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I cant be the only one who had a cheeky monster who was also funny, so I thought it would be nice to hear about the little monsters who taught us so much . Mine was an old sec b that did what he wanted,when he wanted! Highlights included dumping me before I even got to the ring at every show,meaning I alway lost my buttonhole and had grass stains on my knees.He also enjoyed "running away" at a walk or slow jog! When I tried to pull him up, or turn he did a rocking horse type rear/buck combo, and I would have to decide if I wanted to fall off (again) or let him go back to the yard/lorry/haynet and try again. My mum tried leading him,but he would just pull his lips back and bang on her hand untill she let go,and then run away again.Very slowly :D. He was also an escape artist,could undo bolts,remove his head collar with his hind hoof,and clear a wire fence from a trot.All very impressive in a 12:2 veteran,and things I would never put up with from anything bigger(thats dangerous,not cute :p )
 
Gone but never to be forgotten - my skewbald shetland, all 9 hh of him! Perfect on the lead rein but a complete monkey off it - straight to the gate every time, managed to boot every member of the family, would drag himself out of the yard and then tow me home, would try to mount my 16.1hh ID/TBx etc...............! Absolutely adored by all the family and sadly missed.
 
He sounds lovely attheponies,shetlands are so full of character it is impossible not to love them no matter what they do. When I was about 12 I "helped" a friend with her neice's shetland untill she realised that she could run under the fir tree and leave me in it!
 
My first pony was only just a pony, a Welsh D, but he had just as much character as the little ones! He was an escape artist, he could squeeze through the smallest gaps in hedges, without getting scratched! He would jump out the field if he felt like following horses going past on the lane and was witnessed wriggling under a small section of electric tape where we had run out near the end of the fence! (You would think jumping it was the obvious and easier way to get to the greener grass, but apparently not!)
He also had a habit of getting loose to eat anything he could find! At pony club camp, where most ponies would gallop round if they got out their stable, everyone shouted 'loose horse' and ran to him but he stopped right outside his stable, head in the grass! :p
 
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All 13hh of mischief! He was a little monkey- so cocky and funny! His owner was amazing- when she got him he was meek and nervous and wary. By the time my sister had totally outgrown him he was a confident and happy pony.
 
Not an oldie, but the Pony i have now has a habit of slipping his headcollar or undoing his rope when I leave him tied up eating dinner, toddles round the corner and puts his head in the coffee room LOL he is so funny
 
My first pony, who i still have, can be a real g*t at times, but i love him to bits. His party trick is ducking under his stable chain and heading for the hay barn, if he isnt in his stable i just go straight there to retrieve him. He also takes his time loading (2 hours) and as soon as i ask for canter/gallop around the fields i immediatly try to pull up as it takes the whole length of the field for him to notice me tugging on his mouth to stop. But he is spoilt rotten :D
 
Current Highland - got into feedroom and there was no room to get past her as she only just fit so had to climb over all the bins to get to her head to back her out of it.

First Yard - she had been put in no less that 4 fields and escaped from them all. I was leaving one day and she appeared beside me as I reversed. stopped car, put her back in field. got in car. pony appeared beside me. one of the girls stayed beside the field gate as I left. Pony trotted off to munch grass.

Horses all came to gate, bird scarer went off and they all took off up the field. My pony was at the back and frustrated at being unable to get past all the 16hh wimps that refused to come near gate. she cantered up the field, popped over all the XC jumps and came down the other field so she could get her food.

10 years I was on the yard and NO horse ever opened the big double doors tied with baler twine. Came in one day, and she'd opened the door and her and friends made their way down the stables, eating everyones dinners. Ooops. I did catch her after that, trying to open the doors again = her banned from the diet paddock.

Put her in a field and she wanted her original one so jumped 4 4' fences to get back into it.

Ridden - the day she decided she didn't want to go forward so reversed up a fairly vertical verge. Cue me sliding forward and pony kindly put her head down for me to slide down. only problem was there was a 2 foot gap between her and the road = knees all torn and bloody. Me sitting on road laughing, pony somewhere behidn me and my friend barely staying on her pony, peeing herself laughing - oh and I was 26 at the time!!! :p

Sorry for the long post. This is a drop in the ocean to what we've gone through in 5 years :D
 
One of mine has many tricks but his favourite is to take a drink of water but not swallow it. He will hold it in his mouth until whoever is nearest turns their back, then he dribbles water down that person's back.
 
