Does your horse know your CAR?

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Just a random thought really as its clear that hovis and Omar know Brian and I's cars. The minute we pull onto the drive they start a slow but deliberate walk to the gate and stand and wait.
Yesterday we were in a hire car as the bigger car was in the garage and they didn't move when we got onto the drive. When I hopped out they seemed quite surprised and ran over all of a fluster!
When they were in the field next to the car park hovis would lean over the fence and lick my car. Never anyone elses only ever mine! weird little boy!
So do they recognise cars? Does yours?
 
yes - mine know my car - not sure he would lick it but whinnies and comes to gate if in a field next to the car park (sometimes i hide round the back)
 
Yes, they know the sound of my car engine too. I can hear them whinny as i drive alongside the field. They cant see me at that point because of the hedge. I like to think its me they are whinnying at but i think its the food im carrying
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I think mine recognise the sound of our car, also other horses on the yard react to different cars, like which is 'their' car!!
 
Yeah they recognise cars and engine sounds especially if the car generally mean bring in time and food. I drive up in the summer and often feed at the gate, when I appear my girl come running over wanting dinner no matter what time of day it is if we go up in another car she doesn't come over.

you're horse is not weird, he just know's what he wants and who can give it to him!
 
Hi your not on your own my horses know my car they are at the bottom of a small hill and the road runs down the back and side and as i drive down the road they spot the car shout and run along the fence side following the car not good for my field they look so upset when i go down in OH car as i get to the stables before them i think its brilliant my gelding also licks my car and bite's it!! i have lots of teeth marks all over so now when i drive in to the field i have to put electric fence round it
 
Yes mine do! Infact last summer a lady staying at the holiday cottage spent most of the day sitting in the garden reading which overlooks the yard. She told me that the horses were so quiet, not a sound from them all day and all of a sudden there was neighing and commotion, within a minute my car pulled up! So they must hear me turning into the drive - sweet isn't it!
 
He used to know my car when he was on an outdoor yard - now his is inside a barn he knows the sound of high heels walking up the yard is normally carrot woman !
 
Mine have just started. the pony who cannot see over his stable door yells and for the first time this morning so did my mare when my car drew up
 
I had a lovely Shire mare...all 18.2 hands of the fuzzy girl. I bought her for having fun, not unlike a horse version of an antique car.

I had to sneak up the drive. She was in a big field with a muddy creek through the middle of the field. If she saw my car and the mud was between us, she run up and it would be: "Clean feather, clean feather, mud feather!" I could enter the farm from both sides...I'd try and guess what side of the mud she'd be on and sneak up on her. Sometimes, she'd see the Rover and would run to the gate and through the mud no matter what direction I arrived.

It's nice to be appreciated, but like a soaking wet dog coming to say "Hi!", I'd rather be ignored a bit.
 
Yes!!
In fact I got a 2nd car in September and he looks totally shocked when i lean out of the window and say hello as i drive up the drive past his field. In fact he looks all over as tho trying to work out "where" am I (cos I couldn't possibly be in a different metalic machine?)
 
Yes mine know my car! Particulary my mare who the instant i shut the car door (which is round the corner, and beind a fence) she calls!

At our summer fields when they were still at home with mum and dad they used to come charging over to the fence that bordered the lane when i drove over the bridge! And then they would bomb round to the other end where i would appear at the gate!
 
Probably not as my family all own silver 4x4's and we keep horses at home.

That said one always gets the squits the minute he sees the trailer hitched up - does that count????
 
Yes our do as well, they even know when we up and about in a morning, as soon as they hear our back door close they start "talking" to us! I think its lovely. Jack is the funniest, his voice hasn't broken yet (he is 20 months) and he sounds like "scooby doo"! lol
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Definitely, our YM knows when I'm coming up the drive in the morning as my horses start whickering before she hears my car. None of them can see, it's just the sound.
 
o yes, can't really miss colour neither!!! even if they say horses only see in b/w, it's BRIGHT
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Get a winny every time i turn up, so i know they love me, even though, one of mine is the grumpist horse in gloucestershire
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Oh yes. Knows all three of our vehicles. he also knows all his little horsey pals rigs(vehicle and trailer), and gets very excited and whinnys at the ones he knows and ignores the rest. Very clever horse though. Too bloody clever methinks sometimes.
 
Oh yes, other people on the yard have commented that he knows my car when I pull up in the evenings and he has already been brought in - a big commotion in the stable! It only took him a day or two to get to know my new car that I got a few weeks ago.
 
Our horses are now kept at home and know when we get home from work, or at any time when we have been out. When we had them at livery had a wiley old Shirex, who six weeks after we got her, got her feathers caught in the fence, she was my Dads car on the road and demonstrated, by lifting the stuck foot up and down, that she was stuck in the fence so that he would go and rescue her.
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I use 2 cars - well I use my car and my hubby's van different days different times, both my girls know both my vehicles as soon as I come down drive like others are saying they neigh then run for gate, lots of vans come down our farm drive near to their field - they never look up when any others come down.
 
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