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Post by thecremellosociety on Jan 5, 2008 14:44:21 GMT
My pony is fine with pushchair but not all are. i had a young child and pushchair and pony at bakewell, one of use walked round the outside of the walk and the one with the pony in it, i would feel terrible if a animal of mine kicked a child or buggy, but what if the buggy damged my horse  ? Pushbikes are another one, imagine a horse putting feet through the spokes, you just need common sense ... espcially with livley young animals about, for the record the dog pooh incident was at the county show i ran not the charity one .... |
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Post by labryinth on Apr 13, 2008 18:58:03 GMT
Frankly, rather than banning smoking, I think they should ban members of the public from shows.
At one large local agricultural show, my friend was waiting to take her Arab stallion into the ring. She was standing a little to the side of the entrance, in a quiet corner. Her stallion is well behaved, and coming from a busy yard, used to people.
She was turned away from the ring entrance, and was concentrating on a group of horses leaving the adjacent ring, as they were the mare class leaving, and she wanted to make sure he didn't get any ideas!!! Next minute, her horse went doo lally. Some (begins with t and ends in t) had walked up behind, with her children to stroke the nice horsey (ignoring horse walk signs), and had basically snuck up and slapped the stallions bum! Needless to say he kicked out (luckily missing everybody). A near miss that could have turned out very nasty indeed. The MOTGP then accusse my friend of having a dangerous animal!
Ignorance truly is bliss, until you are missing your front teeth.
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Post by mandmgirl on Apr 13, 2008 20:02:50 GMT
Not dangerous as such, but somewhat distracting - I once had to contend with a mother pushing a pram through dressage arena I was riding in - where did she think she was with all those letters and intermittent white boards?!
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Post by viking on Apr 13, 2008 20:48:12 GMT
It definitely seems to be a mother with pushchair thing doesn't it?
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Post by stephjw1 on Apr 13, 2008 21:11:18 GMT
Myself and a friend took her miniatures to a show once to promote the breed and all i can say is its just as well they were well behaved because the behaviour of some of the general public was appauling, people pushing buggies under ponies so the kids could stroke them crowding round standing right behind them, moving the pen gates so they could get in. It was a stressful day luckily due to having eyes in the back of our heads there were no injuries but never again.
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Post by MISFIT on May 23, 2008 19:21:32 GMT
Or kids with umbrellas!!! Was at a show and a non-horsey family were there with pushchair which didnt worry our little show pony but she also had to young girls who had very brightly coloured umbrellas and when the rain stopped rather than close them they were spinning them in their hands, pony was freaking out!!!  |
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Post by wendbarry1 on May 23, 2008 21:37:43 GMT
Why can't we just ban non horsey people? They just cause accidents, shouldn't be allowed anywhere near rings or horsewalks
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Post by merlod on Jul 17, 2008 19:18:23 GMT
But what about "horsey" people who allow their kids to play football amongst the lorries & trailers?
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Post by merlod on Oct 6, 2009 18:32:51 GMT
Don't know how the organisers get away with it as I have to clearly state on my risk asssessmaent to the Insurance Company how I propose to seoerate the competitors from the general public! Also, I really hate the way that the public can wander through the stable area in the Royal Welsh!
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Post by Babieca on Oct 6, 2009 18:48:29 GMT
I dont mind dogs at all at shows as long as they're on a lead  It's the shows that allow the masses of un-horsey townies wander/push buggys around the warmup area and have picnics on the horse walk that are a nightmare. I've had my fair share of nearly flattening unruly kids and been glared at when trying to ride a rather frought horse through crowds standing in the way. Our local agri show used to be terrible for this but I noticed this year they roped off a lot more areas. |
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Post by bowditchblobs on Oct 6, 2009 19:05:19 GMT
It isnt just non horsey folk though, i was at one show where a family had god knows how many kids with them and they decided to play cricket amongst the trailers/lorries!!!! At another show some women decided to lunge a spooky welsh a right up my spooky ponies backside- she was tied to my trailer, i politley asked her to move and i got a mouth full of abuse, she ought to be grateful it wasnt my hunter pony tied there, she would have been badly kicked.
