If you don't know anything about horses- this is the place for you!
i showed on the A3 circuit all my life and its always amusing to me to see riders who are given jobs as trail leaders using their ability to stay on a horse as a license to act like a complete and utter know it all mean girl horse nazi. Eye roll. Unbelievable. You can always tell the girls who know less than anybody by how arrogant they act toward everyone just because they are paying for the privilege to ride a horse and this girl got assigned to them.
Anyway, I digress. I wasn't even inside the 'ranch.' I was walking beside It with my Cavalier King Charles spaniel. We stopped to see the draft horses and I picked up my little dog and held her so she could see them and they all looked at one another for a bit and then got bored and then we walked on and came to the horse crossing and we saw a trail riding group coming so we stopped again and I picked her up and held her and she again calmly just watched everybody and I was smiling and then the lead girl YELLS- If that dog barks you need to back up and away from the horses!!
(at this point she, and about four other horses have passed us without incident or even reason for this caution)
And I calmly replied- 'oh she has horses, she loves them and won't bark'
And instead of saying something normal in response to that she yelled even louder 'WELL IF IT BARKS YOU NEED TO BACK UP AND AWAY FROM THE HORSES!'
i mean, the riders all sheepishly followed after her and it was just embarrassing for everyone. What a nut. Completely ruined what was or could have been a lovely experience for me, my dog, and everyone else.
I was even thinking about going on a ride with my sister there before this incident. It was so UN-Disney and unsettling.
i have two things to say about a dog barking at the horses there-(which, let me remind you, never even happened)
A- Of all things, dogs are a huge part of normal horse life. If a dog barking scares the horses there, they don't need to be giving trail rides to non-riders at Disney World.
And B- THEY were crossing the street! Wtf?! i literally got yelled at for... smiling and holding my very well behaved dog in my arms?
Nauseating.
I hate to see girls like that making riding awful and needing to announce to the world their 'knowledge'
The long line flowing behind her looked like prisoners, scared they'd be her next victim. read more