The world's most annoying horse?

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Horses can be really annoying at times, but can anyone top Freddy's antics last night?

After a day of breaking ice, gritting, carrying buckets of water, etc. I went to do a final check at 9.00 in the evening...and found a river of water across the whole yard , down the lane and into the field because F had pulled out the rubber plug from his automatic water drinker!

His stable was flooded, the water had washed away the grit from the yard and was already turning into thick ice! It took me 45 minutes to sweep the water away, re-grit, etc. during which time he kept pulling the plug out again!

If there is ever a thread for the HHO horse you LEAST want to take home, please vote for F, he deserves to win!
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haha the little git!
this is the main reason why i won't have automatic water drinkers... big Stubbs buckets are so low-tech but so reliable!

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F picks up any size bucket (he's very strong, we are so proud of him!!! If he can't pick it up he will put his foot in it and pull back until the bucket gives up) upends it and throws it out of the stable. He also picks up branches and clobbers Merlin over the head with them, removes his rugs, boots and safety ties...but he won't touch anything labeled 'horse toy' that I have actually spent money on!

I am very impressed with the water drinker trick because it was full of water at the time, so he must have held his breath and really stuffed his muzzle underwater. I wonder if this counts towards his PADI certification!
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Well you have made me feel better. I adore Stinky, he is my dream horse but he is such a little git - anything within reach will be investigated via teeth, hooves and generally taken to small pieces.

Large plastic water tubs are turned upside down and used as drums and things to stand on in the field. Luckily he is being good with the stable tub.

I am hoping as he gets older (he is now 5) he will improve but seeing how he managed to pull the wrist strap off OH's new gloves whilst being held within 15 seconds at the weekend, it aint' going to be for a long time if ever.

Even worse - Farra was an angel when she arrived and Stinky is teaching her about to be a very large pest too.

Maybe we should start a H&H pesty beast club?
 
My youngster decided one night to pull the pipe feeding the drinker out of the wall, he was a bit sheepish looking in the morning a having a nice water feature in his stable. Wasn't too pleased about all the soggy bedding.
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F is now 7 and still going strong!

He will undress the farrier, we have given up on the pipe to his drinker and just let him bang it against the wall, he walks everywhere with his lead-rope in his mouth, he will eat his reins if he can, he managed to unhook the breastplate in the horsebox, of course he can open his stable door...would anyone like a horse for Christmas?
 
He makes my sisters horse, Toby look like an angel, and we thought he was bad.

Toby also demolishes water buckets in his stable/field, however his automatic drinker has a threaded plug, so fortunately he hasn't the fine motor skills or thumbs to undo it. He does enjoy blowing bubbles in his water.

Toby is also a bit of a joker, we believe he would be in prison or a secure unit if he were human, as he is always getting into trouble and he's now 9 years old!

He too undresses the farrier. Although, the funniest thing he did was pick up my grandpa. grandpa was on other side of post and rail fence bending down weeding around the pond, when toby thought it would be funny to pick him up by his trousers/waist. grandpa ended up being lifted several inches off the floor and swung around by Toby who appeared to find it great fun. Fortunately grandpa didn't end up in the pond.

He has also climbed the muck heap, following untieing himself while I was in the tack room, which was scary as he's not the most agile of horses and appeared gigantic when 6' up a muck heap. He recently got into the small straw barn nearly getting stuck- the space was too small for him to turn in, and he was too dumb to reverse out.

But Toby now appears angelic when compared to Freddy! Let's pray they never meet!
 
My old boy was the same, the farrier took to tying a jumper around his waist when he shod him to stop him undoing the belt on his chaps. He'd still try to get under the jumper but as long as it was tied in the right place he couldn't get to the belt. If carried a schooling whip, he'd turn round and bite it in half as I was getting on, I lost about 3 before I learnt to put it somewhere where I could pick it up once I was on! He was the same right up until he died aged 27 so I'm afraid they won't get any better.
 
Little git!
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When I was training and lived in a flat above the stables we had one that spent all night switching his light on and off, turning my bedroom into a 1970's disco, even though it was one of those switches that you have to twist and are supposedly horse proof.
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My baby horse is only 4, he is quiet mouthy. When he is finished with his feed bowl he will pick it up and throw it out of the stable. Another favourite hobby is ripping his friends tail flaps of the rugs. None of my ponies rugs have tail flaps, apart from baby horse!

Last year a styrofoam sheet got blown into my field and I thought I clamber up the hill and remove it later. Bad idea, baby horse had turned it in the meantime into styrofoam snow.
 
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