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Whats your horse scared of?

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#1 ·
Hey.

Well I came up with this thread idea because:

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?"
 
#4 ·
Jazz isn't afraid of anything....almost, I have yet to figure out what kind of monster lurks in her feed bucket but occasionally she will be eating and out of no where will take off bucking and kicking like something was after her she will stop after awhile than slowly inch her way back to the feed bucket with her eyes set on whatever was in there till she is sure that moster is gone then she will eat again. All the others are looking at her like she's nuts!
 
#5 ·
Well, T is pretty much been there seen it before. :lol: Walka is showing that he can "figure things out" without panicking. Other than the occasional "horse eating stump" he is pretty steady. That is until I pushed my granddaughter out in the stroller to see the horses! Try as hard as he did, he just couldn't bring himself to get too close! Pretty funny to watch. Doing mental battle with himself. Once I took Bella out, he seemed to realize the stroller wasn't what was making all that noise! :lol:
 
#7 ·
Haha, my horse is scared of everything. Today he shied at a line that was drawn on the ground! He's also verrrrry scared of clapping, wind, his rug, and he's deathly afraid of hail. D:
 
#9 ·
Llamas here. Zeus is pretty steady, but those evil llamas are obviously going to kill him.
Ha ha. Found that out on our first trail ride together.

He got over it but sidestepped all the way past the llama, didn't take his eyes off of it for a second until we were far enough away to be
"safe" again.
 
#10 ·
haha, i don't own my own horse yet (looking) but the one I ride at my instructors place can be pretty funny sometimes. last week he shied at a milk crate (which he has seen a million times!) and a couple of weeks ago he shied at his own shadow 3 times. sooo funny! we were up on a bank and his shadow was on the road below and in front of him.
 
#12 ·
lets see what isnt she scared off? She used to be scared of brushing and fly spray but we got that figured out, she can be scared of everything and nothing all in the same day. She is the sturdiest most fearless mount but if shes in a goofy mood she spooks at birds and cars and shadows. Luckily its never a big spook just a jump away and a laugh at me. We have a rabbits leap out from under us and have no reaction but a bird chirps and shes like oh crap what was that jump snort stare then she walks on ha ha mom you thought I was scared. I brought a tarp out and she was wearing it in five minutes walking all over it. But a mud puddle is a horse eating lake. Gotta love them huh.
 
#14 ·
Bandit: Honestly, I haven't found anything that he's afraid of yet. And I've put him up against everything I could find.

Dante: The vet and Hard work! Anything that looks like it might result in excessive sweating! :-p

Ruby: pheasants, rap music, dead raccoons (but not live ones!), flat-bed semi trailers (but only if they're attached to a semi and parked :? ), being called fat

Tanner: towing chains, the little foam cherry on the end of my car antenna, the top on my convertible

Magic: R/C cars, radio static, basketballs

2-Pak/Dio: (brace yourself, it's a long list) aluminum bleachers, porta-potties, balloons, R/C cars, his shadow (on occasion), yellow hoses, anything that might possibly be fly spray, his reflection, seashells, Bailey (one of my friend's geldings), rabbits, birds, worms, straight-load trailers, gravel, indoors, metal feed pans, electric fences, herds of cattle, Magic's shipping boots, the color pink, most men, plastic neon-colored ribbons, clowns, milk, the judge at the local horseshow, perfume, measuring sticks, chickens, people wearing hoodies, chipmunks, roadkill, dark spots in pavement, cracks in cement, bridges, big rocks, fallen trees, black-and-white paint horses, frogs, mares in heat, kittens, and probably a million other things. He's very spooky, but thankfully he doesn't bolt. He just stops on the spot and snorts at whatever he doesn't like, then tries to go around it.
 
#16 · (Edited)
AZ: He's more curious about everything than scared. He hates the lunge whip though thanks to abuse from a former owner. Not so much scared as a fiery hatred and urge to kill :lol: He is very very curious as to why those weird horses in the easement that walk by every morning have huge ears, white butts, and some of them have antlers.

He does startle at the pop of an air rifle, but he's getting used to it.

OH! He is scared of only one type of bird. Hummingbird. He is fine around magpies, owls, pigeons, hawks... but those horse-eating hummingbirds are a no-go.

Ah, and the blue jolly ball thing that sits idly in the pasture. He will NOT go near it. It is made of evil.

Dixie: Nothing :lol:
 
#17 ·
My horse is afraid of things that don't move, especially tractors.
 
#20 ·
Gypsy: Nothing. Things startle her, sure, same as I can be, but there is nothing I have come across in her seven years that spooked her. She's a good horse.

Tally: Everything. Ok, ok, I'm kidding... Tally's pretty good, too. She spooks sometimes at people though, if they are walking up to her with a hood on and don't speak, or standing or sitting still and start talking suddenly. What I think is hilarious is what she isn't afraid of: birds, who LOVE her. I came walking down her stall row one day and she had about six or seven little black birds sitting on her rump! They all flew away when I came near, and she was like, eh. Haha... that silly girl :)
 
#21 ·
Cat: Being away from Jake, ropes

Jack:being away from Cat, hoses, water, spray bottles, hoof picking, and everything ecept food.

Ariel: People

Airess:Hoses and the big scary man with needles.

Blue:Work
 
#22 ·
Ginisee- tarps, plastic bags, and smoke. If you try to make a fake liverpool out of a basic blue tarp, she freaks. But she jumps real liverpools like a champ...haha. For some reason she is deathly afraid of plastic bags as well. You can't put more shavings in her stall while she is in there. She has been in several barn fires while she was on the track... hence her fear of smoke

Uma- mushrooms. You know those toadstools that seem to grow out of nowhere? That's about the only thing she is really afraid of.

Demi- bicycles I've heard. But haven't experienced it yet... phew!

All of my girls are used to fallen tree branches, cows, and any other type of farm animal. We have a lot of cats, and all of my horses are naturally curious with them.
 
#23 ·
Stella is afraid of all the sights, smells and sounds at the dairy farm down the road.

Luna isn't afraid of much. She's so curious about everything, but the huge green monster spraying the bean field that surrounds us got her running laps this morning.
 
#24 ·
Peacocks, I don't think you can say your horse is really bombproof until you have tried the peacock. She hasn't dealt with them in a LOOOOOONG time, probably for the best, but at one point we could walk past them while trembling. Deer also get her, but I think it's because they jump out, if they just stood there I'm sure she could tolerate them, but when they jump out at you, they are certainly chanting war cries and must have blood thirsty intentions.
 
#25 ·
Sparkles hates water, she's a huge baby when it comes to the hose and puddles but she will jump water just don't make her walk in it.
Nate is pretty chill, but one thing that scares him the most would have to be the port-o-potties that are out by our outdoor..you never know when someone's going to come out of there and try to eat him..
 
#28 ·
Nate is pretty chill, but one thing that scares him the most would have to be the port-o-potties that are out by our outdoor..you never know when someone's going to come out of there and try to eat him..
i'm scared of them too, I don't blame him, I'm always afraid something inside there is going to eat me.:wink:
 
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