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?

Because lifting a buggy isn't that much of an inconvenience and if you can't manage it, perhaps you should get a smaller buggy.

What do you do when you come across some steps

Start a thread on mumsnet about the badly designed town

I must say I am struggling with the concept that alomora has lived on a farm but has never seen cowshit on the roads

Walk down a different path FFS.

I don't even believe this myself. Never seen a horse rider on a normal public footpath. They are always on the road.

I smell a whiff of poo. And it's not coming from the horse.

I must say I am struggling with the concept that alomora has lived on a farm but has never seen cowshit on the roads

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For one , I didn't say never , I assumed (clearly wrongly - that it was rare enough not to be a hazard for motorbike users )

But Equally I am struggling with horse riders taking offence at being called snobs and insisting a large proportion of them are working class (whatever that means these days) whilst doubting the truthfulness of anyone who states that have different experiences to them. So far we have doubted : the smelliness of horse shit, the size of ops path, the size of horseshit, how much it sticks to wheelchairs ; whether the paths of wheel chairs and horses ever REALLY cross ; whether it actually carries dangerous parasites (apparently so for dogs!)

Now I happen to know nothing about wheelchairs and parasites in dog shit. So I accept the views of wheelchair users and I listen to the dog owner. I may choose to google facts if they sound unlikely , but I don't dismiss experiences different to my own , because that would be terribly small minded.

how often do you see cow poo on road??

I used to see it about twice a day, but I think that farmer has either got out of dairy or stopped grazing his cattle in the fields on the opposite side of the road from his milking parlour. If you were unlucky enough for your journey to coincide with him moving his cows, it would take a good 10 minutes until they were all out of the way.

If you were really unlucky, it would happen after you'd been held up for 10 minutes at the bloody level crossing, too.

In the second, I said the tow path was designed and built for horses. The fact it was later concreted over does not alter the truth of this. That’s just plain common sense.

It doesn’t alter what the path was designed for. It makes it irrelevant.

Well, if the cattle were kept for beef and all the fields were accessed from one another and not by road, it is possible, I suppose

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It was dairy they were milked on site. I don't understand why this is so hard to believe? I didn't think the farm was so unusual?

Although it did change to beef a few years later.

One of the stupidest things I've ever heard. If it bothers you then you should move it op

Why TF should OP move someone else's horse st princess ??? Utter rubbish.

How many horses being ridden down towpaths or around the countryside are actually working?

They may not be working horses, but money generated by "equestrian pursuits" makes a significant contribution to rural economies. Iirc, it's around £4bn a year. There are at least 4 riding stables and 2 racing stables, plus 2 hunt kennels, within 3 miles of the town where I live.

They employ a fair few people, and that's before you factor in the farriers, saddlers, feed suppliers etc.

She could keep a bag in the bottom of the buggy and take the shit home for her garden.

Win win

I can't always tell. I was thinking about this thread this morning. I have to cross a busyish road to get to a bridle path. Sometimes when I trot straight across my horse poos (he's excited as he knows we are getting to the point where he can canter). It would be downright fucking suicide to stop in the middle of the road and get off and pick up horse poo.

Actually I can't believe I've even just typed that. People are moronic.

Scabbersley, I should perhaps point out that the Tesco car park adjoins a public footpath that leads to open countryside where Hawk Man hunts with the bird, he doesn't just take his hawk to the supermarket for kicks! The spaniel is used for flushing out and stuff for the hawk.

Perhaps later I'll introduce you to the Shouty Lady who wanders round the town wearing a crash helmet and a cloak fashioned from a St George's cross flag.

By comparison, Royston Vasey seems quite normal to me.

Bit off topic but the oddest thing that happened to me while exercising someone's horse was a car which pulled over to yell abuse at me for being on the roads and not the bridgeway (there was no shit component to this exchange!)

I tried to explain that I had to ride on this short stretch to get to the bridleway as couldn't fly there and didn't like being on the road anymore than he liked it but he drove off!

Had a lovely ride once I got to the bridleway a few metres along though 😊

Horses do not shit on commonly used public footpaths. Because horse riders don't take the fucking horses on them!

It baffles me that anyone seriously thinks riders can/should dismount to pick the horse shit up. (Which would often be in the road, or on a bridle path - that is a BRIDLE PATH, for HORSES!!!!!!!!!)

Do you have any CLUE how dangerous doing this would be?

Some people do talk such bollocks.

If you seriously think a glove will do the job then you've not seen much horse shit.

it’s because I’ve seen so much horseshit that I know a glove is perfectly sufficient. We aren’t storing the shit in the glove you know!

Last summer we had a man in full armour ride round the town and throw shovels of turf into the crowds.

While I know about the ridings, I've never heard of this but I want to see it now! Don't people complain about the mess he leaves behind though?

I'm always amazed that some humans truly believe that the world should be designed purely to suit them and no other living creatures should inconvenience them. The ultimate in arrogance.

Horse rider here.. you generally know when they are shitting..but I actually like the smell. In our village there was a man who used to run out with a shovel for his roses

An unattended horse is considerably more of a risk than any amount of horse dung. Dog and cat faeces harbour serious diseases. Horse manure doesn't. YABVVU.