what does your horse spook at?

[ladyearl]

I'm going to a fancy dress party tonight. It's mostly horsey people and the theme is "dress spooky". Have decided to be literal and am thinking of attaching lots of plastic bags to my clothes. Also going to wear a head torch (my horse spooks at that), an umbrella for someone else's horse and a whip for someone elses.

Any more really spooky things out there... that I could attach to my clothes.

 

[Twizzel]

Shadows, pheasants, bonfires, fog, leaves, wind, haylage bales, drains, gutters, cows, cross country jumps, water, dirt, gravel, mud, dead patchy grass, electric fencing, trees, bushes, rubbish, need I go on?!

 

[wildpoppywild]

poppy is only scared of dead things

 

[cellie]

Mine spooks at the pair of curtains that have been dumped on the road side and the pillow cases a bit further up.Not really and desensitizing you can do to prepare for that.

 

[ester]

everything unless it could actually kill him then its ok so you can take your pick

own shadow you could do!

 

[Vikki89]

his own reflection in parked car windows occasionally and things in hedges which cant seem to be seen by the human eye most of the time.

 

[DressageDiva1983]

other horses, especially shetland ponies!

 

[MistletoeMegan]

Old horse used to spook at different shades of grass. And dock leaves.

Current horse spooks at most things, including his own water bucket. He is a special creature and needs a fair bit of reassurance that the world is not ending every damn day

 

[Pedantic]

Roller skates, skateboards, rattly trailers, and most of all pony and traps

 

[emmac70]

Wheely bins

 

[daydreambeliever]

Writting on the roads. My boy likes to stop and read what is written 'STOP' and 'SLOW' are his two fave ones.

 

[Carsmore]

fresh air, if she is that side out!

 

[sykokat]

Beanie spooks at the things that aren't there of course. Isn't that what they all do this time of year??

 

[Donkeymad]

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nowt

 

[E_Lister]

DRAGONS!

 

[Cample19]

cows!

 

[mik]

everything above, plus toothless old men on mopeds.

 

[DellaMoon]

Everything but big leaves and different coloured tarmac are up there. Won't make a very fetching costume though!

 

[rotters13]

Trees.... and wood. My horse spooks at trees and wood. Yay?

 

[Bess]

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Trees.... and wood. My horse spooks at trees and wood. Yay?

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My horse is stabled in a large country park so there are lots of fallen trees that are carved into some shape or other, my horse looks very closely at each one of these.

Men with sticks, crooked people, and golf umbrellas are the other things to watch out for.

 

[toomanyhorses26]

cows and people pushing bikes - bikes on their own are fine,people on their own are fine and so are people on bikes are also ok buuutttttttttt side by side is a totally different ball game

 

[Ellies_mum2]

Bella will spook at a ridden push bike every time but if they are on their own they are ok

Ellie will spook at gate posts lying on the ground

ETA Sorry not much good to you really are they

Seeing as you can't wear either of them

 

[SouthWestWhippet]

Merlin spooks at goats, large suspicious looking rocks, gateways with secret cows in (you know, the ones where you don't see the cow until the last minute) and more than 2 motorbikes - 2 is ok, more than 2 is very dangerous and scarey indeed.

 

[FanyDuChamp]

Fany nothing except starving( unlikely given her size)

Cappy everything up to an including his own shadow.

 

[Sussexbythesea]

SP has a special gift of seeing things nobody else can...

He also doesn't like men in cowboy hats at the side of the arena, the judges box with judges in at C, a coffee mug placed on the fencepost, anyone with a child in a backpack carrier - (must look like a person with two heads - very scary) or backpack sprayer (resembles the hunchback of notre dame) or people on crutches as they move funny. Killer squirrels.

 

[Doris68]

The SLOW sign on the road that she has been riding along for over 10 years!
Anything plastic that (vaguely) flaps.
Leaves & any plant with very large leaves
Birds in the hedge (dragons in disguise)
Gates that used to be closed & are now open (or vice versa)
Oh, many other things but as she is 23 I think I have given up drawing a list!

 

[Doris68]

Oh - forgot - she spooked at the judges dressage table every time she went past it and snorted, very loudly. It was mentioned on her score sheet........several times!

 

[devilwoman]

people pushing pushchairs/prams.

pushbikes if they come towards her face on (coming up behind is ok).

kiddies trying to stroke her.

and lots of other stupid things.

Dustcarts, Tractors, Trailers and Lorries don't frighten her at all tho !!!!!

 

[Collytown]

Well if its anything like today when we are coming up to a yellow line and people walk across it he decided that they were really scarey and it was hard work trying to get him to go forward, but normally it is large stones in hedges that he has a problem with but he was fine with them today, oh and sheep in fields. If only he knew what was coming cause I have sheep and he is going to be put in one half while sheep are in other so that he realises they are not going to bite him, he can be a bit of a scardy cat even at 17HH..

 

[Box_Of_Frogs]

Sheep. We live in Wales. He's a Welsh cob for crying out loud.