Because she’s paying you???
[QUOTE=Janet;7951473]
Why would you think that the person leasing her horse would be a “client”?[/QUOTE]
Do you like the term ‘customer’ better, then? What else do we want to term a paying customer? She’s not a freeloader if she’s paying you.
[QUOTE=Finzean;7951533]
Exactly. ??? I don’t understand. My trainer has clients - I am one of them. Several of her clients lease horses owned by other people; those clients have never been referred to as clients of the horse’s owner. When I leased a horse from my trainer, the horse’s owner did not consider me to be her client.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=owlbynite;7964869]
Do you like the term ‘customer’ better, then? What else do we want to term a paying customer? She’s not a freeloader if she’s paying you.[/QUOTE]
Not everyone who pays you is a client. Client implies a type of relationship which you don’t have with, say, your employer, the person who rents your house or the person who leases your horse(unless you also happen to have them as a client).
A client generally speaking pays for professional services or advice. A customer buys goods or services so they are sometimes used interchangeably.
Neither applies to someone who just leases your horse.
I thought of this thread yesterday - when I was out hand-grazing my lease horse, who has just been body clipped, and his owner pulled up and said “wow, is that our horse??” because he looked so different and hadn’t been clipped in a couple of winters. I refer to him usually as “my lease horse” to anyone who would understand what that means, but obviously his owner is fine with acknowledging the joint relationship. Just not a big deal.
And along those lines, I definitely don’t consider myself her customer or client, that would be like saying she is a horse vendor just becuase I’m leasing her older horse! It is a lessor/lessee relationship, nothing more nothing less.
This thread makes me laugh.
My boarder used to ride one of my horses…and she was always calling him hers, and the love of her life, posting pics of him on Facebook saying she was buying him etc etc. It never once bothered me.
My friends however? ALL would tell me how much it annoyed them. I thought it was funny 
