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Cleaning up after a horse....?
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There are laws about people cleaning up after their dog messes on the pavement, but is there any law about horses? There are 2 women who regularly ride their horses round the estate where I live and they let their horses poo all over the pavements. I have to walk my 2 children plus my baby in pram to school and we are always having to avoid it. It's even worse when it rains and it just spreads everywhere. I know it's not a pleasant subject but does anyone know? It's getting horrendous.
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Get a spade and bucket! Horse poo is briliant for the garden.....free manure!
i`ve never ridden on the pavement or seen anyone else do it ever. it`s a bit difficult to not notice a pile of horse shit.
Completely agree with you about this - write to your local paper, which is what I did about a particular beauty spot being ruined by thoughtless riders and it did the trick
The horse can be fitted with a bag, the same bag that is used for tournaments because the tournament organisers don't want horse crap everywhere either.
Of course it carries diseases just as any waste product that has sat in intestines and bowels before being passed does - that's how the whole system works: via bacterial breakdown. Last person that said that to me (and stated the same was true with rabbit excrement - stating it was just grass), I invited her to pick some up and rub it all over her face, if she believed it was just grass. Oddly enough, she declined to prove her point.
Children would also, at one time, be sent out with buckets to collect dog poo for the local tanist to use to stain leather - didn't make it a wise thing to do once we understood the nature of things.
No, it isn't.
They are quite common in the villages around me, they do cause a lot of mess on the cycle paths here.
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1742624&highlight=horse
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1700855&highlight=horse
I thought it carried tetanus bacteria.
Are you a mod?
It's missing cyclists and Avon catalogues...Bloody Avon woman riding her horse, left a catalogue I didn't want then killed a cyclist who was cycling on the pavement without lights and then sh*t on the pavement. The horse wasn't impressed with her lack of bowel control.
Tetanus is most commonly found in earth so gardens hold more of a risk than an avoidable pile of horse poo:eek:
how would they carry it?
i stand corrected on disease.
it`s an offence to ride on the pavement.
Higher concentrations in manure though. Also contains resistant e-coli.
Attach it to the side of the saddle in some sort of holder so that in hangs down from the horse. Then they can just lift it out of holder to use - the scooper could be compacted/extended by pushing and pulling it respectively.
I think I should go on Dragons Den.
Dog poo is also avoidable - but if dog owners are required to clean up after their dogs then so should horse owners. All it takes it to fit a bag to the horse and the problem is solved.
Friend of mine has stables and hand pick poo, the large bits out of the horse boxes. Are we not vacinated against tetanus anyway.? I got e coli from chicken once. My children got compylo bactor from dog poo, never anything fromm horses tho.