MEN AND THERE LACK OF HORSE KNOWLEDGE LMAO

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*On the phone to my BF*

Me: I'm just giving the horses their nuts and i'll be home.
James: Ok, see you in a bit

*Arrive Home, BF comes over*

James: Oh, i got the horses some nuts on the way
Me *super shocked look* awwww....did you? which ones....the countrywide ones?
James: I got peanuts
Me: LOL.......*tears of laughter*
James: What?!
Me: I don't own elephants!!

Only taken me until today to recover from his efforts!! x He still doesnt understand why I thought it was so funny!! x He was given the peanuts in his lunchbox today!! :D

What have your partners/friends said being naive? X
 
lcharles said:
*On the phone to my BF*

Me: I'm just giving the horses their nuts and i'll be home.
James: Ok, see you in a bit

*Arrive Home, BF comes over*

James: Oh, i got the horses some nuts on the way
Me *super shocked look* awwww....did you? which ones....the countrywide ones?
James: I got peanuts
Me: LOL.......*tears of laughter*
James: What?!
Me: I don't own elephants!!

Only taken me until today to recover from his efforts!! x He still doesnt understand why I thought it was so funny!! x He was given the peanuts in his lunchbox today!! :D

What have your partners/friends said being naive? X
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Ahh bless! it's the thought that counts
 
Thats brilliant! :D
My OH used to ride years & years ago (before we knew each other).
He fondly recalled riding this lazy cob to me one night over dinner, telling me it was so lazy that he had to put stirrups on his boots to get it going...........
i just sat there nodding and grinning thinking...SPURS!!!
 
Haha, how funny! x I love it when they try to make an effort but get it sooo wrong!! x

When i went on holiday, James offered to take the horses out to the field a couple of mornings to save me paying for someone to do it! He said he had to ask someone to put the 'head gear' on as he couldnt do it!! He always tries! x lol x
 
I remember when I was looking for a horse to buy, it was mid winter and I couldn't find anything suitable. I said to my boyfriend "I think I am going to get one on loan" He looked at me as if I was mad and said "Christ darling, you don't want to get yourself in debt now?"

Aww Bless x
 
When trying out a new horse for my daughter my OH came along to watch. The horse decided to throw a total hooley, all my daughter could do was hold on for grim death and keep it turning in a circle. Eventually the horse came to a stop and my daughter got off totally whitefaced - my OH said ' Is it normal to do that' Our friend just quietly said 'sometimes' not wanting my OH to think that all horses are dangerous. My OH then turned to my daughter and said "you looked like you were enjoying that"

To be fair though, although he is not horsey by any stretch of the imagination, when we have gone to buy a horse we have decided is the one for us, he just looks at it and says 'How much' then goes away and gets out his chequebook. Bless
 
My OH now has a horse of his own as he got into it after encouraging him to take some interest FGS (btw don't encourage them too much it is dangerous - they nick off with your horse until you buy them another!!). He can just about put his bridle together after 4yrs practice and I now consider him horsey and not requiring constant supervision/explanations.

However I caught him this week struggling to try and put hoof powder on the hooves with a scoop rather than putting the "supplement" in the bucket feed. He was swearing and cursing that it should have been in a shaker as it was too difficult with a measuring scoop (he thought it was one per hoof)... arrgghhhh why do men in general never read instructions? To be fair he saw the funny side when I told him and all the other hoof things he has ever come across are topical application.
 
cyberhorse said:
However I caught him this week struggling to try and put hoof powder on the hooves with a scoop rather than putting the "supplement" in the bucket feed. He was swearing and cursing that it should have been in a shaker as it was too difficult with a measuring scoop (he thought it was one per hoof)... arrgghhhh why do men in general never read instructions? To be fair he saw the funny side when I told him and all the other hoof things he has ever come across are topical application.
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:D:D Fantastic!
 
EDickens said:
More than my OH would do! At the mention of a horse or coming to the yard with me he legs it in the other direction, thinking up every excuse in the book!

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Ditto this. If I mention them, unless he's in an unusually great mood, he says, 'babe I love you but I'm really not interested'. Maybe I should go OH shopping not horses shopping next time lol (joking, I'm quite fond of him really!!)
 
My old cob was an angel - I remember my ex husband offering to fetch him in from the field whilst I sorted out the stable. Horse walks in looking confused with lead rope clipped on top of nose, straps over his eyes - head collar totally upside down! how he thought that it looked right I will never know!
 
I once sent my friend (not horsey) to get my pony in from the field, I said shout on him and he'll come to the gate. 20 mins later here he comes with a giant 17.2 bay, mines is 13.3 and grey! His excuse was I thought you'd bought another one, I shouted and this one came, I couldn't get the head thingy to fit! Pmsl
 
Not a man but a horsey novice said to my friend when explaining her jumping experience ...

