Storm - how did yours react ?

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It was dollys first taste of thunder and lightening .... Like her mum she wasn't keen :o . Went down to a pair of very spooky ponies this morning that took twice as long to eat breakfast as they kept spooking. Then I stupidly threw the buckets over the tape and out the way (always do this as dolly stands in them) only to give a foal a piggy back as she took off into canter into me and couldn't slow down :D Tess also legged it thankful not in to me :o

However they look much more comfortable with the rain on their back than coated in sweat !

How did your neds take it ?
 
I woke up and panicked because Im scared of storms, got to the yard as quick as I could to get the horses in..... found them all quite happily stood sheltering under a tree.
Their not bothered at all :)
 
Luckily I don't have a horse any more to worry about these things.

Dog couldn't care less but it woke us both up at one point it was that loud! Got a horrid sleep!
 
completely unbothered and scoffing grass. ditto the dogs running round. I'm poopicking and getting soaked to skin, cue MissWetTeeShirt, and wondering if I'm gonna get struck by lightning. Just heard from a friend that her field half-mile away DID get struck by lightning. wow.
Really impressive forked lightning with huge thundercracks, not just the usual sheet lightning stuff. Definitely a storm worth watching.
 
For those of you with hysterical dogs not sure if its any use but I put a t shirt on my hysterical pointer and this really works.
You can by official thunder shirts which are AMAZING but obviously at 04.30am I couldn't remember for the life of me where I'd put it!
Just popped a small t shirt on him and then tightened it at the back with a hair bobble and within 10mins he was breathing normally again and within 15 he was snoring away! :-)
 
I rushed to clear the field shelters yesterday so that the nags could go in them if it rained. Oh my goodness did it rain, we've had over one and a half inches. I needn't have worried. When I went to pull them in this morning they were all standing in the middle of the fields, oblivious to the rain pouring down. I called them, they weren't bothered enough to come over so I've left them out there.
 
Thunderstorms have sound frequencies that can hurt dogs' ears. The fear that your dog shows at the start of a thunderstorm may actually be a reaction to pain.

(ref - 10 things you didnt know about your dog)
 
I am another one with ponies happily grazing but Our border collie is upset, won't go outside,but did eat his breakfast.
At the worst part of the storm he was on bed wedged between OH and myself quivering!

Rain came down in sheets it was like a waterfall from sky with a grey/yellow hue to the light.
 
2 horses out today and not bothered in the slightest. Horse generally I have found aren't bothered by thunderstorms. Dogs on the other hand won't leave me alone and wants to be on lap 24/7 which is very hard considering I have a laptop.
 
Mine aren't that bothered. The pony has a quick run about if the thunder is right on top of us. The dogs are just sat under the shelter except for the German Sheperd who must be taking his guarding to a new level as he's sat outside the house even when its pouring down. I dont know whether to say bless him or bleeding idiot!! :eek:
 
Ponies did not worry at all. Storm lasted all night. That was the longest storm I can remember.
A firework, and one goes into meltdown?
 
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