oh my! the"Winston" saga continues!

[vxf111]

Would you PM me who this is? I have a suspicion but don’t want to jump to any conclusions. If it is who I think it is, she’s delusional but harmless.

If you are genuinely worried, call the police and ask for their suggestions. If nothing else, that means if she does something-- she’ll immediately be on their radar.

Seriously though, I doubt this person would do anything. Except pester you on email. You can’t let other people’s insanity hurt your feelings. You can’t fix her crazy. All you can do is control how you react.

[trubandloki]

I can’t stop laughing at the name changing thing. Too funny.

[vxf111]

The more I read, the more I think this is a jealous teen/young adult who is JUST emailing you because she wants to mess with your head. Really. She probably lurks here.

[fleur_de_duc]

i am growing less concerned here. i dont think she would try to steal him (i dont even think she has a trailer … pictures her galloping down the highway atop my broncing gelding:lol:, but It wouldnt be beneath her to leave a gate open, or try to take some tack (which is always locked up in my tackroom). it is her level of craziness that is scary.

honestly … Winston? he is the furthest thing from a Winston its not even funny:lol:

[BuddyRoo]

I’m sorry…I know it’s not funny. But I just snorked coffee through my nose at the name change. And the pink comment. The rest would’ve raged me up a bit and left me aghasted… Where’s the fruitbat indeed!

Not responding is STILL a response. I would not respond.

I would tie die his pink stuff though. A test. LOL

Goodness gracious.

[HeartsongHorses]

I would keep the email and document any exchanges you have with this person. If she does decide to get any more crazy on you you will have something to hand to the authorities.

I also would call the police (on a non emergency number). Tell them that you want to make a report. They probably won’t do anything to her, which is fine, but the report will be documented. If you ever have a serious run in with her, the police with have record of your report, and they can take appropriate action based on her history of harrassment. Since you are 17 the authorities will take this much more seriously than if you were older.

Show the man who lives on the property the email you recieved.

Talk to your parents/the other adults in your life about what is going on.

Congratulations on your barn BTW.

Char

[justdandy]

:lol::lol::lol: What a freak!!!

Okay…this means WAR!!! I would go out and buy anything and everything PINK and put it on your boy during turnout!!! That includes pink POM POMS in his mane and tail, pink fly bonnet (even though there are no flies), pink halter (with break away strap for safety), pink hoof glitter…pink, pink, pink!!! And NEON!!!

BTW, fleur…please be sure to save and post all of freak’s e-mails!!! They are definitely entertaining!!!:lol:

[kari]

What an asshat.
Have you found anything around your barn written in crayon?
(snicker)

[VAHorseGurl]

fluer, if she presists with the emails, all you have to do is ask her to stop emailing you via email of course and then send the very next email you get from her to her ISP Abuse department (internet provider, i.e. Yahoo, Comcast, AOL, etc.) and they’ll likely advise her to leave you be or loose her account.

[jetsmom]

Reply- Dear Trainer,
Thank you for your interest but I am afraid I have to decline. My vet said that in the interest of keeping my horse mentally healthy, I shouldn’t place him with people who clearly aren’t.

Sincerely,

XXX

[tkhawk]

Ignore her-these types just need attention. The more you give-the more the little wheel in their head starts spinning.
Maybe I have always trained with nice trainers so were too busy-but never heard of one changing names for a horse that they did not own-it seems we have many crayola trainers out there!!:eek:
Just me I wouldn’t engage such types unless I absolutely had to…

[FlashGordon]

[QUOTE=jetsmom;3666583]
Reply- Dear Trainer,
Thank you for your interest but I am afraid I have to decline. My vet said that in the interest of keeping my horse mentally healthy, I shouldn’t place him with people who clearly aren’t.

Sincerely,

XXX[/QUOTE]

OMG that is great.

Really, VFX is right. You can’t do anything about crazy people. All you can do is choose how YOU respond.

I bet she is jealous. Or a weirdo with too much time on her hands.

[Kate66]

[QUOTE=jetsmom;3666583]
Reply- Dear Trainer,
Thank you for your interest but I am afraid I have to decline. My vet said that in the interest of keeping my horse mentally healthy, I shouldn’t place him with people who clearly aren’t.

Sincerely,

XXX[/QUOTE]

Priceless!!!

I think you should just ignore it, not worth a response, however completely freakin’ unbelievable this immature little baby is. If anything, I would just respond “thank you so much for your kind offer, unfortunately at this point in time I need to decline” and then don’t respond to any more. You could even block her email address just so you don’t feel the need to respond!!!

