Horse ****!

[c00ky83]

How come horse users get away with their animals ****ting all over roads and paths?  If my dog made that mess I'd be locked up.

[camille79]

Horse-riders don't ride on the pavement, and rarely on residential roads, so there isn't the inconvenience for pedestrians that dog poo creates.  Also, the quantity is such that using a giant pooper-scooper isn't very realistic!  If I'm riding on a narrow track or a path leading past houses, I always jump off and clear the dung to the side of the road.

Incidentally, I'd rather tread in horse or cow dung than dogsh1t anyday.  Afterall it's just hay, grass and oats - not rotten dogfood!

[shaz-rla]

You also cant get toxoplasmosis or nasty infections from horse muck, I don't think it smells as bad either!!

[cat woman]

Horse Poo is a excellent fertiliser for rose bushes!  :-)

[smudge]

I'd much rather tread in horse poo than dog poo any day, for all the reasons given! :o}

[rampart]

How do you propose the violators clean up after themselves? I can only imagine the next coronation.

[silly moo]

I live in a medium sized rural village - approx 2000 people - surrounded by lanes , bridle tracks , etc etc and we get a lot of people riding their horses along the residential streets of the village. Even the streets in the small housing estates.
I hate walking through ANY poo and wish these riders would keep away from outside my house.

[woofgang]

Ha!! I live in Hampshire and horse riders ride on residential roads and on the pavement around here too. You get Tetanus from horse poo!! 

[woofgang]

http://www.horsedata.co.uk/Diseases.htm

here's the link

[woofgang]

PS I love horses, don't own one, rode until recently (injury) and am a committed pooper scooper on behalf of my dog

[smudge]

I'd prefer not to tread in 'any' poo either, but if I accidentally did, I would have preferred it to be horse poo - well, that was until I read that link woofgang - very interesting reading!

[camille79]

Horses have no place on pavements!  I'd get out there and tell them off Woofgang, you're within your rights. 

I sometimes ride down a path which passes between a farmhouse and it's barns and am always terrified that my horse will "go" outside the owner's front door.  I've now started riding with a disposable glove in my pocket in case this happens.  Most horse-owners are not at all squeamish about their horse's poo so I don;t see why we can't all do this.  Okay, you can't exactly take the offending deposit home with you but you can shift it to a verge or ditch rather than slap bang in the middle of the path.

[mika jones]

its because dogs a carnivors and as such thier poo has alot more germs than that of a horse.also horse dirt rots much quicker.

[woofgang]

not necessarily true Mika!

[lalalaland]

you can only get tetanus from horse poo if that horse is unvaccinated and any sensible horse owner has theirs vaccinated-i know my mare wud be dead if she wasnt, the amount of injuries she gets!

it is illegal i think for riders to ride on pavements but where i ride(totteridge,north london) we have to as cars and buses never stick to the 30mph speed limit and alot of chavs in their cars beep at us if we r on the roads. it would be nice to stick to what is right but inconsiderate road users force us to take to the pavements

[Casualtybabe]

horses cannot really be trained to not *poo* anywhere, they just dont think, its not the riders fault, my friend rode a horse, and it used to have a habit of *pooing* in the same spot every time it walked along that specific route, the houseowners used to come out with a shovel and ask us to shove it on the plants!!!
Thats what we should do, I'm sure if you asked, they would be quite willing, they do enough of it at the stable