Stupidest thing your horse has done/done to you

[SibeliusMB]

This was pretty stupid.



My saint of a horse went to bite another horse while I was bringing them both in. He missed. ?‍

 

[smolmaus]

???

I hope he was sorry!!!

 

[Barton Bounty]

This was pretty stupid.

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My saint of a horse went to bite another horse while I was bringing them both in. He missed. ?‍

Jeees ouch!!!! That looks nippy

 

[SibeliusMB]

???

I hope he was sorry!!!

He apologized for a whole month ??

 

[iknowmyvalue]

I once rode a pony who spooked at his poo he’d done on the previous lap of the arena, which made him jump, which made him fart, which shoot off bronking, which made him fart, which made him gallop faster and so on…

Was honestly like something out of a cartoon. I wish someone had been filming. I ended up on the floor and pony eventually ran out of gas ?

 

[Fleece Navidad]

I once rode a pony who spooked at his poo he’d done on the previous lap of the arena, which made him jump, which made him fart, which shoot off bronking, which made him fart, which made him gallop faster and so on…

Was honestly like something out of a cartoon. I wish someone had been filming. I ended up on the floor and pony eventually ran out of gas ?

Pun intended ? ?

 

[Fleece Navidad]

Grey pony has bitten the electric fence while asking for treats, on more than one occasion.

When we had a lot of snow in 2010, he went out for a roll, tried to roll uphill so ended up wriggling lots, causing him to slide down the hill. Got up and looked at me as if it was my fault his rolling hadn't worked out.

He has untied himself, and then been frightened by the loose snake that started following him.

For an intelligent pony he's done some daft things.

 

[Auslander]

I have one here who was leaning over a post and rail fence which surrounded a sand pen. She was trying to reach some hay on the ground in the next pen, which was considerably lower than the one she was in. Leant so hard on the fence that it gave way, and she did a forward roll into the lower level pen. I was fairly convinced she had to have broken her neck, but she got up, shook herself, and started eating the hay that she'd been after in the first place.

 

[Ddraig_wen]

I've had some special creatures over the years ? ..

Moo -having a good old bum scratch on the door when it fell out of the stone barn complete with door frame. She carried on backwards and ended up sat on it.

Boss - Came to the gate we don't use for his dinner. Got tickled in the tackle by some long grass and docks, jumped up 4 feet in the air and proceeded to kick the offending vegetation to death with his back legs.

Rebel - Refused to cross the 1cm deep puddle of water in front of the gate. I tried everything, cajoling, bribery, snake charming, you name it. He stood there refusing to go backwards or move. Thelwell cartoon style there's me on the end of the rope attempting to pull him forward. Shakes his head, headcollar flies off over his tiny ears and guess who end up say on her backside in the nettles.....? . He then walks over to check what I'm doing on the floor with a butter wouldn't melt look on his facw

 

[Gloi]

Fell pony in middle of winter. Crossed a ditch/stream at edge of field and climbed almost vertical ten foot bank at far side to lean over sheep netting at the top to eat grass in next field. Got shoes fast in sheep netting. Fell back down banking taking 25m of sheep netting with him. .Landed in stream in ditch wrapped in netting which is where I found him totally trapped when I took morning hay. I had to find some wirecutters to cut him out expecting him to be in a bad way. Not a scratch on him though he was cold , wet and filthy. He trotted off to eat the hay.

 

[scruffyponies]

One pony jumped so quickly sideways (DD on board) that he didn't get his legs underneath himself and fell clean over sideways.

Another insisted on taking his little cart around a puddle, which took the cart wheel up a staddle stone, tipping the whole thing over. I now train all ponies very carefully to go straight across stones / water / manhole covers when asked even when ridden, to avoid a repeat.

Third (a shetland) broke into my friend's kitchen. She found him head-first in the bread bin, scoffing baps.

 

[Nasicus]

Spooked at a fart and ran me over...

Still have a lump and numb patch on that calf all these years later, makes putting snug fitting longboots on a chore lol

 

[c2b]

Bob the knob I can tie up in the yard and do anything with/to. He's so laid back.
1st lockdown, so I didn't have to go on the yard I took grooming stuff etc to the field. Tied him to a tree in his field.
OMG you'd have thought I was Trying to kill him. Gave up attempting to do anything.