"I've jumped about 2foot3foot and I've jumped a pole with no dip in the middle"

We eventually worked out she meant that she's jumped a straight as opposed to a cross!
 
My OH has come out with some corkers since we have been together... My TB Used to race so everytime I come back from showjumping he asks if I won my race. Did I put his coat on to go out in the field, and the best is one of the first times he came to the yard I was picking out horses feet and if I had another hoof pick so he could the other one.... only he meant at the same time !!lol
 
I taught mine how to free school (well, make fat cob walk round the school and not stop anyway) while I mucked out. Taught him how to indicate stop and go, and change direction. He was walking out on a hack with me one day when said cob kicked a blue plastic bag onto her arse and legged it in fright (gotta love 'em), next thing i'm getting a lesson from BF in how to get her to stop, 'just drop your shoulders, look at the floor and say 'aaaand waaaaalk'. I had to explain to him it's not QUITE the same when sat on top haha, good job I hadn't let him ride that day!
 
Novice Dad at our previous yard said their pony was easy as she only needed a snuffle bridle. On seeing another rider having problems with breaks, he felt the problem might be solved with a crackle noseband:confused: Bless!
 
My OH has opposite problem - works in sales in a suit and is horsey - every time he goes to buy feed they think he's trying to sell them something and are amazed when he knows what hes talking about! My dad, on the other hand did manage to get a headcollar on upside down and A rug back to front with chest buckles as fIllet string!
 
I had one who knew nothing but managed to impress me anyway! I went out hacking, and came back to find that he had brought three in, washed their legs off, removed and hung up their rugs, and put stable rugs, complete with x-surcingles on, and picked out their feet!

I nearly fainted - and was hugely confused as to how he'd done everything perfectly well with no instructions. Turns out that he had spotted the skip full of hoof pickings, with a hoof pick in it - hence the feet being done, had hosed off their legs because he couldn't remember ever having seen a horse in my stables with muddy feet, and the rugs were easy apparently! He went and examined the ones who were already wearing night rugs, and carefully did the same to the ones he'd brought in. Try as I might - I couldn't find fault! He had brought them in with a rope round their necks, rather than trying headcollars, but to be fair, I did that too!
I'd have kept him, but he was irritatingly perfect in every other area of his life, and I couldnt deal with it!!
 
These are great!

I have a couple to add....

Last summer it had been chucking it down all night so I brought the horses in to dry off for a few hours in the morning and my OH kindly offered to put them out at lunch time as he was working at home. I stupidly said they just need chucking out and didn't specify the fleece rugs needed to come off first. Found two very soggy horses that evening!

Also when I said I had the farrier coming, he said 'haven't you already had shoes fitted?'. Bless him, he thought they would last forever...I wish!

Must not complain though - he will help me out when really needed. Even mucked out the Old boy one morning when he was on box rest, although not quite to my standards - think he just covered the poo up!:)
 
Not quite the same as OHs but my Dad (who is a bloke !) about 20 years ago was left in charge of my beloved mare whilst I went away with my then bf for a holiday, when I got home he told me that he'd fed her every day besides 1 and that was because my friend was riding her when he went to feed (hmmm strange I thought she has never ridden her before) so I asked my friend if she rode her while I was away, she said NO - turned out my dad had fed her GELDING for the whole time I was away as when he called he came over and they were both Chestnut (although to the anyone who knows horses they were totally different but to him exactly the same).
 
Murphs_Mum said:
My old cob was an angel - I remember my ex husband offering to fetch him in from the field whilst I sorted out the stable. Horse walks in looking confused with lead rope clipped on top of nose, straps over his eyes - head collar totally upside down! how he thought that it looked right I will never know!
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My OH also brought our daughters pony in like this years ago - poor old girl she had to walk sideways and peer underneath the chinstrap across her eyes:D If you ask him what sort of horses we have he says a white one and a brown one. :D
 
We recently sold a 17hh TB to a work mates daughter, who was coming back into riding, motherdaughter know what they are doing, but daddy keeps us entertained with his progress reports.
So far, the horse has been shaved, got new coats, sprinted, run in and out around cones and had new feet put on by farrier, he must be learning because today he told me the horse is now doing dressage
 
My boyfriend once proudly told me that he had recorded a treat for me on TV.
"Oh?" I said.
"Yes! I saw it on H&C TV. They're doing that special trotty-ness you like."
"Eh?"
"You know the trottyness!"
He then proceeded to demonstrate his best attempt at a flying change in my living room.
 
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