What is the strangest thing you have found in your boots???

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Yesterday morning, I had left my long riding boots in the little utility by the toilet at the yard, Anyway popped them on and zipped them up. Walked a few yards to the stable block and felt a searing pain in my left foot,

Thinking omg I had been stung by a wasp/bee in there, threw my boot off and there stuck to my sock was a HUGE half squashed beetle. I pulled off my sock and the poor devil as his last defence mechanism had stuck this huge sharp barb type thing straight in my big toe.

I pulled it out and it started to throb ;(

Felt really guilty about him meeting his maker, Moral is always tip your boots up before putting them on as you never know what may be lurking in them.

Had also left a baseball cap outside my box a few years ago and went to pick it up and there was this huge toad staring at me. Thankfully didn't just plonk it on my head.

Share your stories then guys!
 
Half a dead mouse that the cat had dropped into my welly!! Thought I had left a sock in there to start with until I pulled my foot out & saw blood on the sock I was wearing! Wasn't a pretty sight !!
 
I've certainly learnt my lesson for not leaving my boots and hat laying around, many years ago I put my hat on and thought "this isn't fitting properly", took it off and out jumped a mouse!!! :eek: :eek: :eek: The same thing happed with my wellie boots, but how he got in them I don't know, as they were stood upright! I don't know who was more scared, him or me!!! :D
 
I once found a litter of newborn kittens in a pair of knee boots, does that count? I said my horse had "puss in his boots". (OK, I was 15 at the time...) Other than that, it's usually spiders, occasionally keys.
 
I always leave my wellies up at the horses.. And after having a field mouse jump out at me i always make sure I tip my boots upside down.. Not just that but I don't want to put my feet in them huge spiders! I'm no good with spiders/mice etc (oh god I'm going to be rubbish when I move to my new yard in a couple of weeks)
 
A little advise if anyone can help, I've recently bought a mare, my first horse, I've had her approximately 4-5 weeks now. When I got her she was pretty steady and well behaved paticularily on a hack. These past 2 weeks she has started napping really badly to the point where she's spinning in the road and trying to run back to the yard. Someone mentioned to me that she may be in foal due to the sudden change in behaviour but I've had the vet out today (as she is quite fat) but he said she's fine and isn't in foal. However, she's become a nightmare to mount (she refuses to stand which she had no problem with when I got her), ride and definately hack out. Do she just need a firm hand or could there be any other reason for the sudden change in her attitude to work? I haven't changed her saddle just her bridle as the one I got with her was falling to pieces. Any advise would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
 
Caz85: have you had her back and the saddle checked? If she's changed shape then something may be catching her or after all this rain and storms etc I know my mare is straight down and rolling when it's been raining maybe your mare could of tweeked her back if she does the same thing?

If not then I'd get an instructor in to help .. Your sure she's not in season etc
 
A very angry shrew, a vole or 2, bits of mice - the joys of cat ownership!, spiders, I based one of my cartoons on the shrew event!!:D
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At our old house I quite often found a mouse in my wellies. He'd be jumping up and down trying to get out!! Why he jumped in in the first place goodness know. Looked like the same one so I decided he liked to hear me scream
 
not riding boots, but on a day off while i was volunteering in africa for a bit a few years ago i was just going to put on my boots to stroll down to the beach one evening, only to find a praying mantis crawling in there! glad i looked!
 
£60. When my horse was off work long term, I refused to take money off my very lovely sharer. She kept trying to give me cheques, but I wouldn't pay them in and was refusing her attempts to give me cash. One day I went to put my boots on and found she had left the money in there. 2 years later she's still sharing my boy - who's now back in full work and I used the money to buy him a snuggy hood, so at least he's clean for her (and me!) when we want to ride in the winter.
 
its not very exciting but thers been a big stick in my boots for days now, the neighbours trimmed their hedge but i still believe it has been put there by somebody! i havent yet removed it as i havent had to wear them yet....
lego bricks... toy cars.. and playmobil men were all a regular occurance when i still lived at home :)
 
Last year I couldn't get my foot in my welly due to something hard. A 4 year old child pulled out a whacking great bit snail!

And a sticky, half eaten lolly pop... Bloomin' kids on camp throwing sweets around, first and last year of supervising that was!
 
A rather large nest if spiders! Had some old unused wellies but needed the when the yard flooded badly. Foot wouldn't go in so I turned them upside down and hundreds of little spiders flooded out. I'm traumatised! Needless to say I just wore my usual jod boots and got set feet that day.
 
RiderLizzie said:
And a sticky, half eaten lolly pop... Bloomin' kids on camp throwing sweets around, first and last year of supervising that was!
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Erm:o reminds me of when my youngest was a toddler and we went to a local tack shop and were looking for rugs. Unfortunately as we were deciding the relative merits of different rugs Chris got bored and put the lolly that one of the girls in the shop had very kindly given him in.....one of the display boots as it turned out:o:o
Good job they are an undestanding lot at Parklands..
 
I had a really early start to get to the show so half asleep i put my boots on and set off to the yard..About 10 oclock my boot dident feel right like it does when your socks fall down and you get a lump of sock at the end but i dident have time to take my boot off so i kept kicking the lorry wheel to get the lump to move..About two hours later i have to take my boot off and when i tipped it upside down a squashed mouse fell out..I have no idea if it was alive when i put my boot on or the cat had dropped it in there.I am now very careful about checking my boots..
 
I found an old dead mouse in my muck boots! Accidently left them in my grans conservatory in devon, as it was summer I told her not to bother to send them back to surrey and I would get them next time I visit. Six weeks later, I go to devon and put my boots on to feel something at the end but thought it was just my sock, I adjust my sock and put my foot back in but it was still iritating. Tipped out the boot, saw the dead mouse, screamed, dropped the boot and ran away with my mum wetting herself laughing and my gran telling me she has wondered what the smell was!!
 
The vet checked her over yesterday and her saddles been checked and there doesn't seem to be any problems. She could be in season but she's showing no signs of this the only thing that has changed is her attitude to work. The one thing I have done is put her in the school which I don't think she has ever done judging by the way she has acted in the school. She is getting better in the school but I don't know if it's this that has made her this way as she used to drive.
 
my ferrets usually squirrel away a few nuggets of food in random boots, so you put em on, feel the nugget, take em off, give ferret the nugget, and they then transfer it to another hiding place. Like hub's boot.
 
I never check my boots before putting them on! but after this post I will make sure I do as some of the stories have made me cringe!
 
As you know Nelson as you were there but I once found a toad in my jodhpur boot. I thought it was a wet pop sock so quite happily stuck my hand in the toe to take it out and screamed a little when I realised what it was. It was the 'almost squashing it' that made me feel ill, not the fact that it was a toad, although that wasn't pleasant either!!!
 
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