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?

[Dawndonnaagain]

We live rurally, dd carries wipes for her wheelchair.

[Tetrimino]

When I was a kid there would be a queue behind the milkman's horse

It sounds like that may have been some years ago. Alas the days for horses on public roads are numbered.

As are the days for milkmen.

[Manumission]

DO horse owners not perhaps think they have some obligation to tidy up?

Can someone please bring their horse and do this dismount, poop-a-scoop, remount, rinse and repeat routine down my residential road please?

That would be priceless (And OP would be happy)

[Dawndonnaagain]

Tetrimion I'm ancient!
(It was in the very early sixties, although Young's Brewery were still delivering by horse and dray cart in the late seventies).

[Dawndonnaagain]

I've been thinking about this overnight, and I do think that some of it has to do with a gradual sanitisation of how things happen and where they come from. I may be wrong. We rarely see pigs heads in butchers windows anymore, or rows of rabbits/pheasants/turkeys displayed. Our vegetables come pre-washed and in bags, sometimes pre peeled and chopped. It's stopped us thinking about exactly where it's come from and how it's got to our plates and made us perhaps more worried than we need to be about things that may or may not carry germs. Everything is neatly packaged and doesn't look like it did when it was slaughtered or came out of the ground or fell off the tree. Carrots, Apples, clean and uniform sizes and colours. Meat pre-packaged, chopped. Hardly anyone knows the cuts of meat available these days, apparently you have to be a proper foodie to know that sort of thing. Or in my case old.
Just musing, really.

[Manumission]

So true Dawn.

And even taking DC to visit a farm doesn't illuminate much. 15 years ago you used to be able to take the littlies to a farm and afterwards feel you'd made the origins of food etc a bit clearer to them.

Now public farms are like tiny zoos slash theme parks with no real explanation of actual farming in the mix.

Is a mad world

[frostyfingers]

If you ride two abreast you stand a chance of getting the traffic to slow down. I ride on my own and a car overtook my horse whilst another was coming towards him - he hit my stirrup, broke his wing mirror and turned my horse from being rock solid in traffic to a nervous wreck. Hitting my stirrup meant that he was within about 9 inches of hitting half a ton of horse.

[RedJellyCrush]

I do think that some of it has to do with a gradual sanitisation of how things happen and where they come from I think you're pretty spot on here, Dawndonna. One only has to read AIBU to see how far some people are from the expereience of the real life of the countryside, or even basic princples about food. For example, how many here know how to gut & pluck a chicken, or gut and fillet a fish, as part of normal everyday household life?

It's the grey spread of suburbia and all the products to 'clean' us FemFresh anyone

[Pseudonym99]

Let's ban horses from residential streets, and ban cars from country lanes. Everyone's a winner.

[liquidrevolution]

Let's ban horses from residential streets, and ban cars from country lanes. Everyone's a winner.

^ this

At the end of the day the horses were on the roads long before cars took over. And in this world of Trump and Brexit and Pverty there are surely more pressing matters to moan about.

[Tetrimino]

It's true farming knowledge is gone but then whole sections of brain didn't need to be dedicated to cyber security and configuring wifi. Moving with the times is a tough pill.