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Evie91

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..... Are they all little b*****s?! Have a companion pony for my horse.Now I love the pony too bits but boy is she hard work!!
For example; my tb respects fencing, not pony - under or over and out!
has exploited every single weak spot in my fencing.
Gets muzzle off now in under a minute. Corralled in hard standing, just for one hour, came back to find pony had escaped by stepping through the gate, over the muck heap, through the wood, round the garden and is now grazing adjacent to the tb, just the wrong side of the fence!

Pings my bra strap or knicker elastic through my clothes while I'm grooming her or in the stable.
Picks up hoof pick out of bucket and throws it across the yard or out the stable.

Has escaped from the stable, and came to meet me bringing the tb in. Has galloped off when being lunged, ran round local wood then came back- I swear she likes me to see what mischief she's up to!

At my wits end! She goes out overnight, supposedly muzzled to try and keep her weight down but she is getting a bit of a tummy! She is footy on stony ground but has been like this since I've had her - her footiness has not stopped her galloping off when she feels like it or chasing my dog, or hearding my mare in the paddock!

she is ace, just not had a pony experience before - are they all like this??!!!
 
Yes, that's pony character! My NF has perfected the 'it totally wasn't me, you can't possibly be cross with me as I'm so ruddy adorable' face. He is in fact, the biggest 'character' of the yard - if there's mischief to be had, he's in the thick of it.

Just this week, he's eaten his own boots (?!), his neighbours breakfast, trashed his grazing muzzle (he has numerous for this reason, ditto the boots) and given me a rather attractive bruise on my bum.
 
Mine likes to follow me round the field when I'm poo picking, wait until the barrow is nearly full and then 'innocently' scratch his head on the corner of it with *just* enough pressure to make it tip over in slow motion.
 
Yes, we spend all of our time trying to outwit our three 'characters'!
I have to take a schooling whip to catch one of the little darlings, whilst I was doing up her head collar the other cheeky lovely grabbed the whip by the the wrong end and ran off, stopped, put it down, picked it up by the handle and then high tailed it off round the field!
It took us a few months to realise how to keep a Shetland inside an electric fence, and a few more months to keep a muzzle on it!
You are not alone!
 
Oh thank you so much! I shall be keeping your stories to myself, don't want to give her anymore ideas!
Just how did you manage to keep the muzzle on??!!
 
yup never a dull moment when there is a pony in the herd. That is what makes them so much fun and so much loved. You get pony people and horse people and you get horse people that aspire to be pony people
Love ponies can't get on with horses they are boring by comparison. I know that is generalisation but I have always believed that all equines have the same size brain and the smaller the body the more spare brain power for mischief there is which is why ponies are so naughty and heavy horses as so dopey
 
dollyanna said:
It's called "character" ;-)
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Evie91 said:
Oh thank you so much! I shall be keeping your stories to myself, don't want to give her anymore ideas!
Just how did you manage to keep the muzzle on??!!
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Take a piece of mane, pass over the headpeice and secure to forelock in a plait.....
 
Thank you all so much - I was thinking it's just me! I couldn't understand how this tiny pony is literally running rings round me! She is very, very clever and quick thinking. I do admire her capacity for mischief!
I will be definately trying the plait tomorrow! This evening she got the muzzle off three times, three times she let me put it back on (in under ten minutes), fourth time she got it off,she ran around the paddock with it, then threw it over the fence!!!! I gave up then and came in for a large glass of wine!
 
Yes. He is a git.

He breaks fences...wood and electric.
Goes through the bin like a stray cat.
Breaks into the hay shelter and feed room.
Tries to break into the other stables.
Smears you up against the fence line...knows every evasion in the book.
Undoes zips, nibbles lead ropes...

But he's as safe as houses and seriously handsome so we put up with him...
 
Knock over wheel barrows - check
Break the PIPE to the tap = flood - check
Chew whatever is within reach - check
Magicly levitate to the wrong side of the fence - check

Saw this and thought 'for my next trick'....
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Pony just been sold (not due to naughtiness though) so, a kind loving fab new home will now potentially experience 'A PONY'!!
 
