Anybody else’s horse really nosy?

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Bodey Cob is such a nosy so and so when we go out hacking on our own. You could never call it spooking as his head carriage doesn’t change and he is quite happily walking forward. But if I left it down to him we would be up everyone’s driveway, in every wheelie bin and stopping everyone that went past us to check the pockets for treats. I can’t help but laugh at him though.

Anyone else’s horse really nosy?
 
Oh yes. Fella's head is always poking over a hedge/wall just to see what is happening behind it. And he is so tall that he can almost always see over.
When we moved yards he travelled in a box that had cctv. The driver said he spent the entire journey looking out the window, ignoring his haynet, and occasionally whinneying to people he liked the look of. He is a little oddball, bless him.
Edited to add: His old field used to have a footpath running through it. Whenever people walked through it he would go over to them, and walk the whole way down the field with them! Quite scary when you see an 18.1 shire thundering towards you, especially when you don't know that they are the friendliest horse going and all they want to do is ask you for polos!
 
yes, Milly seems to have a keen interest in property!
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she stare down every driveway, sticks her head over walls and fences, and peeps through peoples windows......sometimes i wonder if she is just checking out her reflectionin the windows though.........either way it amuses me!
 
Yep my cob is exactly the same
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- trying to trundle round the village on her is a trial!! First we have to go past the allotments - which are not only a potential snack opportunity but normally have a variety of people to talk to!! Then you have the pedestrians who want to talk to her and then she practically falls over her hooves looking in peoples windows!!
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Ha ha, my tuigpaard follows any and everyone any and everywhere, he is big too, and has no sense of personal space, he LIKES people!!!
 
my mare is the same its nice to know shes not the only one as sometimes i think there is something drastically wrong in her head bless her shes always looked through peoples windows shes getting better now but she used to stop at a parked car if she could see there was someone sitting in it and start licking the window if i didnt catch her quick enough, she used to stop when ever there was a person walking on the path, and try to say hello she refused to walk until they stoked her or atleast talked to her :s she stops at big houses or houses with a big graden and attempts to walk in as if she lives there lol. She is so embarassing but makes hacking "different" lol
 
Oh yes. Any open door is fair game. Any open gate will be gone through.
At the end of a dressage test, whilst I bow, Valerie has a good look at the judges - I think it gets her extra marks!
 
my boy is nosy to the point that he spends so much time nosying over fences and hedges that he dosen't look where he's going! Out hunting last weekend he spent all his time gazing over hedges and what was going on around him that he rarely noticed when the hunt had stopped in front of him, luckily I was looking where I was going!
 
yes, but it is generally food oriented! She loves a good snuffle round anything that may contain food, and has been known to mug innocent passers by who might have a treat in their pocket (she knows which people on the yard are likely 'sources'!)
 
Definitely. Sophie is fine, but Flo is a nosey so and so. We live in the depth of the country so no windows to gaze into, but she keeps a very close eye on all the livestock on our hacks (especially cows) and stares into the window of passing cars.

Until recently I would have said she was too nosey to be spooky (she is 100% with the biggest of farm traffic on our v narrow roads), but she has recently developed a pallet phobia. She jumps them fine, but woe betide anyone who uses one to block up a hole in their hedge or in a gateway - she is not impressed.

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My Shetland is.

Is you ever have to do any work in the field - he's there!

Noseying through your stuff, sniffing your boots. You have to be careful when hammering as his nose is right there! Watching every move!

My Dad calls him 'Chief Foreman' !!
 
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