How would you handle this? Unqualified peeps blanketing horses at barn

[J-Lu]

Oh please. The hot wire is installed in ALL paddocks except where horses are fed. Due to their changes with where my horse was fed, the hot wire was installed above where my horse ate. Hot wire was installed in the run-in between their horses and mine since they added a mare to the situation and it didn’t go well with the geldings.

Please, STOP twisting my words. My horse has NOT damaged the run-in and I use “no chew” regularly to stop chewing. I purchased a bottle for the BOs to use.

This is when COTH gets really annoying. Read for content.

[J-Lu]

1. It doesn’t matter

2. occasionally, chewing on previous chew sites. The hot wire was run in the run in when they added a mare to the two geldings pasture.

3. My horse is good for blanketing, period. They blanket when feeding. He’s very easy to catch and blanket.

My horse doesn’t need professional handling at this point. He needs handling by people who know how to work with horses. Please don’t tell me about how boarding horses is a thankless job. I regularly drag the arena and do stuff around the barn for them. I am the only border who rides in addition to the trainer at the barn. They don’t ride much and can’t comment on much of what I talk to them about. They “fixed” the arena years ago by applying a thin layer of sand above rocks. The trainer paid his kids to gather the rocks in buckets from the arena because it was not good for horses to work in.

Did you fill your arena with rocks under sand that came to the surface?

I appreciate your post, but I suspect your relationships and offerings to your boarders is significantly different from my currrent situation. I suspect you are a more experienced horseperson.

[Sdel]

@J-Lu

This is when COTH gets really annoying. Read for content.

Ok. Reading for content. The bolded sounds an awful lot like the kind of actions one would take while blanketing a horse. Seems your horse has a history of a reaction. If you are using blankets where people have to reach under or around the legs maybe you should reconsider the style of blanket that is being used for other’s safety.

[J-Lu]

My horse is going on 15. I relayed how he acts with blanketing, which is pretty OK with someone who can read horse behavior. He’s 15 an has been blanketed all his life.

I relayed how he reacted as a 4 year old to that particular poster

What exactly is your point? Do you think training and age in horses is meaningless? Why in hell are you posting my post in another thread where I could provide information to another poster here?
Seems like you are not wanting to understand what I posted. So sad.

[Sdel]

My point is you’re coming off like KS in the DHH thread. Always a contradiction and excuse why something is always everyone else’s fault.

Your horse has a history of reaction to a specific pattern of handling. A lot of times the reactions never go away completely and can revert in some form in times of stress. If this new mare is causing as much of a ruckus in the herd dynamics as you claim, it sounds like this is really the fault of your horse’s tendency to spook under stress.

[FitzE]

@J-Lu

Please, STOP twisting my words. My horse has NOT damaged the run-in

I’m not ‘twisting’ your words. I’m
literally doing the opposite: I’m copy-pasting your own words that you wrote. You say, and, again, I here quote:

@J-Lu

One responded by saying my horse is somewhat unpredictable, damaged their run-in so they had to put hot wire in there (not true until they put a mare in with my horse’s gelding friend and they have a weird 3-some dynamic - they share a run-in)

So, that is where I and others got this information.

You then say:

@J-Lu

One responded by saying my horse is somewhat unpredictable, damaged their run-in so they had to put hot wire in there (not true until they put a mare in with my horse’s gelding friend and they have a weird 3-some dynamic - they share a run-in)

That ‘until’ means, it was not true that your horse damaged their run-in UNTIL they put a mare in with the other horse. When you say something was not true UNTIL, you mean it WAS TRUE after.

These are all your own words, copy-pasted, never paraphrased or ‘twisted’. You wrote it. You asked for feedback. People are giving feedback based on your own words. Hundreds of years of horse experience on this thread and you will never just pause and re-examine what you wrote and what you did and that perhaps there is room for improvement on your part, not just the part of the BOs and family. Just take a beat and read and think about the advice you’ve gotten here. Try not to be so aggressively reactive and maybe open yourself to seeing that you were not 100% in the right here.

Otherwise, why ask for input??

[J-Lu]

@Sdel

My point is you’re coming off like KS in the DHH thread. Always a contradiction and excuse why something is always everyone else’s fault.

Your horse has a history of reaction to a specific pattern of handling. A lot of times the reactions never go away completely and can revert in some form in times of stress. If this new mare is causing as much of a ruckus in the herd dynamics as you claim, it sounds like this is really the fault of your horse’s tendency to spook under stress….

