Silly things people have said about your four legged lovelies!!

People always seem to think my lad is a girl. When he was still at the riding school I was stood watching one of the instructors get a client on him and she said
"Right, you're riding Cinnamon today. I think he should be called CinnaMAN because everyone always thinks that he's a girl"
Poor horse will get a complex with his masculinity being questioned like that
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Another riding school one was when we used to get the youth groups come down. You'd get them on and 9 times out of ten, when you would move them out of the way of the mounting block they would go,
"Oh my days! It's moving!!"
Well.... yes. You didn't think you'd payed all that money just to sit still did you?
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LOL this thread is hilarious.

We also had the mother and baby thing with our young elegant TB and old-man shetland pony
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BF met April last week and said she was 'sweet'
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She sure fooled him but I know she was really sizing him up
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He also said she was quite big (she's 14.2 lol)
 
I just remembered another story which I have told on here before...

My parents came to visit me at PC camp and my dad (bless him) spent ages attempting to bond with my friends 13.2 grey pony instead of mine
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People always see pickle and because he is big say "oh look at that shire" or "what a nice cart horse"he barely even has much feather!!!
 
I think I might win this! My cob (in my siggy) has been called a donkey, unfairly I think, by my OH, he thinks he has big ears, I think they're just average, they look big because he's hogged and there's no hair to hide them in!

If I'd been able to stop giggling, my OH would have been in serious trouble the day I found him playing on the computer. He was trying to photoshop Harleys head onto Donkey from Shreks body! So rude it was hilarious!

I've had all the normal ones too, 'Ohh he's huge' - he's 14.3, 'why doesn't he have any mane' - this can deteriorate into a kind of 'why is the sky blue' conversation, 'will he bite me?' - why would he want to, etc etc.
 
Everyone thinks Will' is a girl which is forgiveable, but an ex made me laugh with his comments when I got him home....

"At least this one's brown. Ferrari's are red, horses are brown, that's just the way it is!"
 
An elderly gentleman came up to me whilst out hunting and asked about my horse - he had had her for a very brief spell a few years ago (she put him in hospital!!) and he said...............Hmmm - was she always chestnut?!!!

She is a very bright orange and no, she has never been any other colour!
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I was riding through the woods and encountered across someone with 2 children ..... when one of the children exclaimed .......

<font color="purple"> Oh look it's a Boy !!!!!! </font>

Well Motor is largely endowed in the ** cough cough ** Sheath area
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Parent was quite embarrassed too
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My ex bought Badger for me and when I told him he was grey he said he didn't want to buy a grey horse because they look old!!

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Where do i find one of those? They buy u a horse and then leave u alone do they... interesting...
 
I own a full arab chestnut with flaxen mane and tail, white blaze etc and he is lovely and i get told he is to pretty to be a boy.
I used to own another male chestnut with flaxen mane and tail, there used to be a young girl on my yard and she owned a 12'2 pony mare with flaxen mane and tail (i have to admit they did look the same), when we would ride out together the ammount of people who used to stop us and ask if it was 'mommy and baby' lol. Didnt have the heart to tell them that the little pony was in Her 20's and the big horse was a HE and only 8.
The other thing......... i ride out in full face fly masks and people ask if the horses are blind lol
 
All German Shepherds are clearly male.

Will HE bite?

No, SHE will not. Unless you ask nicely.

Along with the assertion that they are 'hunting' dogs - er, does the 'Shepherd' bit not give it away?!
I've had the crossing-the-street-to-get-away thing too, when I was little it used to make me cry, because I knew my dog was the bestest, most kindest girl in the world!
I think I wrote a letter to the paper in my teenage years I was so disgusted!
 
I took Drum my cob to his first hunter trial when he was 5/6 and a friend overheard someone saying 'is that carthorse doing it!!!' that carthorse went round and did the first clear as a leader in the pairs class ner ner ner!!! I don't think the comment maker got past the third fence!
 
A man on a beach once told me off because his wife walked straight in front of my horse as we were cantering along the shoreline and he reared up. The man said that no wonder my horse stood up because of all the metal things I'd put in its mouth and it must have been choking it. Er, how does that happen then?
 
I was at a show recently and this american guy came up and said 'oh my gad!, how did you do that?' I had to explain that b's dorsal stripe is natural and that I hadn't been out with the magic marker.
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I love Believe she is so beautiful
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I was ordering a fly rug and mask for Madam and got asked by one of my work colleagues "Why are you buying your horse a gimp suit?" .. the mind boggles as to the personal reasons he may have had making that correlation
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My dog is a Collie x something, ex Battersea, and people always think she's a puppy, she has a high loin, whippet like, quite long legs, they are always surprised when I tell them she's nearly 12 years old!
 
