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Amen.Live and let live. Horses kick, paw or damage things all the time. And 
if I was so concerned about things like that, well, I wouldn't haul anyone. 
And save us all the aggravation of my aggravation.

Of course if it was really significant damage and my horse had caused it, I 
would most def. offer to fix. Its the polite thing to do. Dings, scrapes, 
dents? Naah...... A crowbar fix will do just fine.

Kel










> From: "k s swigart" <katswig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Ridecamp" <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [RC]   Hauling other People's Horses
> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:08:33 -0700
>
> Sandy said:
>
> > In addition, I had one horse kick my trailer almost
> > to pieces a few years back and while the owner
> > SHOULD have paid to have it put back the way
> > it was, they ended up only doing a little minor pounding
> > it back in to place kind of thing - and I will never haul
> > them again for love or money.
>
> Having hauled my own and other people's horses and having loaned out my
> trailer to other people to use, I must confess that fixing dings from a
> horse kicking in a trailer would be really low on my list of priorities
> if somebody else's horse did that in my trailer, and if the person who
> owned the horse offered to pay to have it fixed I would tell them not to
> worry about it, horses kick in trailers all the time, and I have yet to
> see one that doesn't have some kick marks in it.
>
> And when one woman I let borrow my trailer misjudged her gate post and
> bent the fender, she offered to have body work done on it to fix it, but
> I told her not to worry about it, that it could have happened to
> anybody, and that it was unlikely to be the last dent in it.  We got out
> a crow bar to make sure the tire cleared the fender.  Ten years later it
> is still that way, and still just as functional as it always has been
> and with a lot more dents in it just because it has been around horses
> who are really good at denting things.
>
> For me, if some damage happens to something of mine that I have loaned
> out or shared with somebody else, I ask myself the question, "How would
> I fix this if it were me or my horse who had done the damage?"  And I
> don't let other people fix things that I wouldn't bother to fix myself.
>
> I am curious, how many people would have body work done on their own
> trailer if their horse kicked dents in it?
>
> kat
> Orange County, Calif.
>
>
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