WoW ! that would be difficult to observe ! Guess they have never witnessed a fatal horse accident. Very disturbing …can’t imagine BO would allow such craptastic behaviors.
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“Rodeo” around here means little britches, high school, college, jackpots and PRCA pro rodeo stuff.
Today that means very competitive leagues, regional and national competitions and awards, breakaway/tie-down/team roping, barrels and poles, etc. etc.
There are high school and college teams and many other groups, several in some areas, that have their own circuit of events and year end competitions.
Rodeo teams in schools are considered around here as important as football, basketball, track and such.
The training and riding can be nice and very accomplished for the task at hand, to fair to awful when it comes to horsemanship, you can see it all there.
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I’m tangentially in the mustang world and i’m appalled with the lack of horsemanship i see in those circles. The insensitivity and meanness, the total lack of respect and zero empathy Cowboying, ‘rodeo’ huh? The word ‘rodeo’, to me, brings to mind animal abuse. Not something i would be ever be proud of. Totally different world-view. Like 180 from how i think about all things horse.
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I had a friend who owned dogs, and rode with me. She called the horses’ blankets “coats.” Understandable.
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When doing my Level 1 we used the New Zealand Pony Club Manual. How could there be nothing in there about hooves or rugs?
I gave up with the contents and flipped through the book instead.
I found feet and covers.
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Mr. Trainer tried to take his giant trailer through the breezeway between the center barn and the south barn and found out the hard way that his trailer is too tall.
Never mind the fact that boarders have no business driving around the back of the barn for anything short of an emergency. The pass through is for the BO. We have a GIANT turn around in the front of the barn, you don’t need to drive around back.
He says “I just bumped it”. Yeah right, the whole header beam is cracked off. And he used to be a truck driver!!
God, I could never be a BO of a large facility. Never, ever, ever.
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Trying to decide what to do here.
Crazy Lady has stepped off her ledge, and is now telling everyone in the barn (except me of course!) that my former farrier has “bad things to say about me”. He’s a former farrier because he could not keep to a schedule. Farrier and I may not be BFFs, but we still are civil with each other, and quip nicely at each other on social media. I don’t even care that she would say that, in general.
It’s the nature of the “bad things to say” though. She is telling people that my former farrier says that I’m sex crazed, amongst other really off-color things. A good barn friend told me, and I 100% trust him to tell me the truth and not make something up.
Seriously, WTF. What an off the wall thing to make up out of her pea brain to try and spread a rumor about. It’s so out of line and inappropriate. Dare say… I’m actually a little offended.
Should I take this to the barn owner, or let it go?
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I personally let stuff like that go.
If people want to believe that stuff then no amount of anyone telling them otherwise will change their mind. So why get in a battle over it? Be you. Don’t go to the barn in just your thong and lacey bra and …
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Let it go… don’t add fuel to the fire.
Our ex trainer told some one I wasn’t getting proper care for our horse. She felt something was wrong but what was wrong was her training. Anyways, it made me laugh because anyone who knows me knows that is a complete lie. The trainer saying that about me makes her look bad not me.
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I dunno. I wouldn’t respond to gossip along the lines of LS’s old farrier says she isn’t feeding her horse right or some such nonsense about horse care. But to spread rumors about me of a personal nature ie sex crazed is crossing the damn line.
As a young woman, a staff (male) member made an off color comment about me of a similar nature. I handled that directly with him along the lines of keep your mouth shut about my personal business or else. In his face or else. With a side of strongly implied physical violence.
I wouldn’t advise threatening to beat her up or anything but yeah I wouldn’t let something like that go unanswered. YMMV
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I’m contemplating just asking the BO what he thinks I should do, just he and I. That way, I’m not adding to the drama of the barn, but he still is made aware of what’s going on.
I just wish people like this would mind their own business. I’m 100% OK just keeping it civil and not talking otherwise. I want these people to take up ZERO of my brain space, and likewise. I don’t go to the barn for socialization - I go for my horses. Period.
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I should add - the BO and I are friends. 20+ years of friendship. I’ve been at this barn since I was 13 years old (yikes, that sounds scary, haha). It’s not a “normal” BO/boarder relationship.
And to edit: I’m still around because I DONT cause drama, and I’ve always got the BOs back. I fix things, drag arenas, water, cob, dust, etc. I know that the place isn’t perfect, but it’s a place I like, and I know I don’t always agree with the BO or what he does but we are still friends.
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The other annoying thing is why do we see a woman being sex crazed and something that is gossip worthy.
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No kidding. I’m going to need two 10’ poles hooked together for this lady.
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Reason 127 why I’ve brought mine home. I straight up don’t have the time to socialize at the barn. I’ve got a bunch of stuff to do and not enough time.
In your shoes, yes I’d say something to the BO. Others will / may feel differently.
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I just said this to my SO. He has the same feelings while out with his hunting/trialing dogs. It’s supposed to be about you and the animal, but it turns into more when people cause drama.
FFS I just helped this lady bridle one of her horses because after 30 mins of trying she asked me for help. This AFTER the big debacle where she told me no one likes me. Then she turns around with this shit? Screw that, I’m never helping her again. HEADPHONES.
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@endlessclimb It is bothersome, but its going to turn into a she said/she said. so she is supposedly telling people that your former farrier is saying bad things (off-color) things about you? I know you trust your source, but ultimately if you are not hearing it yourself you can’t prove anything. Plus you don’t want to drag your source into this, as she could point her ire towards him later.
These things are almost always a twisted game of telephone. Maybe crazy lady heard former farrier say “endless cllmb has a really good seat” and since she is well… crazy, and probably jealous and a little intimidated, she twists what she heard into something really inappropriate and mean. True to gossipy biddy rules, she projects her feelings towards you onto someone else so THEY are the bad guy (farrier) and not her.
I’d leave BO out of it, and just confront crazy lady saying that you are hearing some pretty wild rumors are being spread about you and if she has any idea of where they started. Of course she wont admit anything, but she will know that you are onto her. She is probably a spineless coward so will likely stop.
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The only thing my farrier said about me to someone else when finding out my age was “I didn’t know she was that old” 
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I think that’s one I’d bring up with the ex farrier, EC.
If he’s actually the one being a malicious gossip it will shut him up in short order, and if not, he will probably be horrified and deal with it.
I had a barn mate going around telling everyone I was a drunk after I’d passed out, (stone cold sober I might add, but yay hormones and hot summer!) at a social event. That’s a serious accusation in this particular environment, so when I heard about it, I was sufficiently irate that I called her on it publicly, in the busy barn aisle. Never seen anyone backpedal so fast in my life.
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Last night I got to talk face-to-face with the barn friend who told me what she said.
There was more, and it was worse. Brought it to the BO (again, to ask what he thinks I should do here). How embarrassing to actually have those things come out of my mouth, to the BO who I regard as a father figure and more like family than a BO…
It’s going to be dealt with, on blessing from the BO. The “conversation” (which will not be a conversation, I will be telling her to leave me the F out of whatever she is up to) will either be witnessed or recorded so she can’t twist it later.
I don’t understand her intention. I don’t think I need or want to.
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