What do your horses tend to spook at?

anything u wouldnt expect. so cars, machinary, people running, bikes there all fine

bird very scarey, tiny bit of clear plastic in the wrong place very scarey.
 
My baby is quite young but she is very bold....however we did come across a man in a full white body suit with a noisy strimmer the other day..... small break down ensued
 
Birds - apparantly we have horse eating birds of prey in our area.
Things on the other side of hedges, again why would they hide unless they are there to eat you.
Ghosts - but this only happens with too much (more than once a week) schooling
 
My girl has a real issue with white lines, however the amount of spookiness is directly proportional to how recently they were painted - the newer ones are much more scarey.

I forgot about this when we took a trip to the seaside and parked in the car park (as you do), as she came out of the trailer she could see she was surrounded by white lines - backed into the trailer and smacked her head on the door trim as she 'mini reared' up in fright.

Took some persuading to come out and play :)

Other scarey things include shadows - especially linear ones, hosepipes (although depends on the day of the week), twigs and spindly weeds.

She's great with lorries, buses, tractors, motorbikes, police cars with sirens blaring - so thankful for that :D
 
Girlracer said:
Not much usually, but he has taken a dis-like to those giant dock leaf type plants. :rolleyes:
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Burdocks?You too!My hinny Sarah-lee used to hate them also and even alada looked very carefully at one the other day,yet he loves eating the seed heads(gets them stuck all over him while he's doing it!) I think its somethingto do with the silvery colour of the leaves.I ysed tocall them Sarah-lees' Triffids :D
 
Mine is a saint in company, gibbering wreck on his own bless him, so not so much spooking as walking along on shakey legs with the heart beat going so hard I can feel it! :eek: Not good for my nervous disposition!

Depending how upset he gets almost anything can become terrifying, especially children on small bikes etc (normal ones are fine!!), people appearing out of garden gates etc and anything flappy 'waving' at him.

Came back after a solo hack today in strong wind and as soon as I undid his noseband he yawned about 8 times bless him, the stress had obviously worn him out ha ha :rolleyes:
 
Them large-leaved weeds that seem to grow like Triffids inbetween you going on the bridleways!

Bombproof in the heaviest traffic....but it's them weeds that are obviously from some alien planet and will no doubt jump up at anytime now and eat us...
 
plastic bags are tillys current HATE, she bananas away from them or plants and refuses to go near them if she's being really silly.
the other day she spooked at a man with a fishing pole who was nowhere near her .. oh also white petals from the blossom tree on the ground.

what a silly silly mare :)
 
Sheep, cows, horses in fields, puddles, squirrels, flappy birds and bits of tarmac where it is darker than the rest of the road. She doesn't do anything awful, just jumps and does the eyes on stalks thing! With the tarmac thing she just looks down at it snorting and steps round it. funny mare!!
 
My welshie - everything that moves and everything that doesn't :)

My irish - not much really although she can be noise sensitive, but on the whole she is very good for a baby :)
 
My TB - Stationary objects- you know the lesser spotted wheelie bin that is really hiding a giant monster inside, or when the utility companies use that yellow spray on the road to mark where they are going to dig up, he is sure that is some sort of secret code and that if he steps on it someone will jump out !! He kind of walks round it never over it watching it the whole time.

However tractors, HGV's etc are quite safe and pose no threat to him ;-)
 
Today:
-Pigeons
-Car parked behind a bush
-A bush
-A gate
-A car parked at an angle
-Another gate
-A pile of clothes on the ground in someone's garden
-A tree
-A two horses in a field (about half a mile away)
-Another parked car

Bear in mind this is a route we probably do once a week *rolls eyes* he was being a bit of a plum today!
 
Deathly afraid of cows, white rocks, yellow flowers, white vans, drains, ducks, her own shadow, open spaces, enclosed spaces, mediocre spaces, grass, tarmac :D you get the idea
 
A few weeks ago my boy came down a hill track and walked straight past a dumped sofa then decided that some faded writing on the road for roadworks were terrifying and jumped/snorted/pulled like a train.
He doesn't mind dogs, unless jumping and barking but them who does?) but boxer dogs are a no no, i think they are a bit gangly legged for him.
The last thing he wouldn't go past was a lady coming towards us down the lane on a mobility scooter, silly horse think he thought it was some sort of metal horse eating monster!
 
Any thing that has always been there mainly - white lines on the road, gateways flower pots birds in bushes is a top fave !
 
Buses!

My mare hates them with a passion which is going to be awkward as we are on the local bus route. While out hacking she saw it coming towards us and stopped dead then we both went up, down, sideways, spun, reared again then ended up sideways down the ditch and halfway through a bramble hedge. The bus driver was really good though and stopped immediatly but as soon as he started to move again we were soon very quickly out the ditch doing circle's etc in the middle of the road. I dread to think what the people on the bus were thinking!
 
Post boxes! Only when mounted though, he will walk past it fine on the way to the field but once your on his back it is the scariest thing around.

Shetland ponies are obviously super scary, everything on the yard has a good look at them!

Lambs are also horse eating demons in disguise!
 
Out hacking mine spooks at gates, gateways. gaps in the hedge, walls are extremely scary!, basically anything that changes including plants and leaf sizes :rolleyes:. Also things that are always there every time and never move or change lol. Although the biggest vehicle can come past and she doesn't bat an eyelid!!

In the school there is a big scary (although invisible to the human eye!!) bogey man that lives in one corner of my school, who sits there pretty much every day ready to eat her and only her no - one else! not even the 2 other youngsters that i take in there! :rolleyes:
 
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