Does your horse do anything that embarrasses you?

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My 4yo is SO vocal when we take him out to competitions and he is so loud too!! He actually makes people jump his neigh is so loud and he just does not shut up! :D We get very funny looks and think it actually gets on some people's nerves!! He also likes to neigh the whole way there and back on hacks and when we leave him on the lorry and take my mare off you can here him calling a mile off (Purdy pretends she doesn't know who he is!! :p) Hoping its a baby thing and will grow out otherwise he will be neighing all the way round the xc next season! hehe!! At least he doesn't nap, just likes to let the other horses know he is around. haha!
 
H is the same, when he's in the ring working he'll be totally silent, but as soon as you salute and drop the reins he jogs out of the ring screaming his head off!
 
Netty, the chestnut mare in my siggy, had a highly developed sex drive, she could come into season in a blink of the eye if she saw a gelding she fancied. Kind of embarrassing to be in the line-up at a show and your horse is siddling and squirting flirtatiously towards the next door (rather shocked) gelding...

Ironically though she failed to get in foal when I sent her to stud. The stud said she certainly enjoyed herself immensely but no foal....
 
Yes....sulks if he is not getting enough attention. The farrier was here the other day for 3 horses, one of which was him. We have a very big wash room and as it was snowing, all 3 were tied up in there. When he wasn't being attended to he would paw the ground, pick stuff up, chuck it around and generally be a pain. When this didn't work he sulked and turned his back on us all.....you can read his face like a book. Then he switched the lights off with his nose.... :p
 
I've only taken Ethel to one show, she broke off the side of the lorry but luckily just stood there looking bewildered and was easily caught, so not too embarrasing. But when me and a friend walked over to the tack stall I had no one to hold her so took her with me, and as the guy who owned the stall was giving her a stroke saying how pretty she was, she turned her head and bellowed in his ear :eek: Her neigh is insanely high pitched, and this was a very loud one, I'm surprised the poor guy wasn't deafened! Although that may be the reason he told me the reins I bought off him were definately black, they're not, they're definately brown :o
 
Mines a tart, gender or species is no barrier for her - as long as it has a pulse she'll prance about doing her look at me I think I'm an Arabian dance (arched neck, tail straight up swooshing about etc.)
She too is also very noisey I took her show jumping to her first ever time indoors and she screamed all the way around, it echoed as it was indoors. I always get comments on how vocal she is *rolls eyes*
She's also very high maintenance, which is embarrassing in front of everyone else at the yard who's horses are the types that get chucked in the field and are fine with it - sadly that's not the life Suni has in mind for herself and she's more than happy to let me, or anyone else, know in whatever dramatic way she sees fit :)
 
Lots of things, mainly to do with farting, pooing and weeing. Of course, he always waits to do these things until he has an audience - we could go miles with nothing, but as soon as we are outside someone's house, he will poo. If we meet walkers, or pass a house where the occupants are trying to enjoy the peace and quiet in their garden, he will fart long and loud. Or wee. Or both at once.
 
Mine is very gaseous....but annoyingly seems to do it more when people come to visit him!

My dog is worse though....he humps his dog blankets when guests come over - he NEVER does it normally! Oh the shame...
 
Oh, and my current 2 embarrassed me recently with the new farrier :( He doesn't take on new customers normally but friend did a big sell on how beautifully well behaved my horses are and how they never misbehave and what a considerate person I am and that I would have them ready and in waiting for him blah blah. He arrives the first time to find me huffing around the field still trying to catch the sods :D

They did behave once I'd got them though :D
 
I am almost too ashamed to admit to this, but the other week I had to ride in the warm-up of an unaff dressage comp at our yard - Maggie (17.2hh) had had 3 days off work and was bucking, spinning, rearing, fly-bucking, absolutely horrendous. I was asked by the comp organisers to leave the arena as parents feared for the safety of their children. Absolutely mortified.

Before you think I'm a total a$$hole, I HAD to ride due to vets orders, and Maggie is 11 and competes BD and BS so behaving in a warm-up shouldn't really be beyond her.

And I apologised to all offended parties (took me a bl00dy good while...)

