Saffron hates pigs...oh boy....

[Asimmons]

OK...so we have two chesnut mares. They have their quirks( ha, ha..understatement...). We were warned that Purdey( 14hh riding pony) did not like pigs. No such warning with Saff. Both girls are of a certain age...shd know better! Rasher and Spam arrive( KuneKune...one ginger with stripes, the other black). Truly to-die-for cute. THe size of jack russells...small ones! They are in a Fort Knoz pen with a mini ark.
Saff snorted loudly enough to wake the dead...then bust out of the 1m40 paddock post and rails, galloped off for 2 miles, jumping a river, clattering through our woods, up a public footpath to the main Lyme/Sidmouth road with Purdey in tow. In the twilight. Me in shorts. Through the nettles. With a chesty cough ( aaagh). Luckily gate onto main road. Never ever thought they would jump out or cross river....but these nano pigs were enough...not even that close to them physically. Now Saff is banged up in her box, still trumpeting, with a cut pastern. Eyes out on stalks trying to spy the wee creatures. Tense as a tense thing...in fact, if you stroked her neck she wd split open!
Poor little piggies...actually, totally settled in and oblivious to equine hate rays being beamed in their direction...
Come on, Saff...you live in the country! Get over it!

 

[carys220]

I had a completely bombproof fell pony, she would do ANYTHING and not bat an eyelid, but in later life she became petrified of cows after she saw the lolloping across a field once! Ironic thing was she used to share a field with those big horned angus cows!!

Strange animals!

 

[hadfos]

Most horses hate pigs...i believe they can smell them a mile off,lol...have no idea why

they just seem to have an irrational fear of the little oinkers,hope your mare gets better soon btw

 

[merlinsquest]

Merlin hates/is terrified of pigs

It stops me hacking out on one of my old routes..... I dont fancy him spinning and bolting on a tarmac road

He can just about hold it together if he is with another horse who ignors them completely, but on his own would be suicide

Cows on the other hand he is fine with!!

Perhaps its to do with wild boar......no one has told the horses that they are not the same thing

 

[Box_Of_Frogs]

Oh god I love it! Rasher and Spam!!!! I'm sponsoring 3 of my YO's rescued battery chickens and have named them Sage 'n Onion and Tikka Masala. Keeps them on their toes I reckon. Hilarious tale but so glad neds are ok (even though owner stung and chesty). Persevere without overdoing it and neds will come round - curiosity will win in the end! x

 

[Minnies_Mum]

My horse grew up on a pig farm but he still can't stand them! Before we bought him he apparently threw himself on the floor (and by this I mean road...) rather than go past them.