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Never underestimate your horses sense....

I own a forward going but perfectly safe Irish Cob, for a 6yr old she is extremely level headed and confident.

I keep my girl on my friends private yard, she doesn't live onsite but has 2 amazing guard dogs, both mastiffs. Great with the horses and fab at keeping unwanted people out...

Sadly, Tyson, who was 9, had to be pts yesterday afternoon at the yard, he had been poorly for a few weeks and had lost weight in the last 7 days as he wasn't eating, the vet said he had a heart problem and couldn't rule out heart attacks, he was a good old age for a dog of his size, he weighed in at 15 stone. Tyson was buried at the yard yesterday afternoon, next to his father who was pts a couple of years ago.

Now... my level headed, confident mare is having some issues with Tysons passing. She didn't see him pts and was far to busy munching on hay when he was buried. Today when I got her into the school she completely freaked out, snorting, stamping her feet, rearing, bucking, spinning around, you name it, she did it... She couldn't take her eyes of the spot where Tyson was buried, which is about 30-40 feet away from the school. The ground was leveled back out yesterday, so to the eye you really wouldn't know anything had happened there yesterday. But my girl knows something isn't right. It took 20 minutes to settle her down and stop the snorting, stamping, rearing and bucking...

I will never underestimate a horses sense ever again...

RIP Tyson... you're missed so much :(
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What a handsome big boy in a rug too. Bless him.

My OH turned up with my dog when old boy was PTS and my dog instantly knew from 100 yards away that something was wrong. In fact the look of horror on his face. I just glanced over at them and spotted the dogs reaction out corner of my eye.

Sense animals and we forget that sometimes. How strange that your horse knew..smell?? I wonder how.
 
Wow he was a handsome boy :)

There is a field on one of my hacks where a horse is buried quite close to the road, without fail my mare always reverses/spooks/spins and is completely on edge until we get past and around the corner.

I dont know if she knows... but I had no idea until a couple of years of her doing it, someone mentioned that a horse was buried quite near the edge of the field.
 
Its strange isn't it... I have no idea how she could know and it wasn't even 24hrs since he was pts when she started all of this, I just hope things improve tomorrow, fingers crossed :)
 
Sorry you lost your handsome boy. I never underestimate horse sense, especially after what happened when I lost my mum. I got the call at work, and when I came home I went out to the Haflingers and my stud and his 2 mares came over and stood in a semi circle, then one at a time first my boy, then the girls came over and just laid their head on my chest and let me hug them.

They had never done it before, never did it again, put chills down my spine!
 
Big Ben said:
Sorry you lost your handsome boy. I never underestimate horse sense, especially after what happened when I lost my mum. I got the call at work, and when I came home I went out to the Haflingers and my stud and his 2 mares came over and stood in a semi circle, then one at a time first my boy, then the girls came over and just laid their head on my chest and let me hug them.

They had never done it before, never did it again, put chills down my spine!
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Wow, it just goes to show that they do have a 6th sense....
 
Archina said:
It is possible she is smelling the dog or the smell of death from under the ground, depending which way the wind was blowing that day. (Sorry to be a downer) :o

Sorry to hear about Tyson. x
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Yes that is the most logical thing, she can smell him... I took her into the school again yesterday and didn't have any issues with her at all, although the wind may have been in a different direction... I guess if it happens again I will have to try some Vix under her nose :)
 
My old boy always refused to go in one corner of a dressage warm up at the a local yard. Just point blank. So we hired the school out to get him moee comfortable as we were planning on doing a whole series as warming up was a pain and he was on edge.
Still no joy when he was in there alone, got pretty tough with him too.

Turns out when the school was being built five years previously the owners mare had a foal who sadly died so they buried him in the foundations of the school. He was underneath all the top soil, rubble, drainage sand, membrane and rubber. So could he really smell him? This was a bomb proof old boy too! Nothing odd or spooky to the eye in that corner. He was one of quite a few who never went over the spot where the foal was buried, just couldn't make them!

Of course there may of been an imaginary tiger in the undergrowth :P
 
Beautiful dog!
Yard I was at had a much loved horse PTS and buried in the field it loved. No other horse saw it happen but every one of them went and stood at the grave when turned out for a week. It was touching and bit creepy all at once because you really couldn't see where it had been.
 
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