How to stop horse from being a goat...?

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Lammy

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Open to any suggestions for this one!

My rising 4 year old has decided to ditch life as a horse and has his sights set on becoming a mountain goat. He is attempting to achieve this by practicing his climbing on anything and everything he can get his little feet on. This caused him a problem today when he found out it wasn't such a good idea to try and balance his entire weight on one wooden rail and he took a tumble whilst tied up on the yard with his legs stuck in the fence.

Thankfully he's okay, a few scrapes and probably sore legs later but he's remarkably escaped serious injury and is running out of lives! Once I'd checked him over I tied him back up and he was at it again putting his feet on the fence! Our lovely new yard owners are going to remove some of the rails so he can't do this anymore but he still does it on anything else, I get a fright when I walk up the the field and he's stood with his feet on the gate waiting to come in!

Any ideas of how to stop him doing this? He's far too brave for his own good and it's giving me heart attacks!
 
Sorry this did make me laugh a little. My smallest mare will stand on any type of hill. The bigger the better �� Which has also led to some tumbles. We just have to electric fence her away from them... including the muck heap!! Not the most useful but I have full sympathy for you.
 
Electric fencing? If he hears the click may not climb? Our 6 year old pony does it at the gate sometimes but usually just for food/attention. He tends to get a tap on the nose and no food till he stops.
 
We have a 2 year old icelandic doing the same thing! Putting her feet in/on things is her passion. So when she's not paddling in the water trough, she's off wrapping herself up in the electric tape, which is now ripped to shreds. Things are quite icy here at the moment but she still likes to perch on the top of an enormous boulder in the field and then slip off it, and has pawed a few trees to bits. All I can say is that whatever you remove from the field, they'll find something else to replace it!
 
Unfortunately electric is no match for this little goat - it's taken three years for him to stop rolling underneath it.

Honestly, a career as a circus pony is looking more and more promising, he does some fantastic handstands and I'm sure he could progress onto cartwheels with no problem. :D
 
I am really sorry Lammy but this is a really offensive post, your pony has made a clear life choice and if he feels that the goat role is his path then really as his owner you should be supporting his choices. This very well could be a diversity issue, if my pony made such a choice then I would support him, maybe some braaing lessons and climbing lessons. In your supportive role you could even learn to yodel . ;)
 
My friend had a young Fell pony who used to like watching the world go by with her front feet on the top of either a 5 bar gate or the stable door. :D
 
Sukistokes2 said:
I am really sorry Lammy but this is a really offensive post, your pony has made a clear life choice and if he feels that the goat role is his path then really as his owner you should be supporting his choices. This very well could be a diversity issue, if my pony made such a choice then I would support him, maybe some braaing lessons and climbing lessons. In your supportive role you could even learn to yodel . ;)
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Totally this
 
Sukistokes2 said:
I am really sorry Lammy but this is a really offensive post, your pony has made a clear life choice and if he feels that the goat role is his path then really as his owner you should be supporting his choices. This very well could be a diversity issue, if my pony made such a choice then I would support him, maybe some braaing lessons and climbing lessons. In your supportive role you could even learn to yodel . ;)
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Love it!

Young cob also had aspirations as a trans-species role model. He still puts his feet on gates and rails to gain attention - we are building up to a good Spanish Walk as he clearly has the scope for this! As a foal he climbed into the water trough to no ill effect, though I'm sure it didn't improve the water quality. I shamelessly took advantage and walked him across tarpaulines, squished plastic bottles, through roadworks - any horse agility-type obstacle before he was backed. He is now fab out hacking and especially likes to stomp on drain covers.
 
Fleagle was an old fashioned Irish TB with more gears than any horse \i have ever ridden.BUT ,he suffered from flashbacks to his time in Nam . (thats Cheltennam not the asian one)He would revert to racing mode at the drop of a hat/flag. One evening I went to feed him , he was a bit distant. I slid the bolt on his door ,it clicked . He chested the door at a gallop and flattened me. I gave chase . He went into the main yard .LOOSE HORSE!!!!!!!!!!!. Gates were shut .He galloped back then...........Climbed to the top of the hay barn .Some 25 ft. The cool air at this altitude clearly brought him back to reality because the expression on his face changed to "what the **** am I doing up here"It was at this point that the hay stack collapsed . Horse and hay came raining down. I confess I stood there agast!. Fortunately there was a quick thinking and incredibly brave vet on hand (Mike Byers,from shotter and byers)He ran past me and dived into the maelstrom of hay and hooves pinning Fleagle to the ground for us mere mortals to come in and cut baler twine etc.Fleagle was then treated by Mike B for shock ,stress and probably some further mountain goat ailments.
 
Mike007 said:
Fleagle was an old fashioned Irish TB with more gears than any horse \i have ever ridden.BUT ,he suffered from flashbacks to his time in Nam . (thats Cheltennam not the asian one)He would revert to racing mode at the drop of a hat/flag. One evening I went to feed him , he was a bit distant. I slid the bolt on his door ,it clicked . He chested the door at a gallop and flattened me. I gave chase . He went into the main yard .LOOSE HORSE!!!!!!!!!!!. Gates were shut .He galloped back then...........Climbed to the top of the hay barn .Some 25 ft. The cool air at this altitude clearly brought him back to reality because the expression on his face changed to "what the **** am I doing up here"It was at this point that the hay stack collapsed . Horse and hay came raining down. I confess I stood there agast!. Fortunately there was a quick thinking and incredibly brave vet on hand (Mike Byers,from shotter and byers)He ran past me and dived into the maelstrom of hay and hooves pinning Fleagle to the ground for us mere mortals to come in and cut baler twine etc.Fleagle was then treated by Mike B for shock ,stress and probably some further mountain goat ailments.
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I'm really glad he is okay..........OMG!.................................but :D:D:D:D:D:D:D.......................sorry
 
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