Does your horse ever lay on the guilt trip??

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I've been working late shifts all week and my horse, who lives out has been a little bit needy the last few days.

He was on my tail whilst I moved the electric fencing. He 'helped' me empty the trough, stalked me whilst I poo-picked and walked away from his feed to follow me back to the car yesterday (fear not, he returned to it before I left).

Today I took our little mare's headcollar off to put her grazing muzzle on, and he promptly shoved his nose into it. If that wasn't a clear sign he's bored I don't know what is. Of course, I'll get to spend lots of time with him tomorrow but in the meantime I feel sooo guilty!

Does your horse ever try to tell you when you're not playing ball?
 
I think mine try to hypnotise me into feeding them more. Both of them have a habit of staring deeply into my eyes if I have exhibited signs of carrots or other treats.
 
Yes. That's why even though she needs nothing but forage she gets half a scoop of hifi lite in a bucket 2x a day. When she stopped hard work & therefore hard feed, she made it quite clear she felt hard done by without 2x daily feed buckets.
 
Yup!

Usually food related!

My friends mare (when shes being ridden) turns her head round and rests her chin on your foot in the stirrup. x
 
Mine had a massive strop once in tonight. I was bringing in a friend's horse too and thought I'd save myself the walk twice (as I was bringing in two mares separately too, the one I normally look after won't tolerate being brought in with another) so rather than do four trips down the lane, I thought I'd just do three :rolleyes:

He and the other boy came in ok then he had a total strop, thumped me with his head, ignored me, refused to pick up his feet, how dare I bring in another horse with him?!
 
If I haven't seen him for a few days and go to catch him, he will run around the field for a few minutes herding all of the other boys up until I look dejected and give up, then he will stand still like butter wouldn't melt and allow me to put a headcollar on.

Also if I'm late to the yard to turn him out after finishing work at 10pm the night before (ie. 8.30 am) then he butts me in the chest with his nose as I open his stable door, complete with ears back until I put his headcollar on.

He often 'growls' if I'm asking him to work hard too, like a grumpy old man!! He's only become vocal at feed times etc. since he's been out of the racing yard, it's like he's found his feet and his personality is shining through :o
 
Ohhh yes!

There is the "where the hell have you been" indignant neigh if I'm late to bring her in, then if I go away and don't see her I get this "I'm sorry, do I know you?" routine. And that is on top of the usual feed related stuff.......
 
EMC said:
He often 'growls' if I'm asking him to work hard too, like a grumpy old man!! He's only become vocal at feed times etc. since he's been out of the racing yard, it's like he's found his feet and his personality is shining through :o
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Love the growling! Mine does that too when I tickle him with the schooling whip (usually I take it as a warning before he starts stomping his feet). It's nice to know there's another happy TB out there somewhere, coming out of his shell :)

My mare has two different calls. One's a high pitched "OOH! You're here with my dinner, right on time! I LOVE you mum!" the other is the indignant, "Oh, nice to see you showed up, an hour late, probably without carrots. If you didn't bring carrots I'm not talking to you. Oh you did! *whickers*"
 
I used to turn out an Arab for a girl, my boy loathed and detested this horse and if I made the mistake of turning Arab out first he would strop and stamp for the rest of the day. Felt sorry for the arab, none of the other horses liked or even tolerated him, he had to stay on his own all the time or be torn to shreds.
 
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