Lots of people think that Jake is a girl, he is a grey with a long white mane and tail and gorgeously long white eyelashes which he tends to bat at people.

Also, the hospital I work at introduced carparking fees, people at work said I should ride my horse into work instead, tying him to a nearby chestnut tree until it was time to ride home again!
 
My sharer was riding my boy out the other day. He is a Highland x TB, with the emphasis on Highland, at least in looks, he is a 14.2 Dun, and a tad overweight.

The local race yard excercise on the lanes we use and a man asked in all seriousness if he was a race horse.

Glad I wasn't riding him, I would have fallen off with laughter.
 
Had some children up at the yard the other day when Bill my ex pointer was tied up having a groom. Now being a TB a big one at 17.3hh with quite a high wither I get alot of comments on how big he is, but this little boy about 5 or 6 turned round in all seriousness and asked if Bill's dad had been a dinosaur!!!
Bless kids, and I'm sure somewhere Phardante his sire is spitting!
 
Hovis wears a full face mask to protect his nose from sunburn. One of the parents asked me the other day if I had to blindfold him to bring him in because he was naughty?
I have also been asked why i didn't buy hovis in " a smaller size". i did have visions of horses lined up a la Top shop style in rows according to size!!
 
My ned is nicknamed 'colonel musturd' by the OH in the winter as he has a huge curly tash!
I was asked last year by a supposed horsey friend of a friend why Moo was wearing a muzzle and ina paddock, my reply was ' he's on a diet set by the vet' her reply bein 'he's a cos is'nt he supposed to be fat?' OMG how stupid. (I have to add the fatness was not my doing I had just got him.)
The general public scare me sometimes.
 
I get lots of comments on "why do you die the tips of his fur" and "aww look at the dog, it needs it's roots doing"
Poor dog is outgrowing his puppy coat
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Oh I love this kind of thread! I have an exmoor and a shettie, so have heard most of these. A few examples:

Aw look! A Mum and baby! (both are geldings and not shy about it)
Oh, is that a shetland (when I'm out riding my exmoor, because you know everything under 15hh is a shetland...)
When will he get bigger (this from a grown man, who thought I was out riding my foal...)
Ooh look! He's got All-Terrain Legs! (I like this one - came from a mountain biker!)
Why don't you ride your horse to work? (No comment needed here - I work near Sutton!!)
Do you have to see your horses even on Christmas Day? (No, I phone them up and tell them to get their own dinners on Christmas day...)
Oh isn't she pretty (these guys need to take a closer look...)
Oh do you ride him? (About the shettie...Yes, I do, complete with roller skates and a clown hat)


There's plenty more. The neighbours to my field think I'm terribly committed for turning up every single day to check my beasties. Conversely I've had rows with people who think I can just swan off somewhere and just forget about them for a day!
 
The yard owner always used to call my mare 'boy'. Typical west country farmer, he'd come past saying things like 'alright, boy', and always referred to her as a he. The clue was in the name - who'd call a male horse Sparkle!? No, definitely a female horse with a female name.
 
I find this really funny, but difficult to correct people. Most recent example I was in a clinic with Lucinda Green earlier this week and despite my horse being called Fi fi, she referred to her as a him for the whole 2 hours. I tried to correct a few times but gave up after a while and joined in. She's not the most dainty equine you'll ever see but defo feminine enough :-)

She has also been referred to as a mule (how rude) by others but in reality i've called her worse (on a bad day)!!
 
Most people call my boy (in siggy) she even when i try explaining that hes a boy they say hes to pretty to be a boy.
Also Ive got a palomino miniature shetland and everyone always says 'awww its mummy and baby', lol!!
Also have had the one about my grey pony - is he old??
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My neighbour had a right blond moment at the weekend. My daughter had brought her pony up to the house Friday afternoon to tack her up on the drive ready for a ride. However, pony left a deposit on the drive way. Anyway when I got home I thought I'll pick that up later so just drove the car over it to park.

Anyway next day neighbour asks "How did the pony manage to s**t under the car?" DOH! I pretended I hadn't heard him and went to put the kettle on with tears rolling down my cheeks.
 
My NON horsey Mum, said to her HORSEY work mate........

"Oooh, look Mandy, that horse has got short legs"
"That's because it's a pony" replied Mandy
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