Yob Cob Demolition Service

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I'm seriously thinking of starting one.In the last 12 months she has wrecked 60 yards of boundary fencing,destroyed two jump wings(matchwood),broken at least 4 six inch strainers so her and her buddies can go for a little jolly round the yard,trashed 20ft of post and rail and knocked down the gate leading into my nieghbours field(that i had to repair in a torrential downpour).The final entry on her CV is,according to her owner,the destruction of a field shelter at a previous yard.So if anyone needs anything knocked down/over,totally demolished or anything inbetween,she'd be happy to oblige.(she'll do anything for food).:)
 
I have a Draft horse who has had to have her stable reinforced because she was pushing it into her neighbour's box. She is on her 2nd box, the 1st one needed to have the back wall strengthened with railway sleepers. So if your cob needs any help ..........
 
Cobs really are the demolition derby of the horse world, we have everything strengthened, reinforced, double fenced and a handy apology for all occasions! Wouldn't have him any other way.
 
My new cob moved out of isolation and into her stable and promptly ate all her neighbour's rosettes :o. Hello my name is Daisy and if you stand still too long I may eat you too!
 
I turned round for a second only to find my friends cob pawing the bonnet of my car with his thankfully unshod front hoof when I turn back. Fortunately he didn't do any damage but I did squeal very loudly. I accept his need to murder my tub trugs but I draw the line at my car.
 
pansymouse said:
I turned round for a second only to find my friends cob pawing the bonnet of my car with his thankfully unshod front hoof when I turn back. Fortunately he didn't do any damage but I did squeal very loudly. I accept his need to murder my tub trugs but I draw the line at my car.
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Ah yes,you've just reminded me.She sat on the bonnet of another liveries car a few years ago denting it rather.Said livery was not amused,it was only six weeks old!.I shall add car body modifications to her list of services,lol.
 
My boy used my back garden to perfect his shabby chic landscaping skills. His paddock was 400m away, but I stabled him at home and my back garden became his evening entertainment venue.

You can see the garden shed resembles the Leaning Tower of Pisa. He used to stuff himself down the side of it to evade capture and on one particular day, just wouldn't come out. So in my wisdom I put a few cubes in his feed bucket and gave it a tiny shake, expecting His Lordship to reverse out as usual. Instead, he turned around at lightening speed and took the shed out. The poor old bird bath didn't escape his attention either, it is now topless due to being the perfect height for bum rubbing:

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The little table was there to stop him coming in my kitchen:-) And the car looked much more streamlined with the aerial ripped off... etc. etc. etc....
 
Love this thread. Cobs are just sooo wonderful aren't they!

Mine, even though he is now in his late thirties, specialises in fence flattening. He just likes to lean on them for a bit of a rest . . . Most are electric apart from the perimeter fence which is post and wire (not my fault that's just how the owner likes them), but I don't think we have a single vertical wooden post left anymore and he likes it so much the better if they start to creak, groan and break . . . he's very subtle about his demolition tactics. I live in dread that he's going to knock the stables down, every time he comes in he crashes in to the back wall and the whole thing shudders.
 
Friends shire x cob managed to push the brick wall of his stables out .. But you could keep him in with a single strand of (non electrified) wire. Didn't know his own strength bless him!
 
DTV said:
And he looks so innocent,butter wouldn't melt lol.Loving the stories.:).That table would be no challenge to mine!!
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I'm not sure what it was about that little old table, but for a while it was respected - mostly I think because it was stood next to the feed room door and bestest behaviour was the order of the day when there was a possibility of getting food! Alas, it didn't last and the little table used to look like a dying fly more often than not:-)
 
My old cob once rubbed his bum on the post and rail fence, resulting in the whole thing toppling over, an entire side of the field boundary was flattened.
It must have given him such a fright that he took off in the opposite direction, because we came up to the yard a couple of hours later to find him cowering at the other end of the field!
 
Many years ago when I was in livery, on a couple of occasions I would find next doors cob sharing my boys stable. Next door cob didn't like the partition much and would push with his bum until it gave way, so he could be a stable mate to my lad lolol. Such a great cob with ooodles of personality - unfortunately yo didn't agree :)
 
My cob has destroyed gates ,likes to rub his large rear end on post and rail fences. Has walked through a barbed wire fence to get to an apple tree in a garden , then stood happily eating apples whilst wrapped in barbed wire. I removed the wire and a friend rebuilt the fence. This was early one morning the home owner slept through all the drama. He also has to go rugless if I use electric fencing .
 
Yes, the electric fencing does take a beating,more so in the winter.Greedy Guts is an accomplished fence leaner,lack of rug is no deterrent.She gets a bolt, stands back and thinks 'hmm wasn't so bad',leans again and inevitably just breaks through.I think she likes it!!.I ve lost count of the number of stakes she's broken,did another 3 just today.:D
 
DTV said:
Yes, the electric fencing does take a beating,more so in the winter.Greedy Guts is an accomplished fence leaner,lack of rug is no deterrent.She gets a bolt, stands back and thinks 'hmm wasn't so bad',leans again and inevitably just breaks through.I think she likes it!!.I ve lost count of the number of stakes she's broken,did another 3 just today.:D
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my little connie X used to climb through electric fencing! We kept coming up to find her on the other side of it, fence completely untouched. We thought she was jumping it until we caught her in the act one day - she must have been zapped constantly as she was picking her way through it but she didn't seem to care!
 
My old cob mare wasnt a trasher as such but knew how to get her point across very well and would definitely be the brains of a demolition team! she had the brains to work out how to be awkward. For example, she would never push on the door to try and escape, she figured out how to open the bolt instead! and when we got a kick bolt, because the door wasnt fully secured shut when she opened the bolt, she would paw at the door and bounce the bolt out!

She was also a bit of a houdini, she wouldnt just walk through the electric fencing, she would grab the plastic bit of the stake in her mouth and pull them out of the ground. Then just casually stroll over it. She once rescued the shetland by smashing the energizer into the ground after we put in wooden fence posts to stop her rescuing her friend. She would also climb the dry stone walls, she would push it over with her bum then very carefully and daintily climb over what was left standing, like a 500kg mountain goat.

She would also take her headcollar off by putting her neck under the leadrope and putting her head up while going backwards, the rope slid down her neck and off came the headcollar. She wouldnt go anywhere, she just did it because she could.

Stable bandages and boots would be off within a few mins, she went straight for the velcro, and thrown over the stable door.

She once nearly decapitated me by throwing her feed bucket at my head over the stable door when she had finished.

God i miss her antics, but thankfully my TB isnt that smart or resourceful!!
 
Cob bottom rubbing has resulted in the side wall being pushed out of whack by a foot (four foot drop into the chickens, they could have had a big surprise!) and the back wall by about 18 inches. I've had to move him into a brick built stable :redface3:

The latest naughty idea is jumping out of his field into the RS field where there is haylage. Trouble is, the entrance to that field is a lot further away than his field!
 
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