What do yours do that make you laugh?

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I put the wrong title on this and people thought I was asking for advice. So I've posted it as a new thread to get your stories too.

ycbm said:
Yes, I really do have a cob who won't eat his food. He'll eat everyone else's, though, given half a chance. So when my other horse (who will only eat from a door bucket !) has finished, I let them all out onto a small yard. Then I put Henry's tea in Rizzle's door bucket, and he sees me do it, but he guards that bucket with his life and scoffs it all, because it was Rizzle's and that makes it edible.

:D :D :D

What do yours do that crease you up?
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Escapes from his stable if people forget to put the bolt fully across, he goes visiting his buddies.

Goes for a 'tacking up' poo when I put his tack on the door.
 
Everyday, without fail, my beautiful, elegant, graceful arab girl dives her face into her hay bar and ends up with her head and neck covered in haylage. Her head comes over the door like this and I laugh every time
 
Pretends to bite my bum when I go to lift his front feet. It's naughty really....but having had him for 14 years it just makes me laugh now!
 
Does an extremely quiet, high pitched but full size whinny when she is extremely excited. It's the cutest, funniest thing ever.
 
When I go down to the field to bring her in she starts to come towards me then looks at me, lies down and has a lovely roll. Then she comes right up looking for a carrot. Always cracks me up, she is a right Madam.
 
Plays with his big green ball...

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I like it when he falls over the big ball and is then embarrassed!

He also makes me laugh when he plays in the snow...

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Whenever I build a snowman, he "kills" it as soon as he is alone.
 
My mare treats my young gelding like a little brother. They bicker like children and I have video evidence of her doing it when my backs turned.... as soon as I turn to look at her she pretends it never happened!
 
Red-1, loving Jay and the snowman, what a character he is.

Benji wees and continues eating, cocks a leg for you to scratch his undercarriage then chases you if you dare to walk away.

Sky used to get very excited when she saw hay. You'd put it down, she would paw at it, roll it in then eat it whilst still lying down.
 
The turn of speed and bad to the bone glint in the eye of my oldie when he spies a chink in my armour, and he legs it to a more appealing paddock if I don't close his gate quick enough .......
 
My mare loves having her bum scratched. When your poo picking her field she reverses up to you for you to scratch her bum if you move she follows you round the field backwards. After 13 years it never fails to raise a smile.
 
Since he learnt carrot stretches about 10 years ago (the ones with head between the knees)he does them at any moment he thinks you might, just might be asking e.g. When doing his girth up or doing a rug up. Also as it was pre-empted by unclipping his lead rope he does them then as well. He waits ages with his head between his legs waiting for a carrot!

He also pulls some very funny kissy faces when he's begging.
 
Jay is ace.

He actually makes me laugh that he was so sharp and naughty, and if you don't keep him amused he still is, but when you go play with him he is fully engaged and happy to do whatever silly game you wish. We have music videos with drums and a guitar, him skipping at canter, and thus compilation of some other silly "tricks" we have done to keep his rather active brain occupied.

I always say with Jay, either you are pushing on him, as in training, or he is pushing on you. He would not be everyone's cup of tea mind!

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One of mine is away getting broken in right now and her trainer reported back to me that when she first arrived she was a madam in the crossties. Her favourite move was to put her front feet as far forward as she could, then drag them both back at the same time (trying to lift the rubber matting). I didn't find this funny, a little embarassing as I hate sending away horses with bad manners (although it was more her temper coming out and she has settled down now).

It did make me laugh though when I brought her mother in on Sunday to wean this year's foal. Phil went into the stable and Tracey was in my crossties due to get brushed and rugged before we turned her back out, and when I finished up in the stable all I could see was her with her two front feet out in front of her (as if she was stretching), and then her dragging them backwards at the same time. I'm baffled as to how Amy's picked that trick up, as her and Tracey never spent any time at the stables when Amy was a foal (she was born in the field and summered there before being weaned).

It's the habits that a lot of my mares and their offspring share that really amuses me. It's like I'm breeding clones.
 
My mare is hilarious- remember that advert years ago with the naughty Nan who banged the piano on the way out the room? She reminds me of her. We'll walk down the barn aisle and she'll grab something along the way- a rug on a rug rail or someone's jacket on a door- and just pull it off and discard it on the floor. She just can't help herself!

I can't keep anything in her stable. Last winter I had a rug chest in her stable and I got down one morning to find she had dragged it into her bed, smashed the lock off, opened it, removed every single washed and bagged rug, spread them on the floor and pee'd on them. She had pulled the Velcro straps off a set of travel boots and hung a pair of stirrup leathers, complete with irons, over her stable door like some sort of trophy. I got down and it was carnage, and she just stood there looking ever-so proud of herself. I couldn't stop laughing, despite the mess!

If I leave my rubber gloves in the stable by accident, she removes all the fingers.
 
My warmblood is a big ninny. I have put stable mats down under his straw this winter and for a week( not exaggerating) you had to really shove him into the stable. He would stand at the back terrified of the scary mat poking out from under the straw at the front of his stable. He wouldn't put his head over the door like all the other horses because that would mean standing on it and at feed time he stood as far back as he could in the straw and stretched his neck to reach his food so he didn't have to go near the mat. I only put them in because I felt guilty my other horse had mats and I hadn't got round to getting this one any!
 
I keep a plastic storage box in my WB's stable to keep rugs etc in, a few months ago, I bought him one of those fibre block things (the solid block of compressed hay), I let him have a taste to see if he liked it and he LOVED it. I didn't want to give him it straight away so let him have a munch then tied him outside so i could muck out and I put the block in the box for safe keeping. He'd always had his treats in there and he'd never bothered with the box. I came up the next morning and he'd broken into his box and eaten all the block. I moved the box outside his stable and removed all treats and food and then tied him up (stupidly) next to the box (now with nothing but rugs in). I went off to do something, thinking he'd ignore the box and as I came round the corner into his stable block his head went up and he stared at me with an innocent little look on his face - with one whole leg stood inside the box! He'd stamped two holes straight through the lid and stopped when I came back round like he had done nothing!! He didn't panic or move a muscle, just started munching his haynet with his leg still stood in the box. I removed the leg and moved the box again! He did look funny!! :D :D I wish i'd taken a picture but I panicked that he would freak out and hurt himself..

He also does a 'look away' thing which makes me smile everytime. I taught him that for his tea and treats he needs to look away from me and not snatch. Now everytime he wants something, or thinks i have a treat (mostly I don't) he will turn his head to the right - but still keeping one eye turned towards me - he does look cute :) If he doesn't get anything he will turn back towards you then wait until you look at him again and repeat like 'LOOK i'm doing it mum, where's my treat?'
 
The old pony has an impressive roster of facial expressions, most of which are some variation on "how dare you!" :D
 
Just makes the most expressive faces...

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The old mare will, without fail, have a wee everytime I bring her food into the field (so AM and PM). My other one makes 'dinner faces' when he knows he is being fed, which usually involve sticking his tongue out and wrapping it under his chin/jaw (he has a v long tongue!!) - really need to get it on film one of these days!
 
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