:-((((
 
my matrix frequently embarrasses me. he hates the vet with a passion, and is quite vile to him. he once refused to be caught by the yard for 3 days and kept snatching treats out of peoples hands. someone lent him their legwraps, within 2 days he had pulled a strap off. and when i make his haynets, you would think he had been starved!
luckily, everyone loves him anyway :D
 
I can think of two of the top of my head.

Bobby, my 18yo gelding. He was always so responsive to voice on the lunge. The one day i have an audience, i announce that he's great. He was in trot, i want to pull him back to walk, the bugger canters! OH comes over, he reacts suddenly...

Then Mav, a rescue i had. He was in the field, i went to bring him in. He starts walking off, "wooow Mav, woooooow" i say in a welcomming voice. Before i know it, he's cantering down the field =/

Again, with an audience! Was very funny though!
 
Glad to hear i'm not the only one with an embarrassing horse!!

I have also had a few who usually no problems to catch but as soon as vet/farrier/dentist turn up can't get near them!!
 
i challenge anyone to find a more embarrassing horse than mine. as soon as we see a walker he pees in front of them and farts very loudly. he destroys everything in sight, recently a livery went out to he field with a rug to put on her horse and my horse nippd the rug from her hands and cantered off round the field with it then pawed it on the ground then pooed on it. needless to sayi had to buy her a new rug!!
 
Claire that's just too funny :D incredible :)

we were once on a very long hack, everything went well, until we were passing by a school - B decided he HAD to stop right opposite to have a good long wee :) children were amused.
 
Davie has always been, er, relaxed (and often not so!) with me.....whilst having scratches, rugging, unrugging, feeding, the list is endless. But since we moved to our lovely quiet yard he has taken to "relaxing" with all and sundry - shortly after the move I got a text from the YO asking if it was normal for Dave to drop his tackle when being rugged.....two mins later I got "OMG it pinged up and hit me on the arm!!!!"
 
Bailey_Noxy said:
Farts. Constantly. Out hunting, hacking, anywhere. She does it when shes excited or being naughty. When shes eating and sleeping. Its ridiculous!
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Hmm we have one like this. Loud and very long. She managed to do one in YO's face the other day.. well deserved but not popular. Heaven help us if anyone ever lights a match behind her; she will be first pony on the moon!
 
My old boy who was a very very heavyweight cob, pretty much a shire but a hand too short, full feather and everything cause you couldnt clip him, LOVED jumping everytime the bell went he would let out a massive squeal and bend himself in half and would also squeal mid course over a few bigger fences and as we went over the finish lines
 
My pony likes to grunt while he sees :) and he always loves to wee on the side of a main road with people stood near laughing at me.....he used to hang his bits out but i think i scared him out of it by poking it to make him put it away or attmepting to clean it every time he puts it out...he soon stopped that!!!
 
when my mare is in season, she gets so so so horny and try it on with every moving creature, gelding, mares, foals, human ANYTHING! legs wide spread squirting buckets and buckets... it is SO SO SO embarrassing, the worst thing is that when other horses try to tell her off or bite her neck it turns her on even more! her libido takes over and she wont listen to me...
 
Mine farts whenever I'm near his bum, doesn't matter if I'm picking his feet, adjusting his rug..if I'm there he can't control it!

He is also the biggest womaniser ever. In summer when he's turned back out after a ride I have to lead him to his latest gf otherwise he'll gallop round the field calling out. If I'm trying to catch him and there's a few mares in season he'll run and hide behind them all. He also squeals so loud when introducing himself to a new horse.

There is a gelding on our yard though that mounts the mares infront of the public eating in the pub next to the field. All you can hear is the kids shouting and the parents laughing lol! On one particular occasion he did it when there was a wedding party at the pub - not the type of memory I'd like to have!
 
My guy Riley is a nightmare at shows. He has to be fed first, or he'll raise the biggest din kicking and pawing the wall. So I'm always the first on the show grounds, usually 6 am, to beat the other riders.

He can't have anything he can grab off the stall in front, or he'll grab it and throw it into the aisle, or into his stall and trample it.