[randomequine]

Sounds to me like a situation that happened last year in my area.

Nice family is looking into purchasing a horse. Now, this horse is my version of AWESOME. Bombproof, sweet, but still with enough energy to progress up the levels so the kids in the family wouldn’t have to switch horses.

Now, fellow horse person and supposed trainer watches the kids lessons (with another trainer) and deals with the horse a little herself. Tells the mother of the family that this horse is awful, not going to work, and has issues that they have not seen and wouldn’t until they brought him home.

Due to these comments, family decides to look at other horses too, just to be sure.

Fellow horse person and supposed trainer goes out the next day, literally, and tells the owner of the horse that she would like to purchase him because he’s such a great guy.

Luckily, the owner of the horse kind of knew what was up and held him. He is now owned by the family.

In all reality, if your horse was so awful, so horrible, why on earth would she want him? THat just seems like a massive waste of time, money and energy on her part. My guess is that she sees what you see in him, all of that potential, and knows that a few months of training could make him look awesome, and boost her clientele.

She’s a kook. A kook who knows you’ve got a great horse. Ignore her, lock up your stuff, and keep looking for someone to lease. It’ll all work out.

[2bayboys]

I know that the mature and adult thing to do here is to ignore the crazy person and not respond to her email.

However, I couldn’t help but write a response:

Thank you for your obvious concern about my horse. After reading it, I immediately contacted Tommy’s psychiatrist to be sure that I haven’t done the wrong thing by allowing him to express his sexuality by wearing pink. He assured me that although Tommy may still show some uncertainty at his decision (others may see this as embarrassment), we must all be supportive of his choice to “come out of the tack room”. Take the name “Tommy” for instance, I consulted with the animal communicator before choosing it, and now that we know that Tommy plays on the other side of the fence, so to speak, it is perfectly understandable that he wants a name that is somewhat ambiguous in its gender association. And he is such a fan of Tommy Hilfilger! But thanks again for your friendly advice, would you mind feeding the cats and bringing in the mail since you drive by every day anyway?

Fondest regards,

[Kate66]

[QUOTE=2bayboys;3666638]
I know that the mature and adult thing to do here is to ignore the crazy person and not respond to her email.

However, I couldn’t help but write a response:

Thank you for your obvious concern about my horse. After reading it, I immediately contacted Tommy’s psychiatrist to be sure that I haven’t done the wrong thing by allowing him to express his sexuality by wearing pink. He assured me that although Tommy may still show some uncertainty at his decision (others may see this as embarrassment), we must all be supportive of his choice to “come out of the tack room”. Take the name “Tommy” for instance, I consulted with the animal communicator before choosing it, and now that we know that Tommy plays on the other side of the fence, so to speak, it is perfectly understandable that he wants a name that is somewhat ambiguous in its gender association. And he is such a fan of Tommy Hilfilger! But thanks again for your friendly advice, would you mind feeding the cats and bringing in the mail since you drive by every day anyway?

Fondest regards,

[/QUOTE]

Another priceless one!!

[Ambrey]

Hey, you know the sig line someone has that says “horse people are crazy. If you don’t know any crazy horse people, it’s you.?”

You now know it isn’t you

Seriously, I’ve seen stuff from horse people that makes me wonder how the writers manage to survive in the real world I hope she turns out to be harmless!

I would write back something like "ATTENTION TRAINER! I am replying with the full text of this e-mail copied because I’m certain that one of your younger students must be e-mailing from your account, as these are things no adult would say. You might want to change your passwords!

[hey101]

@Ambrey;3666665

Hey, you know the sig line someone has that says “horse people are crazy. If you don’t know any crazy horse people, it’s you.?”

You now know it isn’t you

Ambrey, I wasn’t going to post but this is the EXACT same thing I was thinking!! I love that person’s sig… :lol:

hey man, real geldings wear pink. I used to have a WONDERFUL, sweet, love-bug, VERY effeminate gelding, and he just looked so adorable in his pink winter turnout blanket. He was turned out in a herd of four mares, so he was basically one of the girls anyway. :winkgrin:

[BuddyRoo]

Yeah…that’s one of my most famous quotes. LOL

And it SO applies.

[riverbell93]

Wheeee… That’s quite the email. I like the part about the hell spiral in particular. Best advice - don’t escalate. The situation is almost assured of becoming a complete fiasco if the OP responds in any way. Save the emails, and if the woman does anything, call the police. But don’t respond directly to her ever again.

I’m not sure the bit about watching the horses in the field is really threatening - the OP clearly knows a lot about the emailer (where her apartment is, etc.) so their community appears to be pretty small.