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 