You actually blocked her. That’s different than restricting what they can see, and or “unfollowing”.
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You actually blocked her. That’s different than restricting what they can see, and or “unfollowing”.
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Oh trust me! I know now that I blocked her! I truly didn’t mean to, but that was my dumb of the day!!! When it comes to using the computer and social media, I am not a genius. **
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Same, I had to learn through necessity due to annoying family members lol. Right now I have my facebook deactivated, so I’m sure the rumors are flying that I have somehow abandoned everyone and that I’m a big meanie poo head. Ohhhhh well!
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I snooze people for 30 days a lot lately on FB. Lol
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Seagram, you could always really put the cat amongst the pigeons and apologize to her for blocking her, telling her that you were just trying to shut her up (evil grin 
:))
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Oooo, have a new one from briefly glancing at FB. A (fairly nice looking) GRP that the owner says needs to go TODAY!!!, despite posting the ad at 7:50pm EST. Enormous, stirrupless wintec dressage saddle rammed up onto pony’s withers, reins looped over cantle, “lunge lining” it by having a cattle dog chase it. Pony is probably a coiled spring ready to explode. But geez, I don’t blame it. 
If I were anywhere near the SE part of the US, I’d go get the pony. Anyone near there that wants a GRP at a fire sale price? PM me. I’ll direct you to the ad.
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I had to stuff my head in my jacket to scream this weekend.
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Know-it-all lady saying “I’ve researched, so I know enough about horse shoeing to comment on my farrier’s work.” Yeah lady? Then why is your horse footsore all the time, and you can’t see it? And why can’t you get your horse to pick up his feet? Same lady told her farrier what a bad job he was doing because there were some dead tabs of frog on his hoof.
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Other know it all lady calmly stating that her farrier gave her horse IV ace. Without a vet present. With an owner who knows F all about anything. ARGHHHHHH. Farriers!! It’s ok to say “I can’t get your horse done, I’m a shoer not a trainer. Next time you (owner!) need to either have worked with the horse so they’re ready or provide sedation.” There is no glory in carrying sedation on the truck with you!! Again, ARGHHHH!!!
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Our barn has a priority - riding, lunging, turnout. In that order. I’m riding in the arena on my young one who is having a spectacularly stupid day. Know-it-all lady walks in with her horse on the lunge, sends her horse out on his first circle (which is always an immediate GIDDY UP hiyah! type thing, no warm up, drives me bonkers). At that moment… she goes “Oh, Endless, do you mind if I lunge?” …I guess the answer is go on ahead, huh?
Ughhhhh
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I was asked to haul a horse that had been out on lease back to his home so I was there with a nice open 3 horse with a ramp. The owners were handling the loading only it wasn’t going so well in my opinion. It’s that they weren’t doing anything just standing there holding the horse. I asked if they wanted me to load and they said no, the horse had to “focus” on loading. huh? It seemed to me the horse was currently focused on eating the grass next to the trailer. After 45 minutes of grazing, they finally asked the horse to get in and he obliged them and did so. What should have been a 5 minute walk to the trailer, load in a leave, turned into an hour long hand grazing waiting for horse to become focused. Then they had the nerve to bitch about the trouble I had trying to turn the trailer around in their small odd shaped parking area.
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I just thought of another one. This happened quite a long while ago.
I had trailered over to the local trail head with my two dogs and the youngster who for her would be her first trail ride alone. While I’m tacking, a woman comes over with her horse in tow asking if she could ride with me. She had been hanging around the parking lot waiting for someone to show up that could ride with, lucky me. She then says that her horse doesn’t like dogs and would I mind leaving them behind. I told her no, it’s the middle of summer and I don’t want to leave them to roast, besides I brought them to come with me and come with me they will. She finally says okay and we mount up.
We get a little way down the trail and just turned a sharp corner when 3 riders come barreling up behind us and then past without slowing down. The dogs were trying to not get run over, her horse rears up and lady falls off. Horse takes off back to the trailer. Woman is laying on the ground moaning. Luckily my horse (good baby) held it together and was fine. I help her up, she’s a little banged up but nothing serious. I help her back to the trailer, catch her horse, untack it and load it in the trailer. I ask if she’s okay to drive and she said yes. She also blamed my dogs for it. She takes off without a thank you or anything. Years later I run into her again and she again blamed my dogs for her horse having a melt down.
As you can probably tell, she was novice, timid rider and usually bought totally unsuitable horses. The last time I saw her she had a big, very athletic quarter horse, who was also a bucker. She was trying to get someone at the horse camp we were at to ride it for her. Yeah, sure, not going to happen. She spent the entire weekend sitting in camp because she was too scared to ride her horse.
