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Shooting Star

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The boy is terrified of bicycles. He is getting a little better and just about copes with one at a time but today was confronted by *shock & horror* bicyles being walked instead of ridden. Cue a major hissy fit from him and me hiding my face in shame from the bemused bike owners.

So make me feel better what are the monsters that eat your horses? :D
 
I have the most wonderful horse in the world! (of course!)

He will go past anything, he is a dream, except..............

He does not like people bending down, kneeling or most of all laying down. As far as he is concerned they are up to something and as for those walkers who hide in hedges.................................................?
 
I used to have a mare that I took down to the creek to stand in the water regularly. If a boat went passed or a seal popped it's head up she used to shake from head to toe!! Nothing else ever scared her not even blue tarp flying past her head in a lesson!
 
His shadow and ditches at the side of the road.

He is however, totally oblivious to lorries, towed caravans, tractors, low flying aircraft, groups of bicycles racing past, temporary traffic lights and herds of cows racing towards him!
 
My tb is scared of water, change in tarmac and she was scared of dogs, but has got loads better! One thing she is absolutely terrified of is shetland ponies!!
 
My veteran - very little - he doesn't like cables or shadows of cables on the ground, but that's about it.

My 8yo - EVERYTHING :rolleyes: He even scares himself. He's good though, he will take his confidence from his rider/handler, but is genuinely terrified of everything.
 
My mare used to be scared of hens and sheep and particularly miniature shetlands (was a proper townie when I got her), but seems to have got over that. She still is scared of ducks - they're just not right, they float! She will also shy at big boulders in walk, but if you canter her at them she will jump them without a thought! Generally she is not spooky and even though I event her I always fancied doing a handy pony class on her.

My gelding spooks at wheelie bins, but will drag them along if you make him, so he is just pretending. He also shies at cars parked, which doesn't bode well for his dressage career..
 
Donkeys. :(

It's a real nuisance when the donkey people are told to park their trailers right on the main horseway and the collecting ring at one of our local shows.

Star's white tail is never white after having to pass the donkeys on the way to the ring...
 
My chestnut mare is very afraid of these monsters...

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Speed limit warnings that are painted in white onto the road. Not terrified but one of the only things she will look at and sidestep
 
Whisk and Ol are both pretty good but we have recently had an extremely aggressive llama move into the neighbourhood. It charges at the fence of it's field as we pass and spits. Truly horrible creature and my boys are terrified. We no longer go past it's field and a complaint has gone into the owner!!
 
The Appy is not truely frightened of anything, BUT spooks at her own shadow, paint on the road, plastic bags and sheep which are not the sheep that live in her field :D
 
Those signs painted directly on the road . . . he treats them with deep suspicion . . . he's also not crazy about things he can hear but can't see and tree surgeons up trees (can't say I blame him about that).

Finally, the one thing that really made him shake like a leaf with fear was the power washer at our first yard . . . which they very thoughtfully used IN the barn when the horses were in it.

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Puddles, yet take him to the beach and he loves splashing in the sea and
the puddles the tide leaves, go figure.
He is also a bully and takes no prisoners, yet when he first saw the donkeys
and Dexter cattle in the next field, he hid behind our wimpy TB for two days
 
one of my TB is excellent in the heaviest of traffic but those big hedge monsters are going tojump out and eat him whole :rolleyes: oh and anything to do with butterflys :eek: they provide with some hilarious moments :rolleyes:
 
My boy doesnt like tractors or lorries, they are fine in a distance but when ridden past a moving one it freaks him. If they stop or slow down he is better just tense. He lives on a farm but as long as a tractor is in the field where it belongs it's fine. He's has got so much better which lots of work.

My mare doesn't like logs in a strange place (happily jumps one in front of her) and an keeps her distance at bins.

Don't know about our new youngster yet as not come across anything yet but sure we will find out soon.
 
I bought a sheepskin throw to sit on in the cart. All 3 ponies were very snorty about it so I left it tied to the gate so they could get used to it. 3 hours later, went back up yard, as expected the 2 girls had decided it wasn't going to eat them and wandered off, the poor boy though was still standing staring fixedly at the monstrous thing with a semicircle of p**s behind him. He was traumatised for several days poor thing.:(
 
My arab mare is pretty bombproof and incredibly brave, she did however take me by surprise when one day she decided to jump over the cobbles at the bottom of our drive whilst walking out for a hack... they had been there for years, and I was lounging, buckle end of the reins :rolleyes: It did provide my friend with endless amusement!

My new boy is much the same, very bombproof, no traffic bothers him. I think someone else mentioned it though, tree stumps that are freshly cut... TeRrIFFyiNG!! haha :p
 
What isn't she scared of? The worst are tractors, trailers, quad bikes, wheelie bins, food recycling bins, purple flowers, single flowers, tinsel, swans.....the list goes on but these are in order! She also has a thing for parked cars and anything different to how it normally looks which can be a puddle or a bit of mud on the road- she is the spookiest horse ever!
 
With others on a hack - nothing if the other horses don't spook. I've had him walk past all manner of things! However, if the horse in front doesn't go past, he'll stand and be like "Look, it doesn't scare me...but you go first" I am working on this though :P

Things that really scare him - Trailers and being alone. I've seen him jump 2 fences like a bounce, one of which was about 3ft wide! That horse can really ping when he doesn't want to be somewhere!
 
Nearly everything!!

In particular:

-Fillers

-Clippers

-People with prams/ bikes/ kids on scooters etc

-random things on the floor eg rubber mats, mud, his hair that ive just trimmed....

-Trailers

-most men
 
My welshie used to think puddle were deep caverns but he's got loads better, but if someone has been out filling potholes (or any other different coloured splodges in the road), well thats another matter entirely!
 
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