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My lovely mare Tilly is on box rest with walking out twice a day for 30 mins each time after Kissing spine surgery.

A couple of days ago there was a butterfly, apparently a killer one judging by Tillys reaction, rearing, leaping, a total over-reaction :o

Well yesterday we were walking around the sand school and there is a noise, getting louder and louder, I thought, well Im sure I can't put on here what I thought!, so i asked Tilly to stand and took a few steps back, having seen her reaction to the killer butterfly it was all about self-preservation.

Anyway I keep talking to her, but the noise was so loud I'm not sure she could hear me!!, then we see a helicopter (it was light rain, so low cloud cover) appear to our right so close and only about 30 foot above the ground, he was so close I could see the pilot clearly and his windscreen wipers going :o and what did Tilly do????, NOTHING, a butterfly can kill but a low flying really noisy helicopter is fine, seriously there are times I would love to know what goes through her head :(
 
Haha I've had that before, was out with my little pony and he walked past lorries, tractors and a rattly trailer, big dogs no issues and we get back to the yard and the cat jumped out and miawed and he had a fit :p
 
It's all about the predator/prey thing (same reason babies will sleep through telly and thunder but wake at the quietest noise) :D
 
I had it too! I was mucking out in the stable and my very stressy pony was standing eating hay on the yard. I heard the noise and thought it was a huge truck passing on the main road next to us, but it got louder and louder and I couldn't tell what it was. I came out of the stable and there was a helicopter hovering right above my pony....and he just carried on eating his hay :D This is the pony that if you walk towards him carrying anything he doesn't recognise, eg car keys or god forbid anything in a carrier bag, he snorts and bolts away as quickly as his little hooves will carry him.....they are definitely very strange creatures :D
 
Haha! Sounds like Ned!
A branch on the floor? "OMG I'M GOING TO DIEEE!! HELP!"
Tractor pulling a porta-cabin? Huge rattly lorry? "Whatever"
 
lol oh dear, dogs can run up to my Tilly growling, tractors and lorries can hare past, whatever, but for ages, a dog on a lead was THE most terrifying thing in the world.
 
Horses are only scared of two things
1. things that move
2. things that don't

Actually, mine is scared of nothing :cool: I'm pretty sure he'd have been the first to be eaten in the wild, probably by trying to make friends with a lion :rolleyes: :D
 
S'fine, my ponio walks past huge flatbeds and lorries full of hardcore ect, but when a woman has the cheek to raise a watering can to water her hedge in his presence he has a meltdown, what a diva.
 
Hehe bless they are special aren't they. I went for a ride last week and horse had a complete giddy fit at a fallen down tree. We spent 5 mins prancing around trying to walk past it calmly. 2 mins we met a barking snarling alsation snapping at his legs which he stood patiently still for. When no owner appeared I asked him to walk on and he practically stepped over it.... Horses ey ;)
 
We walked past a barrel of flames with great aplomb, but had a fit about a baby bird sitting beside the path (maybe some sort of genetic memory of raptor dinosaur ancestors?? :confused: :D ).
 
My old horse would happily canter down the track running at the back of the gun club whilst they were all shooting clays with nay a glance (scared them more than it did him), however the sweet little old man in the navy blue jumper we used to see most mornings was just terrifying!

His best ever was the day a group of us were out just after a heavy rain storm and were having a good gallop up the hill towards the quarry, halfway up we came to a sudden halt up to his belly in liquid mud that was sliding back down the hill....all the the other horses started to panic whilst Marti calmly swam forwards, turned himself round and swam out, stood and shook himself (covering everyone in liquid mud), looked at everyone as if to say "pussies" and headed off at a calm walk leading the rest of the mottley crew.

Everyone was going "wow he is so cool" "you are so lucky" "what a fabulous horse" etc etc etc.

We got back onto the flat were he then spotted an abandoned sofa in a hedge, jumped 3 feet in the air and refused to go past it, managed it eventually shaking and people were swearing he had his eyes closed!

He lost all his credibility in about 30 seconds;-)
 
I remember sitting on the deck after having a canter in a field after cobby spooked at a bluebell, this was after he had hacked down a very busy A road both there and back again :rolleyes:
 
Broke_But_Happy said:
I remember sitting on the deck after having a canter in a field after cobby spooked at a bluebell, this was after he had hacked down a very busy A road both there and back again :rolleyes:
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That's excellent, bluebells are known horse eaters though!

When mine was just broken and on his first outing onto the main road a lorry came off the main A road doing at least 50mph, saw us , hit the brakes, which casued the load inside to rattle and bang very loudly, my just broken 4 year old Arab never blinked or moved a muscle, just carried on walking past like he'd done this for years, 50 yards further along and a blackbird flew out of a hedge and we had a huge leap into the air all four feet off the ground and if he could have hidden behind me he would have!

He hasn't changed much over the years, he was grazing a grass verge the other night loose I was about 20 feet away (we were out for one of our walks) when a trail bike came up along side him, again he just stood there while the bike had to manoeuvre round him, not a problem but the huge great burdock leaf (he really doesn't like burdock leaves!)that we saw along the track well that was obviously going to eat him!
 
Haha flowers are scary. Same as you broke_but_happy. Ride to vets involves a busy a road in peak time all if which is fine.......but the flower pot at the end of the drive is lethal ;)
 
My last TB was like this - he could have probably hacked down the motorway, but god forbid if a crisp packet were to blow across his path! And purple flowers - he never liked purple.
 
My boy is really spook proof!! That is till yard owner put up a hanging basket outside her door on Sunday, would he go past it, not flipping likely!!!!! Only for the fact he saw his feed going into the stable persuaded him to walk on!!
 
My old horse was pretty much bombproof, he would ride past anything alone and wouldn't even batter an eyelid. One day out on a hack someone had drawn an arrow on the floor in chalk and he completely a freaked out! It took me 30 minutes to get him past it. Bless him, they're so funny and that's why we love them!
 
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