Things that make sense to us but not your horse!

[classic_astra]

Thought i might add a little humour to the equasion!

So things my horse does, that make no sense to me!

She freaks out at a lorry on the road, but is quite happy to get in one.

Spooks at the same water trough she goes past hacking 3 times a week for the last 6 years.

Has a hissy fit at a piece of rubbish in a bush but is quite happy to let me carry home....while riding her

Used to not lile her rug being put on, unless she smelt it first.

Lets me practic bang nails on her shoes, untill the farrier does it, then changes her mind

Has a meltdown at a sheep in the field but is quite happy to walk past a massive bull right next to the fence.

Wont leave me in the field untill shes hand fed something, even if i show her i dont have anything to give her.

Meets any horse out hacking like its the first horse shes ever seen, but looks in a mirror as if she is admiring herself!

Feel free to add your own!

 

[Cowpony]

Sorry to be pedantic, but isn't that a list of things that make sense to your horse but not to us?

 

[classic_astra]

I think it can work either way?!

 

[Celtic Fringe]

Wheelie bins look fairly harmless to me but my cob regards unaccompanied ones as dangerous objects. They are fine when a human is with them either putting something inside or wheeling them along. Weird!

 

[Annagain]

Wheelie bins look fairly harmless to me but my cob regards unaccompanied ones as dangerous objects. They are fine when a human is with them either putting something inside or wheeling them along. Weird!

To Archie, wheelie bins and recycling boxes were absolutely fine unless it was tea time and he was stroppy at being ridden when he came in from the field rather than being tucked in with a (miniscule) feed - which was completely daft as spooking at them just meant it took him longer to get back to his tea.

 

[dorsetladette]

Wheelie bins are fine when all the bins are out, but if one is out on its own clearly it is going to eat him.
Plastic bags are scary unless they come out of a car then they must have food in them and have to be investigated.

 

[Cob Life]

Wheelbarrows are fine, only if accompanied by a human (to be fair one blew across the yard at him)

All cats are terrifying (including the ones he lives with) but dogs are fine

People are fine, unless they’re walking on the road (everyone must think I’m really friendly as I shave to call out hello so they talk and he knows they’re just HUNANS )

I have to pick a whip up off the fence or get on with one, I can’t have it handed to me. (he’s also terrified of lunge whips)

cones stood up are fine, fallen over (or even knocked over by him) are terrifying and must be avoided at all costs

 

[Roxylola]

Donkeys ?‍

 

[Gloi]

People are fine, unless they’re walking on the road (everyone must think I’m really friendly as I shave to call out hello so they talk and he knows they’re just HUNANS )

People are fine for mine unless they are in a field beside the road, when they are scary monsters ?

 

[Cob Life]

People are fine for mine unless they are in a field beside the road, when they are scary monsters ?

This is the one of his I really don’t get. All the traffic in the world he’s fine with (even my dads loud track car), people? Nah

it’s fine if they’re beside the arena though

 

[poiuytrewq]

Recently new pony took an intense disliking to a garden umbrella put in someone’s garden, it was never up but a blue “new” item nonetheless.
So this week next door erected a wedding type marquee... a what? Where? Nope, can’t see it ?‍?
There’s also a problematic footpath going through a hole in the hedge. It sucks people in, like a vortex. It’s a real worry ?

 

[Jules111]

One of mine happily led the ride past a Combine Harvester working in the field next to the track we were riding on. We get to the end of the track and he had a complete meltdown when a leaf blew on top of a wall. Had to follow behind the child's pony he was supposed to be nannying.

 

[McFluff]

Wheelie bin fear seems common. Maybe the Doctor Who episode was true...and it’s us humans who are wrong...

 

[doodle]

Massive grain lorry clattering past. He was busy spooking at a bucket of flowers.

 

[Pippity]

Mine's another who has to glare very firmly at any wheelie bins we pass, in case they start Getting Ideas.

My old share horse was, um, 'special'. He once had an absolute melt-down about a LEAF! A LEAF! There on the ground with all the other leaves! But THAT leaf? THAT leaf was YELLOW! The other leaves were brown! WHY WAS THAT LEAF YELLOW, OH, DEAR GOD, WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!

This was a horse who didn't care about the YO driving a JCB into the school with him, waving a roundbale of hay in the air. He barely batted an eyelid when the air ambulance landed maybe 30 metres away from him. But there was a car down the road with piano-key decals down the side, and every time he saw it, he practically broke down in terror.

He was absolutely fine having his own shoes put on, but couldn't cope with another horse being shod.

And then there was the time he saw a mouse, and took about a month to recover from the trauma. Five years later, he was still going sideways past the corner where he saw it.

 

[poiuytrewq]

Wheelie bin fear seems common. Maybe the Doctor Who episode was true...and it’s us humans who are wrong...

Mine has me convinced. We just don’t bother with the village every other Friday, you can’t be too sure

 

[Cinnamontoast]

Mine decided he was terrified of the yard dog today. He has ‘known’ her for 8 years, she’s always near his box. Tonight he decided he would spook and spin whilst I was in his box with him because she was barking, I was not impressed.

 

[smiggy]

New bench on hacking route to replace exactly the same old bench but very slightly lighter wood, bloody terrifying
next week same bench, completely covered in blue tarpaulin flapping in the wind, not a problem ?

 

[J&S]

The big old horse I hack out for the owners is absolutely bomb proof........... but, there is a roll of sheep fencing with a spare pole beside it in the gate way of a field we can go in and he gives it the wary eye every time!

 

[classic_astra]

These are so funny ?

 

[Toby_Zaphod]

We put out a course of jumps, they can be jumped in any order & from any direction, great. You jump all the fences without any issue. You then decide to jump a fence from the opposite direction but he spooks at it as if he's never seen it.........why?

 

[Welsh Dragon]

When pot holes have been filled in, or the road has resurfaced/patched, he slams the breaks on, snorts and has a good look,and thinks about jumping over the patches. At 25 you would think he would know better ?

 

[Cherryblossom]

We used to have a retired Household Cavalry horse. Utterly bombproof. Totally unflappable.

Unless of course he saw a sheep! Such a townie.

 

[Pippity]

We used to have a retired Household Cavalry horse. Utterly bombproof. Totally unflappable.

Unless of course he saw a sheep! Such a townie.

My cob was clearly a townie before she moved to England from Ireland! She doesn't care about the heaviest traffic, but the first time she saw a sheep, she turned tail and ran.

Somebody turned a flock of them out on the fields next to our main hacking route, which was interesting for a few weeks, but now she happily plods past without twitching an ear.

 

[JulesRules]

Dressage boards - perfectly fine to walk, trot or canter next to them and walk between them, but if someone decides to move them they may eat him. Also, he is totally unable to step over them although on the bright side this makes us far less likely to leave the arena in an unplanned fashion ?

 

[poiuytrewq]

New bench on hacking route to replace exactly the same old bench but very slightly lighter wood, bloody terrifying
next week same bench, completely covered in blue tarpaulin flapping in the wind, not a problem ?

That’s just silly.... unless someone sits on it ?