One day I was riding Chinga around at a canter over some low cross poles. Next thing I know a fire truck comes screaming past with its sirens at full blast Chinga didn't flinch. One thing he doesn't like though is me with his food bin on my head calling his name. I think its because it sounds funny.
Another thing he doesn't like is sometimes he randomly puts his ears back at Pumpkinzmyboy. Don't ask why but its funny to watch.
I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this but "What is your horse scared of or not like?"
Grace only spooked one time with me, and that was at one of the jump lattices laying on the side of the arena- after we passed it five times.
Pony on the other hand, was a complete wreck in the ring with spooking. Puddles, cups laying in the edge of the ring, pitch forks, anything. I think she was just trying to get out of working her fat off because she would spook at the dumbest things all the time.
And my old horse never spooked at anything. Well actually, one time we were on a trail and a deer popped out of the woods and darted across our path, but that's understandable- I jumped too.
I ride a lot of horses.. hehe.
I haven't found anything that spooks Rupert yet. A barrel fell right on him and he didn't even notice.
Gonzo is afraid of: nervous riders. They freak him out. Cows. Corners. When things jump out of nowhere. "running into corners"; He doesn't realize he can turn around them!
Roger doesn't like things that jump out of nowhere. He gets nervous when he's by himself. Doesn't like new enviroments. Gets nervous when you ask him to canter. Doesn't like new things; has trouble with bending.
Zucchini isn't scared of anything but other horses. He doesn't like horses near him, or other horses getting crazy. If another horse bucks near him, he spooks. If another horse comes near him, withen ten feet, he bucks or kicks.
Milo doesn't like too many commands at once. He gets nervous. He doesn't like small dogs or sudden movements or sounds.
Spud doesn't like things on the ground; dogs, people sitting down, ect.
Jorge doesn't like poles falling or getting hit, cause once a jump fell on him.
WATER!! i don't know if this really counts but he's scared of going in the dam we attempt to put him in there & yet one night i saw him go shoulder height into the dam to get a peice of floating grass!!
Caleb tends to spook when he is distracted, if something comes along and he doesn't notice watch out! But I've had him since december and he has only taken off once. He is really afraid of trailers and getting stung by bees, he used to not like sprays but now he's fine with them.
Aside from what he's afraid of there are a few things he really doesn't like:
having his jaw strapped shut (like with nosebands and such)
when the dogs from down the street bark at him he intimidates them and snorts at them
going out before a storm
bits because his old owner had him in a tom thumb on a trail string so people were constantly yanking on his mouth
waiting around while I groom and fuss over him
not getting his feed as soon as possible when he sees me with the bucket.
seeing other horses in the ring doing less work than him (he acts lazy and exausted but if they leave he's perfect and energized!)
A while ago Caleb had an accident that would have made most horses flip out, he stepped on a plastic stepstool and his foot went through the hole between the steps. Needless to say it got stuck. REALLY stuck. He did get a little upset, but he was a good boy and stood still to let us look at his foot. Eventually we managed to get it off and thankfully Caleb wasn't injured. Once it was off he gave it a dirty look then went on as if nothing had happened!
Right now, Timmy is most afraid of trot poles. He is absolutely convinced that those round white things are out to get him. One of these days, they are going to jump up and grab him, like in a horror flick. Attack of the 6 ft trot pole. AAAAAhh! Run for your life.
He's also afraid of fly spray. He will pratically walk out of the cross ties to get away from it. He just gives me this look like, "Come on. It's good enough. Stop already."
Peacocks, especially when they spread their feathers and shake them, spooks her every time. I think she must think the bird is either growing or exploding!!!
Indian: I haven't found anything that has scared this old boy ever since we have had him.
High Five: Well, the first time I took Five out on the trails(as in, he had been there lots before, this was my first time riding him out) a pack of wild dogs were eating on a deer, and one jumped out at us and freaked all of the horses in front of me and Five. I fell off. And, lawnmowers freak him out on occassion, but he is getting better with that.
Smokey: Other male horses tend to make him nervous, but that is just because he was gelded late. Also, for some reason(we beleive it was because of his previous owner), he gets VERY tensed and scared when we tie him up.
Trigger: My sweetheart Trigger. Basically, he is afraid of anything that moves. And he is afraid of anything that doesn't. :P
Fella is not afraid of the usual things that startle other horses. For example, the crazy jumps in the jumping arena, tarps, windsocks, the big green baby pool being rolled around. All these things BORE him.
