what is yours scared of?

^^^ this. The inanimate,immobile monsters (especially those that have been there for months/years) are the ones you have to watch out for.... ;)
 
Our completely bombproof R&D cob once ran backwards up the road when chased by dry hydrangea head. She also refused to pass the garden bench which appeared one day alongside one of our usual hacking paths.
Obviously if it can get there just like that, it can get up again and eat a passing horse. Every horse in the district had a meltdown when the big stones arrived overnight to block cars from driving over the common.
 
Haha! Such funny creatures!
Our hates are speed bumps, slow signs, white rocks near houses, wheelie bins..thats it I think! Anything else shes not bothered by..:confused:
 
Our woodland and local hacks are full of scary pony-eating monsters.

Mainly black sheep (white ones don't eat ponies (or horses) apparently), Cows (well yes obviously whose must like eating ponies for breakfast :rolleyes:), haylege bales in fields do require a tank to remove said pony from the danger :rolleyes: and of course worse of all - other horses in fields, logs, squirrels, pigeons and dumped duvets will obviously eat a small welsh pony ....

But for some unknown reason an emergency vehicle with blue lights, bin lorrys, tractors, HGVs, motorbikes, dumper trucks, buses, cars and dumped vacuum cleaners are not all pony eating.

Equines got to love them :D
 
Ben is scared of only one thing... Fine with whips... Including lunge whips, great with traffic... Even the bigger freaky stuff, bins and leaves... Walk in the park... But come near him with a measuring stick and he literally starts to shake:o




We are working on this:rolleyes:
 
You know those things you can't see, but your horse "knows" are there? Well here's a tale for you:

Part of a riding track that I have been using for the last 15 years has an estuary on one side and some low sand hills, which give way to paddocks, on the other. Every single horse I have ever ridden passed there has told me about the Taniwha (google it !) in the estuary.

I once had a really good chat with a lovely English couple on their imported English horses doing the same, but they were blaming the "ghosts sitting on the stone mile markers", which apparently is common in the UK.

Last year I found out that the area is the site of a Maori burial ground. Do I believe my ponies - you bet I do now !
 
me&Harvey said:
Everything!!!

Fillers, wheelie bins, bits of mud on the road, different coloured grass, random coats hanging on the school fence, cows & miniature horses are all going to eat him!


Yet there is a pond at our yard and I walked him right through the middle of it one summer and he was fine with it & loves the hanging likit holder even if it bops him on the nose!

One of the best quotes I saw: "horses are only scared of 2 things: those that move and those that don't!"
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As above everything!! Scarecrows now and he does loves Shetlands.
 
A lone leaf blowing across his path whilst out on a hack :o and one we are about to encounter - a particular bunch of daffodils, walks happily pass all other daffodils but obviously these are killer daffs! He's just speshal :rolleyes:
 
The tractor.

She's 2 and a quad can literally run over her toes but the tractor... good grief.
 
Everything haha! Shadows, rocks, dirt on the track, fillers, missing boards on the fence line, farm machinery wether it's actually moving or just lying around, chickens, plant pots, water, his own feet ..... The list goes on. If it's there he'll spook at it!
 
Mine I believed was the ultimate bomb proof cob.......until this winter, when we met...................A SNOWMAN.
Much spinning running backwards, no way was she going past!
This horse regularly hacks down main road, huge lorries, people with pressure washers, wheelie bins etc etc all no problem.
 
Mine is completely and utterly terrified of shot gun fire and crow scarers - nothing I can do will calm her or reduce for senstivity in any way. She is periods of being scared of other things; it's currently logs and before that it was moving sheep (still ones where fine).
 
Not much... Except the blue cross sprayed on a drain cover by the waterboard!
Oh and the sinister way a giant sunflower watched us pass!
 
horserider said:
I would have have said nothing much until the day a helium balloon landed in their field.
Witnesses said that the filly picked it up and ran after my two bombproof horses. She was mightily impressed with herself when she realised that by holding the magic balloon she had supreme power and could torment her olders and betters by making them run away.
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We had this last summer. I wish I had had a camera with me. A 'Dora the explorer' balloon with legs had landed in the field. The ponies had made a big circle around it and were all snorting suspiciously. Every so often a gust of wind would make it hop a few yards and the ponies would gallop away then turn and creep back up to it again. This went on for about half an hour until it finally hopped over the fence and went on to scare next doors sheep for a while.

Normally the only thing mine is scared of is the dentist!
 
M y new paint horse is increidbly brave against the obvious scary things tractors even the combine harvester in full action just the otherside of the hedge on the lane we walk down. but those iron grate monsters in the floor what the hell are those there going to eat me!
hes also a very jumpy horse but thankfully hes not a bad spooker he just jumps and stops dead no tanking or sillyness but he is a goosey lucy lol hopefully my bomproofing will toughen him up in time.
 
