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Post by caron on Oct 24, 2010 23:38:29 GMT
We took two of our ponies out today to Marbury Country park, there are some areas that are classed as suitable for 'multi use' ie used by people on foot, cyclists and horses and dog walkers and signs say to use caution. Why then did one lot of parents allow their 5/6 year old boy ride right up behind our ponies on his bike, weave in and out of them, nearly run into our dog (she was on the lead) and then follow behind us for several hundred yards with his front wheel nearly touching our sec a's back legs (with my 3 1/2 yo daughter riding on LR)  His parents were meandering along 200 yards behind. Several times I asked him to go back to his parents but he took no notice and only backed off when our 14hander pony started having the wild squirty poo's in his direction after she saw some bullocks in the next door field. But my main gripe (and this has happened on several occassions at general public venues such as parks, beaches etc) is why just because we are in a wagon, do people think they can stand around peering in Today I have been observed making bacon butties, sitting my daughter on the potty and changing out of my wellies....... I don't mind at all the odd child stopping to look at the ponies, but this was a gang of around 8 kids and 2 adults. My OH said I should follow them back to their car and stand watching them and see what they say. I know a lorry and ponies is a bit of a novelty in some places, but it is really rude to stare into the living while I'm going out my business (and my little one was trying to do her 'business')  |
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Post by bonnieheather on Oct 26, 2010 18:55:10 GMT
Ha, ha, ha, ha!!!!! (Sorry, I know you're ranting and don't intend it to be funny!!!) Non horsey people do make me laugh!! Especially at the beach.....can we stroke him? How big is he? How old is he? What's his name? What does he eat? Can we have a ride???!!!!!!!!!!!!
Argggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But that's better than the one's that are 'scared' of the doggy, give me strength!!!!!!!
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Post by brindlerainbow on Oct 26, 2010 19:00:58 GMT
Non horsey people are bizzare!!! When I used to be a show jumping groom I was at the South of England show putting the studs in before the class, with some members of the public stood watching.Several were horrified that the horses had to jump with nuts and bolts screwed in thier feet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by iluvmyponies on Oct 26, 2010 21:43:01 GMT
Non horsey people are bizarre!!! When I used to be a show jumping groom I was at the South of England show putting the studs in before the class, with some members of the public stood watching.Several were horrified that the horses had to jump with nuts and bolts screwed in their feet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL! ;D & to top that off, a couple of months ago, we took 3 ponies to the beach. Just before we were about to head off to the beach, a woman & 2young girls walked up to them & started stroking them. Then the woman said "Do you like the donkeys?" I was quite annoyed!  & the amount of times we have been asked "How much is the ride?" is unbelievable  |
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Post by welshshowcobs on Oct 26, 2010 22:30:17 GMT
im sorry girls but this thread really cheered me up when i needed a laugh,class!
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Post by coppmeister on Oct 26, 2010 22:36:03 GMT
Haha when I'm at shows in public parks I find I stand at the trailer all day but not so much to keep an eye on the ponies but to keep an eye on the public!!!!!!! I enjoying chatting to the kids about the ponies but it never fails to astound me how little common sense some of the adults have around the ponies, constantly parking prams right up behind the ponies!!!!!!! and when I tell them the pony can't see what's going on back there they look confused :/
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Post by caron on Oct 27, 2010 7:13:28 GMT
im sorry girls but this thread really cheered me up when i needed a laugh,class! It was a bit of a tongue in cheek moan ;D Non horsey people are so odd, from another planet! Although I must admit when I was a non pony owning little girl, I would be drawn like a magnet to any ponies that appeared in the neighbourhood and would have stood for hours just watching them and if the owner let me stroke them I would be thrilled, but I can't imagine what was so interesting about me cooking our bacon butties |
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Post by michelle28 on Oct 27, 2010 7:25:43 GMT
Well I was once asked by a doctor I may add! If there was male and female horses! The mind boggles! Lol
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Post by bonnieheather on Oct 27, 2010 8:25:16 GMT
From a doctor??!!! God help us!