I am loving these stories! I have noticed that we mostly have cheeky boys,excluding fidleyspromise's mare (who sounds like amazing entertainment :D ).So I am going to share my old 13:2 mares favourite trick, she had an unusal way of avoiding coming in when the grass was just too tasty in spring. She was fine to catch,would walk like a lamb untill we were about 5m from the gate,then would set her neck and take off! I couldn't stop,turn her or keep up so would have to let go and then try to get close enough to get the headcollar off and leave her out. Untill I got a controller type halter and was able to stop her getting away from me.:p
 
My first pony, Monty (aka Ben) was the origional Thelwell pony. Short, round, with a huge shaggy mane and a lucious long tail... Bay to boot... Every cartoon you've ever seen, we've been there!

With me, he jumped like a stag, but was just as likely to let me do the jumping without him. He also enjoyed bucking regularly, just to test my seat. Brakes were non existant and myself and my saddle often ended up halfway up his neck...
With my sister, he was just a bolter. He enjoyed hours of galloping round the field with my sister hanging on for dear life, white as a sheet. She was always garunteed at least one fall per ride, many just sliding falls off dropped shoulders mid gallop.
The funniest "fall" was when I gave her a leg up and she ended up standing on the other side of the pony without ever having touched him...
With my brother, however, he was a saint.

He also enjoyed flirting with cows, humping my old mare, kicking anything that didn't look like a cow or a mare (my sister and I have both fallen off numerous other horses thanks to him!), jumping puddles (he hated getting his feet dirty...), sucking electric fence, whilst it was on, breaking down fences and encouraging my old mare to escape, peeing on the hay after he'd finished so she couldn't eat it, zipping zippers and running around the garden with my Dad chasing after him...

Nowadays I hear he's teaching children how to sit a dropped shoulder mid gallop and how to survive being savaged whilst riding another horse.

I went to see him recently(ish) and called him Monty, a name he wouldn't have heard for 8 or 9 years. He looked up, headed over to me, then stopped... his facial expression translating to "oh bugger, it's you again!"
 
I have a wind up merchant of a Hipo! His greatest trates (in his opinion:rolleyes:) are:

Opening doors, walking under chains, undo'ing chains, pulling his leadrope undone, pulling his haynet undone and shaking it about to get the hay out- he is fed through a small holed net..:rolleyes: I have to double tie just about anything...:rolleyes::eek:
His very best tricks have to be taking his bridle off, to this day I have no idea how he does it..
We were out a hack.. and I drop my crop as usual:o so I jump off, leave him munching some grass(deserted road) walk about 1/3 of a meter to get my crop.. turn round and BAM:eek: ... Bailey is standing with no bridle on.. I nearly had a heart attack!!:eek::eek:
He also does the trick of.. "Aww mum wait.. I need to scratch my leg, (coincidentally always over some lush grass) *gives him the reins* he has a little scratch and that's us.. down at the grass until he gives in to my best efforts to get his head up again!:rolleyes:
Bailey enjoys knocking haybales into doors, peeing on hay, rolling when he is clean arghhh... and most of all, bucking just as your coming out of your two point position from his cat leap jump!:D:D

There is also a dales at the yard, who takes his stable rug off? With all the buckles and straps done up... :confused:
 
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One of mine has many tricks but his favourite is to take a drink of water but not swallow it. He will hold it in his mouth until whoever is nearest turns their back, then he dribbles water down that person's back.
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Joining that club. And it's always on the freezing cold days :rolleyes:
 
Serenity087, your boy sound like the one I had !He taught me how to sit a dropped shoulder eventually. As a child I was highly amused by all the older girls who offered to "sort him" for me and quickly hit the ground .

Lintel If my boy hadn't been p.t.s in the early 90's I would be convinced that you had him now! He did the "amazing vanishing bridle trick" by pushing it over his ears with a rear hoof!
 
hippo-horse said:
I am loving these stories! I have noticed that we mostly have cheeky boys,excluding fidleyspromise's mare (who sounds like amazing entertainment :D ).So I am going to share my old 13:2 mares favourite trick, she had an unusal way of avoiding coming in when the grass was just too tasty in spring. She was fine to catch,would walk like a lamb untill we were about 5m from the gate,then would set her neck and take off! I couldn't stop,turn her or keep up so would have to let go and then try to get close enough to get the headcollar off and leave her out. Untill I got a controller type halter and was able to stop her getting away from me.:p
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Yup, my mare certainly brings about her own entertainment.
These pony stories have all kept me thoroughly entertained. :D
Bet your pony was mad when you managed to control her? I had to stop using a lunge cavesson as she set her neck and took off back to yard with lunge line trailing behind her.

