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Was out a hack tonight with horsey, two wee girls had asked if they could pat out horses and as mine is a bit of a grumpy mare we suggested that they pat my friends not so sour faced gelding. I waited for them a few yards up the road about ten feet from a T junction. All was fine both horses were relaxed and happy when we heard a great big tractor coming out way. Now as my horse is great in traffic I wasnt worried but I did hope that they were going to slow down. They didnt, they flew past the junction very fast, they must have doing a good forty five milee an hour in a built up residential area with a thirty mph speed limit. Now they seen me and the ned at the junction and rather than slowing down they sped up!!! Now my horse seemed calm but just as the tractor passed us she did a VERY sharp 180 spin. I managed to sit it much to my friends amazment. Now the more I think about my mares reaction the more it puzzles me, it was very calculated. She was not scared, she was perfectly relaxed before the spin and straight after the spin, now in my experience when a horse has such a sharp reaction to something they are normaly on theirs toes afterwards for a while, she happily turned to head back for home with no hesitation. She carried no fear or tension even straight after and she happily walked home passing all traffic with no issues. Now as a welsh D ahe is a very clever wee horsey and is the type of wee mare that when you get her on your side she will do anything for you. Is it possible that she thought that she was protecting us?? After the spin she could quite easily have got rid of me but she didnt she waited for me. So what do you think was she at it or did she think she was getting us out of trouble?? As soon as she realised that the tractor was going straight on she stopped.
 
Toffee used to do this with tractors and never bolted after etc. Even now in her maturing age and arthritus she will still walk along happily and then jump up off all four toes and then carry on as if nothing had happened. Bloomin Welshies I LOVE EM!!

I think what goes through their heads is something along the line of..

"I like this hack its nice and my mums being nice..OH MY GOD whats that dragon *snort, spin, jump*...oh good its gone I like this hack, I like being welsh, whats for tea mum? :D......"
"
Sorry I will put the wine back in the fridge now....
 
You see the thing is she will usually happily walk past tractors, trailers, combine harvestors, trucks, buses, etc without even flinching. God forbid there is a cow behind a bush or a plant happens to have flowered over night in which case we will normally get snort, stop, run back/leap to the side. And usually if she gets a fright she will be tense/on her toes for a while, we call her the fast forward pony when she is like this.
 
I think its to do with the size of the tyres on tractors, they do look very big when they get close up. Maybe they looked like big teeth to her coming at speed!
 
Maybe she was just at it, but she really wasnt scared. I know her well enough to tell when she is anxious or scared. Plus we have passed plenty of huge tractors without even a flinch. Oh well I guess horses will be horses.
 
Maybe you're right - a kind of "oh my days is that coming towards us? Don't worry Mum I'll protect us! - oh it's going that way. Never mind, homeward bound!"
I think they'll never cease to surprise us these animals :P
My girl's the same - dogs, steelworks vans, trailers...not too much of a problem..
But a new fence??? A sports car??? (she doesn't do cars that are low to the ground!) And the worst - someone weeding their front lawn???? :eek:
 
toffee44 said:
I think what goes through their heads is something along the line of..

"I like this hack its nice and my mums being nice..OH MY GOD whats that dragon *snort, spin, jump*...oh good its gone I like this hack, I like being welsh, whats for tea mum? :D......"
"
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Wot she said......yes, I've got one too ;)
 
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