Your horses pet hates?!

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My horses PET HATE is when I try and smother her little pink nose with Factor 50 sunscreen! She doesn't react crossly, or badly, but she put her bottom in the corner and holds her head up to the rafters so I'm stood on her bucket lathering it on her!
So sweet, she's too kind to try anything nasty to stop me and she knows what is coming..

Does any one else ever get the feeling if their horse could talk they'd be saying "No! Mum! Nooooooooo, I hate it!" in a slightly whingey tone?! ;)
 
Being wet ... he hates it with a passion, you`d think the rain will make him melt with the fuss he creates, and as for puddles and getting his feet wet !! Well forget it!! XC pony he will never be lol !!
 
my boy doesn't like being ridden, the look on his face when he sees his tack is priceless! :rolleyes: then I have to drag him out of his stable and he is like, do we really have to??? cant you just put me back in the field with my friends or feed me instead??? :rolleyes:
 
me kissing her on the end of her nose. sometimes she lets me, but often she'll pull away at the last minute with a 'muuuummm, get off you're embarassing me!' expression :D
 
Suncream here too - I swear he thinks I'm trying to kill him. That, and fencing you can half see though, half can't (i.e. spaced slats). We're convinced that the partially visible stuff behind (especially horses) must be like... ghosts or something...
 
sudocream and pink noses ;) She is fine with suncream now ! But sudocream she does herbest giraffe impression luckily she is only 14.3hh so i can just about reach :D It's her eyes when she does it could feature on an RSPCA advert !
 
Whips while riding. He is fine with whips when you are on the ground, lunging etc., but goes berserk if he only sees a whip in your hand when you are riding (and I can assure you that it is not fun on an extremely powerful and young 17+ hh WB stallion :eek:)
 
wet weather and mud - if I didn't insist on him going out in the winter he would hibernate in his stable :rolleyes:
 
Wearing boots or bandages, but I insist as he is constantly injuring himself and I'd like to ride him for more than half a year at a time!
 
Up until yesterday it was the Shetland at our yard. His eyes would go out on stalks whenever he saw it. I suspect he'd never seen a Shetland before coming to the yard and didn't quite understand that he's a horse too! However yesterday the Shetland was eating grass against a fence as we walked past on our way to the field so I persuaded my boy up to the fence - cue lots of sideways eye rolling at me in a "Mum, what are we doing approaching that 'thing'" way! Luckily the Shetland is a friendly boy and after sniffing noses for a few minutes mine relaxed and looked at me as if to say "OK I get it Mum, he's just a small horse".

Apparently it's not unusual. YO's new horse was put out in a paddock with the Shetland for company but was so busy trotting round the fences, the horse didn't notice the Shetland at first. When he did, there was the ultimate comedy double take and then the horse ran away from the Shetland!
 
Iberian girl said:
Up until yesterday it was the Shetland at our yard. His eyes would go out on stalks whenever he saw it. I suspect he'd never seen a Shetland before coming to the yard and didn't quite understand that he's a horse too! However yesterday the Shetland was eating grass against a fence as we walked past on our way to the field so I persuaded my boy up to the fence - cue lots of sideways eye rolling at me in a "Mum, what are we doing approaching that 'thing'" way! Luckily the Shetland is a friendly boy and after sniffing noses for a few minutes mine relaxed and looked at me as if to say "OK I get it Mum, he's just a small horse".

Apparently it's not unusual. YO's new horse was put out in a paddock with the Shetland for company but was so busy trotting round the fences, the horse didn't notice the Shetland at first. When he did, there was the ultimate comedy double take and then the horse ran away from the Shetland!
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Yeah my last horse had a "thing" with Shetlands - we saw two at a show and his eyes were out on stalks :eek:
 
Change is a big one for him. Over winter, I moved his water bucket from one side of the stable to the other.
The next morning I got there and he went mad. He'd knocked bucket over, trashed his bed, pulled his likit off the wall...
I had to move his haynet at a later date, and again he did the same!

He cannot walk through his own poo, he will banana around it. If he poos whilst tied and he stands in it, he goes mental and hovers the offending hoof in the air.
He has no problems lying in it or pooing down his legs the day before a show though.

He is extremely headshy. Well, not headshy as such but you cannot hold his head. Any pressure and he fights you all the way. Impossible to lead from just a headcollar, for example. Cannot get suncream on, difficult to brush his face. There's no fear there, he just doesn't like it.
Me and Moomin1 were nearly squashed several times trying to get eyedrops into him earlier this year.

My horse is ridiculous!
 
Being bathed/wet . . . shame really as he's a grey who (sometimes) competes :( He gets this look of utter martyrdom . . .

Also another one who HATES change . . . doesn't like anyone new riding him (really upsets/worries him) and seems not to like men sitting on him as the only two men who have since I bought him have been unceremoniously dumped (after a proper wall of death).

He's also not crazy about having fly spray put on, but will tolerate it - just . . . but HATES (and I mean loathes with a passion) me descaling or debeaning his manly bits.

Last thing - he doesn't like micronised linseed . . . doesn't matter how I try and hide it, he will leave his food if I put some in - and he's a proper rubbish bin when it comes to food - will eat anything and everything. Except linseed. Sigh.

