You just know when you've been hacking for too long by yourself......

I talk to my horse all the time, people on the yard think I'm mad! But because he is my part loan pony, I always end the 'conversation' with "if you think your going to tell X about what I've said, you will get worked extra hard on..." :p

I have learnt to talk with my dog :) he makes different yawns and grunts which coincide with how content he is, so. Have copied them and we now have long conversations.. Or if I ask him something he replies with a grunt :D I really do love my dog!
 
Hey, bluewhippet,I have a silvergold whippet and an Arab horse and was previously managed by a Killer Burmese! Are you my alter ego or a stalker?
Meanwhile, conversations with the Arab continue: we had quite a good one about Stupid Beer Drinkers the other evening! Three pubs along our village street - each one has a front garden with said persons in them - when we ride up to the big common we have to go up the high street, which is all of half a mile long, and each pub, this week in the evenings, has been full of intoxicated persons shouting and throwing beer cans at us! Not at all usual for our community - so don't know where they have come in from. Possibly the nearest town. Anyway, landlords have all had a Quiet Word given, so will be keeping an ear out for Prince Fairy Feet, the clattering ( because of swooping and diving avoiding beer cans) footed Arab Fire Breathing Monster, and the response of their customers.
Apologies to beer drinkers who do not throw beer cans when sat in front gardens of hostelries, I am not generalising the yobbish behaviour of the above persons to all beer drinkers, or sitters in pub gardens!
 
Mo-Jo said:
Also I do a lot of Mrs Doyle impressions when going past scary objects...
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So this lol!!!

Always chatter to our girls, wether mucking out, riding, whatever. Usually hack with OH and we chatter away to each other, the horses and ourselves. I'll call good morning, chunter to pone and wish them good night and sweet dreams. Never thought it even slightly unusual! Sadly we always know who is talking to who and if he talks to my horse then I'll answer for her. Slightly oddly she always has a bit of a cornish farmer accent! If he hacks on his own he sings, same song on loop though!

Always thought it totally normal until we spent time on livery yards - no one else talked to their horses!

Have also been known to spook while walking past something, oops!
 
oh god i'm always gobbing away to Buds, the best times is unbeknownst to me we have walkers within earshot, and i'm gabbling away :D

We do have full conversations though, I swear I get more counselling and sense out of him than I do from OH :p
 
But my boy understands words!! He can do stteeeady, trot and 'shall we have a little blast over here' AND its just a pheasant you big softie. He also loves critiquing peoples gardens. If you gave him a loose reign he'd be up their drives. Many an innocent gardener has been alarmed by the sudden presence of a big black cob face leering into their front garden.

I sing to my car though, so its hardly surprising. I had a discussion with him just the other day if he's be alright parked here until evening?

Mad but harmless. :D
 
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