horse people that know everthing...

[dustys_girlly]

there is a guy who lives down the hill from us who got a horse last month. when he build the pen for her he only set the posts about a foot in the ground and the gate is held closed by a small board set across keeping it closed. then he build a feeder that is set above the horses withers. when ever we tried to give him some advice to make the pen more secure for the horse he would just go on and on about how he knows what he is doing. then after he gets the horse and puts her in there he decided to seed it, so he has a sprinkler going on in there all the time with the horses walking on in. mind you it is a small paddock. all that is not bad just stupid. but for the last two weeks every time we drive by the horses is always laying down, and i mean always. so i called our land lord (he rents a house and land from them too) and asks her about it, she says the same thing and she is worried about the horse and asks me to stop by to get a better look. so i did (never went into the paddock, never touched the horse just looked) and he comes over and starts yelling at my husband who was with me. he said why we where there, horse looked off and we where worried, being neighborly. and he keeps going off on us. we leave and go home after saying sorry for trying to be helpful. he comes up to our house half hour latter and starts yelling at us again! after about 10 minuets of hubby trying to talk to him and him yelling over use we just went back to working on our truck and ignore him. but back to the horse when we went to town the horse was laying in front of the water troff. we come back from town 2 hour later and the horse is now standing in the same place with both back legs under her self and together. then when she went to bite at a fly and shifted her weight she flinched so bad. during the course of the guy yelling at us he said he was walking her about a mile or two a day on our drive way. our drive was is really steep and extremely rocky. and thats way she is always laying down, she was tired. its not that she looks so sore that she cant walk as well as we(land lords, me and hubby) think she might be colicy too. but tomorrow my farrier is going to shoe the horse if he can(the guy called him out) and he is coming up afterwords so we get to find out what is truly wrong with her. i feel so bad for that horse because when he got her she was sound and running around her paddock and then 2 weeks later she can barely walk. i cant stand people that can do this to a horse and not notice and say the horse is perfectly healthy.

sorry for the rant but i just had to get all that out.

[vicklynn]

I have one word.
Dumb@ss

I hope your farrier gets to the bottom of this and talks to the guy, and the idiot listens.

[rodeogrl]

i HATE people like this! I swear there should be a class you have to take before you can own a horse!!!

I know a lady back home who bought her horse from an auction (kudos to her for that) however, she has just had the horse a yr this past spring. The horse was a green broke, spastic 4yr old when she got him and up until i left for OK in Dec he was still very green and spooky. She however has been running him in the barrel pattern, now shes prolly 14 yrs older than me but has only been barrel racing for 2 yrs. I tried tellin her that her horse needs a lot more slow work before she can really run him but she doesnt listen and continued to run him. She doesnt believe in warming up or exhibitions on him even tho it may be at a place hes never seen. Well recently (3months ago?) the horse was diagnosed with Navicular. She took the horse to Dr. Riddle in MD who is the one who diagnosed him (she thought he has lymes :mad:). The vet told her this horse may never be able to run again because of his condition, does she listen to any of his treatments? No. She actually just obtained another local vet whose telling her completly different than the leg specialist! Not even 2 months after his diagnosis she was running this horse at a barrel race on a saturday....he ducked the second barrel, suprisingly enough the same leg he has his navicular. so then instead of trying to find out if hes sore or treating him she took him to a barrel race the next day and ran him another 2 times!! Shes still running him everyweekend. Full throttle and ontop of it all. She just bought 2 babies. One is 3 months old, aready being weaned and the other is a month younger. She makes me angry!

[Jump The Moon]

Grr! I hope that poor horse is okay, and that man listens!
Even the 'best' most experienced horse people need to take good advice.

[Rabid_Raccoon]

That is so upsetting! The poor horse. It's lucky that you, who know about horses and care about them enough to do something about the situation, live next door.

[grandmadeb]

There are "know it alls" in every walk of life and they usually know little if anything. Unfortunately his stupidity will end up with an animal suffering. I am glad you are on alert and don't hesitate to call in the proper authorities if he insists on being stupid.

[FatSpottedAppy]

Uggg.. :(

Both of those stories are so sad. I hope the owners get what should be coming for them.

[XshadowfoxX]

Even the 'best' most experienced horse people need to take good advice.


-nodnod-
Amen.
I totally agree with that

[Spyder]

i HATE people like this! I swear there should be a class you have to take before you can own a horse!!!



N/M..not worth it.