I must admit, if ever I see police horses I go and stroke them!!! So maybe I shouldn't be so quick to moan!!! Ha, ha....
People at work make me laugh; "What, you have to go twice a day?? Every day? Even Christmas day??!!" "How much is a horse?" "How long do they live?" The list goes on!!!!
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Post by princessstacie22 on Oct 27, 2010 8:30:07 GMT
Bonnie heather i have the exact same questions!!
Funniest thing was when i was riding a friends traditional coloured through our local streets, with a friend also on a coloured and a woman and her daughter cam running up saying ''look lauren, they are riding cows!!!''
The mind boggles me!!!!
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Post by pencaedu on Oct 27, 2010 9:23:14 GMT
Have had the ones at work who think it's really cruel to nail shoes onto horses feet - because they think they have paws like a dog!!
And the friend who, while one of our horses was being gelded, asked how many testicles a horse had!! Poor Vet nearly collapsed laughing!!
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Post by scotland on Oct 27, 2010 11:26:43 GMT
Have had the ones at work who think it's really cruel to nail shoes onto horses feet - because they think they have paws like a dog!! ! You mean to say, they are not born with their shoes already attached |
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Post by bonnieheather on Oct 27, 2010 11:28:58 GMT
I had mentioned that Bono was being getting new shoes the other day, after the inevitable, 'how often do they need them, how much does it cost, why do you have to have it done?' type questions, when one girl pipped up, 'What are their feet made out of? Wood?' I kid you not....These people move around us, be careful out there...
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Post by pencaedu on Oct 27, 2010 11:37:50 GMT
Apparently not, scotland!!!! Wouldn't that save us all some money???
Mind that's not as bad as the person on here who thought we fed live foals to hounds at hunt kennels!!
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Post by helle on Oct 27, 2010 15:53:49 GMT
LOL, very chearfull for the 'moaners section'.
My daughter once got a text from her non- horsey friend (a boy, although NOT a boyfriend!!) asking how much a horse would cost from new- presumably straight out of the factory as opposed to a second-hand one!!
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Post by fleurymare on Oct 27, 2010 18:52:51 GMT
mind you non horsey people think we are all wierdo's, I think they may be right  |
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Post by hollycane on Oct 27, 2010 19:20:01 GMT
I started carriage driving this year. At my first show, which although a local ag. and 1 day is still VERY busy, all the driving competitors and heavy horses were parked away from all the other horses. Fine. However I had the complete collywobbles. Luckily we started dead on 9am but had a show drive etc. and didn't complete our classes until11.30am by which time Joe and Doris were in full force. It was a beautiful day and then I hread, to my horror, the announcer tell the entire showground that they were ALL very welcome to "go into the horse park where the driving and heavy horses were. please take a look at these magnificent animals and the beautiful carriages....."
I had managed to get a rosette but I was practically in tears. It was a v. hot day and I had nothing on (but undies) under my drving outfit and I was wearing popsocks and had 1 groom, compared to everyone elses 6.
Well, there wasn't much that J+D didn't see...... or hear for that matter
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Post by merlod on Oct 29, 2010 13:55:43 GMT
Coppmeister! Common Sense! Problem is really with us. If you have beem around horses all you life (like 54years!!!!) you don't honestly realise what is COMMON, common sense and what is HORSEY commom sense! But this thread is the BEST for horsey entertainment in ages! Long may it last!
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Post by merlod on Oct 29, 2010 13:58:25 GMT
Just a quick one! Heared some remark about a coloured class "crosses between horses and Freisian cows" Come on, someone out there must be able to top that!!!
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Post by brt on Oct 29, 2010 16:31:57 GMT
I remember a few years ago riding out with a girl on a coloured.
We went through a park and a little girl shouted "look mummy that girls riding a cow"
I burst out laughing, but the girl i was riding with gave me such a look i soon shut up lol!!
