My horse made me laugh on Thursday - poodles

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So, after a very good lesson on Wednesday, I decided that on Thursday we could go on a gentle hack through the woods where we could both have a walk about and a bit of a stretch with our friend. After a lovely, sunny hack where we did little more than have a potter about, we came to the end of the woods to start back up the line to the yard, where my 5 year old saw the most terrifying, horrific, bizarre creature ever...
Was it a sheep? Was it a dog? Was it a pony eating monster carefully disguised by tagging along with the other dogs and riders who were going out for a nice summer hack too?

No. It was in fact, a standard poodle. My 15.1hh Connemara didn't know what to do with himself. He did a fabulous dragon impression, before trying to get away from this strange, unfamiliar beast which he had never seen before in his life, by trying to take off back up the hill from which we came. After 2 strides though, he came straight back (very happy and relieved me :D) and snorted past the poodle, with an apologetic smile from me to the riders who were standing there in utter bewilderment with their dogs doing nothing more than sniffing the bushes, horse-eating standard poodle included :o

Honestly, he's fine with tractors, cars, buggies, lorries, bikes, children, balloons, sheep, cows, pigs, other horses, gates, dogs, you name it... But he completely lost the plot over this dog-sheep hybrid which he'd never come across before ;) Anyway, apologies for the essay, but really really made me laugh!
Anything which your horse has ever been bewildered by? xx
 
HAHA glad its not just Dexter - we met 2 standard poodles - white and freshly trimmed - he was besides himeself with terror and even on wide track I struggled to get past them ! bless him as he quite happily goes past the caged dinosaur which is stable sized and stored near us and that really is a horse eating monster (used at wookey hole as prop) !
 
My 'speshal' TB is terrified of sheep for some reason but as they either ignore him or run away its not too much pf a porblem, so when a lovely Bedlinton Terrier was walked down the track towards him he was very confused and span and buggered off with me absolutely terrified...... he obviously mistook it for a lamb!
 
VS, I do hope it wasn't me! I took my Standard Poodle out on a hack on Thursday and caused someone to jump into the bushes. (Dog innocent of wrongdoing!)
 
My mare did some very impressive leg yielding earlier after a horse in a field next to the school let out a very loud snort. A sound she often makes herself! :D
 
meesha - funny what will set them off! :p This was a black poodle, though I can imagine 2 looming white ones might be a bit frightening!

tamsinkb - that really made me laugh, poor thing must have thought it was the movie Black Sheep :p

Millikins - would be hilarious if it was! We nearly went into some bushes, after a prompt turn after he tried to beggar off back into the woods. Bless him though, he came straight back to me so am very pleased about that at least... :rolleyes:

NightOwl - fantastic, now to get someone to snort at the right place while doing some stressage :D
 
Daughters got a bit confused when she first met a life size toy pony. Well, not life size but seen as she was about 8hh at the time it was for her. She kept trying to make friends with it & play, both were in a garden together.
And years ago my bosses kid had a hobby horse that made a realistic cantering hoof noise & whinnied. Result was a yard full of horses calling to the newcomer & looking confused when it didn't appear. When my daughter got one I noticed most take a few minutes to clock on the noise isn't real & comes from the odd looking stick!
 
We regularly pass some Soay (primitive) sheep, sister's horse is a bit wary of them but has been getting used to them since my mare glared at them and stopped them in their tracks as they approached the wall which separates them from the road.
However on Monday evening it was quite windy here and when we rode past their field the sheep were just under the wall. One of them started bouncing up and down to look at us. Sister's mare jumped across the road and I laughed - couldn't help it they looked so ridiculous!
So my 'bombproof', worried by nothing, large Draft horse, who as I said, has glared these sheep into submission in the past, also decided to sidestep into the road whilst trying to look backwards to keep an eye on the bouncing sheep.
Sis and I nearly fell off laughing - it's a good job there was no traffic on the road at that point!
 
My horse was a real townie when I got her. Frightened of all country animals - worst were hens and especially ducks - cos they float too!

We got a 12h section A for company for her when I first brought her home, and you would have though we had turned a lion out in her field. She ran away snorting, with the baffled section A (who was the friendliest creature in the world) cantering behind her completely baffled! It took two weeks before she would let it near enough to say hello. When she finally worked out it was an equine she decided she was its mother, and groomed it about seven times a day!

Strangely enough she went straight past a field of llamas when everyone else's horses were freaked out. No idea what goes on in her head!
 
My stoopid 5yo will happily go past fields of cows/sheep/tractors/caravans etc but the 2 miniature stallions we have to go past totally freak him out! :eek:

He also had a total s**t fit at a very large bit of flappy plastic tied to a pylon and sat down in the field! My friends horse coped brilliantly with said bit of flappy plastic however when Mylo did his best dragon impression (naturally at the same bit of flappy plastic) she shot off like the hounds of hell were after her!!! :rolleyes:
 
When I turned minature Shetland out with his brand new white fly rug blue who is gypsey cob snorted turned and ran for his life, I giggled to myself as it was so out of character until he launched over a 5 foot fence pulling it down with his back legs then continued down field with Shetland following at full speed came to another fence and cleared that one, luckiley the Shetland monster couldn't follow any further so he calmed himself down.hubby wasn't to pleased at the state of the fence which he would have to rebuild.:(
 
My cob lives on a sheep farm, in a field with loads of sheep. He never bothers about them and seems to quite like them. Until....I took him into our yard to be confronted by a strange white, scary monster. What was it that turned him into a snorting, quivering wreck...one of his sheep friends who had just been clipped!! Must have looked so different to him that he just couldn't work out what it was. And later as I walked him back to his field, through a paddock of about 30 freshly trimmed sheep, he was jumping about like a stressy TB. Idiot cob !!
 
Haha this made me laugh!

Loan horse is scared of most things when out alone but usually will trail along behind without much fuss when in co.

However there was the time when he wouldnt move (nor would horse I was hacking with) and he was snorting and we had to get off and lead them.

All because there was...


A pair of mini shetlands being lead along the road!! :confused::confused:
 
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