the fields around here.

Nothing wrong with a good dollop of horse shit (which, by the way, comes from a horse's arse as you pointed out). My dog even likes to eat it if I am not in time to stop him.

Horse shit = vegetable matter, much-prized source of plant food (especially for roses), no legal requirement to be removed

Dog shit = excreted meat, source of worms, toxoplasmosis and other parasites, required by law to be removed from public places

You really can't see the difference?

Tilly, do you know how to flap your arms?

No you can be hamstery

I always drive slowly past horses, They always give me the special "you must be horsey too" wave and nod!
If they do a big "arsefull of pooh" I blast my horn. (Just joking)

ledkr i challenge you to have a good sniff of a dog shit and a horse shit, and tell me they are equally offensive! a really good deep sniff mind!

You might not find it offensive but I do.

The smell of it makes me heave. When they farmers are muck spreading the smell makes me feel sick.

yeh but that is cowshit usualsuspect, a different thing altogether!
(actually i quite like the smell of muckspreading, am I weird?)