Silly stuff your horse spooks at

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Went on a hack with Mav the other day an we got to a house were some guy was jet washin his lorry an in the same yard someone was choppin wood with a chanesaw. Thought great he has never seen a jet wash sprayin water all over te road this shld be fun. But no walked past it without even lookin.


Just after the jet wash a kid had drawn on the road with chalk and he spooked refused to walk forwards before cat leapin over it ...

What silly stuff does your horse spook at ?
 
Friends pony walks past busses, lorries, bikes all sorts.

The funny looking bush on the otherhand que leap sideways. Or just tensing up on the spot.

My boys quite good, but won't hack alone, if out with others, if they spook he thinks he should too. Odd boy. He doesn't like the sound of stabilisers on bikes tho. He also spooked at a soggy piece of cardboard, that was at the side of the path.

Freinds equally odd gelding goes a bit mad when he sees other horses in fields...

Friends mare hasn't taking to hacking and spooks a fair ole bit... At most things the others just walk past.

I've known a lot of horses have issues with road markings and grids too, and bits of litter.
 
Yeh we used to have a mare tht if horses in a field trotted over she wld take off into gallop down the Tarmac with yah clingin on haha !
 
An yep sounds like her gelding, he is a bit sheltered tho bless him, take him away from her mare and daft lad thinks the worlds going to end on occasion.

Oh and my boy is a dressage school master, he's 18 and with his owner (he's on loan) he competed to advanced medium, so why did he spook at the dressage white boards when I took him out last week?! Just trying his luck me thinks...
 
Mine good as gold hacking down main road, didn't react to a low loader with jcb on the back complete with noisy breaks, got onto bridlepath and a squirrel ran out of hedge, resulting in leap spin and charge in opposite direction!
 
My mare doesn't bat an eyelid at lorries or double decker buses, but froze solid and stared at a RABBIT sitting minding it's own business, munching grass in a field about 50ft away before she took off with me to get away from it haha
 
Re: parsnips... I threw a load of carrots/peelings and stuff in the field and a small parsnip rolled down the slope towards him, he was nearly on his knees with terror :(
 
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Re: parsnips... I threw a load of carrots/peelings and stuff in the field and a small parsnip rolled down the slope towards him, he was nearly on his knees with terror :(
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That's hilarious - poor boy!

They say that horses are wired to notice even the tiniest change - perhaps that's why my girl calmly walked past 3 daffodils for a week, but when the 4th came out.................:eek: And this is the mare that stands oh so calmly when tractors inch past her on tiny cornish lanes (the sort that have grass growing in the middle because they are so narrow)
 
Lorries, wheelchairs, drills, cars, bikes, cement mixers, kids of scooters, flags, buses, fly tipped stuff, bin lorries, large snarling dogs...all fine.


A baby rabbit, logs in ditches or a small dog...NO!
 
Chloe is usually quite sane but does have her diva moments, like the other week someone left a rug on the side of the school, well Chloe's like " Mum I've never seen a rug before!" :rolleyes:

Yet when all the decs at the yard went up and there's like Santas Grotto outside the school, she'd not bothered! :rolleyes:
 
At himself, mostly!!!!! There doesn't actually have to be anything/anyone near him to get four legs off the ground...its quite pitiful actually. He is a fine upstanding stallion-esque animal who shows himself up on a frequent basis. :rolleyes:

I also have a youngster who regularly loses the use of his legs and his ability to put one hoof in front of the other if there is a particularly shiny looking bit of tarmac around. His best tactic is to then proceed with his eyes glued to the shiny bit and nose dragging along the ground. :rolleyes:

Oh did I mention they are both Welsh D's...not that i'm insinuating anything of course. Its just that the notoriously unspooky Welsh A of mine had the gritter virtually spraying up his backside the other afternoon and he just kept his head planted in the hedge stuffing his face unconcernedly...so its a bit of a contrast to his bigger field mates....but that could be entirely coincidental of course! ;)
 
My sec D gelding is fine with all traffic inc lorries, buses, motor bikes, trailers with cattle kicking about in the back, trains ....
But a pallet in a hedge...it's gonna kill him:/
Ladies with brollies ....a big no no!
Purple flowers ...uh oh!
 
Have ridden my boy past a fair (screaming children, bright lights, loud music) and didnt even look. However a leaf rolling across the road and he jumped out his skin!
 
A Sec D I was riding thought a livery cleaning out a shed next to the arena was a terrifying horse-eating monster and refused to change her mind until the livery finished the job and left.
 
My horse is pretty bombproof, but the other day we met a person in a wheelchair while out hacking and he pranced about like a plonker snorting at the wheelchair - it was rather embarrassing!!
 
Nothing except a horse eating tree stump down one of the lanes...I don't know what that stump has done to offend him but he can't go past without snorting, trotting sideways and making a tit of himself!!!
 
Mine had a hairy fit going to the field this morning at 2 sheep headbutting each other in the next field. I'm talking full on prancing, tail in the air, hard blowing spooking! Nutter :)
 
My previous horse was scared of foals! similar sized ponies no problem but foals were terrifying.

My boys who's out on loan is extremely scared of cameras, in SJ classes I've had to ask the photographer to leave the arena (yes even with the long lense he knows you are there), you can talk on your mobile next to him not a problem, but switch it onto camera mode and he tries to climb out of the stable windows. I had no idea until he came to me (long story) I'd not ridden him before but known him for years, hopped on in the field (no school at the time) and he was going nicely OH thought he'd take a nice photo of our first day - still makes me laugh as it shows him disappearing and me hanging on round his neck slightly supprised!
most people don't believe me that he's scared of them (totally bomb proof with everything else) until I try and show them!!
 
One of mine spooks at daffodils, spots of oil on the road, those red slow down signs painted on the road, racehorses! which is quite embarrassing when he's dancing round like an idiot trying to run off and the supposedly highly strung racehorses casually walk past him and he's a highland :rolleyes: and the time we saw a racehorse being long reined omg he was terrified!

Other one took a dislike to mole hills the other day and ran to the other side of the road. Then walked past a massive white sign fine even though he'd had a total fit at a less scary one the other week! He'll spook at anything really but then other times walk past fine. Grates in the road he was really scared of when I first got him, the miniature pony in a garden up the track he's been up a hundred times now.
 
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