Livery yards and idiotic horse owners

[ManateeEquineOhara]

I am sure nobody here is unfamiliar with yard politics, I just need a little rant to get this out of my system...

Next month I will be moving yards for the first time in 8 years, this is because my best friend lives at the yard and she is moving next week which will be sad, and without her I would go mad because of the other liveries!

We have this woman there...she is clearly not really horsey, her 2 horses are status symbols just like her 5 cars. All horses are supposed to be in at night but she doesn't bother. She tells lies. And she does the stupidest things. Her mare is very skinny but she doesn't seem to care. She was turned out in the pouring rain in a torn turnout rug...over a stable rug. Her pony is behaving like a rig, and came from a yard where they never turned him out but she didn't ask why!!!
And today she did the stupidest thing ever. She put her friend's pony in with her rig/rig-like-gelding, in the same STABLE! WTF??? What the hell is she trying to do!? This made me so angry. Apparently she opened the stable door and the other pony came dashing out and refused to be caught, poor thing. Her friend is the only other livery now and a bit of a div.

Argh! They drive me mad. I would love to be able to ignore it, but it just makes me so angry. Especially when the horses are put in such stupid, unnecessary, dangerous situations.

So, I am off to a new yard, which I am a bit nervous about anyway, but I think it is the right time

Aw

She is pretty!

Manatee I'm confused. I can't see a picture of your underfed horse, just a rather tubby well-covered one.

She does look rather lovely. And I see you like Neil Gaiman [nosey emoticon], me too!

What a lovely looking girl

Sooo relived about your comments. I'm not sure quite why I let myself think that ignoramous may have a valid opinion over that of the vet, farrier, and my own! :)

And yeah, love Neil Gaiman :)

Ok, have been drinking baileys, and have just realised I have a different horse now so I cannot be identified (tee hee), so against my better judgement .

Never speak of this again.

Well done Pixel!

That is indeed very awkward looking riding! I notice the video had a comment that has been removed...wonder what it was?!

Oh the poor horse! Lol well it just goes to show that not all "experts" are, well, equal!

Yay for the Bayleys (finishing Christmas sherry, hence spelling) HOYS for him then!

Grr, yard bitch was vile this morning. I was happily ignoring her and she came over to tell me that she notices I use the scaffold planks to get to the muck heap (cannot avoid them!) and she said "I organised that because you hadn't done anything". WTF! I don't really know what she was getting at other than starting an argument!!! I pointed out they will be damn slippery in frost so a bit daft and unnecessary anyway.
I am a bit about it all. Why the hell is she so bloody difficult!?

When she tries to talk to you just say something along hte lines of "we only have x days left to put up with each other the easiest way to get through to then would simply be if we didn't talk to each other" then refuse to engage any further. She is just niggling at you now, best to have a frosty silence than constant pecking IMO!

Exactly. I did have my rant at her, but now she is being a total child carrying on, especially on such daft things as planks of wood! I am planning not to engage with her any more. I hope I can stick to this plan!

Oh dear, something tells me your last weeks and days there are not going to completely fly by! Good luck with new non-engaging regime, sounds best.

I know, 'tis dragging! This morning her adult daughter went to kick my friend's dog and swore at it (fucking mutt!)!!! Sigh

On the plus side I had a lovely interesting ride on the mare. She was so hyped up I actually wondered if part of their campaign of intimidation involved giving her oats! I would like to hope even they are not that stupid and she was just feeling energetic!

Hmm, I had a yard idiot do that to me years ago - the day before a cross country comp. My horse had a real "kill the rider" complex at the best of times so he really went for broke that day.

Oh and the little scrotes people involved filmed the ensuing carnage
Thank goodness it was before the days of Youtube!

OMG WhyHavePets. There really are some proper idiots in the world. How disgusting.

I know, it really was quite scary, the poor horse didn't even know what to do with himself.

The kids thought it was all quite amussing - until later that day when he had been turned out and they ended up having to cut him out of his rug as he had been racing around and slipped into a ditch. Ended up on his back with the rug tied around all four legs - still in the ditch. He did manage to score a good kick on one of them when they cut him free though.
I am glad I wasn't there, judging by the state of the rug it must have been bad!

That is really awful! You mean he kicked one of the idiots who gave him oats? That part is not awful at all.

Yeah he did [evil

Ooh Pixel well done!

Yes, he's very, um, lumpish, isn't he?

Reminds me very much of when my friend and me went to look at a horse for her riding school. We met the couple selling her at the field she was kept in. It was pouring with rain and she was soaked. The bloke of the couple was a BIG guy. He slapped a saddle on, FAR too far back - I mean nearly on her loins - and leapt aboard. Got her trotting round and his rising trot was like the guy in your video - up FLUMP up FLUMP up FLUMP. We were looking on like this >>> - absolutely speechless.

Mind you we bought her. Partly just to get her out of there and partly because we figured if she could cope with him she'd cope with beginners so I guess in a way his tactic worked!

I was thinking about your video Pixel, while riding today...I got paranoid that perhaps I look like him so I endeavoured to do my neatest riding :o

Saw the farmer today, had a bit of a moan about the cow, then he noticed that her friend had padlocked her pony into his stable and he was rather OMG, so was I

Glad to be of service, improving your riding and all. I don't expect a fee.

Why was it padlocked in? Did she think you were going to steal it or something?

Thank you Pixel, thank you :)

IDK why the hell she is padlocking in the pony (this is her psycho's friend who is okay on her own but clearly has odd ideas). It has got to be one of the safest stables you could get in terms of likelihood of theft as it is overlooked by the bedroom window of the house at the yard. It is a really odd thing to do not only for the fire worry, but because it is so unnecessary!

Hiya, I am new to these threads (but a mn regular) and just wanted to glow with pride since all 3 DC's have only been riding for 3 months but look a whole lot better in rising trot than that expert

Hi Serin...well, by his 'standards' you could get your DC's setting up a breaking and schooling business!!!

I am moving from the yard with the psycho bitch over this weekend :D Really sad because I have been there 8 years, lots has gone on in that time, but OMG I am so pleased to be getting away from psycho bitch.