Horse with a sense of humour...grr..

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You may remember my fear about a nice lady coming to see my horse the other day, fears confirmed when he lunged forwards and nearly had her off. Well, somone mentioned that you have to love a horse with a sense of humour... I brought him in yesterday, tacked up, mounted and dismounted several times walked him to the mounting block, turned him around the mounting block, made him stand etc for about 15 minutes and he behaved much like a seaside donkey for the entire time. He does go to walk forward as soon as your bum touches the saddle but I had a friend hold him and make him stand and he soon stood for me.

I can only conclude one of the following;

a) Horse doesn't want to leave
b) Horse is stupid
c) Horse is schizophrenic
d) Horse was having an off day
e) My nerves were upsetting him

Lovely boy then schooled nicely for half an hour, never once getting the wrong canter lead (did several times when OH rode him for potential purchasers) and maintaining a beautiful outline with NO nose poking at all in any way. I should be happy and content but am actually a little mad as I hate getting caught out by practical jokes! Bloody horse, no feed for him tonight- let's see him sniggering then! :mad:
 
Whoops! I guess weasles can get sucked into jet engines after all... :(

Perhaps the woman who tried him was very nervous and tense?

Better luck next time! :)
 
I'd put it down to nerves too. Love a horse with a sense of humor though, who wants a characterless ride?! (that said, I've yet to find a horse with a sense of humor similar to mine - not fun always being the butt of your horses 'oh so funny' jokes!!).
 
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Horses....who'd have them eh? :)
Got to have a bit of character in them or they would be no fun...maybe it was his way of saying - "nope dont like her - next one!" lol
 
Obviously not the right buyer, you will know when the right one comes along, horse will behave impeccably for them and a pig for you!!!!
 
Aw, thanks everyone! I doubt he loves me that much, I am mean to him frequently by making him do "going slow" and not giving him ad lib feed.... I'm beginning to think that it wouldn't be too bad if he stayed.......
 
It's a shame 'GSOH' doesn't look good on horse ads... :rolleyes:

I think he wants to stay put too.
 
OMG I am so going to put that in his advert! Tall, dark and handsome, non smoker, GSOH, English (and Irish) speaking. Looks good in leather, not so good in shorts... Would you be interested? ;)
 
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