Booboos
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Butterflies...I give up!
Strange things that scare your horse!
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SonnysHumanSlave
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Teddi doesnt normally spook at anything, but when we went ot Le Trec we practised in the morning and when we competed in the afternoon, the judges were sitting on the fences that werent being used....... now people sat doing nothing was really mega scary! He slammed the brakes on about 200yard before every fence!
isabella
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my mare is as safe as houses, so much so that many people have said that a bomb could go off next to her and she would still be asleep. However we have a slight problem with purple flowers lol we can't get too near to them cause obviously they are alot scarier then any other flowers lol shes gives them wide birth and wont take her eyes off them till we are out of their way :S
My new boy is scared of curbs and grass especially grass :s you wouldn't think he was turned out 24/7 would you, strange creature lol the funny thing is hes getting over the curb thing but grass is still an issue
My new boy is scared of curbs and grass especially grass :s you wouldn't think he was turned out 24/7 would you, strange creature lol the funny thing is hes getting over the curb thing but grass is still an issue
hezza1
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Mine got one hell of a fright yesterday , a small boy in the overgrowth collecting conkers ha ha poor wee soul got as much of a fright as the horse
Think i meant undergrowth !!
Think i meant undergrowth !!
YorksG
Over the hill and far awa
My totally traffic proof mare will spook out INTO to the traffic, if :- There are painted stones at the side of the road, Herdwick sheeop in the field next to the road (only Herdwicks though) there is a small dog in bushes, and the most spectacular recently was the huge spook on the A640 because a man was washing his car on his drive! We nearly ended up in the pub across the road
. She also has a thing about different coloured tarmac, until she has subdued it by walking over it a few times, she has been known to jump small patches in the road
The old Clyde mare, who was absolutely bomb proof, once nearly trampled a minimetro because a bull in a field looked at her!
Porkie
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Foals !!
They are proper scarey !!!
They are proper scarey !!!
hezza1
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Lambs and pheasants
kirstyhen
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Nothing
Sheep and Pigs used to bother him until he was out all summer in a field full of sheep and next to two pigs
Occasionally he will catch something out of the corner of his eye and then watch it intently until we pass but it's rarely a proper spook and if he can get over and touch it, he'll never bother about it again
He used to be very spooky (his way off handling things was to spin and bolt) he just needed showing that these things weren't really going to eat him and now he is perfect!
ETA - Although 5 Miniature Spotty Ponies galloping at him yesterday on our hack did warrant a jog and snort!
As did a rampaging Badger last year, which he was allowed as the bloomin' thing was after his ankles!!!
Occasionally he will catch something out of the corner of his eye and then watch it intently until we pass but it's rarely a proper spook and if he can get over and touch it, he'll never bother about it again
He used to be very spooky (his way off handling things was to spin and bolt) he just needed showing that these things weren't really going to eat him and now he is perfect!
ETA - Although 5 Miniature Spotty Ponies galloping at him yesterday on our hack did warrant a jog and snort!
muffinino
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Leaves turned the wrong way
Tractors, airplanes, quad bikes, trailers, not a problem. Foliage of a slightly different colour - terrifying!
PeterNatt
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My totally Bombproof/Spookproof road horse who was regularly ridden through the centre of London was once terrified by a Snowman complete with carrott nose and bowler hat. He shook with fear and refused to move for 5 minutes!
Carys
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Going past the broken ends of branches, trees cut down & ends of twigs - but ask her to jump them & "whey hey" that's easy & fun.
Oh and fine on roads & with bikes fixed to back of cars but a car moving VERY SLOWLY with a bike fixed upright on top of roof involved exit stage left at some speed !!
Oh and fine on roads & with bikes fixed to back of cars but a car moving VERY SLOWLY with a bike fixed upright on top of roof involved exit stage left at some speed !!
MochaDun
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Very loud sudden metal noises of a scraping nature (thought it was just aluminium ladders he objected to but we've expanded our fear range of horse-eating large metal objects since then) but that's not particularly strange.
The men that walk along the rail freight line checking it every few months - they wear orange boiler suits with white hard hats...they move in a group - he is absolutely terrified of them. We take off and run senselessly around the school.
Most brilliant white or deadly black things. So any new roadworks patch on the road is a deep vast hole to beware of. We're surprisingly fine about the mountain of black plastic wrapped haylage bales outside his stable though..
Last week it was a wooden pallet that had appeared on the path since the last time we went that way. We span and/or ran backwards for about 30 metres.
He meanwhile loves pigs, happy with goats, JCBs, tractors, lorries so I can't complain!
The men that walk along the rail freight line checking it every few months - they wear orange boiler suits with white hard hats...they move in a group - he is absolutely terrified of them. We take off and run senselessly around the school.
Most brilliant white or deadly black things. So any new roadworks patch on the road is a deep vast hole to beware of. We're surprisingly fine about the mountain of black plastic wrapped haylage bales outside his stable though..
Last week it was a wooden pallet that had appeared on the path since the last time we went that way. We span and/or ran backwards for about 30 metres.
He meanwhile loves pigs, happy with goats, JCBs, tractors, lorries so I can't complain!
Janesomerset
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The most scary thing EVER was the garden gnome which appeared one morning on the wall at the end of a drive we sometimes hack past. It was a nice smiling gnome, tastefully dressed in green and red. Not like it was sticking two fingers up at us, but we had snorting and eye-popping and finally a mad scrabble past on the other side of the road. I blamed this on my boy being a Bodmin Moor pony and thinking it was a pixie of the turning-ponies-into-toadstools variety. Next time we ventured that way, the gnome had gone and has never been seen again. Maybe it WAS a pixie...
jesterfaerie
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Drinks
especially cups of tea - take a human drink near him and he is at back of his stable. Had quite a few interesting moments trying to get him in and out his stable whilst the horse eating coffee mug was next to his door
He can act weirdly to human food as well, not always scared of it but he won't eat it at all.
It does depend what mood he is in, he is generally unflappable and nothing will scare him but on certain days EVERYTHING is out to scare him - road markings, signs, crisp packets, bins, children (especially if they are sat on walls
) you name it he will think it is out to eat him. On a normal days he will not bat an eyelid.
We can come back from a hack and untack him and his own grooming kit/rug/saddle/boots whatever will scare the living daylights out of him.
It does depend what mood he is in, he is generally unflappable and nothing will scare him but on certain days EVERYTHING is out to scare him - road markings, signs, crisp packets, bins, children (especially if they are sat on walls
We can come back from a hack and untack him and his own grooming kit/rug/saddle/boots whatever will scare the living daylights out of him.
flintmeg
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well.. drains(getting better), drains in different coloured tarmac
, a preety purple flower that lines a section of track but only scary in a certain place
, bracken (so scary have now renamed as tigers)
the occasional horse eating small bird, wings and poles but is coming on leaps and bounds
and the other day cow poo
but will happily walk over plastic, fine with cars, buses, etc, tractors which he loves, and even didnt get bothered by a landy towing a very large boat, i love my special boy, 15 month filly, nothing, walked her up lane and first thing she saw was a double decker bus....no reaction
janet68
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Sheep,bus stops and people sitting or bending down