Killer horse on the rampage up near me

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horse that attacks

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If my friend's GSD goes anywhere near my arab in the field (or runs too close past his stable) my arab will go for him. I've seen him chase the dog halfway across the field. I also used to know a horse that would chase sheep, knock them down with a front hoof at the gallop and then spin round and try to trample them if you didn't get in there quick enough.
 
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gedenskis_girl ealier post of mine.

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So explain the sheep hating/sheep chasing horse? I didn't believe it either until I saw it with my own eyes and it was pretty scary to watch. I'm not sure how that behaviour fits in with the usual flight mechanism... clearly the horse felt threatened by sheep for some reason and the fight response over took the flight response
 
I think its a different fight response, ie fighting between stallions, mares keeping youngsters in check, but they are flight animals. A fight animal is a lion or something similar, now if one of them came at me in a field......
 
When Chex chases sheep and dogs I wonder if he thinks they're mini horses, and being dominant has to get them put in their place? Not sure, but he definitely chases them in a nasty way!
 
Horse do unfortunately sometimes attach for no reason. It may be that something has happened to them in the past but really it does happen. Obviously some of you have never had a horse run at you as it is very scarey especially when you dont expect it. Please dont mock when it has never happened to you.
 
IMHO The horse feels he is bigger then the sheep/dog/etc he is putting the sheep in its place, He may even wish it not to be in his pecking order in which case on his land. Some horses do it to each other too. Well that would be my reasoning. Horses are always trying to surive, always eating to keep alive they use as little energy as possible, and will only run from some thing scary for so long because any longer would use extra engery. Horse fight for pecking order. In most cases even if they do not agree with other they will accept as horses need a herd to survie.
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Im not sure who is mocking, or who that was aimed at, but i had a horse run at me every time i entered its stable for a year, so it has happened to me, more than once, and of course it isnt pleasant. I just thought it a little odd that she would enter a field knowing that a horse had charged a man before, but as we have established at length, it is possible that she didnt know until after.
 
It is aimed at those of you that disbelieve that horses do this. Also, if she is an inexperienced horse person then she may have thought the same as some of the others on here, that horses dont just attach for no reason. They do and thankfully I dont have to put up with an animal like this.
 
I still dont believe it is for NO reason, who knows what the weather was like, if a hedge moved the wrong way, a plastic bag rolled along the field, a strange noise occured, it was beaten as a foal or something else traumatic happened to it, which is also a reason, we all know horses are unpredictable at the best of times!
 
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People of Moat Hill can sleep well tonight knowing the ASOB pony will now be killing my locals.

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If Moat Hill is the one I'm thinking of it has a few greenhouses on it and is steep as hell and has neddies on that's it.

Might be thinking of something else totally though
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Years ago I used to had a pony that charged at people, I had to lunge him with a pocket full of pony nuts or he would have had me everytime he stop or i let him stop. Obviously if i had been more experienced at the time i wouldnt have done that but we all live and learn. Something had happened to him in the past and i never hurt him. I went into his paddock one day, he came running at me and my boyfriend turned round and double barrels at us missing us by inches, did I really prevock that?
 
NO but as you say Something had happened to him, for all you know everytime someone went to his field they did hurt him, and he thought he'd get in 1st??? I dunno, crazy world of horses.......
 
Have been talking to a friend and the hill I thought it was is the hill it was on. There have been horses turned out on there for as long as I can remember, and it wouldn't be the only horse there.

Seems strange when there's never been any problems before
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Something had happened to him in the past but that doesnt mean that the woman had done anything wrong does it???

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Who said she did anything wrong? She wouldnt have to if it was an ingrained behaviour pattern, triggered not by the traumatic thing itself but the presence of a person or thing, dog, whip, stable etc and yes I know she should still be able to use that footpath.
 
Sorry that's cobblers horses most certainly do attack. Some horses are aggressive, mares & geldings as well as stallions and I've known horses which attack people and which I certainly wouldn't want to go in a field with.
My horse who is a complete saint and never aggressive around people is aggressive with other animals in her field, we believe she kiled a fox in her field - certainly it had been stomped to death and she nearly killed a deer in her field - it jumped out but she injured it badly. When she was younger she couldn' be trusted around loose dogs and if this horse is like that then it should be nowhere near a footpath.
 
