My horse is a prat...

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Tacked him up and lead him to the arena and he was snorting before we'd even got there, i'm looking in the field thinking oh is there some scary fox or cat or something out there, can't see anything.

Get on him and walk him around like normal i get to the corner between C and B and he won't go into that corner like normal, suddenly realise B has put up an electric fence from that corner (outside the arena) across the field
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my stoopid horse must have walked smack bang into it in the field and shocked himself.

So think i'll walk around in circles calmly at this end until he gets used to it and stops shying but NO
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each time now he runs further and further away and then backwards thought oh yeh taking the p!ss now, then i couldn't even get him to walk past E or B so not even halfway up the arena! At this point i got off, got stick (don't usually ride with one) and made him walk past it a few times being lead in each direction and then stand in the corner... fine with this...

Get back on and he still wouldn't walk properly into the corner but was much better (not too far out from it) but by now i had run out of time to do anymore so i spent 30 mins walking around in circles!
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What a wally, i get the same reaction if something has moved down the other end of the arena am thinking he's not too keen on change!

Didn't have a good night tonight particularly, am hoping he will be a bit better tomorrow night!
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Poor pony
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YO strimmed the banks round the school today so my mare had a fit when we went into the school and found it was all tidy round the edges...
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You should have seen him when he first saw a XC fence in a field! Shock horror on his face 'What the hell is that?!' bear in mind the fence in question was made of STRAW bales...
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Any excuse, eh? my mare's the same. A rook landed on the fence on the far side of the arena and she did a mini bolt then shied every time she went past the place where it had been...just because she wants to get out of doing any WORK!!!
 
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They are funny creatures.

My hormonal, spring loopy mare decided that a dog, who she normally lets sleep in her stable, was a horse eating monster. The dog wasn't even doing anything, just stretched out having a sleep.
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Ron is much the same - he shies at a leaf twittering in the breeze, or the white lines on the road, but then walks straight past big scary hedge cutters or when i had to ride down the side of the main road last w/e he stepped straight over a piece of kitchen unit that was lying around and stood on a plastic bag with no issues at all....
 
Friend told me of an experiment that had been undertaken where a person and a horse were to ride down their normal lane - BUT there were something like 20 small differences to normal, i.e some obvious, some not. When the horse and rider went down the lane, the horse noticed nearly all of them and reacted typically, the rider noticed about half of them! Says a lot for the horse's vision!
 
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Oh dear horses are funny sometimes aren't they. TBH I would have just schooled down the other end so well done you for perseveering!!

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Well the fence isn't going to move anytime soon so he's gotta get used to it!!
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I did wonder if also maybe the floodlights from the arena were reflecting off it bit strangely.
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Oh no not really.
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I've had to give in and not ride her anymore... put a post up about latest livery problems in soapbox ('A bit of a whinge') yesterday/day before yesterday
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