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Horse riders should pick up their poo!!

569 replies

Instagram · 13/12/2021 21:14

It’s surely a potential hazard leaving horse manure on the road!
Tractors are required to clean up excess mud they leave on the road, dog poo is collected by their owners.
So why can’t horse riders be required to show common decency if they are to use the road.
Apparently an outdated law from when horses were the main mode of transport allows this and prevents action being taken.
With the number of accidents never mind inconveniences caused by this negligence surely this should be amended?

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floss1 · 13/12/2021 21:45

Ridiculous!!

Throckmorton · 13/12/2021 21:45

Not this again...

Pinetreesfall · 13/12/2021 21:45

Are you new to the countryside OP?

WhoWants2Know · 13/12/2021 21:45

[quote Instagram]www.bluecross.org.uk/pet-advice/horse-manure-dangerous-dogs[/quote]
Nobody said you should let your dog ingest it in mass quantities 😂

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ImmutableSexQueen · 13/12/2021 21:46

My grandma, as a toddler, was sent to gather manure from the street, because her father needed it for his roses. That would be around 1911-1912, and she wore a dress with a full pinafore over it, and a mob cap. He didn't name her Rose, he named her Lily. My very practical, no-nonsense great grandmother had named their two elder daughters - Bertha and Ethel. He wanted something prettier for their ninth child.

DeadCertain · 13/12/2021 21:47

The link with the complaint from a biker has a point; it's not a nice moment coming across it when coming round a bend, you do lose traction and have to be extremely careful in the same way as if you come across any other slippery road surface riding a motorbike. I am realistic and know that there will often be horse shit on the road where I live and do always bear it in mind, but it can still give you a fright.

tinkywinkyshandbag · 13/12/2021 21:47

You'd need some pretty serious sized poo bags for this

repottingthescabious · 13/12/2021 21:47

Horseriders should just put a pair of pull ups on it before they leave the yard

user1471505494 · 13/12/2021 21:47

@Fordian

It's just not great to have any animal faeces on our roads and bridleways, myself.

Don't the queen's household (?) horses wear a sort of collection bag?

Bridleways are designed for horses to be ridden on
BrightYellowDaffodil · 13/12/2021 21:47

[quote Instagram]www.bluecross.org.uk/pet-advice/horse-manure-dangerous-dogs[/quote]
Our yard dogs treat the muck heap like a salad bar and every single one of them is still alive.

madisonbridges · 13/12/2021 21:47

"Yes, the car skidded off the road but it wasn't because I'd been drinking, it was the horse poo, m'lud."

Ugzbugz · 13/12/2021 21:48

Once someone drove through a massive horse poo in the road and it kind of exploded and then showered all around me, the smell was absolutely horrific which normally when I see horse poo I don’t notice a horrible smell. That was grim.

oakleaffy · 13/12/2021 21:49

A human would need to carry a massive poo bag and a shovel-
Horses are herbivores and their poo isn’t unpleasant- the only thing to beware of is animals eating it if the horses have been recently wormed -
It can cause very bad reactions- death- in dogs.
Especially tape worm meds.

GucciBear · 13/12/2021 21:49

There is also the fact that, if you are a petite rider who used a mounting block to get on your 17.3 horse, you would have to find someone to give you a leg up or walk him home.. By the way, the correct term is rider. It is incorrect to say that you are going horse riding - not many camels in rural England! Just say you are hacking out.

itwasntaparty · 13/12/2021 21:49

I take poo bags for my dog, which is stinky meat poo. Do you want me to ride with a shovel and black sacks, hop off and leave the horse free while I shovel manure into a bag and then hop back on? 😂😂😂😂😂

repottingthescabious · 13/12/2021 21:49

I was literally on skid row

NeedsCharging · 13/12/2021 21:50

Do you even read your own links OP? That article does not advocate for riders to collect horse manure. It actually says dog owners should train their dogs not to eat crap 🤣
Your tractor article is about mud. Horse shit is grass/hay and fibrous so no more slippy than normal grass in the road.
Your 3rd article is written my a misogynistic twat who's friend needs to learn the highway code as clearly they didn't leave a safe distance when going around the horse.

Are you the twat biker OP?

Prescottdanni123 · 13/12/2021 21:50

How do you suppose that they do that? A horse can poo 12+ times a day. Riders would need to take a roll of binbags out with them every time they went for a ride. Not to mention all the time that would take and potential dangers.

Imagine being on a road, trying to hold the horses reins with one hand, while crouched down trying to scoop up a large pile of horse poo with the other, all the while cars zipping past you.

kickupafuss · 13/12/2021 21:50

Someone has opened a livery near us and now we have so many people riding horses near our house. The roads are full of horse poo. There are no paths on the roads so everyone has to walk on the road and try to avoid stepping in it. Last month I was at a funeral and there was so much poo outside the church and as it was crowded you couldn’t avoid stepping in it.

I don’t mind the odd rider but this is a business They wouldn’t leave their fields covered in it so why leave our roads like it?

SW1amp · 13/12/2021 21:50

Would this rule apply to police horses as well?

I can see that working well when the mounted police are trying to control a riot

“Ok everyone pause. I need to scoop some poop. Hold what you’re doing til I’ve bagged it up”

Skeumorph · 13/12/2021 21:51

You are JOKING - it's like gold dust here.

Out they come, as soon as the clip clopping has died away, racing from their rose bushes with shovel in hand!

Iheartmysmart · 13/12/2021 21:51

But what would my dog roll in when I’ve just paid a fortune for him to be groomed and bathed? One minute smelling of blueberries and the next covered from head to tail in horse shit. Don’t spoil his fun OP.

LindyLou2020 · 13/12/2021 21:53

@black2black

I’ve been in countries where horses have a bag round their bum that the poo drops into. I’d much prefer that than having to walk round it when on walks.
Can anyone help me out with a vague memory? At least 20-25 years ago, we were on holiday with the DC in Wales. We went to Aberystwyth, (I think), and saw a horse-drawn carriage which did tourist trips around the town. The horse had a "nappy" tied to hang loosely below its bum, which caught its poo! Can anyone verify this?
SW1amp · 13/12/2021 21:54

They wouldn’t leave their fields covered in it so why leave our roads like it?

Because leaving poo on fields spread worms and kills grass

It doesn’t damage roads though. And as OP has proven, it doesn’t cause accidents either

So there is no actual reason to collect horse poo off roads, other than, according to you, to protect the shoes of people who inexplicably walk down the middle of roads