Yup, horses have been known to kneel on lambs and one I knew went for dogs big style. They kill snakes by deliberately stamping on them, too. Is F_M_N serious about nabbing the horse? Not following there
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F -m-Not, Did you not read my post? Horses will attack dogs, and not just stallions either.
Please don't make sweeping statements when I can prove to you of several incidents of horses chasing and attacking dogs..
If a strange dog enters our fields sometimes the whole herd en masse will gallop after it attempting to catch it, when they do they surround it and then turn and wallop with their back legs. They ignore our dogs as they know them.
Ask Tia about horses protecting their foals from wolves, of course they know how to defend themselves!
 
Have to agree about horses attacking dogs, one of our mares and a gelding where we kept ours at livery, teamed up to 'get' a dog that had wandered into their field.
 
If Beau was ina field with a foot path through it he would be right in there looking for sweeite, but because of his size would definately scare people!
He used to just walk up to my dad and shove him over and I'm sure he found it funny as he would stand there shaking his head then kinda tease my dad then bomb off, dad would go back to what he was doing and he would do it again! hehe.
He just means it in a playful way, but even my hardy offshore OH gets a bit scared - especially of the teeth!

And my firends first horse used to attack dogs! he would pick them up with his teeth and fling them away of they got too close. I have seen it done.
 
A new horse a our yard attacked my son just over a year ago for no apparent reason at the time. Later after watching his behaviour for some time we figured he was trying to establish dominance in the heard & treated us jsut the same as other horses. Although we are experienced with horses it was terrifying & I really did think Ollie would be seriously injured or even killed. Luckily the blow to his head was just a glancing blow & it was so muddy that when the horse trod on him it pushed him into the mud & he just ended up with severe bruising & a very swollen arm that took weeks to go down. I can, therefore, appreciate how scarey it would have been for this poor woman. Footpaths runs through all the fields where we keep ours & in the end the horse had to be moved to another yard as it just was too risky that he would cause someone serious injury. in the few weeks he was there he attacked all of us if we tried to take one of the others out of the field.
 
Sorry I still do not believe horses think "I know what will do to past the time... I'll going to go and kill that woman and dog walking through my field" They just aren't wired this way. There are unknown reasons after all we spend such a short time with are horses overal whats 3hours a day when for the other 21 hours any thing could be happening we would't know about.
 
Whether we understand the reasons this horse has apparently attacked 2 people or not surely the point is that this horse is a danger to people who are on a public right of way and should be moved to another field. People should not have to wonder whether it is safe to cross a path or not. Someone else made the point that we would be up in arms if someone put a bull in a field that a bridlepath crossed and quite right too. The same applies here. For whatever reason this horse is not suitable to be in a field with a footpath running through it.
With the benefit of observing the horse at our yard over a few weeks it became apparent that his attacking behaviour was an attempt to stop other horse being "taken away" from the herd. What would have happened if a child had gone to stroke one of the other, very friendly, horses in the field. This would be just the sort of behaviour that would have caused an attack. And yes it was an attack, just as a stallion would attack another stallion and I can tell you from my own & my son's experience that it is terrifying to be lying on the floor with a large horse deliberately trampling you. Said horse is now very happy working as a teaser at a stud because another lady at the yard new someone who could look after him as he needed. What would you have done in a situation where you could not safely get your own horse out of the field. Would you have thought "Oh dear I must be upsetting it - I'd better leave my horse there and not feed/ride it" and waited for it to severely injure someone. IMO it is better to realise that not all situations are suitable for all horses and deal with it appropriately.
It is situations like this one that give horse owners a bad reputation and we should not treat it loke a joke or "Poor horsey, nasty people". It may well be the horse has been goaded/fed by passers by, but the owner needs to deal with the immediate problem before someone gets hurt.

Signs off and goes to get a calming cuppa.
 
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Is F_M_N serious about nabbing the horse? Not following there
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I said I was going to rescue it, jokily (I do my neddies with my dog everyday, it would just make things difficult
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Hope it makes things clearer
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It looks evil doesn't it. Some people really do overreact - she was nearly killed because it floored her and bruised her knee

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Perhaps not a situation you've ever been in? One step or knock to the womans head and yes she could have been dead.

I hope she makes a full recovery, and the owner of the horse is found.
 
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