As someone who is paying for keeping my 3 horses, bought land, and take care of them daily I am offended that someone would make these demands especially in a tight economy. Money doesn’t grow on trees and since we here are offering to allow our horses to be ridden for free I am offended. All she had to say was her riding ability or what she can handle and not phrase it in a demanding way such as MUST that would be something you would say if you were in the market to spend your own money and this is not a thread to advertise. When those of us so generously offer to allow people to ride our horses and someone starts demanding specifics instead of saying what they can handle, it’s rather ungrateful so I did feel a need to say something. I’d hate to see this thread closed down because of advertising or to have riders dictating to those of us with the horses their REQUIREMENTS/DEMANDS. Yeah, I do find that offensive but I also said that perhaps the poster didn’t understand that since they were new. The way it was written it was looking as though she were expecting to pay something and we don’t do that here and those who have been in COTH for a while know it’s not allowed. That would be the classifieds for a ad fee.
So if you think I was offensive, why didn’t you say her post was offensive because it was to me. Maybe I should have let it go but I became defensive when I read it. I don’t think I went too far, but tell me how you would have handled that gut reaction. Are you a rider looking for a ride or a horse owner? I would expect there’s a big difference in the perspective.
As I see it she was looking a gift horse in the mouth.