You are judging threads that are not frequented by the people you accuse. WTF? You have NO IDEA of how my horse reacts to anything but you pretend that you do. Right, the herd dynamic is the fault of my horse. I’m not sure if you understand herd dynamics or prefer to understand a “woo” dynamic, popular int the horse world.

You don’t seem to be any kind of knowledgeable person on the subject so I’ll take that in mind.

[FitzE]

@Sdel

If this new mare is causing as much of a ruckus in the herd dynamics as you claim

Jaysus, @J-Lu, you really don’t read before you put people on blast and start with the taunting and insulting, do you? She said the new mare was causing the herd dynamics to change. I mean, it’s right up there in black and white. She then went on to suggest that, if the MARE has changed the herd dynamics as much as you claim then your horses tendency to spook under the stress caused by the mare’s disruption of the herd dynamics could be the cause of the blanketing incident.

Lord Almighty, talk about ‘twisting words’.

Also, stop insulting people and presuming they have no knowledge of horses. You seem to ‘feel comfy’ doing that about many people on this thread. Just stop.

[J-Lu]

Sorry, you twisted a lot of what I said. I don’t expect you to acknowledge due to your “truth” sites.

You are twisting my words and regularly do so.

You admit you get your responses from BS responders. Glad to know.

Your BS posts continue to be BS, Your BS replies should be documented here.

[FitzE]

I’ve never heard the term ‘truth sites’. Do you mean quoted material from your own posts? Because that’s the only place I’ve pulled any information.

I just walked you through your own posts on the subject of why the wire was installed. Can you point out what I got wrong? I only used what you wrote.

[J-Lu]

@FitzE

@Sdel

If this new mare is causing as much of a ruckus in the herd dynamics as you claim

Jaysus, @J-Lu, you really don’t read before you put people on blast and start with the taunting and insulting, do you? She said the new mare was causing the herd dynamics to change. I mean, it’s right up there in black and white. She then went on to suggest that, if the MARE has changed the herd dynamics as much as you claim then your horses tendency to spook under the stress caused by the mare’s disruption of the herd dynamics could be the cause of the blanketing incident.

Lord Almighty, talk about ‘twisting words’.

Also, stop insulting people and presuming they have no knowledge of horses. You seem to ‘feel comfy’ doing that about many people on this thread. Just stop.

Oh please, get a grip. I can read the same posts as you do. Just stop.

[Sdel]

@J-Lu

You don’t seem to be any kind of knowledgeable person on the subject so I’ll take that in mind.

Hmm…I have my own barn. I’ve owned 5 horses total, three currently, of which I do all of my own care. One just failed out of training for being a spooky unreliable reactive mess. A very dangerous mess. The horse was never such a mess with me but the training atmosphere stressed him out so much he went completely into overdrive. Because I’m observant, I seem to have a knack for heading off all the major problems before they become big issues. I’ve also temporarily kept other people’s horses: babies, practically feral, and green that are some level of spooky and reactive to basic handling.

I think I have enough experience. I even blanket the crazy reactive one loose, while feeding, occasionally while out on the pasture with the other two.

[FitzE]

Then why did you claim sdel said something she did not write?

For clarity, you said sdel said:

@J-Lu

the herd dynamic is the fault of my horse.

(and then, predictably, went on to insult her knowledge of horse care ).

What she actually said was,

@Sdel

this new mare is causing as much of a ruckus in the herd dynamics

If you read the posts, how could you make such a mistake re: what sdel actually did write?

[J-Lu]

Because of my multiple replies on this post.

I read @Sdel’s responses as you do. I read the posts. You seem to be very opinionated and tilting towards a specific trainer. I like to be objective.

[FitzE]

@J-Lu

Your BS replies should be documented here.

I mean, are they not?

They are all here, viewable. Is that not ‘documentation’ of what I post?

This is just getting weird at this point.

[BrownDerby]

I’m calling full moon.

[FitzE]

It’s gotta be something, right?

[J-Lu]

@FitzE

@J-Lu

Your BS replies should be documented here.

I mean, are they not?

They are all here, viewable. Is that not ‘documentation’ of what I post?

This is just getting weird at this point.

It sure is getting weird,

[FitzE]

How do you think my replies should be documented here?

[J-Lu]

@FitzE

@J-Lu

Your BS replies should be documented here.

I mean, are they not?

They are all here, viewable. Is that not ‘documentation’ of what I post?

This is just getting weird at this point.

they should all be documented. Its so weird at this point.