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[RC] bucking the property owner - Kat - k s swigart

Alexis Mills said:


What makes the opinion of the property owner
and anti-barefoot vet more valid than that of the
barefoot trimmer and vet who examined him five
days later?


On her property, her opinion is more valid, period. ANY property owner
who does not agree with the way I am taking care of my horse (no matter
what aspect of horse care it is) is perfectly within his/her rights to
tell me to take my horse somewhere else.


And how is seeking a second opinion "refusing to do anything"?


The second opinion you got was "you don't need to do anything."  She
obviously had no respect for that opinion.  I was speaking from her
point of view.

YOU obiously had no respect for HER opinion (or her vet's).  The BEST
course of action for everybody here was for you to find someplace else
to keep your horse where the owner and the caretaker do not disagree
about the best way to care for the horse.

You didn't get asked to move your horse because you want to keep your
horse barefoot.  You got asked to move your horse because you have no
respect for the opinion of the person who owns the property.

She is of the opinion that you are abusing your horse.  Property owners
SHOULD ask the people they believe to be horse abusers to leave their
property.  The fact that not everybody agrees that you are abusing your
horse (yourself included) is irrelevant, SHE thinks it. (Aside:
Personally, I have no opinion about whether it is appropriate for your
horse to be barefoot or not, since I haven't seen your particular horse
while at the same time I have seen barefoot horses who do just fine, and
I have seen barefoot horses with owners who unable to identify that
their horse has sore feet).

I don't expect to keep my stallion on the property of somebody who
thinks that stallions are the devil's spawn (there ARE some people who
think this).  If I cannot persuade them otherwise, I need to find
somewhere else.

_I_ currently drive an hour each way to go to where I keep my stallion,
since there isn't anywhere closer that will allow me to keep him the way
I want.  I could keep him closer to home if I were to geld him (or to
put him in a box stall), but I don't consider either of these an option,
so I drive.

You could keep your horse closer to home if you were to shoe him, but
you don't consider that an option, so you drive.

Keeping your horse with somebody who agrees with (or at least can live
with) your horse care choices (no matter what they are) is ESSENTIAL.
Accept this as a difference of opinion about how horses should be cared
for, and, as an aside, acknowledge that as the property owner, her
opinion carries more weight on her property.

I can remember once speaking with the professor of my macro-economics
class about a test question that he had marked wrong as we had a
disagreement over the definition of the word "simultaneous."  At the end
of the discussion he stated that while he could understand how/why I had
misunderstood the test question because of the inclusion of the word
simultaneous he also said, "But I am the teacher and you are the
student; you know what that means don't you?"

To which I responded, "Yes, it means that you are right, and I am
wrong."  After which he said something along the lines of "I am glad to
see that, at least, you understand that concept."

You don't have to agree with the property owner's opinion about your
horse's hoof care to acknowledge that she is well within her rights to
hold that opinion and that on her property, "She is right, and you are
wrong."

It is better for everybody involved, including the horse, for you to
take your horse somewhere where the property owner doesn't think you are
abusing your horse. 'Cuz I'm tellin' ya.  That is probably the way she
sees what you are doing.

There are a multitude of differences of opinion about what constitutes
horse abuse.

kat
Orange County, Calif.
:)



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