these things are sent to test us on our hacks...

I had a look at this thread this morning, after going on a lovely hack Sunday I thought 'ahhh how I now enjoy quiet, non eventful hacks' I think my horse also saw this thread....
This morning went our on our normal route, but of road and then straight onto the bridle paths around a the castle next door. Her biggest fear? Road signs! and this morning we had 6 within 10 minutes. All passed very quietly for my usually spooky mare. After this we had horse eating leaves, a small bridge which echoed as we went across as we did a very nice hop across, a horse eating collie dog (the dog dod not move, sat nicely for yhe owner, apart from the fact we have 3 on the yard) and the last one which was horrible- someone had hit a pheasant on the main road but it was still half alive, I tried to walk past as fat away from it as possible and it shuffled across the road and attacked my horses back legs! She bucked, booted it and it shuffled off. I felt terrible leaving it just sitting there but it was a main road and being alone I had no way of getting off and letting go of horsey and trying to move the bird :( still feel terrible!
 
I just thought I would update my last couple of 'tests'.

First, last week the hunt went past in the distance.. was trying to tack up at time and gave up as his brain fell out of his butt..

then today a 'shouting man' in the distance turned my quiet hack into a pogo dancing contest, joy! :D

Some peace and quiet is required now, please!
 
just ot say, went out on a short hour hack this morning - not one car passed us and it was a good mile or two on the road !!!! it was lovely !! some flapping full size union jack flags, bollards and road barriers, lawnmowers, insane squirrels (very cute) but.... no cars.... and no flies !!!! heaven ! oooh and one fresh horsey - lovely and bouncy with a real zest for life but very polite - hunting really is the making of him !
 
The scariest thing I've ever met on a hack was guinea pigs, somebody had put them in a run on their front lawn - my horse didn't understand why I just didn't get how dangerous they were!
Another time I was trotting along the road, went round a corner only to be greeted by a male peacock in full display in the middle of the road - again the poor horse knew he was about to get his throat ripped out by the dangerous beast & thought I was a total dumbass for not understanding the obvious danger.
Alpacas are also horse killing savages to be avoided at all costs.
The reason for my last fall out hacking was a patch of grass which was darker than the rest, my own fault for not seeing the invisable trolls that were hiding underneath!
 
My mum was 'chased' up the road by a crisp packet whilst riding her horse once!

We also used to have an ostrich field on one of our hacks, you would be hacking along minding your own business when a huge beak and pair of eyes would pop up over the hedge - que pirouettes and shooting off in the opposite direction!
 
I had a lovely hack the other week. We went to my local windfarm, which is (I think) the largest onshore windfarm in Europe! Haha, it was windy (duh, that's why they built it there I suppose), and very busy with kids/ bikes (first sunny day for about 8 months - ok that's slight exaggeration). But my horsey was an absolute star, even though she's still young. She thought the enormous turbines were quite interesting, but not too scary, thank you very much for asking, but where are the Telly Tubbies? My friend's horse wasn't quite so laid back!
 
It is a horse's reaction to all these mysterious spooks that I really don't like. Do all horses behave in this way? I am not at all keen when they jump and react to these massive spooky things. The horse I'm riding is a good deal more steady, in fact he's quite amazing, in comparison to the one I lost recently, but even so he has proved that he is not entirely infallible - a man working in a garden was enough recently and those crows and blue snakes in the earlier posting caused similar problems.

It seems many of you have horses that react to spooky things does it scare you when they do? I am aware that they understand what state of mind their riders are in and I don't do myself any good when I get concerned, but I do get concerned and I'd love to know if I am alone in thinking that way.
 
tonight it was a tractor parked on our bridleway.... he was so shocked, he refused to go past it till hubs led the way, then on the way back, he parked himself right beside it and did a MASSIVE poo (Shy, not hubs). Sooo funny - his way of showing his outrage :D
 
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