Stupidest thing your horse has done/done to you

[ycbm]

The stupidest thing ever had to be the horse who walked up a narrow stairway to try to reach the hay in a hayloft, then decided half way up that it wasn't a good idea. I couldn't get past him to push him back down and there was no other way to get into the hayloft.
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[lynz88]

Mine does a "Scooby-Doo" if you are leading him through water or over a bridge. When he was 3 he wouldn't go over a small bridge so I got off of him to lead him over. Instead of walking over with me, he decided only his front feet are safe to walk over the bridge. Problem is, the bridge is longer than his body. As soon as he couldn't stretch any further and had to put his back feet on the bridge, he freaked and pulled a "Scooby-Doo" onto me as if I would save him. He does the same to me with any puddles or rivers or streams...I guess I am his saviour ?

I'm sure there is quite a lot of stupid stuff he has done but none that stack up against some of these that have been posted!

 

[Christmascinnamoncookie]

Refused to be caught in by the yard staff, I had to leave a meeting to go and get him, more than once. Regularly jumped out of the field to get to the good grass, I’d walk down and he’d gallop up to me, panicked, screaming through a mouthful of lovely grass. ?

 

[sasquatch]

My lovely mare has amputated part of her own lip. We were at a yard with a window in the wash bay, and she had her head out the window enjoying watching the going’s on outside. She started to fall asleep with her chin resting on the window, gave herself a tiny fright and bit through her inner lip.
As she had a stream of blood running from her face, she continued to go back to sleep and resume eating once returned to her stable as if nothing was wrong.
It stopped bleeding quickly enough, and my vet said he could stitch it when he was coming in a few days as if it had stopped bleeding she’d probably bite the lip off if it was annoying her anyway or eat her stitches. Once she’s been stitched up, she did both. She now has a dent in her lip.

Her stable is also known as Alcatraz as it has about 4 bolts and a rope to keep it shut. When we moved yards I’m fairly sure I warned them she could open doors. She did 2 weeks before she got into the feed room and ate all the breakfasts and made YO panic incase she coliced. She instead spent all day in a bare field trying to eat and looking very pleased with herself.

 

[spotty_pony]

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.

I had a horse that did this too, he also panicked and had to have it stitched.

 

[Sleipnir]

Remembered an old one. I was leading my older gelding on a crisp winters' morning and he was feeling very full of himself. He started acting up and swung his head....hitting me hard in my own noggin. I was knocked out cold. Luckily, a friend was near and soon found me lying flat, face down in the snow, with the horse looking sheepishly over my body.

 

[smolmaus]

Her stable is also known as Alcatraz as it has about 4 bolts and a rope to keep it shut. When we moved yards I’m fairly sure I warned them she could open doors. She did 2 weeks before she got into the feed room and ate all the breakfasts and made YO panic incase she coliced. She instead spent all day in a bare field trying to eat and looking very pleased with herself.

My friends boy was in a stable with a tack room attached and it ended up with a bolt on each side of the half-door, with the rear one clipped at all times in case he helped himself to the feed bins again, or just got himself wedged in the doorway like the second time tried it. The horse who was in that stable previously had been in there for YEARS with no issues and it took him probably 2 weeks as well.

 

[Dave's Mam]

Remembered an old one. I was leading my older gelding on a crisp winters' morning and he was feeling very full of himself. He started acting up and swung his head....hitting me hard in my own noggin. I was knocked out cold. Luckily, a friend was near and soon found me lying flat, face down in the snow, with the horse looking sheepishly over my body.

OUCH!

 

[HorseMaid]

Got a text from the yard to say "nothing to worry about, but just wanted to let you know...." It turned out my new horse had scrambled (not jumped, scrambled on her belly like a stuck pig) over the wall surrounding the field and taken herself back to the main yard by crossing The Dual Carriageway... I nearly fainted ?

 

[Baywonder]

I was leading my old boy across his field one summer evening. He decided to walk right behind me with his head against my back - something he did on a regular basis......except this particular time he stuck his nose under my backside and flicked his head in the air. I was launched into orbit, arms and legs flailing, and landed flat on my face on the grass. ??

My horse? He just stood there looking at me, very perplexed, wondering what I was doing, spread eagled on the ground ....?

 

[sasquatch]

My friends boy was in a stable with a tack room attached and it ended up with a bolt on each side of the half-door, with the rear one clipped at all times in case he helped himself to the feed bins again, or just got himself wedged in the doorway like the second time tried it. The horse who was in that stable previously had been in there for YEARS with no issues and it took him probably 2 weeks as well.

our feed room is an unused stable that has now had a mesh added to the top half, so I’m assuming she didn’t open the door but was able to reach in with her neck. She has a giraffe length neck as I’ve seen her nearly manage to get to the kick bolt, and sometimes she’ll just try and turn herself out when she’s being kept in and wants to go outside by opening the top bolt and throwing her head collar at you.

