Do you have any funny stories about your horses?

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When Tont was a youngster, he was in a 3 acre field with 17 other horses, and he had no food or water. So one day, he crossed the stream at the bottom of his field, through a wood and out onto the church field, which was filled with lush, green grass :D He repeated this every day for about a week, until the police got involved :D

It just shows how intelligent they can be :rolleyes:

So, do you have any funny or interesting stories? :)
 
My horse will always pick up his bucket after eating (he has destroyed many over the years) and in the summer when they get fed in the field, if someone tries to bully him, he picks his bucket up and walks off with it :D Bully horse is always left a bit confused.

He will also carefully undo zips on my fleeces, pull out hairbands without pulling my hair, pick up brooms, in fact he will put anything in his mouth apart from his bit, and the ruddy horseball I got him so he didn't ruin his feed buckets :mad:
 
Captain is a bit of a so and so and is a very intelligent horse. For example when he was on the yard I bought him from , he opened his own stable and then went round and opened all the other horses stables and let them out, they only knew what happened because of CCTV. He hates electric fencing, but likes to get at the best grass, so what to do? Well he rounds all the ponies up and runs them into the fence, then daintily steps over the downed fence. One of his favourite tricks is to grab people's hats, dunking them into his water and then bringing them back.

Best one, which must have been thought out was when he was turned away,I threw a load of pears into his field for him to forage for, he gets very bored. He was a little sod, he had a lovely field mate, but went round stamping on the ones near his friend so he could not have any! He did not stamp on the ones near him!

I could go on, he is a real character!
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Where I keep Markie, they also have a small area where they offer caravan holidays. It's usually families, but, when it's the festival, we have a group of young regulars (all townies!).
I'd only had Markie a matter of weeks when the festival was on this year. YO was woken up in the middle of the night by one of the campers as there was 'an 'orse' sniffing round the kitchen window! Markie had been chased over the hedge by a fieldmate and, obviously, aimed for th nearest people he could track down to sort him out!
Poor girl, she was terrified!
 
Tetley suddenly developed a fear if water. Mist embarrassing as I had promised a friend a lead for her mare into the pond. He point blank refused. After about 20 mins of arguing I hopped off (fuming by then) and stepped into the water. He still didn't budge. I stepped further in, just over knee height ... He just looked at me ... One big sigh ... And walked in. It did make us all laugh (although I hate wet boots!)
In August he got himself stuck between a gorse bush and some brambles. He did not move for ages. My friend alerted me and I went to check. Another big sigh when I got there ... And gently guided him out backwards around a bend.

How many more do you need?
 
Which one would you like, the one where I gave him a bath and there was an escapee, the von Trapp family, Princess Priscilla the useless Yard Kitten and the haunted coat... or the one where he ran straight through a huge, heavy, supposedly horse-proof fence... or the one where he traumatised an entire herd of sheep... or the one where he gave me a concussion with his feed bucket... maybe the one when he developed the sport of 'barrel skittles'... or the one when he untacked himself... or the one where he broke out of his field, led his grazing mate into a resting field then led everyone on a merry dance whilst kicking muckheap in their faces...?!

I have a few. My horse is a clown and a knobber.
 
A couple of years ago, in December, I was helping a friend with turning out her horses. We rugged them up, walked them to the field, happy days.

About an hour later a girl who lives near the field came down to the yard to tell us one of the boys had got his rug off. So we walked over to the field and sure enough he was standing there naked. Lifted the rug to put it back on.. and all the straps and buckles were done up! How the hell he got out of it we'll never know!

I wouldn't believe it if someone told me that, but it is 100% true!
 
Broodmares were out in the field, suddenly they start tearing around like lunatics and we thought a dog had gotten in with them. No, turned out one of them had found a plastic bag and had it in her teeth and was chasing the rest of them around the field with it! :D
 
daughters old pony was a proper houdini, we used to livery on a yard which was next door to a royal persons house. one day naughty pony went through the electric fence, over a stone wall and took himself merrily down the lane to royal gateway where he was stopped in his tracks by the armed police:eek: one very embarressed YO when the lovely policeman brought him back:D
 
My welshy thought she was a goat as a youngster and used to climb everything she could, one day I was doing some work getting her used to me standing higher than her at the mounting block (a heston bale of straw) and laying over her etc when all of a sudden she was up there with me!!! The yard was quite busy that day and everyone stopped to watch my silly circus pony! Only problem was getting her back down!!
 
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About an hour later a girl who lives near the field came down to the yard to tell us one of the boys had got his rug off. So we walked over to the field and sure enough he was standing there naked. Lifted the rug to put it back on.. and all the straps and buckles were done up! How the hell he got out of it we'll never know!
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I went to get my mare in the other day and she had also done this, how I will never know, she had her rambo rug on which has 3 surcingles, everything was still fastened on the rug and it was in a nice heap on the floor as if she had shuffled out of it!
 
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A couple of years ago, in December, I was helping a friend with turning out her horses. We rugged them up, walked them to the field, happy days.

About an hour later a girl who lives near the field came down to the yard to tell us one of the boys had got his rug off. So we walked over to the field and sure enough he was standing there naked. Lifted the rug to put it back on.. and all the straps and buckles were done up! How the hell he got out of it we'll never know!

I wouldn't believe it if someone told me that, but it is 100% true!
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This has happened to us!! Unbelievable how DO they do it!
Another would be giving Kelly a bath - she was tied up to a piece of bailing twine attached to a metal gate concreted into the ground by the hosepipe. She decided actually, this soap and water lark isn't for me, jumped backwards - didn't snap the twine OR her leadrope but pulled the whole gate out of the ground. How she did it I'll never know just glad she didn't hurt herself!!!

I can find this funny now but not at the time - out hacking round the fields and she spooked at something, reared, I fell off, she got caught in the barbed wire and bombed off the way we'd come. After we'd been caught and calmed ourselves down etc, we realised she'd let all the sheep loose.....oops! :o
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Well my newest story is that my youngster has never been stabled.

So thought I'd take things slowly, led him in and let him settle all ok, 3 other horses in the barn so thought fine I'll go and poo pick.

Heard a bit a shouting on the yard and came back down, yep my horse had jumped out the stable a 4'9" stable door, so not little. And walked out of the barn very calmly. The girls went to catch him and all ok.

Looks like I've got a jumper on my hands.:D

But naughty boy! :mad:
 
Funniest thing I've ever seen was when my friend's two-year-old picked up a balloon by its string in the field. He obviously got it caught in his teeth (or maybe he didn't and just liked it) because he tore round and round the field with the balloon "chasing" him. Eventually it got free or he let go and it sailed off. He was none the worse for it and it was absolutely hilarious while it was happening - never got a video camera when you need one. I wish his owner had been there to see it but it was just the YO and me.
 
Izzy is always doing funny things - he is our yard comedien.

After walking down a steep road from the Downs we stopped to mount at a concrete bunker type thing set in the hillside. I line him up and before I can get on he decides he needs to wee. Then the wee runs downhill and gets his front hooves. He clambers up the hillside, behind me, onto the bunker and jumps back down above the wee! He really doesn't like his own wee touching his feet. Then stood waiting for me to get on as if nothing had happened. My friend nearly fell off laughing.

The other night we did some despooking for fun. Had a load of stuff all over him - balloons, toy snake, hula hoops, umbrella and tarpaulin. He is not bothered by anything and quite enjoys playing with his toys. Had the tarpualin over him from his ears to his tail when he decides to wee. Has a wee then steps in it as he walks off - spooks for a couple of strides because his own wee is SO scary.:rolleyes:
 
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