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?

Hardly anyone uses horses for anything other than leisure these days, so you should pick up the mess they make instead of making others suffer. The logistics of how it's done is your problem, the same as how I juggle my dog whilst picking up his shit is mine.

You choose to ride horses for fun.

So horses need to wear nappies because other people might also be using the bridleways?

Are cows and sheep also going to be required to wear nappies if they graze in a field where there is a public footpath - just in case (gasp!) someone might get mucky feet WALKING IN THE BLOODY COUNTRYSIDE!!!!

If the path is seriously that narrow that you can't walk around it (and I doubt that very much if a ruddy great horse is able to walk along the path) then just step over it or push the pushchair over the edge of it. It's only digested grass FGS - you can't catch anything from it. By the time you've reached the end of your walk it will have worn off the wheels of a pushchair.

Btw, not all horses could deal with a bag like this.

But it’s something one could incorporate in their training. Which would obviously increase the number of horses that could.

But I don’t think picking up poo would work (should a rider carry a shovel and a huge bag?)

Leaving poo of any kind allover a path is obviously very anti-social. However our society is rooted in classism and people who ride horses for leisure are not traditionally working class so an attitude of entitlement has arisen whereby people who ride horses think that them being inconvenienced by having to dismount to move the poo trumps the right of a wheelchair user not to have to ride through shit.

As I mentioned in another comment thegogfather there are at least half a dozen bridleways I can think of close by - they are choosing to come off a bridleway onto the concrete, walking towards a very busy road & then turning back. Also poo could be as organic as you like - I still don't want to walk in it!

Oh dear god not another one of these threads

OP, you do realise that canal tow paths were originally designed for horses?

I'd also love to hear your logistical solution for the mounted police clearing up after their horses while on duty...

kaz again canal paths weren't made for people to walk prams down. They were made for horses ffs. Walk your pram down the road if you don't like sharing the horses off road route. Are you always this entitled?

Horse poo is valuable stuff.

In my childhood, when the coalmen arrived on a big cart pulled by massive horses, we would go out into the road and shovel upp the poo (if there was any) and my gran would use it on the garden. Same with quite a few deliveries, and rag & bone man.

I don’t see how, in practice, a rider could shovel up their horse’s poo as they were out riding. I think they should be more thoughtful and considerate about where they ride their horses and a narrowish footpath would then be out.

But I do think that your complaint is unreasonable if it’s about paths that are meant for riding...

Who owns the concrete path? The council? If so then it’s paid for by the tax payer so OP would not be being particularly “entitled” in thinking she could use it as pedestrian.

kaz again canal paths weren't made for people to walk prams down. They were made for horses ffs. Walk your pram down the road if you don't like sharing the horses off road route. Are you always this entitled?

They were made for horses to pull boats, not entitled arses riding for leisure. Use of things change.

thehogfather no I don't. But if there was a readily available, reasonably priced device that would collect my exhaust fumes I certainly would (even if it took a bit of time to train my car to use it).

No hoho traditionally we didn't have paved roads, extensive urban spread and bridle ways closed or rendered useless.

flying

Why are they 'entitled arses'?

Have you got a bit of a chip on your shoulder about horses?

hohoho a very interesting point which came to mind earlier but I wasn't brave enough to post it

Nooneknowsdiddlypom - I'm sure the Waitrose at the end would be thrilled by all the horseshit traped through their doors and as previously mentioned the part of the path I am referring to as a canal bank on one side, bushes the other and path is wide enough for 2 adults to walk together.The cows & sheep comment is a bit ridiculous - in 40 years I've never seen either on this path - maybe I've just missed the local farmer herding them down the path, across at the traffic lights and into the town centre.

Reminds me of that Two Ronnies news sketch where they talk about a parade:
"The massed bands of the Household Cavalry..."
"...closely followed by the massed buckets of the Rhubarb Growers' Association"

Also, what happens with riders who are unable to dismount and then get back on again? Thinking about disabled riders or particularly short people (like me).

On the face of it this does seem reasonable. A rider could get off and shit kick it to the side of the path.

On the other hand horses are wily buggers and often take a plop without you realising, they just saunter along and let it drop. You don't always know they've let one go.

Dogs are a bit more obvious with the 'squat and drop' method so it's easier to detect.

Also, as previously mentioned, dogs eat all kinds of shite (literally) so their faeces are more of a health hazard. I've never know gardeners offer to buy sacks of dog manure for their roses.

Flyingflipflop - no not entitled at all - just moving with the times. 20 years ago this path led to nothing but fields - it now leads to a housing estate, secondary school, supermarket and they are currently building more bloody houses! We are talking about a concrete path which everyone should be able to use not just horse riders.

So if the path is wide enough for two adults to walk together, why on earth can't you step over the poo or wheel the buggy around it. Just how big are these behemoth child carriages?

My point about the sheep and cows was that they will also be pooing over public footpaths where people or pushchairs might also be going.

A bridleway is for use by horses, cyclists and pedestrians. If you don't like that fact then don't use it. Simple!

But people the poo collection bags!!! Surely this is the answer?!!! 🤞🏼 milton nobody knows

Horse riders are tax payers too and have every right to use a path open to them. It's use clearly hasn't changed unless they were trespassing. Leisure walkers don't have a greater entitlement to use a bridle way than leisure riders. It's quite simple unless you are entitled or stupid. I'm also interested in how this shit covered the entire path.

There is lacking, it's called a bike. Might be difficult or even impossible but better than leaving your exhaust fumes for delicate pedestrians with prams.

Nobodyknows they can use those poo bags. Or not ride. A hobby doesn't trump a wheelchair user's right to use a right of way.

Thehogfather leisure walkers tend not to leave shit allover the path ...