Here’s the capper, I just remembered this part. About a year ago, I found out from someone else that she came back from a ride and forgot to unload her horse. She found him dead, in her trailer SIX DAYS later! She left him in there, no food, no water for six days.
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Oh. My. God.
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That poor horse. First to be owned by her and then to die so horribly. I hope she never gets another horse ever.
She sounds like a woman I used to board with. She went thru horses like peanuts, each one more wildly unsuitable than the last. The last I saw her she weighed easily 400 lbs (possibly more) and was riding an Icelandic pony and having never learned to ride, fell off and had to be taken away by ambulance. Never to be seen again. Later heard she gave Icelandic back to breeders claiming it was dangerous.
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I just…No. Oh God, that is so far beyond terrible…
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I might have been the daily dumb today, because my young one took off on a tear on the lunge line, caught me by surprise, and pulled me flat on my face before I could lean back against her pull.
… Let’s just say shes going to sleep well tonight. This was day 3 in a row of shenanigans, and i have a 3 strikes and you’re out rule for that stuff.
Ugh, babies… love em, and hate em at the same time.
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Granted, farming has made me cynical & suspicious as hell of people but I can’t see how that was an accident. Even if the horse lives at home & the owner the sole caretaker, how does anyone miss the fact that they haven’t done horse chores in 6 days? I mean, I’m tired & stressed because I’ve got to go out of town tomorrow unexpectedly. Still, I just glanced over at the cat bed & thought “Wait! Where’s [cat who is indoors 99.99% of the time]?” And remembered with a start that he’d gone out the door 45 minutes earlier with his brother. At worst I would’ve noticed his absence at 5:30am the next morning; he always accompanies me into the kitchen to make coffee & often tries to “help” me wake up when my alarm goes off. And every horse I know would’ve been screaming & kicking the hell out of the trailer fairly quickly upon being left alone on there. The whole world used to know when I dared leave the baby green on the trailer to walk the 200 yards to the show secretary.
I hope animal services investigated this nut.
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High school equestrian “instructor” in the 20x40 indoor on a cold, wet day, so the arena is a bit crowded. Has a kid on a lunge line and three more milling about aimlessly and unpredictably. 14ish yo boy on a horse who is going to canter for the first time on the lunge, and she tells him to feel his hoofbeats. The instructor chases the horse into a rather rushed canter on the wrong lead. The poor horse is trying to keep his balance while careening around on the wrong lead, and she says to count his hoof beats–as she calls out, “ONE two THREE four” (!?) for every two strides the horse takes. The poor kid was trying desperately to feel the feet, count with the instructor, and sit an off balance horse who was also tense and confused and not exactly a smooth mover to start. It didn’t end in disaster, thankfully, but it made me and my horse tense just watching it while trying to avoid collisions with the other riders who have never been taught arena right of way and are aimlessly milling about, doing canter to halts. They didn’t know left to left and would essentially play chicken and nearly collided with me several times. I never got above a walk that day. My horse was a saint, but after a few of those types of days she developed issues passing oncoming horses that made my warm ups hairy for years to come.
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I hope like hell she was charged with animal cruelty. That is absolutely horrible.
Seriously, did she never hear him whinnying? Didn’t she think, “Wow, how long has it been since I last saw Dobbin in his paddock?” I mean, WT actual F?!
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I didn’t hear but I hope she had some kind of medical issue (stroke maybe) that caused her to forget about her horse. I would think he would be making a fuss after a couple of hours, I know my horse would.
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Here’s another one; no horse deaths:
I used to work at a barn where the barn owner insisted that for lead line classes, the leader was supposed to dress just like the rider. So this one local show had a lead line class and she’d dress in her breeches, boots, hunt coat, stock tie, and helmet to lead her granddaughter around on her pony. This was the only time she wore any of these garments as she didn’t ride.
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That’s kind of a shame–she’d have had so much more fun dressing up an wearing a cute hat like the English lead rein moms!
If being totally impractical = being dumb, then those outfits are utterly dumb. They became ‘standard’ about the time Princess Diana made the little, upstanding frilly collar fashionable and the show jacket and skirt are made of heavy tweed. Trot a pony around an arena on a summer day and I don’t know why the moms, under their cute tweed hats, don’t expire from heat stroke! Men, as usual, have it easier and even lead in shirt sleeves. There are no formal rules to insist on moms outfits.
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