bump in road silly mare..

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Now my mare will go by anything on road, down hills when others wont, she is an older mare and helps when she goes in lead..
Yet yesterday when out we were going through houses we came across road bumps with gap in middle I walked her through middle no worries then came a bump that stretched the full road painted red big white arrow type and she would not put a foot on it and that made the other two do the same ended up walking her on path back onto road and then the other two walked over no problem so today I am taking her back up and try again even if i have to dismount her ( find it very hard to mount from ground ) so a pointless post just surprised we came across something that stopped my mare in her tracks.
 
haha! They are silly aren't they?

I once went out in the trap with a friend and her little section A driving pony..who is usually 100% bombproof (she lives in manchester so traffic is no problem!)...we were having a lovely time trotting along and he anchored on and tried to spin (not easy in a cart!!) Wouldn't go forward because of.....a ZEBRA CROSSING!! :o

I had to get off and lead him over it and even then he jumped it like it was a ditch filled with pony eating monsters!!! Sooooo funny...don't think the motorists in the traffic jam we caused thought so though ;)
 
You can borrow my mare if you like, she once tripped over a speed bump becuase she was more interested in playing with her bit... Oh and she tripped up a curb once too.... :o
Dont think she is quite the full ticket bless her :p
 
my old boy did that one day on top of a busy motorway flyover! wasnt quite sure if i was mortified at the thought of going over the top of the bridge or the fact there was traffic queing behing me, all because of a half metre wide repair in the road :D
 
As we all know horses can be very strange and what they will and will not do lol, things that you think would scare them do not and then again something that you would not give a thought to can send them nuts. My girl did the same as another poster and fell over the bump !!
 
My boy is just the same, completely bomb proof with traffic (ride down main roads), really nothing fazes him, and do you know what he seriously spooked at the other day, a newly installed Dog Poo Bin! They do make you laugh.
 
Used to ride a big shire out everyday, really lovely, care free horse who you could genuinely trust. One day last year I took her out on the same track as per usual and one of the neighbours had put bright orange chips down on his drive and also laid some across the path outside his drive (private country road, gets muddy in wet weather) anyway she saw it and just wouldn't go over it, it was only a few metres wide too. It took us a good 20 minutes of negotiating (sp?) to get her to tip toe across then the same on the way back :rolleyes:
 
glad it's not just me with a daft horse. Spider completely freaked out the other day about the fact that they have repainted some arrows on a local country lane - they've always been there, just they were a bit faded before and now they're nice fresh paint. Pony eating monster paint that is.
 
They are a funny bunch arent they Taffy can be pretty sharp when hacking on his own and has been known to spin 180 at a new white line on the road. A few months back we were trotting nicely along the road when a little bird flew out the hedge to our left. Taffy decided that jumping all 4 hooves in the air and landing to our right in front of a moving BMW was the safest option. Dont know who got a bigger fright me or the car driver.
 
On sunday morning my TB gelding decided he couldn't possibly walk over a SLOW sign written on the road. The (what i thought would be) scary village fete signs were acceptable, the horse eating paint was not :rolleyes:
 
I used to puzzle over the issues with SLOW signs and pedestrian crossings (my horse figured out how to step over the bottom bar of the L in SLOW and sidle between the L and the O without touching any of the white paint!).

Until my non-horsey OH pointed out that white paint on the road looks exactly like a patch of ice, unless you're human and can read ;) Horses always have a reason - just not always one we can understand :D
 
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