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I was out having a lovely calm and chilled out hack on sunday morning, only had an an hour and was just thinking, wow... finally, we have clicked and are getting on nicely, when......

OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD, THAT TREE STUMP IS GOING TO GET ME AND KILL ME I JUST KNOW IT.....

He has never reared and went straight up and tarted about on the bloody golf course of all places.

So there is now a beautifully churned up tee off bit on the golf course.

I actually had to get off and walk him past it, snorting like a tart and get back on!!!
 
If it makes you feel any better, a golden retriever scared the bejesus out of my girly yesterday and she behaved like a firebreathing dragon for the rest of the ride!!
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Honestly, what is it with these horses? I took the Moose out for a nice little amble round the fields yesterday morning, she was as good as gold except for one little bit of "oh my god, its coming to get me"...and what was the cause of this panic? Not the quad bike bowling straight past her, not the Abandoned Water Trough of Death (that has caused a few scary moments in the past ), not the loud thumping noise made by the post knocker, not the flighty babies in the next field....but the terrifying and unpredictable Dead Weed Stalk Sticking Out Of The Ground.

Mad, i tell you, quite mad.
 
Must be Spring Fever. My normally so-laidback-I-can-only-be-bothered-to-amble neddy, decided that the elderly man on very elderly bike at the end of our lane the other day, was positively the most horse-scaring-mare-eating-fire-breathing thing she had ever seen. Poor old chap nearly had a fit as large hairy beast grew to at least 18.2 and snorted past him
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Hehehe I'm quite glad I'm not the only one who has had to confront a HUGE scary horse eating monster recently lol. Had to confront one on Ellie last week with much snorting and stamping. No way could I get her anywhere near it to reassure her she wasn't on the lunch menu
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I moved her away took another route back to the yard but took her down to confront it before I turned her back out. With much circling on the end of the lead rope I might add
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Gets her right up to the big scary thing that turned out not to be as scary as she thought and decided the grass near it was more interesting

The monster was a gatepost lying on the floor
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The number of times we've passed it when it was upright and she's not bothered with it
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Bad pony
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I bet you were Mrs Popular with the golfers LOL - I just cant believe you didn't know tree stumps DO bite
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My mare thought a dead badger was about to pounce and wrestle her to the ground this morning. oh that and the little new born lamb!!
 
The green letter box on the fence post on the gate at the yard contains monsters that will eat the grey pet. He doesn't even look at the viaduct with trains in steam trains which is about 20 feet away from the letter box.
 
Mine leapt 10 feet sideways in one go yesterday, very nearly unseating me. The offending artical? A bush. He suddenly noticed it was there, looking very.... bushy. I did have a good look to see if there was anything more sinister lurking under or behind it, a dragon, lepricauns maybe? But no, just a bush!
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Do they ever get old enough to know better d'you think? He's nearly 16 for god's sake!!
 
OMG - I thought I was the only person with a wuss for a pony!!! 16.3hh of pure Big Girls Blouse. The scariest thing ever to try and kill Bob (what a name, I ask you!!!) was a patch of DRIED BIRD POO that he had stepped over a gazillion times. Honestly, I couldn't do anything for the hysterical laughter. On my farm he is affectionately known as Bob The Knob!!!

Although the other week the scary horse eating digger (which he didn't bat an eyelid at on the way out) came a very close contender. A cat leap worthy of Badminton apparently - mind you, it was keffing funny when I saw the look of unadulterated fear on the face of the workmen............

And that was our first (supposedly chilled) ride since August due to pregnancy and new baby!!!
 
My horse was scared to the point of trembling and shaking - by another horse! He saw a very beautiful hairy native pony of about 13hh (he is 17hh) at a show and he was terrified. The pony had lots of flowing feather and a gorgeous long mane and tail but my horse had obviously never seen anything like it before and couldn't work out what it was.
 
I was leading Henry out for his daily walk earlier and we're just pootling along nicely when he suddenly cleared a 'pit of horse devouring doom'....albeit cleverly disguised as a road marking, as a 6 foot spread....

We've done the same walk daily for 4 weeks now.....
 
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