I’m not a BO, but to fellow boarders: Please don’t lead a horse through the tack room to get outside because you are trying to impress your friend. (these were human sized doors)
Also, please, don’t put your horse in the cross ties and then disappear when every other cross tie is taken and there are horses waiting to use them (it was a clinic day so our usually quiet barn was crazy, but still!)
Please don’t walk up to one of my stallions, who is in cross-ties and being tacked up for work by his rider/trainer, and SNORT HARD in his nose because you want him to meet you and you think that is how friendly horses greet eachother. She’s lucky she has a face left because I intervened. Glad I was there…Good Lord. :eek:
This is the. best. thread. ever.:applause:
I am not a BO, but was a BM at the last farm when I had to explain to a boarder – please don’t let your horse loose on the property after hours.
I had come back for late night check to find one of my boarder’s mare ‘gossiping’ in the aisle… after she had pulled down all the hay, made a mess of the barn, and squirted on the door of every stall with a gelding in it… :eek:
By the time I cleaned after the small tornado she was, her owner had come back from a coffee run and cheerily asked me where I had put the mare… Back in her stall, of course!!
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This is the. best. thread. ever.:applause:[/QUOTE]
I agree! It does, however, give us good boarders a bad name. I’m lucky to be 1 of only 4 boarders at a fairly decent sized facility that the BO is retired and slowly attritioning everything off. She has 15 of her own horses and us 4 boarders. I rarely run into another boarder!
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*Don’t buy a second horse, ship it in when the BO isn’t there and stuff it in the stall along with your own horse because you don’t want to pay 2 board payments. Seriously.[/QUOTE]
Really??? Your boarder sounds like a winner.
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Please don’t walk up to one of my stallions, who is in cross-ties and being tacked up for work by his rider/trainer, and SNORT HARD in his nose because you want him to meet you and you think that is how friendly horses greet eachother. She’s lucky she has a face left because I intervened. Glad I was there…Good Lord. :eek:[/QUOTE]
Seriously, this stallion is/was a good guy. I don’t know ANY horse that would not freak out. I should have dared her to do it to my alpha broodmare. :lol:
This is the sort of thing (and I can name so many other things) that really caused me to stop boarding after opening my private breeding/training farm at the recommendation of a dear horse friend. She was SO wrong that this would be a good thing. 
I shut down to boarding within 4 years. Though she and I are still friends. She has said since, “what the hell was I thinking”.:lol:
LOL - I really like most of my boarders most of the time, but with 26 or so boarders, there are bound to be things that happen that make you go WTF? Did I really have to tell someone NOT to do that? And mine are all adults, too. Can’t even blame it on youthful idiocy.
Another one - yes, you need to cool off your clippers while doing a body clip. WITH the spray stuff or oil NOT by dunking the plugged in clippers in a bucket of water. Are you TRYING to commit suicide?
I’m feeling like a genius…:eek:
DO NOT bring your boyfriend to the barn for purposes of having sex in the tack room.
When you break the above rule, DO NOT yell at your BM for coming into the tack room for normal tack room business.
What part of “barn closes at dusk” is difficult to understand? Anyone found flitting about in a field full of loose horses at 11 PM, runs a grave risk of being poll-axed with a wire stretcher. If the horses don’t get you first!
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DO NOT bring your boyfriend to the barn for purposes of having sex in the tack room.
When you break the above rule, DO NOT yell at your BM for coming into the tack room for normal tack room business.[/QUOTE]
Yep…had that one happen too…and another one and another who decided to have a “nooner” up in the loft office, in earshot of me and my vet who came to examine one of my horses. :eek: Egad…I thought I’d dealt with it all. If I seem a little jaded, I am. :lol: I’m laughing now, but I sure wasn’t at the time.
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I’m feeling like a genius…:eek:[/QUOTE]
:lol:
We call “nooners” the horses who get a lunch. :lol:
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DO NOT bring your boyfriend to the barn for purposes of having sex in the tack room.
When you break the above rule, DO NOT yell at your BM for coming into the tack room for normal tack room business.[/QUOTE]
That’s actually really funny. Awkward for everyone, but hilarious.
I’m also not a BO, but:
Please don’t turn your young horse LOOSE in the indoor arena when a half dozen people are in there riding, and then look all miffed when several immediately get off and give you the stink eye.
Don’t take other horse’s feed for your horse.
Don’t open the pasture gate to have your horse run into their stall.
Don’t bring your kids if you won’t supervise them.
Don’t leave your lead rope, shoes, random brushes sitting in the busy barn aisle while you ride.
Please don’t give my horse a treat for bitting you.
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I’m not a BO, but to fellow boarders: Please don’t lead a horse through the tack room to get outside because you are trying to impress your friend. (these were human sized doors)[/QUOTE]
So, I am guilty of doing this :o …our barn entrance has a “horse-sized” door and a “human-sized” door…however, in my defense, it was one of the things I purposefully got my mare comfortable with. A handy thing it is to have a horse who can calmly squeeze through narrow openings without panicking. But I wouldn’t do it if I hadn’t prepped her for it.
But man, compared to some of these, I am not feeling so bad about my transgression!
This thread is really funny (although I’m sure in real life it’s super frustrating for you barn owners), and it’s funnier if you imagine it’s only one person doing all these things!
When I was a BM, I always had people asking if their children could work off lessons. This was maybe doable with teenagers, not so much with a 7 y.o. Somewhat related: BM does NOT equal babysitter. I had enough to do without keeping track of someone’s kid.
Also if you pee in the hayloft someone’s going to find out. Especially if you do so right next to the ladder and it starts dripping down into the tackroom. That one was actually a worker, not a boarder, but I feel like it fits in well on this thread.