One time I left her in her stable at our old yard with the door shut and a rubber stable rope also shutting her in. Came back and she was in a turnout pen which had an open but dodgy gate. I assumed whoever was working had put her out for me. Nope, she took herself into the turnout pen and was happily minding her own business there even with the gate open.

also saw her somehow crawl under the stable rope. I have no idea how as she’s a big 16.2 and it sat about 3/4 of the height of her door at the bottom of her chest. She somehow got her head and neck under, was able to flip it up and fit her very high withers under it and then slide through it. It shouldn’t have been possible as I’m only 5”4 and could barely fit under it if I lifted it up. Yet she managed it a few times. She used to turn herself out and being herself in like clockwork at our old yard, and would stress if she was left out too late because thankfully she hasn’t learnt to open gates or jump out. It was handy just being able to leave my stable door open, and to open the gate and she’d just trot herself straight in before you put on the stable rope, shut the door, bolted it, clipped the rope on and put any other bolt or clip on the door.
Same yard had wooden boxes outside the stable most horses couldn’t get into. She frequently was able to reach over and open hers, and would take out all of the things inside until she found her treats. The amount of times I’d turn up and my grooming kit, first aid kit, travel boots etc were left in a circle around her box. She also was in a stable with the golden metal balls that sit on the top of the fancy bits next to the door, and I found one unscrewed and buried in her her bed one day. I have no idea how she even managed to reach it.

my retired horse used to untie gates, lean back and put his weight on baler twine so it would snap but spring forwards if people walked past and managed to unbuckle his head collar. When he got his shoes off before he was retired, he would be crippled walking in from the field, but drag people on the way out to the field and the second he was coming in he’d hobble over the same grass he’d previously been running away from you over.

 

[sasquatch]

Remembered an old one. I was leading my older gelding on a crisp winters' morning and he was feeling very full of himself. He started acting up and swung his head....hitting me hard in my own noggin. I was knocked out cold. Luckily, a friend was near and soon found me lying flat, face down in the snow, with the horse looking sheepishly over my body.

I’ve had similar happen! Mare bashed her head off mine and then scared herself and hit her head on her stable door. Then panic ensued as she had a nosebleed because she must have caught the inside of her nose.

I also once lost an earring from her whacking my head and have no idea where it went other than hopefully not in her nose. Her face gets itchy and she has absolutely no care for what she’s itching on. I’ve seen her try and itch it on wing mirrors before

 

[Cragrat]

The 'like' button is woefully inadequate and inappropriate for most of these stories!
Why are they not making horse onesies out of kevlar?

 

[fidleyspromise]

Walking along on the buckle chattingbto hacking buddy when horse suddenly does 90 degree turn, a stride of canter and hope up a stone wall. There's a large grass platform level with the top of it that we're now stood on. I dismount, jump down and tell horse to follow. Front legs jump down and she slides her hindquarters down.
Hope back on and keep a tight rein as she tries to do it again ? now annoyed so she starts going sideways and backwards and falls on her nose so we've now got 2 bleeding knees. I jump off to lead the 1.5 hours home but she's prancing so much I can't stand it so hop back on and find a stream to wash her legs.

Numerous people have told me concerned, "your pony was going nuts galloping around and she fell over."
Uh huh. I nod. "Oh, she got back up and did it all over again". Yeah, that sounds like my nutter.

In winter at night so was pitch dark. I was at the gate taking food and wheelbarrow in and she's crowding me. Suddenly she leaps off and away. What on earth?
Ohhh, maybe she touched the electric fence. Oops.
I try to go to her with a torch. Get near and ahe snorts and races away.
It wasn't me that bit you crazy lady! I give up, give her her food, try to find pooh by head torch and off I go.
Next night she still won't come near me.
This went on for a few nights until Saturday when I could go up in daylight. She came over and all was well.
This pony now breaks fencing, goes over it or through it. She kindly shows me all the weak parts of the fence - not enough rope, not enough voltage, posts are too low, this post magically broke by itself....

Taking clients out a hack when she was younger and look behind while cantering to check they're OK and turn forwards to find my pony heading for a bush so quick straighten up and we're good. Who wants to canter in a straight line on a narrow path?

Other pony mare:
Naps going home. Take her out to field. "No mum, I want to go for a walk". She just had 2 wolf teeth out and insisted on going for walk.
Take her down to the arena for a little in gand work and head back to field. Nope, not going anywhere. Turn as though going to the woods. "Yay, let's go."