Grrr! Anyone want two horses for the price of postage?

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I could have killed both of mine this morning so am currently looking for someone stupid - I mean lovely - enough to take them off my hands?!
I walked in to find them both up against the bars with Omar holding onto Hovis' rug and Hovis wriggling backward out of it. They both looked like naughty school boys - particualrly when on closer inspection it became clear they'd ripped the fastener off the chest piece of hovis' stable rug. I was not amused.

Hovis then nicked my gloves, Omar knocked my tea over and drank it, they nicked the broom and fork and threw then at the horses opposite, they decided they wanted to play fight as we were all in the gangway between the stables - all this before we got out of the door.

Omar next decided that the shadows in the driving sleet and wind were terrfiying so wouldn't move. After much swearing he finally walked on, cowering against Hovis like a shetland pony rather than the strapping 17.1HH ID he is. They then decided that neither of then were walking in puddles today so either i was squashed between them both or having my arms yanked out as these two fairies refused to get their feet wet.
In the field I let hovis off first where upon he promptly got hold of omars lead rope and wouldn't let go, even as i was removing Omar out of it.

Eventually we got ourselves untangled and I left them tanking up and down the field together looking highly amused with themselves.

All this at 6am in driving sleet. Just what i needed this morning.
so...... anyone want them?
 
LMAO......I mean, oh poor you!!

Sorry, but I couldnt help but laugh when I read that!
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Awwww! They sound like such characters!
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I think you summed it up calling them naughty school boys. It sounds like they were planning and working together as a team to create as much mischief as possible!
It's a good job you love them
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Ha needed a good laugh this morning!

Must say my three were very well behaved, and were quite happy to stay in which makes a change, the grumpy old git usually neighs his head off at me to remind me that I have 'forgotten' to put him out.

I know what you mean about the big ones being scared, the 16.3 usually hides behind the 11hh, then nudges her bum if she stops at anything.
 
I'd take them but not sure how my postie would cope! Or how you would get them in the post box
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He already complains about the number of horsey junk mail and magazines we get.

Would be fun to see his face though! (misery guts).
 
Will swop you for my two, Farra is every bit as big and hairy, but Chancer is a little more manageable. However it may not be such a bargain:

I made the mistake of leaving Chancer's rug over his door - trampled to a mush

Farra likes to ripping the tarp of the agility dog clubs A frame and then attempting climbing it

They both steal and break the milk crates in the school, the poo scoop is taken and hidden

Both have bitten holes out of just about every bale of shavings stored

Pulling down the stacked jumps and poles is fun

Throwing brooms and headcollars over the yard is a contest to see who can go the furthest

Undoing the gate to the indoor school and running up the lane for the pub is best of all to see fat mummy running after them with feed bowls pleading for them to return.

And the final best bit - empty your bottom of all air in mum's face when she is doing feet and tails

Are you sure yours are so bad??????
 
haha mine gelding does the throw your headcollar across the yard to get some attention.

i wouldn't swap my mare she's very lady like (until you ride her lol)

at least you can say there not boring!!!!!
 
Theresa maybe I could just send you mine for company?
Honestly its worse than having kids.
The back lady loves coming to see them as she does hovis first then spends the next hour in stitches as he steals Omars rugs, peeps over the top of the bars then ducks down when you turn round, throws everything he can find at the partition wall. He's a nightmare but a total clown.
When omar came to us he was quite aloof but now is turning into just as big a clown. When they're 17.1HH and 16HH respectively their idea of funny isn't always mine!

Hovis also likes the jumps and the poo scoop in the school. i never have hiold of him and he follows me like a dog - usually on the other end of the pole I'm carrying.
Omar does the farting thing when picking out feet - its delightful
 
The Appy has worn out the batteries in the radio! It is one shaped like a duck, you turn it's head to turn it on. When I last tried to listen to it, I had to first search down between the two skins of the stable wall, only to discover that it had been switched on and had no batteries left! At least this morning she only knocked my hat off twice
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Thanks but the deal is you have my two in return - I think the four of them together would drive anyone completely insane in a day.

Funny you said about Hovis turning Omar into another pest beast. Chancer has done the same to Farra.

When she arrived, she was very sweet, calm and never chewed, trampled anything - now to be honest she is as bad if not worse that Stinky and 2 hands bigger. Seeing a clydesdale trying to do dog ablity climbing is a little odd to say the least.

The only saving grace (so far) is that you can hang rugs in her stable or over the door and they stay put.

Why oh why did OH and I get two hairy four year olds??? Am definately going mad in my middle age to have agreed to a second one.
 
Yeah but you wouldn't change them.
I do however spend several mornings a week wishing for one of the well behaved, almost robotic horses a few of the others have.
I do worry when new people come onto the yard and mine (particularly hovis) are referrred to a "characters". i always feel reminded of people saying X has a "nice personality "- meaning they're as ugly as sin.
Therefore does "characters" = deliquents who should be turned into prit stick?!!
 
Probably not - but have you been driven to the point where you scream insanely at them, jiggling on the spot whilst clutching your hands so you don't give into the urge to beat them to a pulp and wishing you never had seen them.

Two nights ago - freezing, very late at night, I finally cracked. They had destroyed everything in reach in the school, walked through the electric tape keeping them from stuff they should be at twice, and then Farra undid the gate and took Chancer off down the lane with me running flat out trying to shake feed bowls and sing nice come back songs whilst want to put them into pies.

Hence when caught and returned, the dance of insane blood mist anger at them.

The odd thing is that they then know they have finally pushed me to far and turn from demonic youngsters into little angels who stand quietly and do exactly as I ask until the vein on my forehead stops pulsing and I can breath again
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They do have their good points honestly.
 
Thank you for making me smile!! - I was in need of it this morning...!

I've just got some welsh section A's at the moment but they can still be 'characters'...
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My pride and joy has just remembered that he can, very successfully I might add, throw his jolly ball over his stall guard with surprisingly good accuracy at passers-by
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It can be funny but when the ball hurtles through the air from nowhere and smacks a potential client in the ear it's not too great...
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He also does not like to get his mane wet for fear of decreasing his attractiveness to the ladies, for w welshie he would happily spend his time tucked up in bed in his pj's
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You've cheered me up no end
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at least I'm not the only one with two monsters
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I'll trade Lady in for Hovis or Stinky
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She was having one of those silly days last week and managed to break my toes for me
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I'm enjoying this thread!

Now I vaguely remember a few months back that your Hovis and my Warrior had a virtual conversation about going to their first dressage competitions and how they each believed they should be behaving.

Now I got to see that particular forum thread, but I am very much beginning to suspect now that Hovis and Warrior have continued to stay in touch with each other away from this forum and have been passing on "tips" to each other that their Mums don't yet know about.

So, I thought that if we each intercept our boys' private e-mail accounts, without them knowing, and then we could possibly then "block sender" to the other one - then they wouldn't be able to communicate by e-mail behind our backs and give each other any more naughty ideas!

What do you think?

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Thanks your post realy cheered me up. im sorry to say that my girly is a perfect well behaved little lady, dont know if i could cope with ones like yours, Miss just does as i ask as long as it is nothing to do with walking past bales in fields, or keeping her rugs clean, she even walks herself to and from her stable, field great for thoes dark nites. Islipped on the ice other morning and she stood there while i was hanging on to her neck till i got my footing I sometimes think that she thinks im the one with character.
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