What annoying little habits does your horse have??

Hmmm... How long have you got? ;)

Old pony windsucks and has a habit of nipping when you're doing his rug up.

My heavy cob (currently on loan) can be a bolshy little toad and has a habit of doing off across the field with headcollar and leadrope attached, should he not want to come in. ;) When you're brushing him he turns and looks at his back end, signalling for you to scratch in between his back legs and then proceeds to lift them up like a dog! Ok, so the latter isn't annoying, it's quite sweet really.

My lighter cob sticks his tongue out and licks his lips for about 10 minutes after he's had a treat- usually giving you a shower with all the spray! :p

My Connie cross tries to eat the leadrope and headcollar when you're putting it on- he'll also chew it when he's tied up. He sometimes grabs the front of his rug and tries to eat it, also.
His worst habit has got to be mounting mares, though. Argh!!

My big lad has chewed tails since he was a yearling and has never grown out of it (he is now 6!)... makes me really popular at every yard I've been at! I've managed it by keeping him separate with one or two others and also lots and lots of crib spray. It's a right pain though and I wish he'd stop. He's been checked by vet, dentist, been given supplements, mineral licks, boredom breakers and I think sadly, it may be the way it's always going to be.
 
Not so much an annoying habit but my boy is so clumpsy. He is always hitting or knocking his head or face on something!

Annoying is he tries to poo on your head when you are picking out his back feet ... He missed the farrier by a mm the other day. If he lifts his tail when im doing it i pull his tail back down to close him, lol
Rugs left on the door are nibbled but I dont often leave the on the door now.

Slllllooooowwwwww to finish his last mouthful of hay when putting the bridle on and then we must have a soppy cuddle and face stroke for 30 seconds to put off tacking up for that little bit longer!

If I've ridden and get off and then go to get back on again he fidgets because he knows I cant get on from the ground :o

Tries to stand on the hose when washing his legs is his new one! :rolleyes:

But I love him with all my heart :D

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My little sweetheart, attention grabbing, diva of a welsh D also likes to scrape her teeth on the metal bars!

She also squeals indignantly when I arrive and carries on until she is given some hay or attention and paws at her door if she thinks I'm too slow doing something.

She also liked to paw when the girth is being done up and walk in a circle when you lift the saddle onto her back. If she is tied up she walks forward!

She is generally impatient and out hacking will stand still for a car to pass but insists on matching on as soon as son as it is passed... Even if there is a second car behind.

I feed her hay from the floor as i detest hay nets and she insists of pawing at that and dragging it back into her shavings (a hay best has no effect, she just drags it out of there and then tramples all over it.

In winter she turns unbelievably soft and when turned out, unless its a lovely day, after about twenty minutes she paces at the fence closest to the yard neighing at anyone who is there to tell them how desperately she wants to come in.

It's a good job I love her and she is pretty :-/

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Windsucks on every available surface. And some that are not available - like my head or shoulder.

Throws his feed bucket out of the stable when he finishes his meal.

Windsucks on his waterer whilst eating, meaning that the waterer fills with food and has to be cleaned twice a day.

Rips every rug he owns. And some he doesn't.

Mouths everything and anything, including phones, whips etc
 
Mine licks metal, I don't have anything metal in the stable, but as soon as out of the stable anything metal, tie rings, door latches she licks
 
Poo's up the back wall of her stable. every night. without fail.

on a really good night she will then stand against this wall, legs braced and rubs her tail, bum and tail end of rug she can mange to include, side to side and in as much of this wall- poop as she can manage to, all ready for me to be greeted the next morning by a sniggering horse with a stable wall and half a horse completely smothered in dried on crusted, ****.

i do love mornings.
 
RDA pony who refuses to stand when you first lead him up to the mounting block. You have to lead him right round it but once he gets back to where he should be, after doing a lap of said mounting block, he's fine. He pulls a lot of threatening faces too.
 
My lad, the love of my life is a total pita, he rounds up the others, pinches hay/feed, can undo leadropes,haynets, belts, he bounces on the barn gates until they open, sets his neck and takes off when being lunged, shows a grumpy face when being told to wait for his feed, haynet, chases the others off their hay,
twangs elastic toggles, tries to undo the farriers belt, tries to take off if being walked out in hand, bites bulls necks, bites anyone (horse, sheep, cattle) that annoys him, refuses to walk through puddles, then plays in the sea, has no respect for electric fencing, pees on a large pile of hay, can anyone tell me why I love this horse? Would I part with him, never in a million years
 
OP you could pretty much be writing about my boy with your post! We're on box rest too and have a few extra special habits in order to occupy the little grey cells...

playing with the light switch whilst tied up outside the stable - could be cured by tying up elsewhere but not allowed to move him. (It's a double switch so our neighbour also gets the benefit of the disco effect!)

feeling the need to use me as a substitute horse in mutual grooming sessions - bad enough but currently seems to dribble a lot and try to add that to my hair too, not good when going straight to work from the yard

having an extreme liking for holding wooden objects in his mouth, handles of brooms, wooden backed brushes etc.

interrogating the pockets of everybody who comes to say hello to him then upon being given a mint proceeding to lick the giver of the mint so that they taste minty and should therefore be considered for eating too!


ahh the joys of box rest, I'm really hoping that the vet gives us a good prognosis next week and that we're not stuck in for months :(
 
grooming kit, rugs etc. all get left alone in the manger, but (baring in mind pony can barely reach into it) leave the passport, small worm count sample container, mucking out gloves in it, and they get picked out, squashed and chucked around the stable. HOW?! WHY?!
 
When he gets bored he leans really heavy on my hands (both in the school and on a hack). When I nudge him with my legs or tap him on his neck to stop it, he just zooms off! Arrrgh!
 
This when he wants to come in

then he rolls by the gate until he's brought in. Summer time he trots in circles around you if he doesn't want to come in. He also pulls a really stupid face when he wants dinner or thinks he needs feeding. Something like this, but usually more "sideways"

Only silly things he does really as he's a soppy so an so that really just loves a snooze and a cuddle
 
Mine likes to play with her bucket in-between mouthfuls of food, and usually tips the feed out. I have on occasions served up her dinner on the (clean and swept) floor to avoid it being mixed in with sawdust.
Similarly, she likes to empty her water bucket if she's given a standard sized one instead of the extra big and heavy version.
 
18 months of ownership and he still thinks if he pulls faces at me I'll get scared and run away! Instead he gets a big sloppy embarrassing in front of his mates kiss on the nose.
 
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