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just wanted ot know if it was just us who have strange habits or are other horses the same?

After doing work, br is hacking, schooling,lunging or even long reining i bring Levi back to the stable and he will always ALWAYS! stand in the back of the box and have a massive pee!!

you would think he has been holding it for days!! i think its because he wasn't want to pee on the road or surface, i have seen him pee in the field a number of times but every time i bring him
back from work he HAS! to go, some times i don't even get chance to get the roller or saddle off!!

Never had a horse i have owned do this before, any one else have horse that does it or have an odd little habit like this?

in my words of the vet "At least you will always be able to get a sample if needed!"
 
I used to let mine (as a youngster) come in from the field into his box for a pee, before I would groom and tack up.He would go immediately Eventually we were out for a really long hack (several hours) and he had to go. That made him realise it was in fact, possible to pee with me on him and it was never a problem after that.
One day he memorably did it while waiting at traffic lights for road works (country road). We were first in line, lights went green, I nudged him forwards and he decided to go there and then lol. The cars behind us missed the lights turning because he was peeing copiously all over the road while I died of embarrassment (seriously, he could have gone on the verge if I'd had a warning). Luckily I think the car drivers found it amusing!
 
i have this really embarrassing situation with Shadow in that EVERY time i go past one particular house in the village he does a big pooh right outside his front door, it's like he waits just for this house, the owner is fanatical about his facade and i know he is cross about it as he told my neighbour he thinks i do it on purpose, ha , i wish, i 'd have him poohing ON some of them if that was the case!
 
My horse rolls religiously after a work session. She waits until tack off and then within 30 secs is down.

More than one occasion at stay away shows I have been picking shavings out of plaits before prize giving/second test!
 
Mine does a dance when he knows it's dinner time - it involves chewing, pointing at all the haynets he can see with his nose and looking longingly at any human he sees.

He also has a habit of turning round when you try and tack him up, as soon as he sees the bridle he walks a half circle in his stable. He's always done it and was previously very headshy so I think its something that has become a habit even though he is now fine.
 
We had an eventer who always peed as soon as he went on the lorry, very annoying! Mr B waves his head up and down like a lunatic when he thinks it's time for turn out or feed. The first time he did it I thought I'd bought a horse with a neurological problem but if I ask him to stop, he gives me a "look" and stamps his foot instead!
 
My lad, without fail, always has a wee when I approach him carrying the saddle. He also ALWAYS wees when I bring him in to a freshly made up stable. He is so predictable that I can usually catch said wees in a bucket!

Another less helpful habit is opening his stable door with his nose - they are sliding doors and he seems to be able to tell when they haven't locked into place - to look at it you would think its shut but somehow he knows when it isn't and will nudge it more ajar until he can get his nose thru and push it wider, then he's off!
 
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When you open Sunny's stable door in the morning to let her into the field (the stable block is in the field) she walks out, smells the air, and then before you can close her door runs back in the the stable again and rolls continuously for about 30 mins! Funny mare! :rolleyes3:
 
My boy will only pee on grass and only the right grass (normally with some hedge/long grass he can try to eat at the same time) when we are hacking. The only time he was forced to pee on a VERY small verge and it ran onto the road he looked at it in horror and jumped over it rather then step in it to get back on the road! He is yet to pee in the school at his new yard (been there 2 months and it's the first school he's been in)
 
:) My Flurry used to be similar to OP's horse but the difference was, once you finished riding he'd go back into his stable, he'd take one bite out of his hay net, THEN go to the back of the stable for a pee. Usually I had time to catch it in a bucket thus saving shavings!

My sister rides her horse Caspar at endurance and pleasure rides. In the first 100 yards he always pulls over on to the grass verge for a pee.

Harry (now at retirement livery) had a habit, if 'his' people were on the yard but not paying him attention, of getting hold of any rugs over the top of his door, one by one, and throwing them on the floor in his box. I think he aimed for the water bucket too.
 
My girl always used to wee on the way to the fields, so when she was in I'd walk her to the field once she went for a wee I'd let her have some grass or a treat. This works great for saving bedding, however now she uses it against me, when she sees a nice bit of grass she goes for a wee (usually half a dribble) then demands grass, she has been known to go twice when she wants more grass or just stand in the wee pose ha ha clever girl. She has also trained me so when she's itchy she points to them and I scratch them, usually when poo picking, as it turns out poop scoop rake makes an excellent itchy tool
 
Shady said:
i have this really embarrassing situation with Shadow in that EVERY time i go past one particular house in the village he does a big pooh right outside his front door, it's like he waits just for this house, the owner is fanatical about his facade and i know he is cross about it as he told my neighbour he thinks i do it on purpose, ha , i wish, i 'd have him poohing ON some of them if that was the case!
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Haha Shady that is funny. Poor guy!

My mare is a bit the opposite with pooing. The yard is super clean and the owners ask all poos are immediately cleaned up and also any on the 100m private road. My mare has learnt (from my sighing, and getting off to pick up) it's not ideal and generally won't, however there has been a few times in the last 5 metres she just hasn't been able to hold any further and hands her head in shame as she goes!
It also means at the end of the road there is a big pile!!
She will also look quite impatiently at me when tacking up to get a move on, which I have a lot of empathy for!!
 
Sam always has a poop when I've mucked out! I originally thought it was when I put new shavings in! but I was mucking out around him the other evening and he poop'd as soon as I'd put the shavings fork and everything away!

every time he rolls, he pulls himself up and sits like a dog for about 2-10 seconds then springs off the ground, rears up, squeals and canters off for a few steps!! then goes back to grazing

if there is anything laying around, it will be in his mouth before you realise
 
My big boy has a 'poo' spot - both in his stable and in his field! Always exactly the same spot and he just poo's on top until there is a large pyramid! Makes poo picking the field and mucking out his stable very easy indeed, so it's a habit I don't mind at all! :D
 
If my boy isn't being worked in an evening he goes straight into his stable, with hay, water etc...although he never ever touches his hay until he has had his dinner, so he stands at his door waiting...then once he has had his dinner, which involves several breaks for a lick of his salt he goes straight to the hay x
 
Mrs G said:
My lad, without fail, always has a wee when I approach him carrying the saddle. He also ALWAYS wees when I bring him in to a freshly made up stable. He is so predictable that I can usually catch said wees in a bucket!

Another less helpful habit is opening his stable door with his nose - they are sliding doors and he seems to be able to tell when they haven't locked into place - to look at it you would think its shut but somehow he knows when it isn't and will nudge it more ajar until he can get his nose thru and push it wider, then he's off!
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Do we have the same horse? This is my lad to a T, he also pulls down hay from a bale in the field and pees on it, almost marking it as his, love him to bits though
 
Was just thinking about this, as mare did it again...whenever I fill the hay feeder in the field, the Ballerina Mare will walk over, start to eat, and have a big pee, and then keep eating. WHY? :confused:
 
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