Horses in residential streets

[DrScholl]

Why do horse riders think it is ok to go onto residential srreets ( not a through road to a field or anything) and let their horses shit all over the pavements and roads?

Hate to see that Somersetlady peppers show no consideration when passing around here either

People! I haven't seen many peppers driving although they may do a better job

Oh yes
I love these threads!
I think hand on heart, I prefer them to parking threads

Now, I'm going to go and get some wine so if you're going to post about portable shovels and carrier bags and dismounting to collect it, can you give it 10 mins til I'm back... maybe 15 so I've had time to drink half a glass as well

If there were multiple horses shitting outside your house daily I could understand it might be an issue but a random horse would be a lovely thing to see and the shit will be gone like shit off a shovel.

Maybe because there is nowhere left to ride?
Drivers purposely winding horses up, bridlewys being closed left, right and centre. Planning permissions for arenas being rejected all the time as neighbours complaining.

I LOVE seeing horses being ridden around- a girl used to ride hers to her house and all the neighbours kids used to come out and stroke it- such a lovely sight.

There's always horse nappies

Actually London streets apparently used to stink on hot days when horses were used in numbers. You can have too much of a good thing.

Not a horse owner but was brought up in a suburban area that also had 3 stables/farms nearby. I cannot get worked up about horse shit that doesn't smell and appears to dry out very quickly. Lovely to hear the horses as the riders cut through our estate to get to the show.

We ride on residential streets because main roads are too busy and dangerous and there are fewer and fewer bridlepaths. My horse is actually quite popular on residential streets. She has her dedicated fans who want to come out and stroke her and she loves people, especially children.

Horses aren't allowed on the pavement but they are legally entitled to be on public roads and streets.

I don't understand why people choose to live in rural areas, villages, etc. if they hate livestock such as horses. Horses are part of the British and Irish countryside.

Is horse shit an issue on roads? I've never come across anyone in the village that minds it and I ride through our village. I normally get a happy wave or children asking me to stop in summer to see my horses. We regularly get people asking to come and collect the rotted dung from the bottom of my dung heap too.

Sooooooo... OP, I trust you can tell us the purpose of a catalytic converter and tell us how sophisticated the one on your car is?

You know, if you're going to complain about horse manure, anyway?

Dog shit is vile. House shit is great

Glorious auto-correct there, ohyes!

In Vienna the horses that cart tourists about on wagons have big bag type nappies fixed under them.

Poor horses. What do the cars have for their waste?

Police horses ride up our street and all the local gardeners fight for the poo with shovels and strange curses.

My commute means I walk pat Buckingham Palace twice a day.
There is regularly horse shit outside. Sometimes it is smeared around from where the street cleaner vans have been over the top of it.

Good enough for the queen, good enough for OP...

Yanbu.
Just up from my house on the pavement is a huge pile of horse shit. Fair enough horseriders, ride on the road. Leave the pavement for who it's intended to be used by: human pedestrians.

I don't have an issue on the streets, but hate it on the pavement, it gets stuck on your wheelchair wheels or if your pushing a pram, on your pram wheels

Am intrigued to hear that horses aren't allowed on pavements.

There are very often (at least weekly) large deposits of horse crap on the pavement outside of my children's primary school. It may be organic and harmless and all that jazz, but it still stinks when it gets trodden through the house/school. Always the pavement, never the road. it's not a hugely busy road either, and wide, with good visibility, so I can't see a good reason for pavement riding.

A tiny bit off that it was on the pavement but I bet you that someone has had it for the garden already.

I will just say though that although it is much nicer that dog poo it's not completely free of nasties as you can get tetanus through horse poo.

Very horsey where I live. Horses up and down the roads every day, loads of lovely shit to scoop up for the garden - I see it as a good thing.

Never see them on the pavements.

I would totally pop out and take the manure for my roses. Occasionally get a traveller on a pony going down here, but maybe only once a year. I grew up in the country and there were always horses (and riders) walking past the house, I used to drop everything to go and peer out the window when I heard them clip clopping along.

Oh FFS OP, get a grip. God forbid anyone have a largely organic, largely harmless, non tech pasttime . In my experience kids LOVE seeing the horses out and about, I'd say as long as theyre not using your hedges as showjumps or your lawn as a dressage arena there surely isnt much to be so surly about.

Where would you like riders to put said 'shit'?

I imagine half of the reason a horse is on a road is because the rider is obliged to go on it to get to a decent ride in a field (so many of those now available given the amount of building going on, where the fuck is the rolleyes smiley?!) There is no legal obligation to remove horse muck. Horses should not be on pavements, no. If there is regularly muck outside school, find the local yard and have a word, it's not on to have to negotiate round a narrow pavement with shit all over it.

Love these threads. All the yards I've ever been on have been in the middle of residential areas, bar one, because building has gone on after the yard has been built.

There's always horse nappies

Dear god, my horse would spook himself into a lather over that and I'd be on the floor.