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    Txting while riding or working with horses

    I was at the barn a bit ago and I noticed kids were txting while mounted and waiting for the trainer and while tacking and untacking. While I think it is excellent for kids to have their phones to be in contact with their parents I really think while they are working with horses they shouldn't have phones so they can have their full attention on the horses not phones. Any phone rules at your barns? Am I just being over sensitive?
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    I'm guilty of this. It's just a stupid as texting while driving, but I have done it.

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    • #3
      Guilty of this as well. Mainly while sitting on the horse waiting or walking around and cooling out. Probably not a good idea...

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      • #4
        Old boss was terrible for riding and talking on phone ... very annoying for us grooms!

        I am guilty of working and phoning mainly to my boss. Rarely texting ( i'm insanely slow at texting so rather just phone). But am ready to drop the phone or hang up if horse goes nuts ( can be common with tbs/yearlings!)

        I don't if the farrier is working on horse specially on the young stock.

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        • #5
          It is a shame that people can't just enjoy sitting on a horse. I guess that is just too boring for many so they have to entertain themselves by texting
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          • #6
            Any phone rules at your barns?
            I make them leave phones in their tack boxes and I don't even let people talk on their cellphones in the barn/arena area. It annoys the hell out of me when I am trying to teach and someone is behind me talking on a cell phone.
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            • #7
              I don't let the teens text while working with the horses. One was puzzled when I made her put her phone away when she was leading a horse out of the field....
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              • #8
                We have a great trainer, she is very positive and sweet. And she would hang you by your toes if she caught you texting around her horses. She doesn't answer her phone or even look at it if it goes off and a horse is out of its stall. Our girls don't even bring their phone out of the car.
                Although its never been discussed and there are no specific rules she sets a great example by not using her phone.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Stormgsd View Post
                  I was at the barn a bit ago and I noticed kids were txting while mounted and waiting for the trainer and while tacking and untacking. While I think it is excellent for kids to have their phones to be in contact with their parents I really think while they are working with horses they shouldn't have phones so they can have their full attention on the horses not phones. Any phone rules at your barns? Am I just being over sensitive?
                  You have got to be kidding? What is so god awful important that they have to make a phone call or send a message while they are on a horse? Wow. Bad idea all around.

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                  • #10
                    I will answer the phone when I am tacking up, but I am usually by myself. I don't ever text while I'm riding and have only answered the phone while I'm riding if I thought it was some sort of emergency call. What was always annoying to me was when a trainer will take time out of a lesson to answer a phone call.

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                    • #11
                      One can only hope that they drop the phone and the horse steps on it.
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                      • #12
                        Mr P travels for business and is often in a secure facility that does not allow cell phones.

                        If my phone rings I always check and answer if he is calling. We don't talk long, but not knowing when he will get another chance I always answer.
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                        • #13
                          I just saw a guy loping around the ring answer his phone and continue loping without missing a stride.

                          It was surreal. And not something I would ever do.

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                          • #14
                            I will say this- when my DH is on orders with the Air Force and I do not know when I will here from him....yes, I ride with my phone, sleep with my phone, shower with my phone, take my phone to restaurants....because if he calls he may or may not be able to answer a call back from me and texting is one of the few ways I can be in touch with him. I will text and ride and talk on the phone and ride. I am sure it isn't the safest but...ultimately I can think of far worse things, my missing a chance to talk with my DH being one of those things. So....at least in some cases the decision to do something like that has been thought through actually....
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                            • #15
                              I ride with my phone and answer it. Could be the school or one of my kids needing me. I also have an elderly mother. Not going to chance being out of contact. I can usually pull the phone out and answer without disrupting anyone else - even if we are cantering along on a trail. If I can check the # and know it isn't an emergency I'll let it go to VM.

                              Most of the kids I know ride with their phones in case of emergency but I don't see them talking or texting. Or at least not often enough for it to be a problem and never in a dangerous situation.

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                              • #16
                                I once watched a "trainer" put in a training ride on a customer's horse with his blue tooth ear piece on, jump the horse around while talking to someone, and miss every.single.distance. Great training.
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                                • #17
                                  Originally posted by Jaideux View Post
                                  I just saw a guy loping around the ring answer his phone and continue loping without missing a stride.
                                  Well, yeah, I do that sort of thing, too. Just as I chat with other people while riding. I truly don't see a problem with it, but then I've been riding for decades and I've trained my horses to be steady eddies so that one CAN tend to things while sitting on them. I could read a book on them, too. I would venture to say that many riders I see would be amazed at how their horses relax and perform better if they do focus on 'doing something else' instead of tensing up about what the horse might do. Not recommending cell phone use for such folks, per se, but for example singing engages the brain and allows rider to relax, and thus horse relaxes.

                                  My cell phone is always on my belt when riding- though I'm often in areas that don't have coverage, in which case it's off to save the battery. But when I do trail patrol, yes, if the need arises I call the police to report violations or suspicious activity. And I do answer the phone when it rings, there are a number of medical issues among family members that could rear their ugly heads at any time.

                                  I don't text, myself, but of course that's the 'norm' for today's young folk. For sure, etiquette ought to dictate that cell phones are turned OFF (not just to silent) if one is taking a lesson. And- using cell phones on horseback does NOT equate to using cell phones while driving, which I don't do. Being distracted while driving a fatal hunk of metal down the road is quite a different matter and poses risks to self and others.

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                                  • #18
                                    Originally posted by myvanya View Post
                                    I will say this- when my DH is on orders with the Air Force and I do not know when I will here from him....yes, I ride with my phone, sleep with my phone, shower with my phone, take my phone to restaurants....because if he calls he may or may not be able to answer a call back from me and texting is one of the few ways I can be in touch with him. I will text and ride and talk on the phone and ride. I am sure it isn't the safest but...ultimately I can think of far worse things, my missing a chance to talk with my DH being one of those things. So....at least in some cases the decision to do something like that has been thought through actually....
                                    Also Mr P knows that I am alone, working with the horses. One of our safety procedures is the cell phone check in.

                                    I'll tell him if I am having a lesson at noon or the farrier is due at 3 and he will usually avoid those times. If he calls then it's probably something important....or he forgot
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                                    • #19
                                      talking on the phone while riding, I get. No different than talking to somebody in the arena, you just don't have to yell as loud.

                                      But texting?!
                                      You gotta be kidding! It takes too many senses to accomplish.

                                      As for those of you who need to be available, you are the few, the majority, and that includes almost all teens, are not in need to be accessable all the time.

                                      I see it as a ZEN thing: do one thing at a time. When you drive you drive, you ride you ride, when you communicate you communicate.

                                      I shocked a kid the other day when I told him I don't even know how to text.
                                      I know, I am turning into my Mom who has to call me several times to ask me her email addy and password...

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                                      • #20
                                        At an ASB show I went to last year, a trainer from a well-known stable had three adult amateur horse/rider combinations in one class. She had just yelled at one of the riders in the warm-up ring for not being fully focused on her horse...

                                        As soon as the horses went through the gate, the trainer was on her cell phone. Which she stayed on through the entire class as she called out instructions from the rail.

                                        One of her riders won the class, and as she ran in for the awards presentation, she threw the phone at me and said, "Here, talk to them until I get back!" Fortunately, it was someone I actually knew.

                                        Wouldn't you hate to be the rider(s) paying for THAT class?

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