Idiots that own horses....

I would like to prefice this by saying....I am not an expert. Remember..I'm the one who hung it up 20 yrs ago when I got hurt, instead of getting back on and sticking with it. HOWEVER.....I do a know a little bit about what is right and wrong, along with smart and ignorant.

I was flabergasted this afternoon, as I saw this woman hand walking her cute little, sorrel mare down my street(E 11th for my Newton friends).  I first saw her walking the horse west, down my street. Then a few hours I noticed she was walking east back down my street. I wasn't so much shocked that a horse was walking down my street, but this little mare was SOOO stocked up from stifle to hip on her right hind, I wanted to cry!!! Now, ironically she happened to be walking by while I was walking out to my car(to go play with horses in Andover), So you KNOW I had to say something. As she got closer, I saw that she had horribly cracked and panned out hooves and that her front legs were almost as bad as her rear. I will say that the mare was a good weight, and coat in decent bloom, and there didn't appear to be a speck of dust on her.

Me "Are you aware your mare is really off on her rear"?,
"Dipshit", "oh...well yeah...she's 30 yrs old."
Me "Why are you walking a 30 yr old mare with a stocked up hip, down the asphalt road"???
Dipshit "excuse me, are you an expert"?
Me "uuumm, I would say that my 30 yrs experience, and several years at competing in 3 day eventing, and other disciplines at Grand National level, breeding my own horses, and working for 2 large animal vets, DOES make me knowledgable" "and I certainly know enough NOT to walk a 30 yrd old mare, that is limping like that, down the DAMN street"!!
Dipshit "you never walked your horse down the street"??
Me "I have ridden a 5 yr old horse with special shoes in a parade for charity".
Dipshit "So you only ride down the street to show off"?
Me "isn't that what your doing"? "My question to you is, WHY are you walking on the asphalt? Why aren't you walking her on some turf"?
Dipshit "I'm hand walking her, to get the fluid in her joints moving, YOu gonna walk her? I don't want her standing in her stall all day with no exercise"
Me "I think that's great, get her on some damn turf" "why do you have a bareback pad on her if you are just hand walking her"?
Dipshit "I was taking pictures of her down the road. You think I don't take care of my horse, that I don't love her"??
Me "Noooo I didn't say that "Jayne", in fact I am sure you love your horse, I can tell she's well fed, and her coat is in good shape, I just think you should be walking her somewhere else"
Dipshit "How do you know me, you don't know me at all"??
Me "your name is stitched on your jacket"

I did ask where she boarded her horse, wouldn't tell me. I am pretty sure she is keeping the horse somewhere at the corner of 12th and Old Trail Rd.??

So you see how this went. She just didn't want to hear it. Truly a dipshit. How can you own a horse for 30 yrs(according to her, she has had this little mare since she was a foal), and NOT know, you don't walk a lame horse on pavement?! Some idiots should not own animals of ANY kind!!!! And although I am only a mile or so away from the suspected boarding location, that's a lonngg walk for an old mare!!! I told her I wished her the best, as she went fuming off, calling me bitch under her breath and such. Her poor little mare skittling on the pavement.

SO... a little prayer goes up, for a little sorrel mare tonight. and Grrr.... to Jayne.