Knobberisms: "The Great Rug Murders of 2011" and "Getting my Own Back"

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My vandalous bloody knobber horse has decided to make fashion statements of his rugs... by cold-bloodedly murdering them.

This is his third of the winter, and the second in the last four days. This was how I found the rug, with him sporting his new cape and a rather smug expression. I think he thinks he's a super-knobber. Which he is, but not as he intends.

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Bear in mind that's the least amount of damage he's done to any of them yet - the others have had similar complete and utter destruction of the front, along with tears all the way down the sides and even on the inside, where there hasn't been a rip on the outside in places :confused:

The last one I took to the rug-menders at the weekend, asked her if there was anything she could do to save it and she just laughed. RIP beautiful Bucas rug :(


I then embarked on a little CSI: Monty Knobberts around the field and did find some evidence of which he hadn't disposed properly.

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Myself and YO decided to put extra electric fencing around some of the areas where we think he might be doing the damage, so spent 10 minutes struggling in gales and driving rain getting a massive length of fence up... for Knobberts to waltz along and proceed to pull two of the key poles out of the ground and snap the tape. :mad:


So I decided to get my own back on him by putting a sparkly browband on his bridle. This is his, "not amused" expression.

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So now we're very much totally "all the gear - no idea", but I do think he looks handsome ;)

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must be something about the weather at the moment, my horse has turned into a knobber today. he did snap both belly strap buckles last week too but i have just tied them with baling twine if he damages anymore he will go out naked and freeze...that may teach him a lesson!

I do like the bling...me wants!!
 
Sorry but am having a tiny giggle!

He looks lovely in his bling though. Try FAL rugs, Fany has had hers for 3 weeks now and not a mark on it, this is the horse that holds the world record for rug ripping, 2 minutes for a brand new one to become useless and un-salvageable.

FDC
 
I lol at the first pic!
I pmsl at the second pic!
and had to make a dash for the loo at the last!
I think it must be the ginger temper that did lol

On a serious note its no fun getting the rugs trashed all the time, for years I have been ring fencing fields with electric fencing, stoped all the trashing and since have never had a problem.
guessing a new rug or two may still be on your christmas list.. good luck with future rugs!
 
Thanks for the compliments on the bling all! 'Twasn't exactly pricy, it was on sale at the grand sum of £9.99 ;)

blood_magik said:
this I why I don't buy expensive rugs - I too have a knobberish ginger who likes to destroy things
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Thanks be to the Knobber-God I didn't buy his one 'expensive' rug (the beautiful Bucas, RIP) as it came with him. The lw he kiled was £15 and this heavyweight was about £25 off ebay. He won't be getting a Bucas to replace the other, that's for sure!
 
Aces_High said:
He's such a clever boy!!! I hate to say it but I think he's a bit of a dude and a very clever knobberts! I'd be giving him carrots and pats!! He's looking super handsome for a carrot top as well :) :) :)
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Fine, you feckin' take him then, see how long you last before you want to send him back :D


QUICKFIRE said:
I lol at the first pic!
I pmsl at the second pic!
and had to make a dash for the loo at the last!
I think it must be the ginger temper that did lol

On a serious note its no fun getting the rugs trashed all the time, for years I have been ring fencing fields with electric fencing, stoped all the trashing and since have never had a problem.
guessing a new rug or two may still be on your christmas list.. good luck with future rugs!
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Tell me about it. We have most of the field electric fenced off now (no thanks to him and his idea of 'helping' :mad: ) Given the rug-wrecking and the other recent trends for injuries/shoe pulling I may just wrap him up in cotton wool & gaffer tape, stick extra thick sturdy hunters on his feet and let him roll around the field. Might be safer for the daft tit.
 
pootleperkin said:
Hi Trishmas,

given your love of bling and sparkle, did you see my post with a link to some Christmas wrapping paper that I think you would be quite partial to?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb...rapping+paper&x=0&y=0&sprefix=horse+wrapping+

