What crafty habbit does your horse have?

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My horse Poppy is sooooo crafty. In order to get a mouthful of grass when we are out hacking, she pretends her nose itches and she needs to scratch it on her front leg. So muggins here loosens the reins (She puts her front leg forward ready to rub her nose) Then the little minx moves her nose slowly down her leg and then grabs some grass, without even scratching her nose :)
I fall for it EVERY time!!!!!!!
 
Haha! Sneaky :P

The old boy Blobby (r.i.p) could open not only his stable, but the feed locker too! We ended up having to padlock the locker and clip a lead rope over the bolt on his door!
 
Ha ha! ^ both very clever horses!

Mine is an escape artist, I've been talking a lot about it recently - he always waits till you aren't looking though before limbo-ing/jumping or climbing out :rolleyes:
 
being able to unlock door bolts, kick bolts and gates...only problem being is that hes a stallion so we have to have him in fort knox! other then that he knows how to turn taps on and off so if he decides hes not having a bath he will keep turning the tap off >:(. also sometimes when im lunging him I will drop my whip on the floor when changing stuff around and he will pick it up hit me with it and then drop it and give me his innocent face...
 
Harry has really cracked the cheeky sneaky grazing trick... when out on a hack with my daughter recently about 3 times he 'assumed the position' as if to wee, then as Polly let him stretch his head out he just grazed - no weeing at all. we wondered if there was a problem but no, he can wee fine - just found a brilliant way for a sneaky snack. :p
 
Sliding stable door open...then sliding it shut when in there mucking out! .....untying any sort of knot & most recently opening the school gate with me in board!
 
When the electric fencing fell over my Fjordie pushed my other mare over it first to make sure it was switched off. When the other mare didn't get zapped my Fjordie stepped over it into the long grass.

She also does the sneak a bite on a hack bit, she takes a stretch on the reins and snatches grass as she does it, she's got quite adept at doing it at speed too!
 
Harvey has a few but i think the best is that when anyone is silly enough to tie their horse outside his stable he takes the headcollar off the horse, and lets it loose hehe
 
My boy pretends he wants a wee...instead he just wants to stuff his face...I get cross & then he does a dribble to keep his head down for longer...when he first did it I sent him for a bladder scan & tests thinking something was wrong....nope he's just a clever toad.
 
Nothing. Not crafty anyway he is a saint, hence his name 'Saint Emil). :)
He does however have an oral fixation and everything goes in his mouth. He had a whole hoof pick in his mouth so far it disappeared eek. He pulled the ball cock off his water trough, pulls wooden fence posts out the ground to play with. Threw a branch into the arena at a horse and rider. The list is endless
 
I had a pony that if you left him tied up and took your eyes off him for a minute would use his back leg to scratch off his headcollar so he could escape and eat.
My current one has got the 'assume weeing position for a quick snack' trick off pat too.
 
I put my two out at the same time. The mare will race me to try and get back through the electric fence before I can put it on. I have had to start keeping hold of her until the fence is ready because she always wins!
 
I used to ride a pony who would first let himself out of his stable, then procede to release all the other horses on the yard (luckily a little private yard). Cheeky little thing would also decide that he knew everything and therefore schooling was absolutely pointless; following a jump he would plant without taking a single stride, stick his head down and remove his bridle on a foreleg. He was certainly, uhm, a character,
 
Mine has a new trick for that grafty mid hack snack....when waiting for a friend to close a gate and i said no to her putting her head down to eat she decided to lay down!! She did it twice on the same hack so now i just have to keep her moving!
 
If you leave anything in Figs stable, he will pick it up and hide it in his haylage trug! The amount of times I thought I'd somehow lost a grooming brush/glove/etc, only for it to turn up a few days later :p
 
Old pony also did the weeing trick, she didn't even graze, just stood there avoiding doing anything while everyone waited for her to wee.

She's now becoming a bit arthritic in her old age but will still happily jump the 3'6 fence or a stable door from a stand still to get out.

When my sister first learnt to ride she would follow me out on a short hack down a track and back. When she got bored of the hack the pony used to just turn around and go home at the same sedate walk she always does, ignoring what ever my sister did to try and get her to turn round.
 
My old boy has worked out the plastic stakes have no electric so rips them out the ground lays them down and jumps over fenceing undoes any knots stables door not just his own others as well. Its hard keeping ahead of him sometimes and the older hes got he got worse
 
My old boy would delicately pick up his apples, make sure no other horses were watching then hide them in haylage for later! But he was a crafty horse!!
 
gosh some amazing tales here! I love the hiding apples / yard equipment and the pony getting its bridle off. Also the removal of electric fence poles - that takes a very technical brain! :D
 
My lad is a "character", he undoes knots, bounces on gates until they open, mouth's leadropes/reins, opens feed room doors, undoes bolts, mugs you for a cup of tea, raids the mares feed, raided the feed room (once), once when moving him, we noticed his head over the rear ramp, turns out he had undid his lead rope, turned round and was watching the lorries overtaking us. Life is never boring with him
 
My lady's fairly well behaved if I'm honest! Only thing he does is if I leave him tied up to pop to the loo or whatever while I'm brushing him for a ride, he immediately starts trying to put his front leg over his lead rope so I have to go back to him!
 
Kenny can untie himself - doesn't go anywhere! Just stands looking pleased with his leadrope in his mouth!

You also can't leave anything in his stable even for a minute, even if you're still in there! If its grooming brushes they'll be floated in his water bucket and if it's anything else it'll be stomped on and flung out the door!

He's also escaped a few times - at my old yard he got out, ate 4 buckets of feed made up for the next morning and chewed holes in all 12 wrapped bales of haylage! He wasn't overly popular after that stunt...
 
I read the title as 'what crafty hobbit does your horse have' :D

My mare will do the stopping for a wee and then eat - she'll purposefully head to long grass to do it so she doesn't have to put her head down.

She'll also pull out electric fence posts from the bottom with her teeth.

When my children were small they would ride her on their own in the field, she would amble across to her stable, go in and refuse to come out complete with frustrated child on board.
 
Could write a book on what my lad gets upto, he's an 8yr old welsh D =
He will take his bridle off if left unattended for a few minutes, unties himself then just stands their, unlocks door bolts and go walkies, anything near his mouth gets picked up, thrown, chewed or buried.

I once dropped my whip whilst on-board he leant down and handed it back to me, water buckets have to be chained to wall alst he will empty them, and then throw them over door, tried putting tyres at bottom of his water bucket and he took water bucket out of tyres then threw the tyres round his stable, he also took water bucket out of tyres emptied it on floor then put the empty bucket back in the tyres, he's very clever, he also used to target other liverys walking by with his empty feed bucket and throw it at them as they walked past :-)
the list could go on lol :-)
 
My boy hates the smell of his own poop and when he was stabled he would either take his rug off or throw a spare rug on his poops and then sleep on in or roll in it.

My mare is brilliant at taking her rug off and the boy often helps her:D she also knows how to bend a plastic pole by pushing down at the bottom and then pop over.

My mare would throw my boys head collar away out of the field and often stamp on it but never hers;)
 
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