who else's horse spooks at puddles/wet patches on the road?!

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it drives me nuts:rolleyes::o went out for a hack tonight and my lad was curtseying spectacularly at every puddle or wet patch of tarmac:rolleyes: If he was young or green perhaps Id forgive him but he's 10 and is quite happy to belt round a xc course and canter through water. Plonker:cool:
 
Ditto both of the above....the slightest colour change of movement of an object and he will see he, he is 17 too.
Only prob is he won't go through puddles and would rather jump a big one then get his pretty feet wet!
 
Heh, mine seems to be the opposit, he directly aims for puddles. Particularly big deep ones in which he can makes big splashes.

Funniest moment, when he was walking through the puddle and we got stopped by a woman who knew mum and mum was on her horse chitty-chatting away to this woman and her husband. Well, my boy clearly decided that the chitty-chatting was pointless and boring (and I quite agreed, and I think mum agreed as well) and decided to have a splash about in the puddle, successfully wetting the woman and her husband :p

I found it amusing anyway....
 
I had to give in to the puddle monster.
I spent years trying to convince my gelding that puddles aren't going to swallow him...... then out for a hack on a track I hadn't used for a while, I insisted he went through.... cue horse dropping into puddle, Vicar of Dibley style.... water up to my calves.... I just held on to his mane and kicked on and he struggled out shaking.
Apparently there had been loads of 4x4's the previous week, and they had made a really deep rut which filled with water, and wasn't obvious.
Poor boy!!! :o
 
oh me too! she's 13 :) and yes she will happily go through big puddles splashing about and loves water out xc, but the tiny puddles and wet patches... they come alive join together and make a big horse eating monster, so better not to disturn any of them :p
 
My little welshy is very wary of any wet ground, and it's a proper fear as well. It is justified though, as she was a rescue case from a stud that had ponies dead in water filled ditches all over the farm, so I think it's a case of self preservation!
 
Even at 26 my old WHP who used to event and hunt like a demon still wouldn't walk through puddles! LOL at the horse who likes splashing in them :)
 
Sometimes yes and sometimes no, you can add shady and bright patches to that too! Some days she will walk calmy through puddles and anything I could ask of her, other days any tiny bit of shade or damp road is totally out to get her!! Guess she just has 'speshel' days like her mum!!
 
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