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ha! love all our prima donna's! Funny how many hate creams on their noses! Mine gave me an especially suffering eye roll this morning after the sun cream debacle, though I tried to explain to her that AFTER Sun on a poor little burnt pink nose would be even more of a battle! :)
 
Iberian girl said:
Up until yesterday it was the Shetland at our yard. His eyes would go out on stalks whenever he saw it. I suspect he'd never seen a Shetland before coming to the yard and didn't quite understand that he's a horse too! However yesterday the Shetland was eating grass against a fence as we walked past on our way to the field so I persuaded my boy up to the fence - cue lots of sideways eye rolling at me in a "Mum, what are we doing approaching that 'thing'" way! Luckily the Shetland is a friendly boy and after sniffing noses for a few minutes mine relaxed and looked at me as if to say "OK I get it Mum, he's just a small horse".

Apparently it's not unusual. YO's new horse was put out in a paddock with the Shetland for company but was so busy trotting round the fences, the horse didn't notice the Shetland at first. When he did, there was the ultimate comedy double take and then the horse ran away from the Shetland!
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My TB loves Shetlands! He is like "awwww isn't it cute! you have brought me a little friend to play with!" :D
 
Cows.

Horses in fields with cows are also considered cows.

Horses in fields with cows running around in excitement having other horses going past are considered running cows and thats very bad.

As of yesterday (a bit windy round here...) bushes, newly filled potholes, grass, blue gates, cyclists, hedges, dogs, ditches, other horses and pheasants.

Usually all of the above (bar the cows) are invisible. The wind provided her with x-ray specs :D
 
The wash bay at my yard. He won't go in it, he'll just plant his feet and gets this really stubborn look on his face and theres not much I can do - he's 15.1 so not that big but has a stallion chest and neck so he's almost impossible to move plus I'm only 5"4 and 9st :D

He also won't let me spray him with Fly spray unless he's tacked up - yup, weirdo!

He doesn't like poo either! He has to sniff every poo we come across but refuses to step in it - did a dressage test once, lovely trot accross the diagonal with some leg yields around the pile of poo in the middle of the arena :D
 
Noisy children and smaller dogs. Hates them with passion. I don't let him do anything when we're around noisy children, so he just makes nasty faces, but I've seen him chase dogs out of the pasture fiercely.

He also hates his face being drizzled over with water from the hose. I guess it feels different to rain, as he has no emotions towards being outside in the rain.

Speaking of Shetlands - he fears them. Apparently they are not horses and are related to ducks. Because he fears ducks, a lot. :D
 
Not really related but when looking around once for a pony for my 5 year old, in an add for a Shetland was 'can't go in a field with big horses or he attacks them' that made me giggle. :p
 
Iberian girl said:
Up until yesterday it was the Shetland at our yard. His eyes would go out on stalks whenever he saw it. I suspect he'd never seen a Shetland before coming to the yard and didn't quite understand that he's a horse too! However yesterday the Shetland was eating grass against a fence as we walked past on our way to the field so I persuaded my boy up to the fence - cue lots of sideways eye rolling at me in a "Mum, what are we doing approaching that 'thing'" way! Luckily the Shetland is a friendly boy and after sniffing noses for a few minutes mine relaxed and looked at me as if to say "OK I get it Mum, he's just a small horse".

Apparently it's not unusual. YO's new horse was put out in a paddock with the Shetland for company but was so busy trotting round the fences, the horse didn't notice the Shetland at first. When he did, there was the ultimate comedy double take and then the horse ran away from the Shetland!
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Yup! When one of our liveries bought a mini shetland foal ALL of the horses (we have 30) were frightened of him . . . now they just think he's an oddity ;). Until they grew used to him we had to get used to them all growing about a hand and becoming snorty, goggle-eyed monsters every time he was on the yard :D.

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shmoo said:
Not really related but when looking around once for a pony for my 5 year old, in an add for a Shetland was 'can't go in a field with big horses or he attacks them' that made me giggle. :p
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I know a tiny Sec A gelding who used to bully a 16.3hh Westphalian . . . pony used to pin the big boy in the corner of the field by chasing/nipping him and then stand guard while the big 'un shook ;).

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shmoo said:
Not really related but when looking around once for a pony for my 5 year old, in an add for a Shetland was 'can't go in a field with big horses or he attacks them' that made me giggle. :p
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When my friend first saw her Shetland he was at a dealers yard and he was attached firmly to a Shire's leg by his teeth. Little sod also managed to bite the tip off my pony's ear when they were first in the field together.

Mine's pet hates are having his teeth done, another horse getting his nose in front when riding two abreast (if looks could kill they'd be dead) and having his ears bitten by Shetlands.
 
Sheep and chickens in fields beside the road where we walk

I wouldn't mind but we have 14 sheep and around 150 chickens at home in the field where he lives!
 
Sleipnir said:
Speaking of Shetlands - he fears them. Apparently they are not horses and are related to ducks. Because he fears ducks, a lot. :D
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We have some of those horse eating ducks on a farm down the road..

''When my friend first saw her Shetland he was at a dealers yard and he was attached firmly to a Shire's leg by his teeth.''

This has had me rolling around the floor... gotta love 'em. :D
 
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