I think Moobli could be right here though. If you live in a place where it is perfectly normal to find the cows from the local farm have decided to invade the kids playground overnight, or you get the odd group of ponies deciding they are bored and fancy a wander then the odd bit of horse poo doesn't bother you. However, we have a couple of new estates now and they are very buttoned up about the whole thing, mainly because it is a new experience for them maybe??? The funniest thing (when I look back, I wasn't laughing then I was fuming) was when I had taken old Tawney out for slow walk round and she did her business near the village church. As she was on stroke medication it wasn't pleasant, but I cleared it up as you do, passed 2 women from the new estate who had been watching me like hawks (or so they thought) and they said to me 'Oh aren't you going to clear THAT up then' I said 'Oh whats this, bloody scotch mist??' and waved my little bag at them. They said not a word!!! Everyone knew the situation with Tawney and were very sympathetic, and everyone knew I cleared up after her, I find some of the people moving around here very intolerant of everything. The church clock is no longer allowed to chime for instance. Can you imagine their faces if I had been on a horse??? Yet a few years ago, before the estate was built her mother used to graze on that piece of land, I know we have to have progress, but at what price to normal everyday things? Just because people haven't any experience of animals surely shouldn't mean they are intolerant of them when they move into a rural area.

Now if you're talking pavements, then I totally agree, it shouldn't be there, I was never guilty of this, well, my horse wasn't I mean! Sometimes though, to avoid a major accident or incident, then yes, I would get on the pavement in the village, but I'm darn sure I'd feel really guilty about it and now I've got to be hoping and praying that he doesn't want to have a dump too while I'm at it!!!

I suggest you go on that lovely website I found called fixmystreet, and there, you can find your area, find the pavement in question, and send it off to your own district council, because quite honestly, if it's happening time and time again, then it's not a one off incident where somebody had to get themselves out of trouble occasion is it, and so yet again, I am finding myself having to agree with you on this one A!!! I do NOT agree that it has to be carted around when on a 10 mile ride out in the countryside though, nor on bridleways where they have the right of way either, and not on the roads in a village where it's only natural. I like nature and this is a natural sight and smell for me, it doesn't bother me in the slightest and Georgie just loves it!

I don't live in a rural area, but I am in the countryside a lot. I don't see it as a town and country thing...

Lol, I had a puffa bodywarmer... in light fawn, bad idea! Go for navy or brown everytime!
The shavings would've been in my hair together with pine needles and twigs from trekking through the woods like lunatics..... and before anyone starts they were private woods.
I must scan some pics of my horse, been meaning to for ages.

H...I'm not the OP and don't have a problem with horse dung/manure/s**t...not even around the stables ....just saying that in some places riders should clear up...

me too i lived in Muck in my teens helping at Rschool, Then working there, when i had my old horse i deep littered her & picked up her poo with bare hands all day long, nothing wrong with it!!!!!

Shes right! I used that recently as someone had dumped some furniture etc in the wood where I was the dogs and it was gone in two days! (Forgot to tell you that H as I'm sure it was you who posted about that website).

Oh, oh oh! What a lovely thread!

We use TONS of manure on my veg patch - thoughtfully provided by my best friends horses

We live in the middle of the country AND by the sea (and on the convergance of several bridle paths). There is often lots of horse poo on the road. There are also lots of livestock around us, so we often have to stop for "Cows Crossing" (or, in one case, "Llamas Crossing" )

I am not ashamed to say I will get myself a bucket and spade and pick the darned stuff up for my garden!!

I know from all the planning office dealings with our next door neighbours, that horse manure can be classed as dangerous waste. They have had to apply for a "waste store" to be built (3 sided breeze block store) for their manure and have had to sign things to say that it isn't near any sort of water supply or drainage area, as it's classed as "dangerous waste", and also that they have to have all the specialist transfer papers if someone official is coming to take it away (i.e. not a gardener with a barrow or trailer) and dispose of it.

It is nasty when you come across some on a pavement, or a bridlepath, or the beach; but I'd rather come across a huge steaming pile of horse poo than a huge steaming pile of dog poo!!

I should imagine this "dangerous waste" part has come about because of the "bute" we give the horses for pain??? Remember they brought in the new laws they brought in where you had to sign a bit of paper with the vet if he'd EVER prescribed Bute, so that your horse's remains could never end up in the food chain? Either that or maybe the wormers used, it all ends up in the waste afterall doesn't it. Also a lot of rat bait is used at stableyards and could end up on the muck heap too? That's probably the reason, and therefore, horse poo is now considered just as nasty as dog poo

for me its not about town and country

I grew up in a little village surrounded by horses, sheep, cows etc...i dont care if its on the road...doesnt bother me
but when its on pavements or in park areas you walk then yes i dont like it

i moved into the suburbs of preston and we have plenty of horsess walk around and they crap on the pavements

so yes that i do mind.