Thankyou Merryn, I'll deal with the KILLER shetland then shall I.

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Well the sun was shining :D and I desided to take Merryn for a nice ride before it starts raining again tom :(.
It was going nicely and we were plodding along when suddenly over the brow of the hill a shetland pony came trotting twords us :eek: Merryn hates shetties but luckly we don't get any round our part of the forest. (He's fine with the forest ponies and cows) Merryn froze and started shaking. This is his warning that he is about to freak out. So I quickly got off. (This usualy keeps him calm and I just lead him passed whatever is sooooooooooooooooooo scary then get back on as if nothing happened :rolleyes: ) The shettie was still trotting twords us. Merryn didn't stay calm. He freaked out pulled back so hard I went flying and had no choice but to let go and he trotted off and hid behind the nearest gourse bush. I could see him pearing round to see if it was safe :rolleyes: He is honestly the biggest woss ever. :rolleyes:
The shettie trotted over to him and stood between me and Merryn. Merryn called to me for help but I didn't know how friendly the shettie was and he seemed very stressed.
After afew moments Merryn desided to give the shettie a sniff and then they started grooming each other. I managed to sneak round the otherside of the gourse bush and got hold of Merryn.
Now he desided he loved the shettie and didn't want to leave. :rolleyes:
I eventualy managed to perswade him to come away and we carried on with our ride.
When we got back to the cattle grid the shettie was there. He seemed very stressed and I struggled to get out the gate without him following me. Once I was out he tried to go under the gate, He even eyed up the cattlegrid to see if he could get out that way :confused:
So I phoned the agesters to get them to check he should be on the forest. I was worried as he was on his own and seemed very stressed he may have escaped from somewhere or worse he may have been dumped :( I hope they managed to sort the little guy out he seemed very sweet.
Thankyou for reading my fairly pointless post but I've had a rubbish day and it makes me laugh when I think about how wossy Merryn can be sometimes, I just had to share :p :D x
 
Oh how funny! love the shetties on the forest...why are the horses so scared of them?? My friends 20yo ID towers above them and shakes!! she leaps in the air!

Which part of the forest are you?
 
blesssss... perhaps it was vampire shetland and Merryn was right to treat it with caution :D fingers crossed it gets sorted out / returned from whence it came if not meant to be out there!
 
That did make me giggle!

Mine once jumped from one side of the road to another (consider this is a shire x) at a............... dock leaf!!!!
 
I don't know what it is either they look so cute :confused: Another horse I ride is terrified of them to, he is also fine with the forest ponies :rolleyes:
I'm near ringwood we don't normaly get shetties over our way Just foresters and Cows which Merryn is fine with. We havn't met donkeys yet, But then he should be fine with everything seeing as he was born on the forest :rolleyes: Daft pony ;) :p :D
 
That's so funny. Years ago I worked on a small private yard & the owners youngest kid had a shetland, who spent a lot of time in on a diet. I used to often take her hacking off one of the others, in an area full of mostly high class comp & race horses. It was hilarious how many freaked at her, got into the habit of hiding her round the far side of the horse eventually. Have heard its cos horses think they're deers at a distance if they can't smell them.
 
Laura, such a funny story, can just imagine him peering out from the gorse bush! Odd how ponies affect horses- around here we have the travellers with their ponies and traps - now that is a nightmare!
 
Sprout I could hear him yelling it :p :D

littlelegs that's intresting. Merryn is terrified of deer so that could explain it.

indie999 and Samuelissimo Merryns only a pony. He's only 14.1hh ;) :rolleyes:
 
LOL . . . a livery on our yard has just bought a mini shetland yearling - fresh off the forest - for her 13-year-old daughter to show . . . ALL of the other 29 or so horses on the yard are completely freaked out by the little chap - it's like they can't quite work out what exactly he is . . . really funny.

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We're on the forest too and recently some donkeys were turned out in our area (we haven't had any before as far as I know). As they had only just been turned out the four of them were trotting and cantering up and down the road outside of our field. My pony and her companion just couldn't make them out and did some impressive dressage moves and certainly got some exercise charging up and down.

My pony whose main priority is food even left the haylage to go across to the other side of the field to check them out and then came charging back at speed snorting loudly.

It took several days for the my pony in particular not to be fixated by these strange animals, but then she was able to be relaxed about them even when one stood just outside the gate she was tied to and brayed long and loud!
 
PolarSkye LOL Merryn would prob have a heart attack if we had a shettie on our yard.

Suby2 we've not met donkeys yet we don't have any in our area. We hack passed some pigs in a field and he doesn't mind them. :rolleyes:
 
Mades I laugh!!!

My NF Mare who was forest bred, but kept no where near the Forst was also petrified by Shetlands!! Would also get the shakes, freeze to the spot and then look for the nearest exit, either with or without me!!!!
 
In my area we have a lot of hunters, polo ponies and eventer types. Cue me plodding (or not) on my exmoor. Quite a few of them freak out at him. It's pretty funny, actually!
 
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