What makes you smile most about your horse?

seoirse said:
His running commentary. I've never known a horse who whickers, squeals, grunts, grumbles and generally 'talks' so much!
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My horse was shy and quiet when she first came, she won't shut up now!

As soon as I open the barn doors on a morning she starts and then doesn't stop. If she's tied up outside the barn you get constant reminders as if to say 'I'm here. Give me attention slave'.
 
mine has a sense of humour. he was playing in the puddles on the track while we were hacking today, he kept leaping into a bouncy canter and launching into them :)
 
Whenever I go into canter, he does a high pitched squeal that cracks me up :) and if I have a carrot or polos in my pocket he sticks his nose in my jacket and investigates.. he's a cheeky chappy :)
 
When he jumps his little socks off for me :) and when he decides to make his own entertainment out hacking, this normally involves waiting untill we are plodding along and my reins are on the buckle or his neck then him just randomly cantering off :D.
 
The way she speaks to me constantly. Even if I am stood next to her and ask her if she wants her bally (treat ball!!) she will often whinny at me when she is only inches away! She seems to answer me an awful lot when I speak to her!

I love the way she is so scatty and does really odd things - like get so excited at the sight of fresh grass that she nearly falls over trying to get to it! I also love the way she understands the words 'din dins', 'bally', 'bedtime' and 'crumb crumbs'!! The latter I say to her to finish up any bits of food on the floor she has dropped - and she has learnt to hoover them up when I say crumb crumbs to her!!
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They all have their little characteristics that I love, but my favourite pony is the mare in my avater. She is the most obliging pony you'll ever meet, loves hugs, snoozes flat out in her stable, never gets stressed at polo, I call her my safety blanket as she is such a confidence giver - and the cutest thing she does is lift up her hind feet for me so I can put her studs in!
 
Mariposa said:
They all have their little characteristics that I love, but my favourite pony is the mare in my avater. She is the most obliging pony you'll ever meet, loves hugs, snoozes flat out in her stable, never gets stressed at polo, I call her my safety blanket as she is such a confidence giver - and the cutest thing she does is lift up her hind feet for me so I can put her studs in!
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Aww cute!! My girl puts her own head in her bridle and picks the bit up! :)
 
Has to be the whinny i get every morning, plus she will come cantering over when shes in the field. Might be that shes expecting a treat, but i like to think its because she loves me too !
 
He sing song hums when he trots and makes almighty grunting noises when doing number 2's and a big sigh when he wees (just like the OH :D). He nods yes if I ask does he want a carrot and nudges my hand should I dare forget to ask. Knows what a packet of polos is from a mile away and darn near knows how to unwrap them himself.
Always makes me smile all the time :D. I love him to bits!
 
The way he follows me around the yard bum first expecting an itch, and if I go in the tack room he strains at the end of his rope to peer around the door and watch..but if I take too long he shoves the door shut with his nose, then swings his body alongside to trap me in! :-D
 
When I got back from 2 weeks holiday in the caribbean the first thing I did was go to the yard to see the ponies (not go to bed after a long haul red-eye flight, oh no no no!). Little Cob was right at the back of the big field and when she spotted me she flat out galloped over, bronking and farting, to see me. When she reached the gate she slammed the breaks on leaving 4 huge skid marks, and gently nuzzled and snuffled my hair neck and face, whickering softly. I'm not a very 'emotional' person, but it made me burst into tears! I was very tired after a 10 hour flight and driving 4 hours home from Heathrow, so I'm blaming the waterworks on that! She seemed genuinely thrilled to see me, and it made my year =D
With the youngster, I love how he is such a gentleman. He is a gentle, careful and generally adorable chap; he is so kind. He seems to know to be extra careful when my nervous mum is handling him, and even when he has a mental hooley round the field when I'm poo picking he's so careful not to land on me. I know 2 people in the area who have his half-brothers from the same year, and it seems they have all inherited their sires fab nature. (I also love how at the moment he looks like Bert, of Bert and Ernie, from Sesame Street. I hogged him but the mini clippers ran out of charge so I left the forelock to do this weekend. He looks so comical, I'm tempted to keep it just for the LOLs) x
 
Everything about her really. Watching her roll in the wettest mud she can find & then prancing round the field, still looking stunning with wet mud everywhere. The fact that at 23 she can still rear & do impressive rodeo displays when she's playing in the field. The feeling when she locks onto a jump, no matter what you've been doing she picks herself up & grows a hand.
 
When my youngster plunges her head into a water-trough, right up to her eyeballs, hippos about for a few minutes, then snatches her head out and tries to flick the residual water all over my dog! That and her curling up her top lip to 'grin' when she gets an occasional treat.
 
He just seems so socially awkward, but in a sweet way. He's totally clueless but so willing to please, just a proper sweetheart really. Bless him :)
 
When he pulls this face if he knows I have a custard cream on me :)
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The fact that he is alive - 2 years ago I thought he was a gonner, but his strong fighting spirit pulled him through.

Love him. xx
 
Hello to everyone, long time lurker but a newbie - I suppose I should start somewhere and here seems right. Love my girl for the way she ASKS to have her muzzle put on before she goes out and also asks me to pull hay from her triple haynet by nudging my hands and then the net until I pull some out for her. Also, like EllenJay, the fact that I've still got her - three years ago I didn't think I'd still be riding her today - touch wood :)
 
the fact he neighs to me every morning :) and he's now started to come over in the field now. How he's been through a lot and bounces back every single time :)
 
Shanny_mare said:
Hello to everyone, long time lurker but a newbie - I suppose I should start somewhere and here seems right. Love my girl for the way she ASKS to have her muzzle put on before she goes out and also asks me to pull hay from her triple haynet by nudging my hands and then the net until I pull some out for her.
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Welcome :) Your girl sounds very sweet.

I am finding it difficult thinking of 'one thing' that makes me smile about my darling ginger boy, he is one of the sweetest horses I've ever dealt with but he's also breathtakingly pretty (in my extremely biased opinion ;) ) and it does make me smile when I see him glowing in the summer sunshine :D

Lovely thread :)
 
Dex is an ASBO horse but makes me giggle with it - he would be the naughty boy in the back of the class who keeps getting thrown out !

Tacked him up today and before did up grackle he went over to trough for a drink and made a great display of sticking whole nose in and sucking water up with massive slurping noises ! the more I laughed the louder the slurping got !
 
Aw, those beautiful, big, brown eyes peering at me beneath soft white lashes, framed by his fuzzy, unruly forelock. The way he chomps on my pony tail when he gets the chance and his fascination for velcro. His Highland sense of humour and equally his stubborness. His sensitivity when he knows I need to hide beneath his mane.

He makes me smile just thinking about him but mostly its his humour.
 
Small b makes me smile by being so honest and loving. Big b makes me smile by trying so hard and the big nasty faces he pulls which don't fool any of us!
 
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