AIBU - Horse riders pick up poo?

[kaz2810]

First time asking on here so here it goes!

I'm bloody fuming, we live in a fairly large town but are lucky enough to live by a lovely canal. First 1/4 mile or so is a concrete path wide enough for 2 people to walk side by side. I'm walking along this afternoon and in the distance there are some horses & a women with a buggy feeding ducks. One of the horses poo's and as normal keeps going leaving a steaming pile all over the path meaning that anyone with a pram, wheelchair etc cannot get past unless they lift over or roll straight through it. ( bushes one side & water the other side of path) this is a daily occurance and I'm totally fed up of dodging it. Surely when on a concrete pathway the riders could show some consideration to others?

I don't understand why riders are being branded 'entitled arses' and similar simply for doing as the law allows

Have you ever read any thread about smoking or vaping anywhere?

On the small chance the horse had left a pile of manure wider than it was long, then you simply lift the buggy over it.

And the wheelchair?

Thanks foxy - most of the bridleways I have been on aren’t really suitable for anything with regular wheels so mainly used by walkers and horses. So biggest danger is a dog, but have never come across anyone not sensible about their dog on one. I suppose mountain bikers could cause a moment of interest

Deepan, there will a large number of horses out and about being ridden in the course of someone's work. Professional riders, yard owners, etc.

That doesn't make the horses working horses: the vast majority are still being kept for leisure purposes. There is nothing wrong with that, but if you choose to keep or ride horses purely for pleasure then a degree of responsibility and consideration for others using the same routes goes along with that.

And if a pile of dung is the worst thing encountered along a canal tow path, then that’s pretty good going

Indeed, people should be grateful to step in horse poo! Moaning bastards.

I’ve never seen horse poo on a pavement.

It's pretty rare, I admit! We get it round here because the stable lads sometimes have to get the horse onto the pavement if there's a big lorry delivering or the bus comes round the estate.

There was a bit of a stand-off outside my house a month or so ago. A lorry delivering building materials turned into the road from one end as 3 horses were coming along from the other end. It took about 5 minutes to get the horses up on the pavement opposite. One of them was quite spooked, and I thought it was going to have the rider off when the lorry finally passed.

I'm increasingly worried about the amount of bat shit on Mumsnet.

I'm increasingly worried about the amount of bat shit on Mumsnet

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Bears - I honestly don’t think the wheelchair/horse poo thing is going to come up very often. I have more experience of wheelchairs than I would like and it has never been an issue. The only wheelchair accessible place I can think of with lots of horse poo on a narrow path is a specifically built wheelchair route through an area with wild ponies. Without that route the land would be completely inaccessible so anyone using it should expect poo.

Elsewhere heavily pooed areas can be wheeled around. I would imagine dog poo far more of a problem (& I would definitely rather get horse poo than dog poo on my hands X100)

You are spectacularly missing the pint that the horse owner was criticised for riding, as it is a “leisure activity”. As is going for a walk and pushing a buggy. Her desire to push her buggy along a tow path doesn’t give her greater rights than the horse rider.

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I wasn't (or didn't mean to) criticise the horse rider for her leisure activity. It was meant to be pointing out that it is not a working horse where she has no choice to ride down a public path and can't stop for 5 mins if she wants to make a living.

The op, a horse rider. A dog walker and a cyclist are all entitled to use this path. I would expect the cyclist to be wary of the horse and go slow /get off I would expect the dog walker to have control of the dog and pick up its poop. I would expect the op not to drop litter or startle the horse by bursting into song stood next to it. And I would expect the horse rider to get off and kick the shit into the bushes if her horse does a huge dump which a buggy or wheelchair user could not avoid .

I live on a narrow road where the houses are pretty much straight onto the street. Horse riders use it a lot as it's safer than the main road and they can use it to get between two sets of bridleways.
Horse shit on the road doesn't bother me in the slightest ( no pavement, you walk on the road), it washes away, it doesn't smell and it's harmless.
What does bother me is the dog walkers heading to the bridleway that let their dogs shit on my path and step to my house and dog walkers who pick up and then throw the bag in front of my house. There's a bin specifically for dog shit on the wall opposite, but that's far too much effort for some of them.
And if course not all horse riders are rich, what an ignorant thing to say.

What in God's name OP?!?

Devilishpyjamas

Completely agree. I live in a very rural area with lots of horses. Either the roads / paths are wide enough to go round or too bumpy / muddy to attempt in a wheelchair.

As I have said, I am responding to the OP. If people disbelieve that, it’s not my argument to have.

BTW how is a concrete path designed for horses?

I can step around it but a partially sighted person won't and who wants to arrive at Tesco stinking like horse shit?

I've actually seen people arrive at our local Tesco on horseback!

About a mile beyond Tesco is the access point to the start of a former railway line that is now a bridleway. Since they put up barriers to stop riders illegally crossing a footbridge and playing fields, they come along the road to cross the river and then through the trading estate where Tesco is. They often stop to pick up a drink or something en route, with one staying outside the store to hold the horses.

Mind you, I often see a bloke walking through Tesco car park with a Harris hawk on his arm and a Brittany spaniel walking alongside him, so we're used to strange sights around here.

, Mind you, I often see a bloke walking through Tesco car park with a Harris hawk on his arm and a Brittany spaniel walking alongside him, so we're used to strange sights around here.*

Brilliant

I'm increasingly worried about the amount of bat shit on Mumsnet.

. It was meant to be pointing out that it is not a working horse where she has no choice to ride down a public path and can't stop for 5 mins if she wants to make a living

And by exactly the same token, OP was not pushing her buggy down a tow path designed and built for horses for a living either, was she?

It’s not like she couldn’t take the time to simply wheel her buggy round the dung or just lift it over.

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Now I feel like you are missing my point . Why should the op inconvenience herself by lifting a buggy (she has already said she couldn't go round) because of someone's pet? Because by your own argument a dog owner can just leave it and expect us to avoid it.

Is lifting a buggy a terrible inconvenience? What do you do when you come across some steps?