Rolf at bra strap pinging but yes my pony is a little git too he tries humping my 16.1 tb and he's a mear 9hh lol we can be walking a long and chop takes a chunk out of my arm gallops off with my hoodie or coat if I leave it in reach tries chewing keys out of padlock if I put my car in field he's like the monkeys at Chester zoo tries stripping it of wipers and mirrors lol but I wouldn't change him he brings us so much laughter with his antics apart from the biting xx
 
Mine is just about horse sized but he's a haflinger and they have pony brains!!lol
He's far too clever for his own good, it's a constant battle to outsmart him. He does get away with murder though as he has such a cute face.
 
This all sounds remarkably like my Exmoor yearling...been over/under/through every fence at the yard? Yep. Let herself into 20+ acres next door (thankfully we have a VERY understanding farmer neighbour!) when she got bored of her 2 acre field at a mere 7 months old? Yep. (...oh yes, and left her 3yo companion in the 2 acres without a backward glance!) Torn handles off of numerous water buckets? Yep. Squeezed herself down the gap between the stables and got stuck? Yep. Taken her rug off in the field? Yep. Torn the tarpaulin off the tractor in our small field (whilst it's in the shelter!) and ran around dragging said tarpaulin behind her for fun? Yep. Thrown brushes, buckets, rugs and mobile phones across the yard? Yep. Absolutely adorable? Yep!!!!!!

I would hope she would grow out of it but my 11yo Exie carefully took every brush out of the grooming kit and put them one at a time in her water bucket last Sunday so I am not sure there is any hope! :D

Ps I am definitely a pony person - we have one TB and 4 Exmoors...general highjinks are regular occurrences at our yard!
 
one of mine has to have a bright orange stinky supplement in his feed, this evening I was picking out his hooves while he ate his tea and had a hoof oil brush in my mouth, he planted a big kiss in the middle of my back jogging me (I think he was going for the bra strap trick) so I have an orange blob in the middle of my white T shirt and hoof oil in my hair. My husband has just asked if I have been smoking as I smell 'smokey'
 
Nope, we have a yard of ponies, a Shetland, 6 12hh greys, 2x 14hhers and none of them are hard work, they're as mannerly and obedient as any horse. A couple of the late gelded ones need firm groundwork to keep that way but they are not hard work.
 
Mine is very mannerly when handled...in fact he is a saint for my daughter....but left to his own devices to wander freely around the yard and all hell breaks loose. The other two "normal" animals...and I use that term loosely seeing as one is an Arab...head off the grassed area and...well...graze.

Pony is likely to wedge himself between trailer and fence, or slide on his belly over a half used big bale of hay which was on its side to get to a six foot square patch of grass at the back of the hay shelter.....I think that's the kind of characterful behaviour people were talking about, rather than "bad" behaviour:)
 
Thanks all for sharing, some of these stories are fab! Good to know I'm not alone. It's been really fun reading what others get up to :)

I don't mean bad manners - she is good for basic stuff, it's just when she's left to her own devices. She is 4, a rescue pony, with some awful experiences behind her, so I'm actually pleased she still has some spirit!
 
Oh, yes - mine is well behaved, easy to handle on the ground with a heart of gold.

To the point my un-horsey Mum is confident turning him out, bringing him in, grooming him etc.

He just needs constant supervision so to speak - if he's tied up outside his stable & I go into the hay barn (which I can see him from) you can literally see him watching me until he thinks he's I'm out of sight & then it's a case of 'Muuuuuuuuum. I have NO idea how your grooming kit is upside down, the brushes strewn everywhere & how this Harrods goats hair body brush got into my mouth and the handle chewed. Or how my boots magically came undone & stood on. It must be magic' type behaviour ensues. As soon as he see's me come out, he stops :D

When I first moved to my yard, I think people thought I was a bit precious when I said 'I'm just popping to the loo & P's tied up, can you just keep an eye on him' - most of my fellow liveries, now completely understand!
 
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