Rocks and boulders. there's a spot on a road we hack down that has an old access road blocked by 4-5 big boulders. We had such a snort/dragon episode to get to them. Once she's got to one and touched it she was fine (usual for her). We were riding in and out of them in both directions, figured that was her ok with those, carried on with the ride. Coming back we had snorty dragon horse again :rolleyes::rolleyes:

She's always had a 'thing' about big rocks (I think she her mom told her about a cob eating monster that lives behind a rock once:eek:)
 
w1bbler said:
Mine I believed was the ultimate bomb proof cob.......until this winter, when we met...................A SNOWMAN.
Much spinning running backwards, no way was she going past!
This horse regularly hacks down main road, huge lorries, people with pressure washers, wheelie bins etc etc all no problem.
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Ha ha, I discovered the very same thing with my cob this winter! It wasn't even a snowman, but a pile of snow left by the plough. She was shaking! I had to take her past it so many times, and she still looks at that spot now.

In fact, mounds of any description are fairly terrifying...earth, gravel, bonfire; anything mound-shaped.

Tractors, wagons, hedge-cutters, they're all her friends but COWS :eek:. But not all cows. Cows in yards are OK because that's where they're supposed to be. But cows that turn up unexpectedly in a previously empty field are horrifying, particularly if they have the nerve to MOVE ;)
 
I went out on my 18yr old mare,rode past where they were felling trees,cranes,chainsaws,tree blender things,massive lorries-loads of noise didn't bat an eyelid.however there is a driveway lined with white stones but one is a log painted white,she doesn't like it :( and wheelie bins.but totally traffic proof.also there is a cone at the side of the road that looks like it should be there,she doesn't like that.or cars parked where they shouldn't be,I think she was a traffic warden in a past life :-/
 
Loose dogs and balloons, but the most terrifying thing is a shetland pony! There were two at my old yard who ran to the fence as he was being hacked there: cue rearing, spinning! The poor girl hacking him was not expecting it as she'd encountered a tree surgeon, heavy traffic, tractors on the way and he didn't blink so was having a nice relaxing ride. :p

These little swines knew he was terrified and I had to take him through their field to catch in/turnout and they would galloping up on their little stumpy legs every time I appeared!
 
Oh dear where do I start?? Cats, he hates them if he sees them lying in the sun he starts to shake and heaven help me if they move as he gets closer. All four feet leave the floor at the same time and when he lands he stands and shakes all over, bless him. The weird thing is I have two cats and he takes no notice of them at all. :confused: He also doesn't 'understand' his shadow if it moves from the floor onto a fence or a hedge that is really scary!!:eek: The miniature shetlands in the field by the mountain gate he doesn't know what they are and doesn't want to, they may eat him alive obviously. I have now bought 3 miniatures and they are in the field next to him, he loves them but they don't eat big horses but the ones up the road are still a serious threat! :rolleyes: People walking, why would anyone walk and not be on another horse?? The list is endless but he doesn't mind buses, cars, lorries, dogs or children on bikes. I have had him 5 years and its only the last couple of months that he has stopped shying at the noise the gate makes when I open or close it.:D
 
A little wisp of smoke coming from the muck heap :o It resulted in his hind legs slipping under him and him falling up and over on top of me :eek: I mean, really, get a grip horse :D
 
A 17hh IDX who thinks that shetlands are the most terrifying things since terrifying things were created :eek: my 2nd time out on her and a herd of the little critters had been put in a field by the road we were on. Cue snorting, run backwards almost into a truck, a selection of near perfect airs above the ground and then extended trot.

On the plus side she had a pheasant fly out from the grass verge just in front of her a few weeks back and she just snorted! Strange creatures.
 
My eventer is scared of random logs/trees which have been cut down - yet will jump anything XC!

He also used to be terrified of birds and the fluttery noise they make, but hacking out over a shoot and being attacked by pheasants on a daily basis seems to have toughened him up!
 
doratheexplorer said:
My eventer is scared of random logs/trees which have been cut down - yet will jump anything XC!
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Ha ha mine is just the same, if I try and walk past a XC fence / hunt fence which there are a few of on our hacking routes they are SCARY! If I canter him at them he pops nicely over.

One XC schooling session we were having a break and I was walking round and I tried to walk past a log !! It took 20 mins of 'debate' and was by far the hardest part of the day! Before and after he was poping logs/barrels/ scarry painted things etc.

No logic.

My old boy was scared of small animals - cows no problem - calves - RUN! same with foals and lambs!
 
Things that are different, things that are the same; things that you can see, things that you can't see; things that are quiet, things that make a noise; things that move, things that don't move; living things, non-living things, and water.

I think that covers it!
 
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