Anyone else got a nice-but-dim horse?

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My nice but dim mare got herself stuck in the field last night. She'd gone between some hawthorn bushes and brambles, and a post and rail fence, probably going in search of some fresh grass. The branches had swung behind her so she couldn't reverse out, and the branches were too thick in front for her to push through. The fence was stopping her from turning round as well.

I could see her wedged in as I walked up to the gate, and my heart sank! It's not the first time she's done this, in fact it seems to be an annual thing for her
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Hopefully she's run out of places to get stuck in that field now as we've had to clear the bushes out of her way every time she has a misadventure.

She'd been patiently standing there for quite some time as there was a nice collection of droppings, and she whinnied when she saw me. Unfortunately I'm 6 months pregnant, and too fat to fit through the bushes, so I had to call upon the YO for reinforcements
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YO tried shooing Meg from behind, to no avail, so she then got through the branches (getting scratched in the process) to hold them back, whilst I climbed over the fence to stick a headcollar on and then push Meg's sizable backside. Thankfully this worked, and Meg cantered off, none the worse for her misadventure, and I told her off for being exceptionally dim
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So please, make me feel better about my idiotic horse, and share your stories of horse stupidity
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Lol!!!

In the winter (or in Summer if we only want to turn out for a short time) we put the horses in a little corale area, which has electric fencing.

My gelding likes zapping himself from one side to the other...he wants to see if it's turned off! He just goes from left (zap...canters to the other side) to the right (zap, repeat). He'll do this until he gets hungry, gives up and starts to eat. Bless!

He's also gone over a jump with his front legs, stopped and left his back legs behind the jump. And just stands there
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Oh dear, bless her. At least it all turned out ok. Not quite the same but we once had a horse in for schooling at the yard I used to ride at. He was lovely and very beautiful but maybe not the brightest button. He was a bit bargy in the stable and once had a huge strop and argued with my friend who was going into the stable, barged her out of the way and careered off out of the stable - he then stopped at some grass about 12 feet from his stable at which point we called his name and he pricked his ears and wandered back over to say hello looking hte picture of innocence!
 
I'm glad it's not just my horse that does dumb things! I went down to the field on Sunday morning and was confused as to why one of my jump wings had moved across the other side of the field and was on its own. When I got closer I realised it had half of my horse's tail attached to the cup, he'd obviously been scratching his bum and got tangled up in it. I'm sure he didn't panic, just walked around until it fell off!
 
No but we do have a nice but dim cat though

As a kitten she got stuck under the stairs, last week she fell into the boiler cupboard and got stuck, later the same day she went back and did it again

Sunday she tried to run in the garage as the door was shutting , got her head stuck, flailed her legs about throwing the dogs bowl full of biscuits all over the place, then ran off looking at me as if it were my fault when I grabbed the door to get her out
 
we have a nice but dim whippet named Misty, she ran into the closed patio door before now, heck of a bang, the dim part...she'd sat there with tail wagging after she'd BEEN out and watched me close it!!!! LOL
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My horse is so clever that she's an absolute idiot...I can't feel her legs without being proffered a hoof and silly things like that!
 
Oh yes, the 2 year old colt just stands there and looks at you with a very sweet but entirely blank expression on his face - you can *hear* him say "Duuuuuh?" - but the upside is this beautiful colt is remarkably good to handle, we assume because he hasn't really worked out much otherwise!!
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My cat is the typical "very sweet but not much up top" animal. In her 17 years she still hasn't learnt that if she goes behind the boiler she will singe her whiskers and half the fur off her side in the process!
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Also that;
Lying sunbathing in the middle of the road and not moving despite a car coming towards her isn't a good idea (thank god we live at the bottom of a dead end with not much passing traffic)

Exploring the back of delivery vans might be trouble (she has several times narrowly escaped unintentional catnapping only because her humans have looked for her)
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Not all passing dogs will appreciate her rubbing up against them to say hello
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Where the curtains meet and that she can push through the gap to be able to get into the windowsill (she's only lived there 17 years and goes into the windowsill every day)
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Wouldn't swap her for the world though!!
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Oh yes i have one of those - Ru frequently does dim stuff!!! We had some very large plastic crate type things in the field last year that are used to transport car batteries. They were at the end of the field next to the fence, Ru somehow managed to get him self wedged between one of them and the fence and stood there patiently waiting to be freed. God knows how he got wedged in because the gap was very small. We've now got them fenced off encase he tries it again!

He's also fallen over in the field after cantering into a fence (the other two horses with him stopped in plenty of time!) and stood patiently waiting for help when his fillet string broke on his rug and blew up over his head.
 
I have 2 nice but dim horses, and an incredibly stupid cat! My gelding used to chew the electric fence at my old yard when he was teething
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The other day both him and his boyfriend climbed through an electric fence separating off a bit of mud about 3m x 3m from their acre plus of field, and had got stuck in it, and both just stood there looking sorry for themselves.
My mare once got her head stuck in a stack of tyres trying to eat the long bit of grass that had grown in the middle. She also discovered we kept carrots in a swing top bin,and had forced her head through to eat them then pulled back and had the bin lid stuck round her neck.
The cat repeatedly falls in the toilet, the bath, the pond etc, because he loves water. Falls off absolutely everything because he's so clumsy. He fell asleep in my mums warbrobe on a pileof jumpers on the shelf, and the whole lot fell off with him asleep on top of them, from a height of about 4ft, and he didn't move! Just hit the ground, looked up, then curled up and went back to sleep!!Most of his issues stem from greediness tho! We can't leave any food out at all because he just eats holes through plastic to get at the food, bread, cheese, butter, pizza, crisps, chips, a 4kg sack of rabbit food...
 
My cob.....he is just plain thick...not much to be said really!
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He is a really nice 'person' to know,not a mean bone in his body........but,if you have to point out where his food bowl is,then that's thick!
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My friends horse when she first got it couldn't work out that it could go through a gateway to get to the other side. It used to try and climb over the fence!

It's nickname was Nice But Dim!!!! She also has a Naughty But Nice!!!
 
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My cob.....he is just plain thick...not much to be said really!
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He is a really nice 'person' to know,not a mean bone in his body........but,if you have to point out where his food bowl is,then that's thick!
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Yep, that sounds very familiar! Meg's ok if the food bowl goes in the same place every night, but if it goes in a different spot, or gets moved halfway through her eating it she gets confused and needs help in finding it again
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