I thought horses were meant to be intelligent

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I do worry that Apollo is possibly the least intelligent horse I’ve ever owned.

He is turned out with the same mare day in day out , tonight we thought we’d be kind and put their 50gram rugs on.

Apollo did not recognise or sense it was his field mate and proceeded to herd her away snort/gallop round /dragon snorting at her. Poor little mare looked so confused. Thought he’d sense it pretty quick ….. but no.

Rather than risk injury/trashing the field even more, both rugs are now off and harmony is restored. He is fully clipped but chubby, now I feel bad they’ll freeze, but bloody hell how stupid can they be 🙈.
 
I used to volunteer at a place with alpacas and every time they sheared them they'd all freak out because they didn't recognise each other anymore. One of mine started biting his fieldmate of 5 years the first time he saw her in a fly rug (he's gotten over it now, was young at the time!) so i'm never really surprised at their antics ;)
 
My pony was turned out this week with another that he's been out with since summer and although a bit silly and playful have been okay.
The other horse had his rug on for the first time. My little hoodlum kept grabbing it and ragging on it until the other one got mad and gave him some hard bites so now they've been separated. Just some bald patches , no serious harm but now no playmate .☹️
 
Gloi said:
My pony was turned out this week with another that he's been out with since summer and although a bit silly and playful have been okay.
The other horse had his rug on for the first time. My little hoodlum kept grabbing it and ragging on it until the other one got mad and gave him some hard bites so now they've been separated. Just some bald patches , no serious harm but now no playmate .☹️
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I have a human boy…not so dissimilar. Let’s poke the sister until she explodes, and then get all offended. Repeat…repeat… until they are separated.
 
Gloi said:
My pony was turned out this week with another that he's been out with since summer and although a bit silly and playful have been okay.
The other horse had his rug on for the first time. My little hoodlum kept grabbing it and ragging on it until the other one got mad and gave him some hard bites so now they've been separated. Just some bald patches , no serious harm but now no playmate .☹️
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Awww poor guy , can they go back together ? I have painted crib stop on rugs before to stop the buggers
 
motherof2beasts! said:
Awww poor guy , can they go back together ? I have painted crib stop on rugs before to stop the buggers
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I'm hoping the yard can find another pal for him to be out with soon, preferably one without a brand new rug on. I can't see the little pest being deterred by crib stop, unfortunately.
 
Weirdly mine did this last night too. Changed cousin’s pony into a better fitting, less broken rug and my big one was so horrible to her. She’s not particularly nice to her anyway but that was ridiculous. Stupid animal!
 
Peglo said:
Weirdly mine did this last night too. Changed cousin’s pony into a better fitting, less broken rug and my big one was so horrible to her. She’s not particularly nice to her anyway but that was ridiculous. Stupid animal!
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Yes mine was really going for her like she was some random new pony that just turned up to eat his grass. After 45 mins still at it so had to admit defeat
 
Lol. Once after really heavy rain my boys rug was so heavy I couldn’t get it on rug rail without help. So with boy in stable I left it dripping over stable door, he went ape at it. Snorting spinning. Had to get someone to help me move it to an empty stable door. Till it dried a bit.
couldn’t believe how stupid he was. His own rug
 
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