'What a big fat horse'

I heard someone say look at that cow pony about my coloured pony. They actually seemed quite taken with her until she started to try to lick their camera
 
Reminds me of a time I was out excercising my lab....

We met another Lab owner who took one look at mine and asked ''what's wrong with your dog - she is too small''!

I tried to educate him in the difference between working lab lines and show lab lines, but think it may have fell on deaf ears.

Incidentally his 'show' lab was about 3 ft tall and very obese, where as my little lady, was and is, kept 'hunting fit'....

Nowt as queer as folK!
 
Out riding with a mate years ago, we were riding past a house that was in the process of being painted outside.

Mate says to me 'I don't like the colour of that house....'..

...then a bloke stuck his head over the hedge and said...

'I don't like the colour of your horse, but I'm not complaining!'...

An hour later, I was still clinging to my horses neck, hanging on for dear life due to crying with laughter... :D
 
I've had comments about my dog :\ "She's a bit fat for a collie, isn't she?!" "She's not a very...pretty collie."

That's because she's not a collie. She's a collieXlab!! She's got the colours of a collie, but all the problems on a lab.
 
I have an Exmoor and ride regularly out with two very big smart horses (well ones 15hh but big compared to him) anyway, there we were, jogging along behind, when a group of children laughed at the 'big fat Shetland pony' :o poor pony was very offended! Whenever someone stops, he usually waits for the praise :rolleyes:
 
Cocorules said:
I heard someone say look at that cow pony about my coloured pony. They actually seemed quite taken with her until she started to try to lick their camera
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i do admit to calling all piebalds 'cow ponies' but i do livery on a farm with lots of cows:o And i also admit to thinking a fellow livery had got herself another piebald pony one day..............until i got closer and realised it was a cow that had got into her paddock with her 2 coloureds:D:D
 
DragonSlayer said:
Out riding with a mate years ago, we were riding past a house that was in the process of being painted outside.

Mate says to me 'I don't like the colour of that house....'..

...then a bloke stuck his head over the hedge and said...

'I don't like the colour of your horse, but I'm not complaining!'...

An hour later, I was still clinging to my horses neck, hanging on for dear life due to crying with laughter... :D
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That is hilarious!:D
 
I took a (non-horsey) mate down the yard for her to screech that the 14.2hh Welshie I'd planned for her to sit on was enormous :D I've planned to take her to Burghley and show her some proper bigguns ;)
 
My mum was hacking out on her pure-bred registered Arab mare one day (admittedly she didn't look pure-bred but there we are)
A gentleman pulled over, got out of his car and asked if she would mind him commenting about the fact that as a non-native or pure bred horse, her horse should have a pulled mane (instead of full length but tidy!) He was most adamant she didn't know what she was talking about when she insisted she was infact pure Arab :D
 
Odd that a van driver made that comment and you say your horse is overweight, so were they just being 'funny' or do they actually have horse knowledge and could tell that? Since most everyday people could not tell if a horse was overweight or not to be honest! How peculiar lol.
 
Sis and I were hacking along a fairly busy road one day, in our usual array of hi-viz, including boots for the horses, when a car with some teenage lads in slowed down. We were bracing ourselves for some abuse (which we would have returned with gusto) when one of the lads called through the open window "Nice socks!".

My current Draft mare is definitely overweight (and on a diet) but I'm pleased to say that although several people have commented on her, it has always been to say how beautiful she is.
 
thats what my black smith says everytime he see's me horse.
but my horse has seedy toe since last year so he knows we are cutting it out and treating it. he is lame half the time and is just sound for a week or so before blacksmith is due again. so how can i slim him down, he is on strip grazed since last year and serious there is nothing in field. but he is overweight but not massive. so i cant excercise a 20yr old lame half the time horse. cant give him any less to eat as he gets fat on air, and i mean that. even blacksmith looks at field and says i must be feeding him extra, i swear he gets nothing extra.
 
Well. I can beat you all.
Last year I rode past some builders doing a field shelter roof.
They shouted, or so I thought "Nice horse love!"
I responded with what you'd expect to be an appropriate response, something along the lines of "Thanks, I've not had her long, she's only nice some of the time blah blah blah aren't we having a jovial old chat on a nice day!"
Both men look utterly confused, then one starts to laugh, then the other.

Then, I turned rather purple as the realisation/embarrassment washes over me, they were not commenting on my horse, but my ARSE. -.-

He ha haw hoot hoot, funny :P I told my Dad and he laughed for 3 days straight.
 
I would never worry about any comments made by passing people as I have heard them all, my sister has a black mare 15.3 when out with my fell we have had ooh is that her baby horse, We have had various looks comments about our 25 yr old tb who is rangy and a bit gangly always has been but pretty good about him not being beefy enough.


I buy a couple in and have a couple of granted pretty fat ones we are working on it and have had snooty comments actually from people on very ropey unfit if not as fat horses.

People love to make a comment fair enough if you know the horse and owner and it is actually going to help, we have alot of spot on fit horses and get less comments about them so I think it can be jealousy thing or just trying to be rude or smart.

I always just laugh and agree and say yes yes I know thankyou, it always confuses them.:)
 
Haha all your replies have Made me chuckle :)
Yes he may well of been giving me ' CC' but shouting it as he drove past then laughing and driving off is just rude!
Oh well not to worry, I'm
Sure I'll get worse one day :)
 
When I used to keep mine near the racecourse people would often ask us if we were on our way to the races when out hacking!

Best one was when I was a kid hacking round the local housing estate on my little grey (pure white very hairy) welshie and an old lady asked me why I was riding a sheep!
 
I had a man walking his dog proclaim how lucky I am to be riding Desert Orchid the other day! Now beside the fact that I'm on a 17hh branded warmblood whose a complete fattie (think full work, fed good doer and 1 section of hay yet still massive) I'm fairly sure he died quite a few years ago now and had been retired for many more..... he obviously doesn't know his racing!
 
Daughter was riding 14hand gypsey cob down local village past school a little girl said look a shire horse to her mam. Further down another girl said isn't the horse beautiful. His mane goes past his knees and is white and flows about when u ride him .i suppose they would like to brush it.:)
 
I keep mine at home and we have clay ground which produces quite orangey mud.

When I took my mare to the beach a few years ago an American lady and her daughter came over to speak to us and she started telling her daughter how much she loved cremellos and what a beautiful example of one she was, and how the colour of her mane and tail were so nice.

I explained to her she was just a filthy and her mane and tail were stained that odd orange colour because of the mud. She really didn't believe me and insisted I was wrong that she wasn't grey she was definitely cremello.

I then told her to come back in an hour or so after I'd given her a good dunking in the sea to see the results! She never did though.
 
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