Half serious, half joke question about fire...

Shantara

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Soooo, I was rewatching my videos and looking at pictures of Blazing Saddles...

And I was wondering how you safely introduce horses to fire?
I love bombproofing and often get the tarp and flags out...but fire? How do you start?!

Now, I'm not planning on jumping Ned over fire (I want to, don't get me wrong!), just an innocent question :)
 
One of my old yards had a bonfire going a lot. I just walked mine past it everytime it was on. The flames, crackling etc soon hot boring but the invisible boogie man was still scarey.....
 
Ah, I hadn't thought about bonfires :) They sometimes have them, I'll tell YO to let me know when they next have one so I can walk him past :)
We actually past one behind a hedge the other day, it was quite far back, but it was the smoke that seemed to make him look, rather than fire.
 
I had one in the arena who planted for 20min to watch the YO repeatedly carry wood from a pile to a bonfire. It was like horse was watching tennis with the head going side to side, lol.
 
I once had to hack my rather highly strung mare past a bonfire in the lane once. She didnt even bother to look at it. Then proceeded to spook at an old log ten mins later. I'd suggest a small camp fire at the other end of your feild and let your horse see it from a distance first. In hand, bridle, hat etc
 
We have a gardener who regularly burns leaves throughout the winter near the driveway for our yard so most of ours are well used to it. Must admit I wouldn't be trying to jump the piles of leaves though ;)
 
Haha fab! I like the idea of a BBQ :P There's one for sale in my shop for £10...with my discount that would be £9...

Oh Ned! The things I put you through.
 
I watched a demo recently by stunt horses & men. They had horses that ran (not jumped) through fire. That day they had a horse there that hadn't been trained to run through fire. They started off with smouldering straw & a gap. He was in the middle of the experienced horses. Then they gradually built up the fire to flame. By the end of the short demo he was running through the flames too I got some great photos of it.
 
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