When I'm running late my horse always seems to...

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Finish this sentence!

Mine:

1) ... Poo in his automatic drinker and I need to do a full scoop out/scrub clean

2) ... Have wet mud where his girth/saddle/bridle goes

3 ... Not let me catch him :(
 
Last couple of times when I've been in a rush I've either needed to get in other horses for owners who are always late or someone has started telling me a very long and complicated problem that it'd seem rude not to spend time listening to.
 
Does it a lot in the winter,had 3 whole rows down this morning.And then stands there with a 'wasn't me' look on his face lol.(except i wasn't laughing this morning when i found out i'd run out of fence stakes.Cue mad dash to Cornwall farmers at 8.30).
 
Go nuts and refuse to let anyone near him then shout like a nutter when I'm asked to get him in then spook and rear when led in.

Colic.

Barge out of the field and make a big hole in the hedge.

Scream like someone being murdered when he hears the car, making the bloke stood opposite nearly have a heart attack.
 
Canter to the gate and behave like an angel to be groomed, tacked up and load.

Unfortunately my youngster tries his best to spoil the effect by shouldering his way out of the gate and gallivanting across the yard, needing to be caught and returned to the field.

And the dog gets on the trail of a rabbit and won't come back for 10 mins despite my best Barbara Woodhouse imitation.
 
... Have mud in places he couldn't possibly have mud considering the rug he wears when turned out ...

... decide he just must have a pee in his stable before I can tack up ...

... Refuse to walk through the bog by the field gate, and make me wade through it (in my riding boots!!!) to put on his head collar before agreeing to come in....

... Don't you just love 'em ....
 
When I'm running late my horse always seems to...

KNOW.

And go out of his way to be super cute and make me feel guilty so I end up spending even more time than I have!!
 
Drop a pile in her clean fresh bed. I swear she waits till it's all done then up goes the tail. She'll even hold it while the bed's up until it's all nice and clean and evenly spread. She'll even paw after she's finished, like a cat would. She's less than five minutes away from the field, but no, it has to be left in the stable.

Luckily I'm not really OCD about the stable so I can leave it till I get back in the evening but I just wish she wouldn't.
 
It's not just my horses, but when I am running late, everything seems to go against me!

Be a pain to catch

Make everything take 5 times longer than normal

Trash the stable so it looks like they had a party and the whole yard was invited

Poop in feed/ water buckets
 
When I'm running late the following will happen without fail:-

I'll probably think OK so I've Just Got Time to take Trad-Pig for a quick trot round the block: he'll then behave mega-atrociously and I'll end up in a muck-sweat, evaporating with exhaustion from wrestling with the bleddy thing, and end up looking like I've been dragged through the hedge backwards.......... which is probably exactly what HAS happened LOL

I'll put my knickers on backwards - only just realising when I sit in the car to go.

I'll forget those "essential" items like keys, mobile phone, purse, etc etc., and have to return to the house to get them - only to find I've locked myself out.

Every slow vehicle on the road will get in front of me, without fail.

But I digress, as I've just realised this is a "what my horse does" thread (sorry!!).

Without fail, they will always:

Trash their electric fencing, big time.

Trash their rugs, never a quick fix job but a send-off-to-mend-it jobbie

Lose a shoe, and/or (worse) come hopping in from the field with the blessed thing hanging half on, half off

Cut/injure themselves: necessitating either a quick repair job or (hopefully not) a (long) wait for the vet

Rub their bum on the wooden fence and make a hole in it - which I need to fix asap

Deposit green slime in the stable: on the walls, on the floor (well trodden in so that it looks like someone's been trying to exterminate Kermit in there), and on their rugs, and in their manes & tails. Bless their little hearts.

Behave atrociously: always in direct proportion to how late I happen to be running (of course!)
 
If I am running late Jay comes untrained a bit, as he is so observant that every little itsy bitsy task has to be asked for, allowed time to take place, and rewarded with a second of peace.

I really love the Jay man as he keeps me on the ball and honest in my horse handling, but boy is is annoying if I am in a rush!

If things are not quite right for him he gives a confused look, then as his normal response has not got what he thought (as in a reward of peace for a second) he will run through a whole host of other "Behaviours".

Because of this, and of previously being a shift worker who may start Jay at 3.30am rarely, 4.30am frequently, and 8am on other days, having a lot of time every day was not a guarantee. In my time I have inadvertently taught him to put the headcollar in his mouth, step into my space, stand sideways in the gateway, and a host of other little but annoying things that are all the more annoying as I know it is my fault he searched for other behaviours when he felt I was impatient with his usual response.

Love him to bits for just that thing most of the time though!
 
...have hidden his poo. 'Great', I think when look in his stable, 'won't take ten minutes to muck out'. Then I discover a variety of flattened poos all hidden under about 2" of straw which take twice as long to locate and remove.

And there's always one that's buried so deep, it's almost on the concrete beneath. I don't know how he does it.
 
C1airey said:
...have hidden his poo. 'Great', I think when look in his stable, 'won't take ten minutes to muck out'. Then I discover a variety of flattened poos all hidden under about 2" of straw which take twice as long to locate and remove.

And there's always one that's buried so deep, it's almost on the concrete beneath. I don't know how he does it.
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Same!! Hehe :D
 
MiJodsR2BlinkinTite said:
When I'm running late the following will happen without fail:-

I'll probably think OK so I've Just Got Time to take Trad-Pig for a quick trot round the block: he'll then behave mega-atrociously and I'll end up in a muck-sweat, evaporating with exhaustion from wrestling with the bleddy thing, and end up looking like I've been dragged through the hedge backwards.......... which is probably exactly what HAS happened LOL

I'll put my knickers on backwards - only just realising when I sit in the car to go.

I'll forget those "essential" items like keys, mobile phone, purse, etc etc., and have to return to the house to get them - only to find I've locked myself out.

Every slow vehicle on the road will get in front of me, without fail.

But I digress, as I've just realised this is a "what my horse does" thread (sorry!!).

Without fail, they will always:

Trash their electric fencing, big time.

Trash their rugs, never a quick fix job but a send-off-to-mend-it jobbie

Lose a shoe, and/or (worse) come hopping in from the field with the blessed thing hanging half on, half off

Cut/injure themselves: necessitating either a quick repair job or (hopefully not) a (long) wait for the vet

Rub their bum on the wooden fence and make a hole in it - which I need to fix asap

Deposit green slime in the stable: on the walls, on the floor (well trodden in so that it looks like someone's been trying to exterminate Kermit in there), and on their rugs, and in their manes & tails. Bless their little hearts.

Behave atrociously: always in direct proportion to how late I happen to be running (of course!)
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This made me laugh so much!! Defo the slow moving vehicle thing - that always happens to me too!! Arrrrgh!
 
Look off colour (usually gassy colic), has gone through the electric fence, snagged his rug, looking like he has lami.

P has done all of these, apart from the rug snagging which is H's speciality..
 
1) refuse to be caught usually starting off furthest point of the field before walking off practically sneering after I've walked up it

2) have a churned up pigs swill bed of poo and wee so I have to remove the whole middle with just enough that it won't all fit in one wheelbarrow resulting in multiple muck heap trips

3) be plastered in mud

4) stand in every single place I need to get to when mucking out if there is nowhere to tie him on the yard and he's in.
 
throw a few quirky moves into our working time together, meaning we have to keep working till we are through the quirks and get back where we should be before I can cool her off and get going to where ever it is I am late for
 
Running behind in hnt prep and plaits sewn in the night before are in that half rubbed out state that is notfit to be seen but still requires properly undoing/cutting before starting again :(
 
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