Riding at a show is embarrassing.
She was in rehab after work so told steward that we would do w/t test and withdraw from Prelim, as she wasn't up to cantering. Walking after from steward and pony took off down show field. Whooooops!!

Fairly normal show occurance: All these gorgeous 16hh Warmbloods are cantering around nice and calm and then my mare goes flying into the warm up all excited as she sees the jumps. Tigger would be a better name for her. :D
 
my wonderful, yet horribly cheeky pony tricks include untieing herself, roaming around the farms and switching fields as and when she pleases, opening stable doors, electric fences simply get in the way of fun so must be knocked down or removed someway, headcollars are made as a 'how quick can I get this off' challange - same applys to grazing muzzle and bridle if left on in stable. generally acting like a spoilt little madam who IS the boss and will swish her tail if you dare tell off to show her attitude. Standing on her back legs is a talent which she aquires if she decides that things are getting boring, and grabbing the bit to have the odd 'tanking' moment can help to liven things up.

Her door opening skills prove extremly helpful when you want to open a gate out hacking and don't want to get off.

Standing IN the muck heap and eating any haylage that may have otherwise been wasted is def the favourite task at the moment and all said and done I wouldnt change her for all the money in the world...

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my wonderful, yet horribly cheeky pony tricks include untieing herself, roaming around the farms and switching fields as and when she pleases, opening stable doors, electric fences simply get in the way of fun so must be knocked down or removed someway, headcollars are made as a 'how quick can I get this off' challange - same applys to grazing muzzle and bridle if left on in stable. generally acting like a spoilt little madam who IS the boss and will swish her tail if you dare tell off to show her attitude. Standing on her back legs is a talent which she aquires if she decides that things are getting boring, and grabbing the bit to have the odd 'tanking' moment can help to liven things up.

Her door opening skills prove extremly helpful when you want to open a gate out hacking and don't want to get off.

Standing IN the muck heap and eating any haylage that may have otherwise been wasted is def the favourite task at the moment and all said and done I wouldnt change her for all the money in the world...

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Oh jmb!!

Your mare looks just like one I used to own and still miss :( And she was equally cheeky even as a babe.

How old is yours? How big and what breed?

Would be lovely if she turned out to be one and the same!
 
Took them to the beach, all he did was gallop flat out anywhere and everywhere, then he decided he has enough and was going to rear and bolt back to the trailer!
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His fave trick was to dodge out of jumps then go back to the gate, :rolleyes: this was about 2 years ago, with non horsey dad telling me what to do :rolleyes: :D
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He also enjoys the likes of:
Climbing out of stables, even ones with doors higher than him!
Galloping home half way around a hack, not a chance of stopping him (touch wood we've sorted this now)
You can't leave him tied up unattended else he'll undo his rope/paw a hole in the yard/ rear up and scream for someone to 'rescue' him

Rolls in the muddiest patch he can find, then comes to pull a face for the camera!
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I'm sure there's more :D
However, as naughty and as cheeky as he is, we all love the little coblet :)
 
We have a cheeky one at out yard, she's nearly 3... She's broken lots of solid wooden fencing, escaped out the stable, completely pulled a solid stable door off (no idea how she did that one!!!), untied herself and plays can't catch me round yard and each time she escapes she goes to eat someone else's hay.. Lol Do have a very soft spot for her tho and she's not even mine lol
 
Knobberpony has her little ways.I no longer use a haynet because she paws at it until it is on the floor.Last week I found a section of fence missing,she'd obviously pawed at the net,caught her hoof and dragged the whole lot down,luckily it was an old rotten fence,but it wasn't even mine.This week she has rubbed herself so vigorously on a different fence that she has pushed it out.She double barrelled the stable door and smashed it because I put her in for 15 minutes.When my daughter hunted her,she got down to roll halfway through.She can untie ropes,remove headcollars and fly fringes,walks through or jumps electric fences.If she thinks it is tea time she'll do the welshie head throwing thing and kick the gate until her tea appears.She tried to bite another pony's backside during a pony club rally,hates being groomed and loves rolling in mud [and she is grey].She can be very grumpy on the ground and if in the mood,can be a pig to lead-we progress very slowly,going in circles some days,but we get there eventually.She stands in front of the neighbours bedroom window and stares at them when they open the curtains in the morning,then turns her bum on them distainfully.

But,she is a dream to ride,my 6 year old can ride her in a 40 acre field and I know she won't bolt or do anything silly.She has taught us loads and we will never sell her,we love her too much.;)
 
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