Boarding Woes...New Twist Not For the Faint of Heart

[Rnichols]

What? How did you come to that conclusion from that sentence? I read it as if the barn workers (not the grooms) want to eat goat that’s fine (which is literally what it says). Implying that it’s not fine for grooms to eat goat. I know I’m not the only one who read it like this.

ETA: I don’t think anybody is “looking for a fight”. Huge pet peeve when someone says that to someone who is only seeking clarification.

[spotnnotfarm]

The steer didn’t… sorry, couldn’t help myself….

[Ghazzu]

@atlatl

Well I’ll never forget pulling into the barn parking lot and driving by such a truck with a steer hanging sans hide and the trainer’s 5 year old standing watching.

We all survived.

Years back, my brother had the authorities called on him because he had a deer hanging in his yard, and if you looked real hard, it was visible from the street.
Complainant was all, “Think of the children!!!”
Brother observed that his children didn’t seem too traumatized by it.

(We egged him on to stick a red tennis ball on the nose. My family is like that.)

This fall, his daughter got a moose

[BigMama1]

@Rnichols

What? How did you come to that conclusion from that sentence? I read it as if the barn workers (not the grooms) want to eat goat that’s fine (which is literally what it says). Implying that it’s not fine for grooms to eat goat. I know I’m not the only one who read it like this.

My interpretation was that the people in question are barn workers, not grooms. Not that it makes any difference in the scenario.

[Angela_Freda]

@Rnichols

I read it as if the barn workers (not the grooms) want to eat goat that’s fine (which is literally what it says). Implying that it’s not fine for grooms to eat goat. I know I’m not the only one who read it like this.

That makes no sense.
It makes more sense that the people in possession of the goat are farmworkers, not grooms.

@Rnichols

ETA: I don’t think anybody is “looking for a fight”. Huge pet peeve when someone says that to someone who is only seeking clarification.

I do.

[Rnichols]

Well, that’s how it came across (to me). Whatever.

[Angela_Freda]

@SpicyPRE

Its not a rumor. One of the owners was there when I was giving the goat food and water and was fairly shocked at finding it. He followed up with the workers and then with me. I burst into tears. I did not steal the goat - although driving away was hard. I did not buy the goat from them as they would just buy another.

The workers live on site, however, the barn is within city limits. This is not a country farm. Its an expensive facility. I DO NOT want to be exposed to animal slaughter - its a personal choice. However, my list of questions for a new facility is growing.

The OP refers to them as workers repeatedly here.

So this…

@Djones

“If the barn workers - not grooms - want to ewhat at goat - fine. Fingers crossed the barn owner comes to an arrangement with the barn workers should there be a future celebration planned.”

Is clearly, simply correcting the mischaracterization of their role on the farm

[Djones]

@BigMama1

My interpretation was that the people in question are barn workers, not grooms. Not that it makes any difference in the scenario.

Ah, gotcha. Thanks!

@Angela_Freda, oh honey… we have all seen you badger people and belabor points time and time and time and again. You’re hardly the picture of restraint.

[Angela_Freda]

@Djones

Ah, gotcha. Thanks!

@Angela_Freda, oh honey… we have all seen you badger people and belabor points time and time and time and again. You’re hardly the picture of restraint

And I said I was?
You’re not much better, we saw your snarkfest the other day.
It doesn’t make it right.

And if you think it is wrong for me to do, you must dislike everyone picking at each nit of the OPs every comment also?
Hmmm? Weird.

[Kyrabee]

I always hung around (if I wasn’t in school) when my Grandpa had the mobile truck come butcher a cow. His problem…he didn’t have much luck as a gentleman farmer. I think more of them died like 2 weeks before the truck came. I was pretty young and don’t know the reason for that.

Anyway, I survived too.

Susan

[trubandloki]

@anon68314200

Or indeed, eating cats, dogs, guinea pigs, or whatever?

How much meat is there on a guinea pig? That seems like more work than it is worth. Darn.

@anon68314200

I once had a boarder pitch a fit when she realized we “ALLOWED” deer on the property

This makes me laugh. Darn deer not reading the no trespassing signs.

@Angela_Freda

I guess you missed that it was BO who fed and watered?

I am not trying to start a fight, but this is what you quoted a few posts ago, which is the OP saying they are who fed and watered, that the BO was there.
So this, from the OP, is why people are saying the OP fed and watered the goat.
The OP might have said otherwise later on, but this post clearly says that it was the OP.