He is, however, afraid of things you wouldn't expect a horse to be afraid of such as shadows, foals (broke my leg in March falling from a spook at some babies), deviations in the fencing around the arena (?????).....
Blue balls. I don't know why, but we had a blue ball for them to play with and they were all scared of it. However, blue tarps are just fine. Silly horses.
They are also scared of the little mini-stallion down the road. Even though he is behind a fence he makes a BIG challenging noise and they swear he is 10 times bigger than he really is. Doesn't matter that they could easily step on his short butt.
Finally, one of our horses freaked out at a large rock. this boy was going great - deer jumping out, cars, dogs, rabbits etc never bothered him. But in one field that we rode past a lot was mowed. Out of the blue this boy developed a beautiful side-pass and went about 5 feet sideways. Took me a bit to figure out what it was - but it was this large rock that he could now see. It always had been there, just had grass growing up around it. But you KNOW it was a horse-eating monster waiting for him.
One of my horses is scared of garbage bins. He WILL NOT even walk down the same street as one.. it's not even a little fear.. where he just changes sides of the road or shys away.. he turns around and goes back.. and if I try to make him walk past it he bucks and rears.. its even got to a point where we don't ride of bin days :P
Yesterday...... the large square bale, newly set by the cow field. Not so bad even though it was a "new object" because we managed to get close enough to it to eat some mouthfuls. However, little did we know, the goat was sleeping on the other side of the bale and we must have disturbed his snooze. I can tell you when just this little head with two bulgy goat eyes popped up my horse did a nice little reining spin. Luckily it was a very hot day and he was in slow mode, so glad it was not a brisk spring morning or he might have been two counties away and me on the ground.
My horse? Well, he is scared of the dark, and he is always outside in a run-in stall (thanks to my aunt....), a little bit of water, and tubular things like inflatable pool toys. He also can be afraid of my cousin, who would beat him until I caught her. I still think she has since then.....
my horse is scared of the trailer she broke 2 lead ropes tented the trailer door she rares up and puts her feet on top of the trailer any ideas on what to do about that lol
Once there was a barrel in the arena that we had to take out and under it was a circle of packed sand, welll one of the horses decided that it was a horse eating monster and would not go anywhere near it.
Nelson can be very silly at times. Makes me wonder what goes through his head sometimes
This guy has been around the track a few times, no pun intended.........he's Fox Hunted for years, Evented - I mean...come on!
We went hacking yesterday, on the side of the road beacuse there are NO trails where I board........but that's another story.....anyways.......he spooked at almost everything. It was rediculous.
I think it was because we were alone and he was insecure of his surroundings.
He spooked at mail boxes, absolutely nothing, then some more mail boxes, his own shaddow, and then some more of absolutely nothing. while yet, he doesn't blink an eye at peddle bikes going by or quads or the cars zooming by...no...just silly things...those objects that cannot move - while yet he is certain they are going to jump out and eat him.
At times I thought we were going to eat pavement because he woud spook over the top, jumping so high in the air and slamming his shod hooves onto the pavement.
I just pictured us slipping out from under ourselves......
But, when we are in his element - he is unstoppable. Get him out on a Fox Hunt, he is phenominal. Get him out on a CC course, ubeatable. Any element involving a horse show - nothing phases him what-so-ever.
OH! Just to add - Nelson actually is scared of 2 mares at the fascillity we board at.
The Mares and the Geldings are seperated in their own pastures - and the pastures are 12 acres each. We can ride around the fence line where the BO mows a path for us to use *twirls finger in air with excitement*
I usually take Boo around that a few times to help loosen him up for arena work. He is perfectly fine on the long side where his and his buddies pasture is located, but once we get to the opposite side where the Mares are.........he snorts and starts to jig.
There are 2 mares who's owner makes them wear these fly sheets and fly masks, where they look like aliens to Nelson.....he does whatever he can, to avoid passing them. If they are near the fence line, he will veer as far away from them as he can, even if that means going through the bushes. Once he passes them, he will try very hard to take off as quickly as he can, and he will keep looking behind himself just to check as to where they are, and to ensure that they are not chasing nor following him.
I think it is the rediculous fly gear the two mares wear that scares Nelson.
I just sit on his back quietly, leaving him to work it out himself. I sit on his back chuckling away at him.
My boy is terrified of his fly spray. I'm not even sure why, hes sure that something terrible is going to happen.
Other than that he is absolutely fine with everything... he's a strange one he is.
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