Does anyones horse get upset if..

[Starbucks]

.. they think another horse might get into trouble or another horse is getting into trouble around them??

When we were warming up for SJ the other day he totally freaked out when another horse refused at the practice jump and then again when another got a smack for being nappy. Bless him, he must be a very sensitive chap.. or maybe it is because I beet him all the time?

So anyone else's horse do that?

 

[merlinsquest]

Nope, merlin just smirks when someone else is in trouble....... hes just glad its not him

 

[Fattie_Hattie]

Yes hattie does.
If i am with someone in the school or out on a hack with them or even in the same warm up area if someone hits their horse hattie flinches!
I was hacking with my friend and her horse and her's was being naughty and hattie just cantered on the spot for the rest of the hack!

 

[toffeesmarty]

When my mare Toffee was stabbed we found her in a sea of blood with her best friend Legs standing completely over her body and wouldn't move until we reached her. Once we stabled Toffee, Legs stood in the corner of the field in the only place she could see Toffee in her stable. In the end, Legs fretted so much we had to more her to another field where she couldn't see Toffee.

 

[Starbucks]

OMG!!!!! Who stabbed poor Toffee???? That is just awful.

Good on legs for looking after her friend.

Is Toffee ok now?

 

[toffeesmarty]

Thanks for asking, and yes she is fine now. She was stabbed three years ago in her hind leg which has left her with a scar of about 4 inches - hence her just having her first foal. Altough she will never be able to do the top showing she was destined for she has found her destiny as a yummy mummy. Legs(aka as Legacy) was amazing.

 

[Starbucks]

where abouts are you?? I know there was a big thing around us with people doing evil things to horses a few years ago.

You just can't understand what goes on in some peoples heads can you!

I'm glad Toffee is well now!! I bet she enjoys being a yummy mummy!!!

 

[toffeesmarty]

Don't want to hijack the post- sorry everyone. We are in Dorset. Unfortuanetly these horrid things have been happening again in Scotland recently. Look in the news posts of about two weeks ago.

 

[Irishcobs]

Gyp freaks out and tries to run away. He was rescued so god knows what he has had done to him.

 

[Starbucks]

Tw*ts.

 

[hellybelly6]

If we are out on a hack and other horse is misbehaving, he gives them a couple of warnings to behave with dirty looks and his ears back. Each time the ears and the looks get more intense. If the other horse ignores him, Jake will snap his teeth at the other horse, at this point the other horse behaves. Jake tells the other horses off, he used to be in great demand to go hacking with as he was able to get the naughty horses to behave and they remained well behaved. I have never in all my 27 years of riding, known a horse like him.

 

[Starbucks]

Wow - that is so clever!!!

Badger is a bit evil to some horses on hacks/hunting, but I think it's just because he doesn't like them because they are always little ponies that are behaving perfectly.

Horrible bully that he is!!

 

[Baggybreeches]

Sov is a bit of a stresshead anyway, but if we go to use my friends indoor in the winter and someone is 'getting after' a horse, however subtle they think they are, he get quite tense and upset, he is the same in working in areas too.

 

[jess_asterix]

Danny gets a bit stresses if another horse gets hit in the collecting ring. Or if a horse starts bucking, he will just freeze!

ALSO he is scared of cobs haha. He doesnt like it when he can hear them cantering round!

 

[PapaFrita]

PF and A both flinch if another horse gets a crack with the whip. Antifaz more so, because he was beaten. I actually told someone off the other day for making such a loud noise with their whip.

 

[hadfos]

Yes

,dont think my lad has ever had a slapping??spoilt little sod,lol,he has had a shock this yr mind

,no slappings just i have had a boot up the butt to make him work properly

!If we are hacking out and his hacking pal gets a slap you would think i had slapped him,lol,always makes him jump....and he hates westropps with a vengeance,lmao,if said horse canters up behind him with westropps on the flapping sends him into overdrive,pmsl

 

[hadfos]

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If we are out on a hack and other horse is misbehaving, he gives them a couple of warnings to behave with dirty looks and his ears back. Each time the ears and the looks get more intense. If the other horse ignores him, Jake will snap his teeth at the other horse, at this point the other horse behaves. Jake tells the other horses off, he used to be in great demand to go hacking with as he was able to get the naughty horses to behave and they remained well behaved. I have never in all my 27 years of riding, known a horse like him.

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Oh my god???My lad does this....i thought he was just being a grumpy old git,lol

,i too have never met another do what he does,lol

 

[YorksG]

Our lovely 14:2 coloured cob used to be fantastic with the old Appy. The old Appy was awful with any traffic bigger or smaller than a car, the coloured would stand in front of her in gateways etc with wuch a sour look on her face that the 15:3 Appy would stand there and behave herself. The coloured also screamed at the new 16:3 when they met, the bug girl backed off and left the sheep alone

(the sheep is looked after by the coloured girl and shares her stable in winter, when the sheep's sister died the coloured mare took her away from the body when we went to move it, gently nudging her across the field)

 

[BeckyD]

Yes, Ronnie does that. I think he picks up on the tension. And you should see him when people have the practice fence down! - he's a total bag of nerves in the warm-up arena. Funnily enough he doesn't mind when he has fences down, in fact he's pretty careless. But other people having fences down are a major issue.

 

[hellybelly6]

Hadfos, so you have a similar horse who tells the others off for misbehaving. Wow. Thats a coincidence.

We went for a hack and his BF the 3 year old who lives next door to him was longreined. The youngster kept wanting to play and all his body language was play, lets play. Jake very patiently told him it was work and work was very serious using his dirty looks and ear combination. The youngster did not get the hint like an older horse would and Jake turned to him and gave him a little nip and a dirty look and turned and started at him - the youngster to the hint that time.

Like you, I thought that he was being a grump at first, but over time, I believe that Jake was telling them all to behave and concentrate on their work. He only does this when the other horse is messing about or threatening to run off.

What clever horses we have!