Stupid things horses are scared of...

Hehe, loving this thread! Feeling much better about my welshie - we have recently moved yards so I am putting it down to that but EVERYTHING is out to eat him at the moment! He spotted an old water trough in a hedge the other day and had a total meltdown. I had a battle on my hands to get him past a rock on the ground last week and don't even mention the birds - yesterday he leapt sideways into loads of thorny bushes after the tiny bird he was looking at flew upwards. I later had to pick the thorns out of his tail. He didn't take much notice of the muck heap when we left the yard but danced past it like a coiled spring on the way back. But however irrational he seems, he has always been fine in traffic - it's the people in gardens and driveways I have to look out for, not the buses and lorries.
 
In the past I have had one scared to death of milestones
one scared of road signs not the traffic
and one of snowmen once the snow has melted around them ok if the ground is white but if the snow man is on the green grass it is a murderer
 
My horse hates his own shadow. At first we couldn't work out what was bothering him but everytime he saw his shadow he would try and run away from it then realising it was following him. haha :)
 
well my friend's horse i rode today was ambling along quietly on the road when he suddenly stopped and went to spin round. despite going over several already, he took a great dislike to the 'SLOW' written on the road. he just stood staring and snorting at it!
 
Mine leapt up and sideways and behind me (so I could protect him :rolleyes:) at a kid, maximum aged four coming out of the drive of the YO's house this morning. Massive spud. I didn't need the near heart attack when he did this, thinking he might land on my head!

My old warmblood took great exception to red lines on the road and decided he would use the other-clean-side of the road. :rolleyes:
 
For Tom, big things aren't scary at all. The skip at the end of the drive with allsorts of rubbish in it - fine. Field full of wrapped haylage bales - no problem. Big pile of gravel - easy.

Small pile of gravel next to the big pile, obviously there's a horse-eating monster behind that one.

Most recent thing was a fly. It flew up to his face and he practically fell over he was so terrified. Bearing in mind, there were already a few buzzing round. Can't blame him, I suppose, it must have looked huge right up close to his eye! lol

And there's one particular spray bottle which is so dangerous that it must be avoided at all costs. The other ones are fine, though.
 
One of mine loves his face being brushed, scrubbed etc as hard as I like. Can even clip his face/ears with no problem. However, introduce cotton wool into the mix and it all goes pear shaped. Evidently very scary having that horror anywhere near!
 
In addition to previous, I remember once going out with my friend in the trap. She had broken her sec A stallion to drive and he was fab! We were trotting slong the lanes merrily, past buses, quad bikes etc even the bin men with no bother. All of a sudden he ground to a halt, snorting his little head off and trying to back up. I jumped off and went to his head. Gingerly I lead him forward and finally realised he didn't like the zebra crossing!!! Haha! When I finally led him up to it, he super pony jumped it and stood quivering on the other side like he had been asked to jump a pot of snakes!!!

My other friends horse also doesn't like any changes in road surface. I.e if they have dug up the roads and put fresh Tarmac down, or if we step into a driveway which isn't the same surface of the road!! Silly ponies
 
Fence posts need to be snorted at and looked at carefully, but can generally be trusted. However, if one of those Stone Wall Monsters, or heaven forbid a TREE STUMP MONSTER appears around a bend you need to run away FAST!

He also needs to okay the hoof oil each and every time I go near him with it. A quick sniff suffices and then he will stand as good as gold, but if he doesn't get checked with first he dances around like a pillock.
 
Off topic, but he is also fascinated by long skirts... A friend came to see him the other day wearing a floor length dress and he spent the entire time with his nose 6 inches from the hem staring at it blowing in the breeze. I think a bomb could have exploded and he wouldn't have noticed he was so fixated.
 
My young lad is fab in traffic lorries, buses, tractors noooo problem , however different coloured concrete or the bench which lurks in the long grass which we pass EVERY hack out is obviously going to get him and bustops are fine till he sees his reflection then OMG!!!! lol:rolleyes:

He also has a hang up about fly spray and god forbid a baby wipe lol:eek:

However my old mare has to be the best, she decided she needed to pee halfway down a steep hill, all was fine till the wee ran between her front legs!! cue 6ft leap into the air and turn into a fire eating dragon! her own pee!!!!??? doh!:o
 
Oh i just remembered another one..

At a previous yard, a friend and I were chatting near the field gate and out of the corner of my eye i noticed my horse pick up some haylage. It was a quite a windy day so the other end of the piece he had in his mouth started flying about in the wind - cue him racing around the field at break neck speed trying to get away from it (not realising that a. it was food and b. all he had to do was open his mouth and let go of it). Still makes me chuckle when i think about that, daft hoss! :)
 
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