Bonkers Horse!

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Has anyone else got a bonkers horse like mine...he is sooooo sensitive to change and gets stuck in a routine very quickly and it is then a major thing to make changes...even if he has experienced those changes before! He has been out with no rug on for a few weeks now since it has been warmer and when we had the rain a few (perhaps 3 weeks ago) I put his light weight rain sheet on a couple of times. Now he has been without it for a while I go to put it on tonight because it is due to be cold and all hell breaks loose. Anyone would think I had got the devil out and was trying to put it on his back...we went scooting off out of the field shelter bucking and then braved to come back in with the 'devil' snorting and welshie eyes bulging...only for me to chase him round a bit more and eventually get it on him with much jumping and snorting about!!!! Dear me! What a palarver!
Please tell me other people have such sensitive creatures as mine!
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Oh I know that feeling all too well!

Mine had a fit last year - we were going down the same piece of road we go down twice a day and all of a sudden he had a major panic - eyes on stalks and shaking. The reason? There wasn't a phone box where there had been a phone box! It has been removed - just cut off at the base, it only had three sides so there's nothing much to see. Charlie presumably thought the phonebox eating troll was after him.

The other time he was even worse than this was when we decided to float a small yellow plastic duck in the water tray of a jump. He'd jumped the water tray with water in - the only one in the class to do so which was funny because the others were all riding school ponies and had met it before and we didn't know if he had - but when the duck went in he was petrified. Even when we took the duck out and walked up to him with it he was shaking in his efforts NOT to panic and run away. Poor boy was trying to be good but oh my goodness that three inch high duck was sooo scary!

Oh god and the shrubs along the drive - he went out first thing one morning and the flowers weren't out - came back, flowers out, snorting prancing dancing panic.

Then there was the day that Chris up the road took the wheel off his lorry - Charlie's been past that lorry thousands of times but he certainly noticed it was missing a wheel - and whatever monster had eaten it was probably going to have him next.

Is yours a chestnut welsh? Mine is!

However - if you get a convoy of all the scary farm vehicles you can imagine whizzing past him with inches to spare he''s so calm about it it's unreal!

He's fine with the trains going past him at 65mph about 5 feet in front of his nose - but the little jolt the barriers do as they go up to let him through makes him jump - every time!
 
No he is a black Welshie! Mine is the same with lorries, trucks and all manner of massive scary vehicles...calm as a cucumber!
 
Yep I too have a bonkers horse.

Nice and helpful man came and cut all the nettles down in Bert's paddock as with the rain they were waist height. I took Bert out of the field as he has an adversion to moving vehicles and turned him back out when it was all clear and I had raked up the big lumps of cut grass. Well I have never seen anything like it. He was clearly devestated by their removal and refused to go in. When he did I couldn't get the head collar off quick enough before he galloped around screaming, bucking and the odd rear!

I only had them taken out because he keeps getting nettle rash, stupid sods
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Oh just remembered another Charlie special. Shavings! He will NOT poo in fresh shavings! He's got over his fear of actually going in the stable when it's all fresh and now enjoys a good roll in fresh shavings but he won't poo in there for a couple of days! If you save a poo he's done earlier and leave it in the corner then that's ok and he'll go normally.

Daft blighter!
 
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