Stupidest thing your horse has done/done to you

[ponynutz]

Follow up thread from @My_old_warmblood 's.

Mine ate my sausage roll once and then two days later ate an entire packet of Strepsils (wrapping and all). Both times I had to stay until 10pm waiting for her to pass them through (on the verge of a heart attack might I add).

 

[Lintel]

Probably very common....
Rolled in the livery yards arena... Next to the post and rail fence...

One stuck and not very flexible Hipo!


Thankfully he is not a panicky type and lay on his side wedge in the fence until several of us managed to bend his legs and push him back over. Thankfully we did not have to dismantle the fence!

 

[blitznbobs]

walked backwards off a sand bank into a river... it was hilarious... Yes I'm a bad person but he was fine (if very very wet!)

 

[Barton Bounty]

Mine spun on a sand bank, back back back and flip

 

[2 Dragons]

Mine bit the electric fence tape in excitement when he saw his dinner coming. Ouch
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[Peglo]

Tried to chuck herself and me off a cliff because I wouldn’t let her gallop.

 

[scats]

My very riggy gelding mounted a friends mare over a fence. Mare walked off and he was left stuck over the fence looking very sheepish. It took four of us to get him unstuck!

 

[ihatework]

Attached himself to a gate by piercing his nose with a lead rope clip

 

[smolmaus]

Attached himself to a gate by piercing his nose with a lead rope clip

My stomach is doing very weird flips when I make eye contact with this piercing ???

Don't even have to think about mine: jumped the 1.5m gate out of the arena. Pony 100% fine, gate FUBAR.

 

[Barton Bounty]

Attached himself to a gate by piercing his nose with a lead rope clipView attachment 98633

Holy moly!! ?

 

[Red-1]

Attached himself to a gate by piercing his nose with a lead rope clipView attachment 98633

I worked with a horse who did this, only he panicked and left a large gash. The attending vet said it was more common than you'd think. I have swapped all clips for the two types that have no protruding edges. Both panic release, so I have also dispensed with string.

 

[ihatework]

I worked with a horse who did this, only he panicked and left a large gash. The attending vet said it was more common than you'd think. I have swapped all clips for the two types that have no protruding edges. Both panic release, so I have also dispensed with string.

Thick enough to do it in the first place, but thankfully sensible enough to stand there giving a pitiful whinny until rescued!!

Yes, all gate attachments now checked to be muppet proof.

This was quite a long time ago. Horse didn’t make old bones, for obvious reasons ?

 

[Sleipnir]

Older gelding:
Rolled besides a small fir tree and got cast. I had to sit on his head while others cut the tree down with a chainsaw.

Reared randomly in the field. On ice. Result - fell on his tail, which has never been perfectly straight again.

As a 3yo, he tripped over a small lump of dirt and fell to his knees while learning the basics of lunging. He proceeded to kick the offending lump with much anger and vigour for at least a minute. ?

My youngest is equally talented, but atm I only recall one case -

While walking in hand during winter he somehow slipped and fell onto his side over a small bank, his legs hanging literally a few centimeters over the ground. He instantly decided that getting up would be IMPOSSIBLE and instructed me to tell his wife he loved her. As he was simply NOT getting up, but also nothing was physically wrong with him, I gently slapped his buttocks with my hand and he instantly leaped up onto his feet. Silly boy!

 

[Greylegs]

Mine once spooked at ....... a fish!

We regularly ride past a lake and said fish (a large carp or similar - not great with fish species!) jumped out of the water to catch a fly. Cue my dozy pony having a minor meltdown at the sight of a flying whale and the inevitable splash as it landed back in the water ......

 

[ponynutz]

Attached himself to a gate by piercing his nose with a lead rope clipView attachment 98633

Oh my GOD!!

 

[chaps89]

Never again will I have a fence hopper.
Worst was a call to say she’d gone over her stable door - cleared it. But there was many many times she was in the wrong field, usually with a horse she wasn’t supposed to be with or whilst she was on box/pen rest ?

Then there was the time she leant on the stable door chain/rope, it gave way (as indeed it should have done) and 450kilo of horse went for a flying lesson and went bang on the concrete. Nearly lost her because of that. Won’t use those door chains anymore now! (I was at the back of her stable locking my storage area so she wasn’t unsupervised as such)

 

[TwyfordM]

Mysti got annoyed at me asking her to walk slowly on the verge to her field. She wanted to walk on the driveway… full on temper tantrum. Reared up, spun then went to take off. Driveway was thick ice. Legs went out from underneath her and she splatted.. hard ??‍ Didn’t learn from that mistake, only got more angry and continued prancing to field .. splat again ?

 

[scats]

Attached himself to a gate by piercing his nose with a lead rope clipView attachment 98633

My friends Welsh D did that but through his cheek. Friend couldn’t understand why he wouldn’t eat his breakfast and then realised he was attached to the wall.

 

[Birker2020]

Swatted his friend in the next paddock across the face over and over with the fly mask his friend helped him take off! Don't think his friend will be so happy to oblige next time!