You could always fashion a few sheets into a rug for Knobberts - it might shame him into keeping his normal ones on! Could be almost as pricey as a new Bucas though!
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Ha, brilliant! I reckon you might be right though, might be cheaper to buy him a new Bucas and get a second one to cut up and wrap my Christmas presents in :D
 
Oh dear!! However can completely sympathise.. and am glad to see I'm not the only one with a large orange of whom's calling in life is to trash rugs...:rolleyes:
 
Just looking at your pics again Trishmas, and have to say, although he is a most handsome orange person, I think the 1st pic of him with his bling-band on hasn't caught him at his best....indeed he looks rather long-nosed and somewhat could be mistaken for this:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7300000/newsid_7308400/7308470.stm

I think calling him 'moose-face Knobberts' from now on might also bring his behaviour into check! :)

(PS. I don't mean to offend him as I said, indeed to me he usually more resembles Brad Pitt)
 
Mares are the answer! We even have, shhhhhh barbed wire, eeeek and my cob mare will be out in her Premier Equine for the 3rd winter, even my young TB lady is on her 2nd year in a FalPro. Gelding in the next field trashed 3 in one day last winter.
Obviously girlies have far fewer knobberish tendencies (there's always the exception FDC ;) )
:D :D :D :D
 
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Ah well my ginger girl does not destroy rugs, she simply removes them, leaving them neatly fastened and folded in half in the field, the old Appy used to do the same. Thing is though neither of them have ever managed to put them back on when it started raining, well I don't think they have..........
 
One of mine went through 3 in a week - he went naked after that!

A few weeks ago a friend put her sons horse wearing its new summer sheet in the cattle race at pony club while he did his B cert assessment. PArt way through she looked across and the sheet had been totally vandalised.

I now have a spray that is specially for rug, fence & tail chewers - I spray it on every few days and it puts them off grabbing with their teeth - it tastes disgusting.

It works!
 
Haha :D Jasmine's mother managed to neatly remove her rug to foal, then buried it tidily in the straw banks. She was much too ladylike to trash a rug :D
 
Things NOT to have on christmas wish list
No ! large ghinger knobhead horse
No 2 Anything remotely ginger and Irish

where the hell did we go wrong...
 
naughty boy!! perhaps he is too hot in a full neck heavy weight being as he is not clipped. i find they try to remove (destroy) the rugs when too hot.....
 
ofcourseyoucan - he's not too hot, I have been checking daily and he's only just slightly warmer than his 'bare' temperature under it. I wouldn't ideally have him in that rug (was saving it for the worst of the winter) but since he trashed his other two it was a stop-gap until the new mw arrived or his lw was mended (which thankfully it was today so that's gone back on him) - didn't want to leave him naked given that as soon as cold weather set earlier in the year in he dropped weight ridiculously quickly. It's very cold and stormy here atm. But, that aside, no, he wasn't too hot in it, he's just a vandalous eejit ;)

He didn't try to remove/destroy them as such - seems like he was pricking around at a fences trying to eat what was on the other side (his fav trick as he went through a period of pulling off shoes doing the same on a different bit of fence). Said fence is now electric-taped off.
 
debsg said:
Mares are the answer! We even have, shhhhhh barbed wire, eeeek and my cob mare will be out in her Premier Equine for the 3rd winter, even my young TB lady is on her 2nd year in a FalPro. Gelding in the next field trashed 3 in one day last winter.
Obviously girlies have far fewer knobberish tendencies (there's always the exception FDC ;) )
:D :D :D :D
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Fany is not a knobber, that is her brother. Fany just hates rugs!
FDC
 
slinky/tinsel - ha, excellent work outta the BGL!

SavingGrace - yours looks very pretty in pink, but I think if I bought a rug that colour near mine I'd have a job getting it on him for him to rip in the first place :D

Another horse in the field had a purple zebra print rug on. He spent half an hour snorting at it before it went on and it was off within 1 hour of him being turned out in the field. Owner swapped it to his blue rug (same weight ;)) and it's still on four days later. Say what you like, they have fashion sense :D
 
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