Same rules for dog owners should apply to horse owners… if your animal craps in public, you have to clean it up.

it’s just grass, it will wash away.

Same rules for dog owners should apply to horse owners… if your animal craps in public, you have to clean it up.

It’s a slippery slope though. If we as a community are going to single out certain individuals who are no longer allowed to externalise the cost of their waste (dog poo, horse poo etc) then where will we end up? next you’ll be having idiots claiming that motor vehicle emmisions are bad and need to be cleaned up and that all road users will need to bear the cost … oh, wait a minute

I agree, Blingerific, Horse riding should be banned.

Oh FFS, now all horse riders are terrible people too?

calla said :

it’s just grass, it will wash away.

Or you could say ‘its just poo, it will wash away’ the question is WHO will wash it
away, the riders? I think not, lazy buggers.

I like the fact we have horses wandering around the suburbs. It kind of gives the place a more laid back feeling, something akin to a country town.

So, it’s a bit of horse sh*t? It’ll wash away or get eaten by dung beatles.

Wow…. its chewed grass for ch**st sake …. get over it.

The horse poo your path is possibly a symbolic gesture to all you inconsiderate unbelieveable intoleratant cyclists the horse has had to put up with over the years.

Dry your eyes, princess. What do you think people were stepping around for the last umpteen hundred years before the motor car came along?

Now if the horse managed to poo on a cyclist just as they passed (excuse the pun), that would be interesting…….

“(ergo, shared by pedestrians and cyclists, no horses allowed)”

Citation needed? Going by the Australian Road Rules, I’m pretty sure they’re allowed, but must give way to pedestrians.

Buzz2600 said :

Wow…. its chewed grass for ch**st sake …. get over it.

Can I let my vegan friend take a dump on your driveway then? It’ll be just chewed organic natural food.

shit happens. They should have gone before they left… okay, enough with the piss poor (and obvious) jokes…

It’s not so hard to avoid and it isn’t as hard to remove nor smelly and unpleasant as dog poo. I kind of wonder why horses are on concrete paths or cycleways though, surely most agistment is on the edge of suburbs, where, presumably, tracks are more easily accessible?

What do you think people were stepping around for the last umpteen hundred years before the motor car came along

In 1894, the Times of London estimated that by 1950 every street in the city would be buried nine feet deep in horse manure. I think they banned horses.

a colleague goes walking up in the horse paddock area between kambah and chapman and got yelled at for getting a few paddies for her garden as compost.

problem solved… grab a shovel and put it on your garden for free!

wait, it isn’t at all clear – was the horse riding a bicycle?

This post is funny ! If all you have to comment on is a bit of horse manure then there is not much happening that‘s for sure.

The ability for people to have horses in Canberra is one of the many benefits of living in this city.

Don’t worry you could eat it and it would not hurt you, unlike dog or cat poo. Its good stuff, try composting it for your garden.

Come on horses keep that fertiliser coming!

And do horse riders have to dismount before walking across a pedstrian crossing???

Thumper said :

In 1894, the Times of London estimated that by 1950 every street in the city would be buried nine feet deep in horse manure. I think they banned horses.

Horse poo was a major, major problem in pretty much every major capital of the world at the turn of last century. See here for a discussion of the problem Thumper has alluded to, in New York. There’s also a nice discussion in Superfreakonomics, the followup to Freakonomics by Levitt and Dubner. Both are great books (if flawed in some arguments).

Oh, and the solution to the great flood of horse poo through the cities? No-one could think of one. But, the problem fixed itself with the invention of the car!

There are horse paths that are made out of dirt and therefore much gentler on the horse’s feet and also a better place for the horse to take a poop. If your animal poops on concrete or asphalt or recycled rubber or whatever they make paths out of, then you should have to clean it up!

I’d personally extend this to dedicated hiking trails headed to the top of mountains because even if made out of dirt, they are still rather artificial and experience high traffic (and joggers who are exercising rather than exploring), but on the gentle slopes for just wandering around and exploring, well you should just have to expect poop there! I mean kangaroos will hop along those gentle paths anyway, and nobody gets upset when they poop!

Poop poop poop poop! Somebody post another rant about poop so I can keep typing “poop”!

The whole site’s a bit scatological today.

captainwhorebags said :

Same rules for dog owners should apply to horse owners… if your animal craps in public, you have to clean it up.

I believe it’s a $50 fine if you’re walking a dog without a bag, or similar method to clean up. (Like that law would ever be enforced)
So for a horse it should be at least twice as big. Fine/poo ratio should apply to turd-size.

Lucky no-one has pet cows they take for a walk.

Thanks for that concept, Preacher. Suddenly I want a pet triceratops, just like the one in Jurassic Park! Think your pony leaves a big poop on your path? Quake in fear after BimboGeek takes her triceratops for a walk on Black Mountain! Mwahahahahahaha!!!

Oh shit………

Fine/poo ratio should apply to turd-size

So what sort of fine should ACT Labor be given for inflicting Stanhope on us?

People evidently have horses in Sydneyland too. In fact right next to my workplace in Matraville is a fenced-off area where people can graze their horses. Across the road from that is a large expanse of parkland where people often ride them. That said, I haven’t seen them anywhere else yet, maybe it’s an unusual arrangement

Carry one of those mini air horn thingees. If a horse is on a path where it is not allowed to be,,,,a short sharp blast from your air horn in reasonably close proximity to the horses rear end should suffice.

Clown Killer said :

Fine/poo ratio should apply to turd-size

So what sort of fine should ACT Labor be given for inflicting Stanhope on us?

No fine. Someone is usually assigned to clean up his messes, or it’s denied there was any mess in the first place, despite the fact that you can see a huge arse.

Bring your horses to my house and let ‘em crap on my lawn. I’ll water it in…

Yeah good one….. let off an air horn and potentially injure a rider.

WTF is up with Canberra…. it seems as soon as someone gets in the territory their brains and tolerance magically evaporate (and yes that includes horse riders)

Yet….. if you bumped into exactly the same people outside of Canberra, mountain biking, horse riding or whatever – you tend to stop and have a yarn, brew up a cuppa and its all good.