 

[SEL]

One of my old yards had the world's biggest muck heap. It filled a huge concrete hole in the ground the size and height of two lorries but there was so much on top you had no idea how deep it was unless you'd ever seen it empty.

Bringing in the Appy and the Ardennes and the Appy was being a spooky madam so unclipped the Ardennes. He would usually follow to his stable. I looked around and he was nowhere to be seen. Then the horse in the paddock next to the world's biggest muck heap started snorting and suddenly a horse shape appeared on top of it. Sinking. Appy by now was throwing shapes at her friend daring the leave her, there was no one around to help and I'm screeching like a woman possessed. Fortunately the silly boy realised it wasn't the most stable of structures and climbed down - with his legs disappearing into piles of mucky straw. Never did it again thankfully

Same horse was in a paddock by a footpath. Gate was a bit dodgy and didn't always shut behind you so you had to check the catch had caught. Obviously one day it didn't. I'd had the Appy up in the arena, countless dog walkers had come past with no one saying anything and it was probably 2 hours until I went back to the field to find it empty of a large cart horse. He was about 200 yards down the footpath weeding. Hardly invisible so what on earth all the dog walkers had thought as they squeezed past.....

 

[iknowmyvalue]

Pun intended ? ?

Very much so ?

 

[Equi]

Can no longer count the amount of times I’ve found my minis in places you would logically think is not a horse place to go. The whole herd like to go through a plastic flappy doorway cover (like those butchers doorways) which is enroute to their stables, walk round the edge of the machinery in that shed and walk up a little hall way. Then everyone is stuck cause the last in is too thick to turn. Thing is they’re also pretty clever cause at the end of the hall is a gate into the stables so they save like 10 strides of walk going through the flappy as long as someone finds them ?

mine of them also fell into a swimming pool once ?

 

[Rumtytum]

Can no longer count the amount of times I’ve found my minis in places you would logically think is not a horse place to go. The whole herd like to go through a plastic flappy doorway cover (like those butchers doorways) which is enroute to their stables, walk round the edge of the machinery in that shed and walk up a little hall way. Then everyone is stuck cause the last in is too thick to turn. Thing is they’re also pretty clever cause at the end of the hall is a gate into the stables so they save like 10 strides of walk going through the flappy as long as someone finds them ?

Would love to see a photo of that ?!

 

[Equi]

Would love to see a photo of that ?!

I’m sure I’ll have one soon, it’s quite a regular occurrence lol

 

[Barton Bounty]

Spooked at a fart and ran me over...
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Still have a lump and numb patch on that calf all these years later, makes putting snug fitting longboots on a chore lol

Ouch ? that looks sore

 

[catembi]

Not sure whether it's stupid or clever, but Trev the ex racer locked me in the tack/feed room once! He knows how to do bolts & was getting impatient & playing about with it while I was doing the feeds...and he did up the bolt so I couldn't get out! I could then hear him outside crashing about & getting impatient because he wanted his dinner. Errm, maybe you shouldn't have locked me in, then...?

I was also home alone as o/h was in London. Luckily my stables are open at the eaves so I made a v unsafe structure by putting my little steps that I use to hang up rugs on top of my feed bins and managed to climb out.

 

[exracehorse]

Had teeth checked first time with Spirit. He suddenly freaked out. Reared vertical. Went over backwards onto concrete yard with metal gag in his mouth. Had emergency vet out. He had dislocated his eye socket with a bone chip behind. Fractured his shoulder. Took lots of skin and hair off his whole body. Months of box rest. Only had him two weeks. Always sedate now for teeth checks.

 

[Barton Bounty]

Not sure whether it's stupid or clever, but Trev the ex racer locked me in the tack/feed room once! He knows how to do bolts & was getting impatient & playing about with it while I was doing the feeds...and he did up the bolt so I couldn't get out! I could then hear him outside crashing about & getting impatient because he wanted his dinner. Errm, maybe you shouldn't have locked me in, then...?

I was also home alone as o/h was in London. Luckily my stables are open at the eaves so I made a v unsafe structure by putting my little steps that I use to hang up rugs on top of my feed bins and managed to climb out.