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Post by tabbyx on Oct 29, 2010 17:05:22 GMT
ohh sat at hoys watching the hunter ponies we were sat next to a woman who thought she knew everything about showing, she kept saying 'look at the clever marks shaved on the ponies bums' oh my god it made me laugh so much. then she was going 'look that pony is trotting really fast, it's over taking everything' that made me laugh aswell, everyone sat around her was smirking. i do love non horsey people, they make me laugh so much.
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Post by bumblebee on Oct 29, 2010 19:16:39 GMT
I'm glad I'm not the only person who's had the comments about coloureds and cows!
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Post by brindlerainbow on Oct 29, 2010 19:21:35 GMT
My lovely friend who is not at all horsey was telling me about a horse she had seen being ridden up on the moor while she was walking her dog.It was the most gorgeous 2 tone colour she said.It was trace clipped...........................
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Post by chiefgroom on Oct 29, 2010 20:45:27 GMT
Concerned OH rang me one day in the summer to ask if he should ring RSPCA to report horses he had seen in field that had been blindfolded. Puzzled, I asked him to take photo and send it to me ..... they were wearing flymasks !!
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Post by iluvmyponies on Oct 29, 2010 20:53:19 GMT
Concerned OH rang me one day in the summer to ask if he should ring RSPCA to report horses he had seen in field that had been blindfolded. Puzzled, I asked him to take photo and send it to me ..... they were wearing flymasks !! Classic! ;D We are going out again on Sunday, so will have some more strange things to tell you when we come back |
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Post by kateap on Nov 4, 2010 21:51:43 GMT
lol.....this has made me giggle.
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Post by hannahlh on Nov 4, 2010 22:56:31 GMT
Well i have a not so funny story about non - horsey people not using there common sense...5 mums, 5 children, 4 buggies and a dog came walking towards me whilst i was riding last week... i stopped to let them all past as they were clearly not going to move.. first little child was so engrossed in her little doggy that she walked straight into my ponies legs...fine BUT other children were on scooter and bikes not watching where they were going... My pony was not standing still and i got off him to hold him whilst these children and dogs were running around his legs and doing wheeleys....what were the mums doing? one of them was on the phone not intrested in her childs safety at all..and the other three were in a deep conversation about where they were going to holiday next year .....the mum with the pram on the phone...walked straight into me...... |
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Post by sarahp on Nov 5, 2010 8:46:11 GMT
And doubtless it would have been seen as YOUR fault if your pony had reacted to all this! And if you had spoken directly to the children that would have been unpopular too.
I had similar years ago with a loose young dog, boxer I think and they can be very exuberant, cavorting all round my mare's legs barking. When I remonstrated with the owner who was just standing watching and doing nothing he couldn't see there was any problem at all, just said the dog wasn't used to horses. I then said what if it had been a child on top and his dog had caused an accident? He said he would have expected the child to have been in control of its pony. There's just no sense in some people. My mare was angelic and just stood there, but apart from the fact that I wouldn't wish the dog to be hurt, not its fault, I rather wish she'd kicked it, then he might have got more sensible for his dog's sake, if not for pony and rider's!
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Post by hayesface on Nov 5, 2010 13:57:37 GMT
Well my hubbys ex wife phoned yeaterday wanting to know how much it would cost to keep a horse because she'd been offered one and it was obviously a really good one because it was pretty! When asked how big it was she said 'bigger than me' when asked how old it was 'well I said its bigger than me so its a grown up!', when asked what the hell she'd do with it because she's never so much as sat on a horse in here life she said 'well of course I can learn to ride it because it looks so friendly!'
My husband got down on his knees and thanked the lord for his lucky escape ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by bonnieheather on Nov 5, 2010 21:30:07 GMT
Madness!!!!!
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His parents were meandering along 200 yards behind.
& the amount of times we have been asked "How much is the ride?" is unbelievable 