He once pulled the boards down in a stall to meet the horse next to him. I had to endure the announcer on the PA system show wide call for the grounds crew to fix my stall. So embarrassing.

In the line up for a victory gallop at year end champs, we were the winners and had to have our picture taken with the judges and sponsors. He was such a handful, half rearing and refusing to stand still, that they were too scared to get near him. My trainer came in to hold him and hid behind him while they quickly stood aside for a picture. They looked so apprehensive! I bet the poor judge was wondering what the heck happened to the very obedient horse she pinned first out of 20 . . .

Thank goodness we do well and know everyone and he's super friendly and sweet, if a bit looney, so our competitors tolerate us, and find him generally amusing. Though sentences usually begin with "Ohhh you're the one with that big chestnut horse . . . ."
 
mine do the normal shouting farting .. having a wee in the middle of the line up!!!! never be so embarresed .. attempted to side kick the judge as we trotted past
but most embarressing thing was i used to ride a 17hh warmblood who was a dream apart from when we we stood in the line up ready to get our rosette he would ''relax'' and his thing would just hang out and then when we did the lap of honour he wouldnt put it away
he did it eveytime hahaa
 
illy89 said:
My 4yo is SO vocal when we take him out to competitions and he is so loud too!! He actually makes people jump his neigh is so loud and he just does not shut up! :D We get very funny looks and think it actually gets on some people's nerves!! He also likes to neigh the whole way there and back on hacks and when we leave him on the lorry and take my mare off you can here him calling a mile off (Purdy pretends she doesn't know who he is!! :p) Hoping its a baby thing and will grow out otherwise he will be neighing all the way round the xc next season! hehe!! At least he doesn't nap, just likes to let the other horses know he is around. haha!
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My horse is exactly the same and he is 12!!!
Though apparently it's in appaloosas's nature to do it and he is half Appaloosa
When i first got him it was very embarrassing as I took him for a hack and there was a wedding party and he was shouting his head off!
 
A local very well known member of the horse community died a few years back, and I thought it would be a nice tribute if a few horses attended his funeral, so duly tuerned up with a fellow livery on hers, me on my (then) youngster, and a friend on my lovely grey mare. We stood outside, all platted up with black ribbons, and as soon as the family etc came out the church, my lovely mare... decided to wee right up the side of the hearse. Mortified is not the word... nothing my friend could do to stop her, luckly his family all cracked up laughing and said he'd probably had something to do with it... :o
 
starbar said:
Yes....sulks if he is not getting enough attention. The farrier was here the other day for 3 horses, one of which was him. We have a very big wash room and as it was snowing, all 3 were tied up in there. When he wasn't being attended to he would paw the ground, pick stuff up, chuck it around and generally be a pain. When this didn't work he sulked and turned his back on us all.....you can read his face like a book. Then he switched the lights off with his nose.... :p
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You've not borrowed without my knowing Captain have you?

He is an absolute terror if he feels he is being ignored. He can remove his lick restricter and will throw it at you. The other day we were up, he had feed and his haylage but was still demanding attention, banging. Why? Because we were playing with the pregnant mare. He picks up the wheelbarrow, yard tools, his ball anything within reach and lobs it at whoever is ignoring him!

If the farrier is ignoring when Cappy nibbles on his head, he takes the farrier's tools out of his belt, one at a time, and throws them. The farrier seems to get a lot of Cappy's naughtiness as he has also embarrassed us by dragging his teeth down the farrier's brand new 4X4.

He will also steal YO's oh's cap and wave it around if he has the audacity to walk past Captain without giving him a pat. He has also tried to pick up the yard's guard dog, thrown parsnips at people etc.

His most embarrassing episode was when he was chosen for a Tellington Touch demo.He was ok at the start but started to get bored, so he started pawing the ground and then when asked to stop he picked up Elizabeth by her hood and swung her, the audience cracked up but they lady doing it was not happy!

We are always waiting for the next embarrassing thing he will do. We are just extremely lucky to have a very understanding YO. If he goes 6 weeks without doing something that would get us thrown off another yard we are doing well!

Fany has never embarrassed us. Not even when she is in season, she just squirts discreetly at the object of her lust.

FDC
 
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