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?

The highland would eat the towpath and solve all our problems.

Or the OP and her pram

I don't actually think a welsh would be a problem on a towpath. It's more likely to spook at a duck or it's own reflection, spin and end up in the canal.

I thought this about my piss taking spooky sports horse, there's no chance I'd ever ride on such a described path as more than likely me AND the horse would end up in the canal, and I like my saddle!

However in the scenario of the gangland welshies led by the highland king pin, I think we grossly underestimate the influence of the shetland pony who will be highlands right hoof man. Proud owner of welsh x and shitland

The Shetland would be running some sort of confidence scam. Looking all cute and harmless waiting for people to bring their prams nice and close before pinching the obligatory bag of snacks most pram users seem to carry everywhere at the moment. And then not cantering off with the swag, just threatening anyone who looked like they might try and interrupt the picnic.

My highland is basically a giant shitland. I can definitely see her with an evil mini me.

Her best friend is a very thick welsh cob who is always getting the blame for fence trashing as she is too stupid to be the right side of the smashed fence at check time.

I can see a shitty stood with the hipo with matching completely innocent faces while the welsh cob gets called a knobhead.

And my hipo would refuse to walk down a towpath anyway because there might be people on it. She only likes 3 people in the world. People are mostly inferior to her. She just stomps on inferior folk.

My highland is the evil genius mastermind. He would be sniggering in the bushes pinching things from passers by and blaming the welshie.

As for the tb ........

having an attack of the vapours at a threatening-looking plastic bag, surely, Ursula...

Oh dear! Hilarious! Horse poo compared to dog turds, riders supposed to get off to move poo (love to see them get back on again, it's not that easy you know) nappies for horses. Not using the path if your horse might do a poo. Op yabu. I love the bit where op says the Waitrose at the end won't be happy 😂😂😂

But I still don't understand where we are to park for most local bridleways that are tracks off paths or roads?

Not my problem TBH

Heck, why not just send them all to the glue factory? They're from a bygone age and have no requirements so let's be done with them all together!!

Works for me.....

It ain't gonna happen so much ignore the haterz.

Poo tax.

Poo. Tax.

I haven’t ever seen a horse or a horse poo on the pavement

Near us, it's an epidemic. Despite quiet roads, they do tend to ride on very narrow pavements, meaning horse poo does block the pavement for prams/wheelchairs etc. I don't even know how they manage to keep a horse on the pavement, it's so narrow in places, hardly room for a horse's fat backside.

Well if it's a path beside a canal, isn't it a tow path? Which was built so horses could pull boats? Therefore yabvu.

I don't think I've ever seen a thread on here that has made me so irrationally angry. I wouldn't even be able to quote any gems from it in particular because there's too many! The irony of so many calling horse riders entitled is unbelievable. It makes me sad that this is how people must think of me when I take mine out.

It's a tow path. It was built for horses not prams. It's lovely to walk with kids and babies on a tow path but, if horses are still allowed on it, then put up with it.

Well if it's a path beside a canal, isn't it a tow path? Which was built so horses could pull boats? Therefore yabvu.

Things change. The canal tow path near us was massively upgraded using public money and is now widely advertised as shared space and is part of a cycleway network. Just because they were originally used for horses doesn't mean that use continues a couple of hundred years later, especially if they've been tarmac-ed/concreted which I presume isn't for the horses benefit as they'd prefer grass/soil to walk on surely?

i have never seen horses on a towpath tbh, most of them are not in good enough condition (the paths not the horses - leg in the canal anyone?) and as Kazzy pointed out , if they have been 'done up' then they are no longer suitable for horses anyway.

I don't think YABU because this does sound annoying, but I also don't think there is much the riders can do. It is very dangerous to dismount and mount your horse in public - if something frightens a horse when you're on it you have a much better chance of controlling and calming it than if you are on the ground. And you couldn't safely carry any sort of equipment while riding.

A better solution would be for the council to provide better paths for horses. There are very few bridleways in the UK, and where horses and people share space annoyances do happen. Hopefully you can at least be reassured that because horses eat grass not meat their poos aren't toxic like dog poos!