This is page 9.
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Iâm finding the BO to have the believable story here. I smelled BS from the get go with the OP. Now to find out she posted AFTER she had already stolen the pony says a lot about her character.
BO I hope you find the pony you have cared for for almost a decade, and that the theif/former owner gets what she deserves.
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The number of posts to see per page can be changed per user in your profile. Therefore, different people will see different numbers of pages. I only see 5 (and believe that is the default setting.)
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I know I did not change any settings regarding posts per page and I see page 9. So maybe the default is dependent on what you are browsing on?
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What really bothers me is that there is a pony thatâs been locked away for a month now. Unless things have changed drastically in CT there are only so many vets and farriers none of whom would keep quiet about seeing this pony due to all the legal issues.
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From either party. Which is why I find it weird that youâre so vehemently attacking this BO. The best proof weâre going to see, short of the BO posting copies of actual legal documents to prove her story to some internet tough guys, is the proof we already have. That would be all the posts on Facebook from people in the area who know both parties and are backing the BO.
The OP is on the forum and likely reading this thread and choosing not to reply. Last Activity: Apr. 11, 2018, 10:55 AM
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I would assume the pony is out of state by now, probably has been since the night it disappeared. Wasnât part of the story that OP was away at college in another state (was it Kentucky?) and sent some horses back to the trainer? Anyhow there are a lot of hollows and back roads between Connecticut and Kentucky, lots of remote pastures with no public access on which to toss a pony in states with few functional animal control officers. I doubt the pony is locked up anywhere nearby.
I doubt OP is anywhere nearby either.
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Whatâs sad to me about these situations is the fact that it warns people away from wanting to help or support legitimate good kids that were dealt a rough hand. I was fortunate enough that my parents could afford to help me keep a horse, but beyond that there wasnât much in the way of finances or additional resources. If it hadnât been for a few kind, benevolent friends in the horse world I never would have been able to ride or compete to the extent that I was able. We talk a big game about wanting to help/support the next generation of horse-crazy, hard-working kids, but then something like this happens and makes you (g) not want to touch it with a ten foot pole.
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I am sure there were warning signs long before this blowup.
Trainer has had pony for 8 and a half years, seems to have known OP before she accepted the pony. So letâs say ten years. OP has gone off to college and returned. Must be in her early to mid 20s by now.
Also there are ways to help kids that keep some boundaries established.
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Just in case anyone was wondering the OP is reading just isnât posting. Last login is from today.
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I have read a lot of this. I have not read the FB.
I suspect the pony was free leased to the BO. Where else would someone come up with such a long âgive backâ period of time. I also suspect that the OP felt is was time to move on with her life, but the BO having found the pony outstandingly useful balked at returning it.
Stan by for the next thrilling episode.
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Yes, but the OP has been back with the trainer since finishing collegeâŠso the OP in theory does not live out of state anymore.
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She doesnât and is still working in the area.
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This is my favorite debate on COTH so far 
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The only thing with this is that it implies a person with a lot of resources, which to be quite frank, the OP does not come across that way.
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No. All you need is a college friend whose parents live back up a holler in Tennessee 
or equivalent, and an 8 hour drive with a borrowed trailer, and a good manipulative sob story.
Where I live, we have a lot of back country here within a 5 hour drive out of the city, and if you wanted to disappear a low maintenance horse into ranch country, it would be easy enough to do as long as your contacts up there had your back.
If the pony was shipped away from the BOâs farm, the person shipping the pony is also a part of this circle. I am not sure, but if someone asked me to come ship a pony for them, and oh, it has to happen at night, and you have to park somewhere down the road, I will be leading the pony to youâŠI like to think that good judgement would tell me not to be a part of that nightâs activities. I also think that if someone asked me to hide a pony for them, I would have the sense to suspect something might be fishy.
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No. All you need is a college friend whose parents live back up a holler in Tennessee or equivalent, and an 8 hour drive with a borrowed trailer, and a good manipulative sob story.
Where I live, we have a lot of back country here within a 5 hour drive out of the city, and if you wanted to disappear a low maintenance horse into ranch country, it would be easy enough to do as long as your contacts up there had your back.
Put a horse in a back pasture away from the road, donât post his photo on social media or take him off property, and no one would know or care.
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Yes. But you arenât the kind of person whoâd be asked to help
And Iâm sure OP had a convincing story about the ownership. And all this happened before trainer went ballistic on social media.
If you can borrow a truck and trailer moving a horse is very easy.
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Scribbler, you have a point - I wouldnât loan out my truck and trailer either! Yes, you can hide a pony, but sooner or later it needs shoes, and the farriers all talk! Your idea that the pony could have been moved out of the area is pretty reasonable, as long as there was no money involved in shipping. And the OP might have a truck and trailer of their own.
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