Does you horse get "excited" to see you?!

Mine always come bounding down to the gate when I come to get them in & circle at the gate waiting for me to put head collars on. I don't like attributing human emotions to animals but I suppose they are excited to see me or more than likely wanting to get to their stables as they know there will be haylage for them....... cupboard love? ;)
 
I take it we are talking excited as in *ahem* the manly way??? If so, yes, first time I groomed donovan I was just going down the inside of his hind leg when I noticed a fifth leg! Now seeing the Vicarage is just the other side of the stone wall, I did try to get it to disappear rather quickly!!!
 
I have a mental picture now of you saying "Is that a giant bratwurst under your rug or are you just pleased to see me?" :D

Mine is usually happy to see me - I get a whinny, loud or soft depending on how far away from the gate he is. And if I say we're going to play some clicker ground games, I get a lot of excited nickering and bouncing. However, if we do the games that involve standing still and concentrating (lift front hoof, lift back hoof, lift diagonal hooves simultaneously, for example), the level of relaxation and concentration seems to bring on a bit of dangling... Active, walking, trotting or cantering games don't (I'm guessing it gets a bit uncomfortable ;)).

I am working on training this out, rather than training it in at moment - happy and all as I am that the horse is so relaxed that he lets it all hang out, it does really spoil photos of him doing impressive stuff :D
 
Haha my last loan horse was easily 'excited' when grooming and at random times like mane pulling, dirty beggar! He also liked my BF quite a lot which freaked the poor guy out haha!
 
haha yes the erm "manly" way

in other ways, he always greets me & if i wave or call, comes to the gate (even though he hasnt been allowed a treat since his diet early summer) & usually follows me around when I poo-pick but yes, specifically the "manly" excitement is what I was referring to

Well it is Friday, time for a giggle ;)
 
Sure does, ever since that fateful day that I decided to clean his skanky sheath :o At first he tried to kick me away, then once he got into the swing of things and realised what I was doing, there was no stopping him. Now, whenever I try to brush his back legs, he automatically anticipates a thorough de-smegging and flops it out at me :/

He also lets it out when I brush him, give him treats, make him stretch or practice join-up.... He even adds a vocal greeting if I bring him his feed bucket :P

Lovely choice of topic for a soggy Friday afternoon :D
 
Ha!

My horse decided a good time to get "excited" was just as I was getting on for a lesson with a new instructor. Think he was pleased to be going to work :)
 
a little squeal haha then if I hide for a bit and shout him another squeal comes out comes running to me they follow me around all the time and paw at the gate if they can't come to attack me with their fluffy faces
 
See what I mean? I'm getting to be a crack Photoshopper...

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(I was a bit worried that day. I kept thinking about frostbite, and stuff like that :eek:).
 
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See what I mean? I'm getting to be a crack Photoshopper...

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(I was a bit worried that day. I kept thinking about frostbite, and stuff like that :eek:).
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Thats such a gorgeous picture, slight shame about his man bits but still gorgeous and I bet it makes an interesting talking point! How do you even go about teaching this, obviously the commands no the other bit?
 
Love the photo would also love to know how to teach him to lift his leg, the 4 legs not the 5th!

I had a gorgeous photo of my friends children stood holding my horse...hmmm, in between there 2 heads was a 3rd person! Shame I have not photoshop experience, needless to say its one for the loft only tee hee.
 
Ours can see the gateway from his stable & he starts whinnying as soon as the car turns in!

Then he comes bombing over if he sees us from the field & if we ignore him he just follows us :)
 
nope - Ron refuses to get his out at all when there's people around. He has to be almost unable to walk before he'll have a wee away from home :rollseyes:

he got really upset the other day when we were at an event, just finished and walking round to cool off. He went from walking calmly to running circles around me, and trying to drag me back to the box, before suddenly stopping and emptying half of the local flood problem onto the field! :eek::eek: seriously, we were stood there 5 minutes while his incredibly large bladder spewed wee at high pressure.... poor lad must have been sooo uncomfortable!

Tom, on the otherhand, gets it out every half hour for a wee. But won't let you clean it!
 
JenHunt said:
nope - Ron refuses to get his out at all when there's people around. He has to be almost unable to walk before he'll have a wee away from home :rollseyes:

he got really upset the other day when we were at an event, just finished and walking round to cool off. He went from walking calmly to running circles around me, and trying to drag me back to the box, before suddenly stopping and emptying half of the local flood problem onto the field! :eek::eek: seriously, we were stood there 5 minutes while his incredibly large bladder spewed wee at high pressure.... poor lad must have been sooo uncomfortable!

Tom, on the otherhand, gets it out every half hour for a wee. But won't let you clean it!
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My horse seems to wee whenever I go near him, he sees me and goes, not sure if this is a good or bad thing?!

I was out for a hack last weekend and my not really spooky horse was a complete nightmare, he stopped and ran backwards at a puddle, shot accross the road as some flowers he had previously strolled by, when we arrived back and I got his tack off he went for a HUGE wee in the wash box, he normally chooses softer ground, I have seen horses act up when bursting for a wee but never cause excessive spookiness...? Has anyone else?
 
My colt does all the time, slapping it against his tummy :p

Thats nothing to the way he greets our gelding - we bought them from the same people but a month apart, we considered filming the reunion for the old owners to see but I am glad we didnt as it all got very X rated!
 
Our boy use to "get excited" if he was stood next to our mare and he'd groom and lick her mane ( he wasn't a stallion tho nor had he been gelded late!)

My friend who was more use to mares than geldings took a gelding on loan last year. She was quite shocked when grooming him, he'd let it all hang out, she was like is this normal gelding behaviour? :D
 
My horse hangs his out at any given opportunity. I take it that he is relaxed and happy. Grooming, willy out. Eating hay, willy out. Eating dinner in the field, willy out.

Luckily for me, I can do virtually anything to him if he has a haynet, so a willy rinse is an easy job, and he seems to enjoy it, so I make sure I get it done quickly to avoid any belly slapping!
 
re the weeing thing. at the last yard (we moved last week) he would not wee in his stable if he could help it so had to be walked out onto 1 particular patch of grass for his wee as soon as you got him out

however

if anyone was watching, nothing. he would be busting a gut but nope. they, seriously this is true, have to go away!

at the new yard he is living out but we did a new ride on monday, a big busy main road, and maybe he hasnt got over his shyness with his new mates yet, he had to wee by the main road!! i could not believe it, there i was a little apprehensive, but nope, so relaxed he wee'ed with all the heavy traffic coming past.

nut job i tell ya - but by God do i love him.

thanks for entertaining me this afternoon in a quiet & boring salon, i shall check in later on my phone for more giggles - a totally pointless post but a little light relief me things (cough cough splutter)
 
Lol, so relieved it's not just mine. I'm afraid it's so prolific it's now called "Sonny"!! Happens on all sorts of occasions including being rugged/unrugged, groomed, fed, and it routinely "pings" up to his tummy :D. He's done it for as long as I can remember and it's become normal........which led to a hilarious text from current YO just after we moved there. Along the lines of "Can I ask you a strange question? Does Dave drop his willy when you rug him up?". I replied that he does and apologised for not warning her....to which she responded "Oh it's fine.....except when I reached under for the surcingle it pinged up and hit me on the arm!!!!". Cue much hilarity and having to then explain to my non-horsey crewmate!

Oh and I have a lovely photo of his head and front end on a crisp but sunny winter morning when I turned him out rugless for a roll and scratch.....except the dangly bits were out which can clearly be seen in the shadow he threw :O.
 
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