What makes your neddy's knees knock?

Well apparently tonight it is a wheelbarrow left in the middle of the next field. The sight of it caused a shock horror stampede through the horsehage :o and mud flying everywhere :o What are they like? :)
 
oh well it can vary depending on the mood she's in, but the big girl has had the collywobbles over purple flowers planted by someones yard, the entrance to the bridlepath, the wheelie bins which always live at the top of the farm track and as for the alpacas/llamas whatever they are, absolutely does not like them at all :mad:
 
I'm loving the responses, so glad I'm not alone in owning a fruit cake :D:D:D

... so shall now add that we also have issues with;

*electric fence tape
*white stones that mark peoples claim on the verge outside their house
*people that aren't where we think they should be / doing what they should be
*being mounted off of blocks that are over 1ft high
*... and this evening water pouring out of the end of the drain pipe in a sudden down pour!!

In his defence I will say that he is a) new, b) green and c) Irish (although personally feel that this should mean he would cope with anything :rolleyes:)

and I thought my old Chestnut mare was bad!!! ;)
 
The ISH is not too bad but will have his spooky days when he's feeling fresh - particularly dislikes parked cars strangely?! Oh and birds .... tiny ones


TB frightened of the things that will cause me the most embarassment :o The colour orange - local lady with bright orange hair and he always spooks at her! Which is funny .... as he's chesnut!! Uh ... look in the mirror Fox ... you're orange :D

He also had an absolute melt down other day at some poor guy kneeling down putting snow chains on his tyres. Spinning round and taking off, up and down on the spot, running backwards - I could feel his heart pounding through the saddle. Poor guy had stopped what he was doing and stood up but stupid creature still wouldn't go past, snorting and acting like a proper muppett! Ended up having to get off and drag him past before he decked the pair of us :rolleyes:
 
My TB is petrified of ALL drains and man hole covers on the road and the hose pipe. Normally Mr. Cool and the boss but attempt to hose his feet off and he hides behind the pony!!
 
I forgot to add mini ponies! I spent about half a mile cantering sidewards (while all the others were walking calmly) because he had seen someone leading a mini pony.

One of the other horses is scared of people who aren't doing what they should be.
Cyclist - fine. Someone walking a bike? NO!!!
Someone on a footpath - fine. Someone in the middle of a field? NO!!!
 
working in one particular school. Its not in a spooky place and he has had no bad experiences in it, he just took a dislike to it one day and no one has been able to convince him that he's not going to die in there since :confused:

There is a straw bale that was left in a field this year, it causes all sorts of fun when approached from the left, yet it is perfectly acceptable when approached from the right!

people with hats on, and patches of discoloured grass :o
 
people...my new boy hates people he would rather deal with a fire engine than a person walking about....they shouldn't be allowed out! Hedgerows he's not keen on them. And shadows of birds flying over....if he happens to looking at the floor. He's got more bothered as he's got his nose out the sky...I don't think he noticed things before :)
 
My old boy was scared of the ridding school horses from down the road oh and horse and carts although he drove himself so never figured that one out!!
After ten years of owning my girl I found she is rather scared of donkeys and takes hours to calm down!(I'm sure we used to go by them alot but maybe they weren't looking at her then ) and the other boy is scared of being left alone bless him cant blame him for that!
 
Mine isn't keen on bicycles either. Also, there is an Emu and some Alpacas which we ride by sometimes and he isn't keen on them either - especially when the Alpacas come running over! :eek: :p
 
Jackson said:
There is a straw bale that was left in a field this year, it causes all sorts of fun when approached from the left, yet it is perfectly acceptable when approached from the right!
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To be fair, it probably is scarier out of the left eye than the right! Horses aren't binocular like we are so unless they are looking at something out of both eyes at the same time, i.e from the front, they may not realise it's the same thing as what they saw out of the other eye. Imagine what a scary place the world would be if things just suddenly appeared that you didn't realise were there! It is useful in case anyone would want to attack them though as they can be looking properly in two places at once when they are grazing which we can't really do when we are eating without constantly turning our head. :)
 
Anything that makes a hissy noise (especially fly spray) and a white house that we hack past on a regular basis. It doesn't seem to stop being scary no matter how many times we pass it and no-one dies. There's also a particular branch at the side of the road that is clearly attempting an ambush.
 
Tractors, but only when I'm riding him, if he is being led for some reason they are not scarey, but has been known to spin and try to knock his riding compainion of his feet. Bless
 
today we met a canoeist on the canal. ahhh the performance to get past rather than turn & run for home! we grew to 18hh no did our best snorting ever! the small girls that had been petting him & wanting ponies minutes ago probably went off the idea!
 
Just yesterday it was the sight of a fat,Staffordshire bull terrier ripping some grass out of the ground! To be fair it was wearing loads of coats & looked a bit strange & the grass ripping was very noisy!
 
I have this still to look forward too !
3yo New Forest - She'll probably be scared of nothing :cool:
Born and lived wild on the forest for 2 years so well used to traffic, walkers, cyclists, people camping, dogs, etc from the day she was born. The area she grew up in was close to a golf course so golfers shouldn't be a problem. There were donkeys in that area too, but I don't think she'll have met any pigs where she was.
She walked straight into a trailer and a lorry first time she ever met them :cool:
Her breeder had a small "yard" ( a small area enclosed with very high fences and a couple of stables), where they kept her for 3 weeks after bringing her in off the forest for handling before I bought her. This was right next to a busy pub, and a sailing club, so she's happy with boats :D:cool:
She has been happy with everything I've introduced her to so far, including "meeting! a showground set up at our yard (tents, caravans, white dressage boards, portaloo), and has taken part in her first ever show. Not bothered in the slightest by loud speakers, horses being ridden around her, walking past the burger van etc :cool:
Was an absolute angel for her first ever bath, wearing rugs, having her feet trimmed. :cool:
My little "perfect pink pony" (she's bay roan) :D
My 4yo Welsh Cob on the other hand - I get the feeling she is going to be scared a lot.
Bred in Wales, probably somewhere remote. Travelled to Scotland when she was weaned, to another remote yard outside Aberdeen. She's been nowhere and done nothing until I bought her and travelled her to the Edinburgh area.
She's well mannered in and out of the stable and field, although has a habit of puting her foot in the water bucket then ****t1ng herself when she spills it :rolleyes:.
She's fine with rugs, and was great with her first ever tack and long reins, and even when I first leaned over then sat on her for the first time.
Go near her feet :eek: She thinks she's going to die :rolleyes:
Then there are the "monsters" who are going to eat her if she's in a stable and she can't see any other horses, lol !
It's going to be fun and games with her soon when I start to back her and get out hacking :D
They are both living out, but it's a pain having to bring my "sensible" 3yo NF in so that my 4yo Welsh D doesn't get scared of being in on her own :rolleyes:
Hey ho ! :D:D:D:D:D
 
We have one who is literally scared of everything. Luckily his monster escaping technique is 'stand reallllllly still and they wont see me' so he isnt too hard to manage. Bless him.
 
|My big lad is pretty bombproof, but about once a year something freaks him out big time :eek:

Farmer had put one of those round cattle feeder things in the middle of a big field, D saw it from 2 fields away, we spent the next 20 mins trashing somebody's grass verge :D

Following year, it had moved to right by the field gate, cue spin and gallop downhill on the road, got him back together, went back up hill and the big wotsit did it again, decided safety first, got off and led him past. Like a little lamb cos Mum was going first!!

And yes donkeys, especially when 3 of them fly down the field towards him braying like mad, took the poor chap several days to get over that!!
 
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