Dear Drivers
Hey- Drivers and dog walkers This is my pony Pippa. ( aka Mariah Marey) She loves carrots, apples and rainbow treats. She hates baths and likes to attack hosepipes. She wears glittery tail spray. She is part of my family - we all adore her. (My niece learned to say her name before she learned to say mine). BUT In the last year alone whilst dressed like this in every conceivable item I could purchase of high viz and riding in lanes and on bridleways we have experienced: 4 incidents of verbal abuse after asking a car to slow down behind me as I could hear a vehicle approaching the other way and didn’t want them to crash into it. 5 incidents of out of control dogs - 2 of which ended up with horses being bitten whilst standing calmly awaiting the owners to retrieve their dogs with the dogs jumped and barking and snapping at them. 1 of which ended on verbal abuse to myself because I asked loudly for the person to control their very lar...
