Does anyone else’s horse call when they leave?

LadyGascoyne

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I always feel so guilty leaving. It’s like leaving a child who doesn’t want to go to school.

She tries to follow, calls frantically and prances at the gate. It’s heart wrenching!

I’m never gone for long. I see her twice a day, and three times if I’m working from home. And I’m there pretty much all day, every weekend day. She has lots of grass, water and company. But I get a tragic abandoned face every day, and at every yard we have been at.

Tonight I just wanted to smuggle her into the house with me.
 
my stallion calls constantly and chatters away. He lives next to the house. He calls when I get up to make a cup of tea first thing, then again when I walk out of the door,, he chatters away constantly at me whilst I am mixing the feeds. He calls to me everytime he sees me and when I finish at night and give him his treat as I walk away he looks over the gate longingly at me and calls. He sounds just like LG's mare and is very good at making me feel guilty for abandoning him. He lives with 3 other horses so he has constant company but he is so cuddly that I still feel bad. :)
 
Yeah Pebbles pony nickers when you arrive, when you leave, when you went out of sight for a minute and then came back, when she knows she did something clever and should get a sweet...it is very cute.

Arty calls when I arrive and screams her head off if I have the nerve to work Pebbles (so much so I often sneak pebbles away to work here, as long as Arty thinks she's just being taken into the stables she's fine with it).

Dabs is way too cool to ever show any emotional need for the human minions.
 
my boy calls when i arrive and when i am moving round the yard. if he has had enough of the walker he calls. he is always watching to see where i am. he is the same when we are out. even at 23 he still screams at me when i walk back to the trailer having been to enter/go to the loo, etc at a show. i am only allowed to leave him once. after we have finished and he is back on the trailer i can leave him for a bit but if he sees or hears me he calls. if we do an overnight i have to get friends to check him because he can fret when he sees me. he is actually very protective of me and can be funny with other people. at the moment with the restrictions one of the other liveries is doing him at night and i am doing hers in the morning - he has so far been good, thank goodness
 
Gosh they know how to twist us round their little hooves. My worst one was when my boy had to spend several days at the vet's having a hock injury flushed. Went up to see him mid-stay and, when the time to go, came he called as we walked all the way back to the car park - I was a gibbering wreck. On the other hand, when I visited my mare after a KS op she barely looked up from her haynet. Not sure what that said about them - or me!!!
 
The horse in my profile picture would if I left him in the field - he would never settle to grass and was always creating to go back in his box. I had to retire him so on advice, including the vet's, sent him to grass livery where he didn't have a box, hoping he might settle, but he'd go even more nuts when he saw me and died within a month so never settled. I so glad my current pony lives out and doesn't mind at all when I leave :D
 
Daughters mare nickers at me when she sees me with feed or about to turn out...otherwise nothing. My mare calls to me every time she sees me about the yard/walk into the barn...nothing when I leave.
 
Mine shouts if he hears me arrive or if I’m talking but out of sight. He settles quickly if he has hay/his treat ball.

I was shamed yesterday. Not realising the owner in front of me was trying to catch him in for me, I called him and he semi-reared around her before cantering (cantering!!) round her. The OH calls him my ‘big dog’.
 
Mine ignores me if she's in the field but gives a massive whinny if she's in the stable.
She also tells me off if she sees me doing anything with another horse. The other week a pony had got out of the next field - was stood next to the gate - after I'd turned mine out, I went to put the other one back in his field and she saw and gave a very loud, cross-sounding whinny. (Normally she ignores me as soon as she's finished her treats and I've taken her headcollar off.)
 
Given she is about 20 paces max from the back door cally would very much like to come into the house thank you.

It would be nice to think that after 15 years and not seeing me for a few months Frank would acknowledge my arrival, or my leaving.. . . . Usually I have to lever his head up from eating.
 
My donkeys bray whenever they hear my voice in the house. I am reduced to speaking in a whisper but worryingly I often shout back "Just give me a minute, Sweetcheeks ". Drives my husband barmy as he says I never answer him!

My jenny has the loudest bray ever and sounds like a ship coming into dock!!
 
One of my Arabs would be living in my house if he had the chance, I have heard him very quietly wicker when I get out of bed in the morning how he knows I am awake I don't know but he does, if I call out to him he will often call back wherever he is, I remember when I first moved to our house and looked out of my bedroom window at about 4am and saw both of my horses laying side by side right outside the window, it was like they knew we were so close by and sleeping in that room and it was an amazing feeling.
 
They *know* that they should be living in your tent/house with a couple of salukis and some birds of prey... apparently. I just hope they don't poo or wee on the lovely rugs. ;) :p :D

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On the first day after I brought my boy home last week, he called when he heard my voice outside when I arrived, and again when I left. It absolutely broke my heart, for reasons that will become clear - will do a post when I get time later.

When I had him on DIY, he used to call when he heard/saw my car approaching... never when I left though (he'd usually have his gob full of food at that point though haha).
 
S shouts at me for her breakfast (she's still not caught on that being a porker means she doesn't get breakfast). T might shout for breakfast sometimes but is much more vocal if I take longer than 10 seconds to put his headcoller on once he's finished his breakfast. It's time to go out NOW!
 
My poor pony doesnt talk at all!!! Well the only time he shouts is when we are leaving a show - he loves being at them and shouts when I close up the horsebox to leave. I always feed after I ride so normally he has his head stuffed in a bucket when I'm heading off so he doesnt care much - usually just a final check to see if there is anymore treats before I go!!!
 
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