7 yrs and this is my first AIBU, and I'm so cowardly I've name changed 
So... After years of renting crappy places dh, the 4dcs and I have finally bought a lovely house.
It's great. Needs loads of work doing on it. Lots of potential, completely neglected and now ours. The people who had it before us had some problems and had criminally neglected their animals. The house comes with a field.
Now begins the lovely story. A few years ago Some people passing by saw how neglected the horse in the field was and took it upon themselves to look after it. They did amazing things, built him a shelter, bought him food, trimmed his hooves, all of it.
The horse is a stallion and unbroken but of nice temperament. But it means he can be flighty.
Move on a year and one of the group has taken on most of the care and bought their own horse who now lives rent free in the field.
Two weeks before completion the owner tells us we will be inheriting a cat and that the horses are staying (he's gifted the stallion to the other horse owner)
So... We panicked until lovely horse person came to our door and seemed very nice, and we said they could stay until Easter and then we'd see (rent free).
This all seemed ok, but there have been annoyances: There's no where else to park but in our drive, when we want to wander around the field with the dcs we have to struggle through two horses and it's a nightmare, and now finally we have bought out longed for dog and I can't walk him on my field without someone with me because I can't carry a baby and a puppy and fend off the horses on my own, in December we were told they use one of our sheds for feed, And there are other people who are part of the group who have not introduced themselves to me, but who go on to my field regularly.
So this evening we've let the horse owner know that beyond the end of march we want our field back. At the moment I've used it twice since we moved in and I want to use it daily.
They're not happy. I tell a lie, one is not happy, the other is completely understanding.
I know they did a good thing, I know they put work into the field (shelter and fencing) but I also know they've had free pasture for 18 months in return, and I think it's become a picnic spot for them all.
AIBU? And should I be growing a backbone, because I'm already trying to think of a way to section off some of it, which I know would only end up delaying the inevitable? I'm also worried because I'm in no way insured to have this all going on on my property.
I want nice things for the people who have done good, but at the same time I want to enjoy my home. I also have PND and desperately want to be outside but can't cope with being around people. Just to throw that in there.
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CompletePushover · 10/01/2014 18:24
no i wouldn't ask that having had a herd of sheep in a half nelson one by one to inject them, as well as helping with lambing. so i do know they are not 'cuddly bunny rabbits'.
oh ok i admit i have only worked with them a few times but i was just annoyed at being patronised as though i was some ignorant townie.
nonetheless getting back to OP's problem.......
Nigella, that's ok, I've got 30 years' experience of them
Lessmiss, so it's ok to sunbathe in a field with loose horses but sheep are too dangerous? 
And why couldn't OP walk her dog in the field with sheep? Not all dogs chase sheep, just poorly trained ones.
Anyway you don't know the horse and whether it will be 'condemned to death'. We have a 30 year old pony and though we'd be careful about where we moved her to, we would move her rather than PTS as she is still healthy. We have moved older than that before and all has been fine as long as their friends move with them.
I think you are expecting too much of CompletePushover. Fair enough the people did a good thing taking on the old horse, but they have also brought in another one of their own and expected everything free for it. The decent thing would have been to come to OP and explain the circumstances of how they got the stallion but say that they fully expected to pay for the other horse. Given that OP is obviously a fair person she might have accepted that (maybe on proviso they fenced off field so she could still use part of it safely). But no, they had to push their luck so I don't blame her for getting rid.
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Maybe it's a disguised "sheep and goats" conundrum! After, all, goats and horses are both ungulates, innit? And don't they both have those disturbing rectangular pupils?
Pushover, get a solicitor and evict, in writing.
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