 

[AntiPuck]

Jumped out of the arena on to concrete, accelerated into canter towards field full of her mates, completely misjudged said concrete, slid on her back hooves for 4 or 5 metres and smacked into field gate which she flung open and left with a huge dent

I'd like to think she'd do it differently if she were to attempt it again, but I don't think she would.

 

[Birker2020]

Jumped out of the arena on to concrete, accelerated into canter towards field full of her mates, completely misjudged said concrete, slid on her back hooves for 4 or 5 metres and smacked into field gate which she flung open and left with a huge dent

I'd like to think she'd do it differently if she were to attempt it again, but I don't think she would.

How embarrassing (for her)

 

[AntiPuck]

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How embarrassing (for her)

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I wish it had have been! She had the cheek to be surprised that I caught her straight back in ?

 

[AShetlandBitMeOnce]

Mine eat a whole packet of my menthol cigarettes which was less than ideal.

 

[Archangel]

I was leading a horse and carrying a kettle in the other hand, he went to sniff the kettle, spooked, reared and fell over backwards.

My mare jumped out of the field, slipped on landing and bit her tongue in half.

 

[thefarsideofthefield]

Highland pony who was the most awkward/stubborn animal that ever lived . He once , as a 2yo , climbed into a wheelbarrow that was in his path . It was in the field and he could easily have gone around it , but no . He got all four feet in it and stood there for a moment before the wheelbarrow tipped slowly forwards toward the ground whereupon he stepped calmly out and continued on his way .

 

[PinkvSantaboots]

Arabi fell on me whilst cantering in the school and smashed my ankle to bits it's full of metal now.

Louis got loose and decided to run through my muck heap resulted in a very lame horse with a damaged suspensory and fetlock took 9 months to come sound.

 

[Annagain]

I'm quite grateful that mine are pretty sensible. The worst mine have done is getting his front legs over the electric fence and standing there all day (Archie) and getting all the way over the electric fence, walking along it to a point where it gets really narrow and then freezing thinking he's trapped, refusing to go forwards or backwards (Monty). My friend's horse though has climbed over the breast bar and out of the jockey door of a 505 - twice. He's 16.2 as well, not a little pony. The second time he then ran into the show jumping ring of a county show and was cavorting about in his travel boots with my friend trying to catch him in front of about 1000 spectators.

 

[Fransurrey]

My Exmoor once went to jump the rope fence into the shut off grazing, only she badly misjudged it and did a complete 360 flip, landing on her hind legs in a seated position. After an initial wtf moment, I was quite proud of my fencing skills. Not sure it helped her dodgy pelvis, though! Same pony managed to escape her field a few years ago into the woods (my field is very steep, so other liveries aren't always aware if something is up!). A fellow livery found her in the field with a square missing from her fly rug. Perfect square! Turned out she'd been stuck under a tree in the woods all day (massive poo pile and the square of fabric was still on the branch). At some point she must have freed herself and limbo'd her way back in. If I hadn't found the square piece of fabric and pile of poo I'd have been none the wiser!!

 

[FitzyFitz]

Mine once refused to go through a puddle, climbed sideways up a bank to avoid it despite my attempt to stop him, slipped with all 4 feet and ended up on his side with me stood above him, one foot either side.
Still a prat about puddles.

Old mare once got stuck behind the field shelter, jammed in a tiny gap between the back wall and the fence/hedge. Took five of us scouring the field for ages to find her.

Oldest mare once got a bramble stuck between her tail and her forelock. Kept swishing and moving and took forever to untangle.

One of the other geldings has, multiple times, galloped around and lost his footing on a turn and ended up skidding along the ground on his side.

Same gelding, on his first solo endurance ride: completely cool as a cucumber, apparently oblivious to being at a competition, calm as anything trotted over the start line, went through the hedge and turned the corner only to see his first marker flag and jumped STRAIGHT UP in the air, ballsed up the landing and ended up lying down between my feet before popping up again like a jack in the box, spraining every inch of my back, and doing the entire ride like he was on speed.
The photographer saw the splat and jump but was so startled and braced to catch me/call paramedics that I haven't got any photos of it.
I can only assume he hadn't twigged what we were doing (ie fun running stuff) until he saw the markers as he didn't have his friends excitement to feed off. He's never been the quickest on the uptake bless him.

 

[Antw23uk]

Mine once spooked at ....... a fish!

We regularly ride past a lake and said fish (a large carp or similar - not great with fish species!) jumped out of the water to catch a fly. Cue my dozy pony having a minor meltdown at the sight of a flying whale and the inevitable splash as it landed back in the water ......

We have to hack over a narrow foot bridge and once when the water was low the fish scuttled off across the river bed as we were crossing and my boy has never forgiven them, and is always jumpy going over the bridge, lol!

Last week he put in a fake spook then scared himself with the noise of my rustling waterproof jacket and he kept scaring himself when i wouldnt fall off or let him bolt home so we ended up going round and round in twenty type metre circles until he calmed down, he was a snorting wreak the rest of the ride but i was laughing and very proud i'd stayed on