Sorry!!! I did chuckle at this! ?

 

[Dave's Mam]

Those little sunbeams? Lasers. Nearly climbed on my shoulder to get to his stable.
Also spooked at a bale of hay in a field, did a 180 & left me for dust. What pony runs away from food?

 

[Surbie]

Probably not as dramatic as the others on here - both incidents happened 5 years ago when my horse was in a 9-month box rest abcess saga:

1. Took a chair from the coffee room to sit with horse in his little free-range mooch pen. He got curious, bit it. Chair was metal and biting it wasn't the best experience. All 4 feet left the ground. One landed on mine. I spent the night in A&E. On New Year's Eve.

2. Took horse for some in-hand grazing past the car park after some months box rest. Someone used a remote fob to unlock their car. Horse did humungous spook+bronc and kicked me in the back on the way past. Back to A&E...

 

[Bob notacob]

Leading starlight in from the field .Ever the opportunist ,spots a bucket in the farm yard . Ignores till within "lung range ".Takes a dive,only to find it is filled with used engine oil from the combine. Puts a brave face on it (but crying inside )and marches into his stable . Oil dripping from his face.

 

[Gloi]

Leading starlight in from the field .Ever the opportunist ,spots a bucket in the farm yard . Ignores till within "lung range ".Takes a dive,only to find it is filled with used engine oil from the combine. Puts a brave face on it (but crying inside )and marches into his stable . Oil dripping from his face.

That's the sort of thing my current pony would do ?

 

[Fleece Navidad]

Those little sunbeams? Lasers. Nearly climbed on my shoulder to get to his stable.
Also spooked at a bale of hay in a field, did a 180 & left me for dust. What pony runs away from food?

That's reminded me that Bob is afraid of yellow grass. Usually goes something like "canter, canter, canter, *eek, drop and run*"

 

[Boughtabay]

Box rest - sent my OH to hand graze my very placid mare while I mucked out. Not 2 mins later OH is marching back with a sheepish looking TB obediently following. “Your horse is an idiot” as he hands her back. Turns out she’d got a bit springy on the fresh grass & as she bounced around not paying a jot of attention to my OH she slipped over. They had a 30 second staring match as she laid on the ground contemplating her embarrassment & my OH told her in all seriousness “you look very silly lying down there don’t you”. She got up quietly and followed him back like a mortified child. No harm done but the OH does think she’s a lunatic now ?

 

[Caol Ila]

My horse saved the day. Somehow, him and two others ended up on the wrong side of this pond. OH and another livery were catching their horses. Other livery waded through, swore a lot, fetched hers, and did an unconvincing job of leading him back through the bog, up to her knees in water. Her gelding was also scrabbling about and looking as though he was regretting some life choices. The horse in the fly rug panicked. Pawing, pacing, rearing, snorting. He’s best mates with Other Livery’s horse, so wanted to go with him, but could not figure out how to follow them through the bog. So he lost his sh1t. He somehow got there, but couldn’t get himself out. OH was trying to figure out how to cross the water to fetch Fin without swimming and what in hell he should do about this panicking horse, who he doesn’t really know. Fin, coolly, then took it upon himself to chuck Fly Rug aside with his shoulder and march confidently through the pond, and Fly Rug followed. OH was a happy man because this solved all his problems.

 

[Barton Bounty]

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My horse saved the day. Somehow, him and two others ended up on the wrong side of this pond. OH and another livery were catching their horses. Other livery waded through, swore a lot, fetched hers, and did an unconvincing job of leading him back through the bog, up to her knees in water. Her gelding was also scrabbling about and looking as though he was regretting some life choices. The horse in the fly rug panicked. Pawing, pacing, rearing, snorting. He’s best mates with Other Livery’s horse, so wanted to go with him, but could not figure out how to follow them through the bog. So he lost his sh1t. He somehow got there, but couldn’t get himself out. OH was trying to figure out how to cross the water to fetch Fin without swimming and what in hell he should do about this panicking horse, who he doesn’t really know. Fin, coolly, then took it upon himself to chuck Fly Rug aside with his shoulder and march confidently through the pond, and Fly Rug followed. OH was a happy man because this solved all his problems.

Well done Fin! Has his head screwed on ?