@SpicyPRE

Its not a rumor. One of the owners was there when I was giving the goat food and water and was fairly shocked at finding it.

[Angela_Freda]

@trubandloki

@Angela_Freda

I guess you missed that it was BO who fed and watered?

I am not trying to start a fight, but this is what you quoted a few posts ago, which is the OP saying they are who fed and watered, that the BO was there.
So this, from the OP, is why people are saying the OP fed and watered the goat.
The OP might have said otherwise later on, but this post clearly says that it was the OP.

@SpicyPRE

Its not a rumor. One of the owners was there when I was giving the goat food and water and was fairly shocked at finding it.

I think there’s a lot of poor/miscommunication and misunderstanding going on here.
Who’s fault that is?
Is some of it intentional?

And the reaction to pushback to it says almost as much.

I just think everyone should dial it down a notch, eat a Snickers maybe, and back off a bit, from pouncing on every third word the OP responds with.

If that makes me a bad guy… Well, how odd. But ok.

[ZuzusPetals]

If I hear an animal carrying on, I’m going to find out why. It’s not snooping. It’s checking on welfare. The OP wasn’t Nancy Drewing it around a farm, disregarding faded “No Trespassing” signs and stumbling on international money laundering and a gagged and bound elderly caretaker. She was acting on kind instinct. Crikey.

[2DogsFarm]

[quote=“trubandloki, post:271, topic:780176”]
How much meat is there on a guinea pig? That seems like more work than it is worth. Darn.

Enough that they are raised for food in Central America (Peru?) A friend did missionary work there & was served guinea pig

@anon68314200

I once had a boarder pitch a fit when she realized we “ALLOWED” deer on the property

This makes me laugh. Darn deer not reading the no trespassing signs.

I had a City friend visiting and driving home along a back road, pointed out deer in a field along the road. His response: "But they’re behind a fence, right?"

[Kyrabee]

Yes…our barn “allows” deer…just try to get rid of them (by non-lethal means).

I have no opinion on the OP’s dilemma. I just know around here, decent boarding is damned hard to come by so it has to be being personally endangered or horse being endangered for me to look elsewhere.

Susan

[StB.YM]

This has been a rather interesting discussion to follow and it has been fascinating to read/learn from all of the different perspectives.

Though I didn’t grow up on a farm myself, most of my Dad’s side are farmers (including my grandparents), so we were raised with a, what I would call, practical, outlook on the life of livestock. I have lived in a very urban area for most of my life, but even as “city girl”, I’ve been to an abattoir a couple times. Most of those visits were as a child and I watched the humane and fast slaughter and processing of sheep (I don’t eat sheep personally).

I would just comment that the sheep I watched be slaughtered had a significantly less stressful experience than what most animals go through in a big slaughterhouse. If we had more freezer space and had the capacity to store entire (or half) carcasses, we would probably use an abattoir more regularly as our source for meat.

[Djones]

@Angela_Freda

You’re not much better, we saw your snarkfest the other day.

And you blithely overlooked my honest apology, huh?

Hey pot, it’s me kettle

[TheJenners]

So in this thread we have learned:

1. do not feed or water another person’s animal, unless it’s because you wanted to and/or you were supervised by another person who is also not the animal owner
2. slaughter is bad and I don’t want to see it, but also I don’t have to answer if I’m vegetarian (or not)
3. some people flip flop like dying fish depending on who they are responding to
4. good boarding is rare and expensive, but if the workers eat meat they can only muck stalls and not groom horses

[RHdobes563]

@Ghazzu

@atlatl

Well I’ll never forget pulling into the barn parking lot and driving by such a truck with a steer hanging sans hide and the trainer’s 5 year old standing watching.

We all survived.

Years back, my brother had the authorities called on him because he had a deer hanging in his yard, and if you looked real hard, it was visible from the street.
Complainant was all, “Think of the children!!!”
Brother observed that his children didn’t seem too traumatized by it.

(We egged him on to stick a red tennis ball on the nose. My family is like that.)

This fall, his daughter got a moose

I LIKE your family. Made me LOL.

[2bayboys]

I’m just hoping that the barn workers (NOT grooms!) are able to enjoy the holiday feast they had planned.

If I had inadvertently interfered with a special occasion enjoyed by the people who make it possible for me to own a luxury pet, I would try to find out what those people want or need to make their special occasion even better, and I would deliver that thing to their front door with a big bow and an apology.

But that’s just me.