Bad day, horse hate.

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I think i had a bad horse day yesterday.
I felt like i wouldn't be bothered if i never saw another horse again in my life.

Horse was being exceptionally grumpy towards everyone on the yard, lifting his leg and putting ears back. Had a silly pigeon stuck in the wall of my stable that no one could reach.
Went to put horse out (it was dark) and his field is the furthest away. He insisted on walking like a slug and I got so angry at him and felt like just leaving him on the lane and going home. Cue walking in the pitch black grumbling and moaning at horse for being an oaf and not being simple.

I feel like he has something wrong with him but there is no evidence of that. Everyone thinks thats just how he is. He isn't even mine i just have him on loan. I love him to bits but i hated him so much yesterday for no apparent reason!!!

Arghhhhhhh i hate horses give me a gold fish!
Rant over, had to let it out!
 
I had one of these on Tuesday. I was on less than ten minutes in the school and getting more and more frustrated with his concrete mouth and inability to listen and this was just the warm up! and I could really feel myself about to lose it with him ... so as this wouldnt have done either of us any good I put him back in his stable, threw a feed at him and promptly stormed off home .. Mature of me don't you think! :o

We have since made up :)
 
I had one of these days at the races one afternoon back in August. We were in a field in Aberystwyth, it was absolutely chucking it down; one horse refused to stand still whilst crosstied in the lorry to be harnessed up so we tied him outside. He continued to jump and kick out and behave like a total clown, headbutted me and managed to bend my thumb back on itself whilst I tried to sort his bridle (still suffering pain in my thumb socket). Got soaked to the skin getting them all out on the track, every single one of them galloped on the same corner and ended up either last or second last, made me wonder if it was all worth it.

Of course I'd forgiven them all for being stupid, clumsy, impatient morons when I got to the yard the next day!
 
i had one of these days last week, my usually well behaved cob was a git to catch and then played the farrier up and trod on his foot resulting in a smack from the farrier and him being renamed "the stupid big bog trotter";)

Then went to turn him and the old man out, the old man who is usuallly patient old and decrepid ( apparently not!!) decided he wanted to go first for a change and promptly ran over me before i had chance to stop him and buggered off into the wrong field, cue twenty minutes chasing him round to get him back where he should be (the old git).

just shutting the gate when i realise someone has left the electric open the OTHER end and cob is now happily munching knee high grass! fortunately i got there before the old man so shut the electric and put cob back on the correct side!

To top it off tripped over haynet in the haybarn and fell flatt on my face, one bruised knee and a sore foot later!!!

one of those days where i should have gone back to bed lol!!!

good job i love em ;)
 
That sounds like a bad day, OP!
I think you're right, there is a problem, even if no-one can find it. I always think, with both children and animals if someone who knows them well thinks there is something wrong, there probably is. Could he need a change of feed?
 
Horse probably does have something wrong with them, but sometimes it's easier to get annoyed because after all these years of evolution they still. won't. speak. english!!! Arg. Think we've all been there :)
 
I would give him a few days off maybe? Mine is a pest if he thinks he deserves a holiday. OR if he is hungry.

I had one of these a few weeks ago, went for a hack and he spent THE WHOLE TIME trying to canter, and when I wouldn't let him, jogging with his head in the air like a giraffe, and when I tried to ask him politely not to do that, he'd get all pissy and jump around!! He's normally a complete donkey to hack, but it was raining and I had a hangover, I gave up and went home lol. He's been a saint this last week though and I am back in love with him, it's just horses, they have moody days just like people :)
 
Isn't this the horse who keeps going disunited in canter? Because that is definitely "evidence" that there could be something wrong. I would definitely get the vet to come and have a look, even if it is just to set your mind at rest. I'd want to rule at SI pain, definitely.
 
ridefast said:
Horse probably does have something wrong with them, but sometimes it's easier to get annoyed because after all these years of evolution they still. won't. speak. english!!! Arg. Think we've all been there :)
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Damn them and their lack of verbal communication! :D I love my horses they are perfect and I am perfect and I never, ever, ever threaten to sell them to Mr Findus for a half a penny or leave them tethered to the side of the road, or plait every hair on their mane and put a sign on the gate saying "I have plaits in my mane, the legends must be true..steal me!!!!" :D
 
HashRouge said:
Isn't this the horse who keeps going disunited in canter? Because that is definitely "evidence" that there could be something wrong. I would definitely get the vet to come and have a look, even if it is just to set your mind at rest. I'd want to rule at SI pain, definitely.
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On a serious note, this might be worth doing, my gelding is in the midst of treatment for SI/hock issues, he wasn't himself for a while before we got the vet in but we couldn't quite figure out what was up with him, then he became quite sore to touch through his back, but if we'd seen the early signs it might have helped
 
A few weeks ago I told my much loved boy that he was 'the worst horse in the whole world' and threatened to sell him and buy a hamster when he kept napping on a hack. By the time i had turned him back out I had decided that he was clearly trying to tell me that he was feeling his feet and wanted to go home - i agree with everyone else that there is usually a reason for their behaviour. If only it was easier to figure out for the reason was!!

ps. I apologised tearfully to him for my cross words and he made it up to me by being an angel in the school for three whole days.
 
My utterly perfect horse of a lifetime came in yesterday with three shoes and then promptly kicked me when I was trying to pick his feet out.

So I chucked him in his stable, threw a feed in his general direction and stomped home.

Que 6.30 this morn, crispy morning, I got lovely sweet horse breath nuzzles and he made me laugh prancing to the field like a colt.

Its worth it, sometimes you both have bad days is all :)

FWIW I don't school when I'm premenstrual!!! He picks up on it and goes like a unbroken moose and I get frustrated. So we go galloping instead ;) x
 
HashRouge said:
Isn't this the horse who keeps going disunited in canter? Because that is definitely "evidence" that there could be something wrong. I would definitely get the vet to come and have a look, even if it is just to set your mind at rest. I'd want to rule at SI pain, definitely.
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Yeah it is! Even though when i lunged two days ago he picked his lead up perfectly every time the git!!!! *bangs head against wall*
Gonna get his saddle checked and will prob get the vet down as an 'MOT' type thing! Even just to settle my mind as you say :-)

He better be more pleasant today or he'll not get a carrot!
 
putasocinit said:
Maybe he could sense your frustration too
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Me growling in his ear that I was going to kill him if he didnt listen was actually the final tipping point. I knew i wasnt going to get anything out of him and i knew i had let myself down which is why i got off and called it a day.

I did get a lot of offers later on FB though when i offered him for sale/Swap for two decent bottles of wine :p
 
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