The worst experience that I had in 30 years of boarding:
I try to submit important notes to BOs in writing, so I attached a note that my horse needs a stall with a paddock and not to put her to the dark box stall since she is known to get very upset in the closed spaces = if so, I'll have to find another barn. What do you know? After 2 years of boarding at that barn with out any complaints/confrontations from me or from BO, I come back from a business trip and see a message on my home phone that my mare was moved by the barn stuff to the box stall, and a day or 2 later she coliked.
Do you think that BO cared? Not at all. They said that it was lucky that she was in the box stall, in a busier barn and that somebody noticed her coliking. The vet however said that it's more than a coincidence that she coliked for the very first time right after she got moved to the box stall that she didn't like. My mare spend 3 days in the equine hospital on IV and I moved her to the new barn to the large stall with the paddock, right from the hospital as per advice of my vet.
I don't see how BO had owners or horse's best interest in this case. No, it was a business decision, b/c there was a new trainer moving to the barn and she wanted only stalls with paddocks. So a handful of horses got moved from their stalls with paddocks to the box stalls to accommodate a new trainer moving in. All of those owners were very upset and most move out with bitter taste in their mouths. and BO? She could care less; she had new boarders come in.
I came back to town already after several others tried to reason with the BO and it made no difference. So looking at their miserable experience of cold shoulders, BO avoidance, dragon-lady stares, whispers behind their backs, or even screaming matches with BO after being loyal and good boarders for many years = I just gave a written notice and moved out ASAP. BO didn't care that a handful of her boarders were leaving b/c of those box stalls, so there was no point in reasoning.
I try to submit important notes to BOs in writing, so I attached a note that my horse needs a stall with a paddock and not to put her to the dark box stall since she is known to get very upset in the closed spaces = if so, I'll have to find another barn. What do you know? After 2 years of boarding at that barn with out any complaints/confrontations from me or from BO, I come back from a business trip and see a message on my home phone that my mare was moved by the barn stuff to the box stall, and a day or 2 later she coliked.
Do you think that BO cared? Not at all. They said that it was lucky that she was in the box stall, in a busier barn and that somebody noticed her coliking. The vet however said that it's more than a coincidence that she coliked for the very first time right after she got moved to the box stall that she didn't like. My mare spend 3 days in the equine hospital on IV and I moved her to the new barn to the large stall with the paddock, right from the hospital as per advice of my vet.
I don't see how BO had owners or horse's best interest in this case. No, it was a business decision, b/c there was a new trainer moving to the barn and she wanted only stalls with paddocks. So a handful of horses got moved from their stalls with paddocks to the box stalls to accommodate a new trainer moving in. All of those owners were very upset and most move out with bitter taste in their mouths. and BO? She could care less; she had new boarders come in.
I came back to town already after several others tried to reason with the BO and it made no difference. So looking at their miserable experience of cold shoulders, BO avoidance, dragon-lady stares, whispers behind their backs, or even screaming matches with BO after being loyal and good boarders for many years = I just gave a written notice and moved out ASAP. BO didn't care that a handful of her boarders were leaving b/c of those box stalls, so there was no point in reasoning.
The armchair saddler
Politically Pro-Cat
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