People just seem so selfish and have no common sense at all, horsey folk or other wise! And why do people asume i like their child running over grabbing my pony or that i like their dog jumping up all over me??? Grrrrrrrrrrr- god im getting grouchy in my old age.
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Post by ada on Oct 6, 2009 21:14:00 GMT
went to a show at the weekend, a family with a pram in the collecting ring, right on the track horses every where, some people are definately THICK!!!!!!! and when an accident happens they will be looking for someone to sue..........
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Post by kickon on Oct 7, 2009 19:02:40 GMT
How did this post become dog poo I can not even rember how many times I have nearly take a dosey spectator out. They stand in gaps looking vaccant. I just shout now. They look daggers but it better than paying comp |
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Post by rolo on Oct 7, 2009 19:53:39 GMT
It is not just horses we have problems with, try leading cattle out for the main parades. At one of the last shows we did this summer, members of the public ignored stewards stopping them from crossing through the cattle, and proceeded to walk through them, spooked the cattle, one cow took off taking handler plus others with it through the crowds. How no one was hurt was a miricle.
At the same show, in the leading rein class, there were a number of kids beside the ring, seeing how hard they could punch foil balloons at ponies as they went past, and no one stopped them -although the ponies were brilliant.
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Post by thecremellosociety on Oct 10, 2009 6:36:14 GMT
Lets see what 2010 brings, i shall be on police patrol at county show for people behaving inappropratley ( better say that as a person in my authority cannot be seen to be discriminitive and actually call people behaving stupidly stupid !! )  |
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Post by ladybird on Oct 10, 2009 9:52:15 GMT
can i just join in and say that my biggest hate of all is people cantering at speed through the lorry/trailer park particularily when underloading goggle eyed youngsters.
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Post by moorland on Oct 10, 2009 12:15:20 GMT
Sorry a bit of subject  but what really annoys me at shows is when you have separate rings and collecting rings for the small native breeds and the riders on big horses decide to warm up in the collecting area  |
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Post by ladybird on Oct 10, 2009 17:31:25 GMT
i quite agree moorland, we only show natives and it is alarming and totally unecessary imo for bigger horses to hurtle past whilst waiting to go into our class.
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Post by jemsyd on Oct 18, 2009 11:24:20 GMT
We have a racing yard and one of the fields has a public footpath running though it and the horse and pony in that field dont mind it it's the fact that we refuse to clean dog muck out of hooves and of the horses after they have rolled in it. Dog owners do get shouted out for not cleaning it up. Yes fair enough there may be the odd spot of horse muck around but its not as horrible as dog muck as in it smells much nicer and isn't dangerous (Even though I have sprained my ankle slipping on it once my ankle was huge and black for weeks!). I mean like dog muck is dangerous there was somebody blind by the chemicals in which it holds. I like dog owners and I am a dog owner, and most horsey people i know have a huge pack of dogs but they are very responsible and the general public (non horsey people) should clean there own dog mess up, It's d**n right rude to go through our land and leave muck there.
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Post by thecremellosociety on Oct 19, 2009 6:51:14 GMT
jemsyd we have same problem i a dog pooh phobic, though anyone with a loose dog in the field tends to hurry out or get chased by our resident dog evictor lol, he is fine with them on a lead x
Disgusting, horse pooh is grass and have no problems in touching this and eving admit to having the occasional pooh nogging fight !!!!
Dog pooh is on par with human crap, its sick and the poor horses having to eat round it, who knows what germs it harbours !!
Get a non dog loving pony xx
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? Pushbikes are another one, imagine a horse putting feet through the spokes, you just need common sense ... espcially with livley young animals about, for the record the dog pooh incident was at the county show i ran not the charity one ....
It's the shows that allow the masses of un-horsey townies wander/push buggys around the warmup area and have picnics on the horse walk that are a nightmare.
but what really annoys me at shows is when you have separate rings and collecting rings for the small native breeds and the riders on big horses decide to warm up in the collecting area 
