yes they defienatly do! Pumpkin stole a book and my friends camera once, then he decided to run around the padock shaking them untill i caught him. fun fun ;p
And I'm pretty sure Honor has a sense of humor. One time he attemped to eat my iTouch and was dragging it towards him by one of the earbuds since the headphones were wrapped around it. He also is quite sarcastic if I must say so myself.
Horses definitely have a sense of humour. Lottie likes to undo the bolt on the stable door when I've forgotten to do the bottom bolt, then she just looks at you like 'see? I'm clever' and slowly saunters out the stable like it's no big deal. Strange horse.
I was grooming my sister-in-law's horse who was being cranky, while she was cleaning up a bit. Every time she'd go out of sight, her horse would pick up her rear foot and shake it at me like she was going to kick. As soon as she'd re-appear, her horse would have all 4 feet on the ground standing there like the most perfect angel ever.
It went on for like 20 minutes until I realized what was going on (I was ignoring it, she wouldn't actually kick) and then we tested her out a bit. My sister-in-law walked in and out and in and out of the tack shed and yup, perfect lil angel when Mommy was watching, lil turd threatening to kick when she wasn't! :lol:
When I call for my horse out in the field, he looks up as if to say, "Oh God! It's you. What do you want?" When I start walking closer he just slowly saunters away, butt swaying. He never runs, just slowly walks away. When I finally get to him, I say, "What's wrong with you Timmy?" He either puts his head down onto my shoulder or snorts.
At our first show together in a trail class my mare fria decided to show her humour. I was to move a brush from one barrel to another on the course while mounted. As soon as she saw the brush she stopped dead and looked back at me. I could hear the croud saying "Is she going to pick it up or knock it off"? She continued to nuzzle it around the top of the barrel, and at the last second knocked it off, looked back at me, and started to walk on.
My girl's favourite thing was to 'help' me pick up her manure around the paddock. She would follow me around at my shoulder intently watching everything I did, checking the wheelbarrow for updates. Since the paddock was about 5 acres there was a lot of space to cover so often her little 'packages' would be quite far apart. Then she would actually walk ahead of me and stop at the next one, stop and sniff it then turn and stare at me until I came and picked it up as if to say "what are you waiting for? You aren't done yet!"
Lol, I've often commented on how Jack and I have a similar sense of humor! When he was a yearling he was put out to run with his brothers and sisters for about 6 months. Occasionally we have to go through the pasture with a magnet and make sure nothing has worked its way up through the soil. The BOs daughter had a magnet and a bag of miscellaneous metal bits she had picked up. She leaned the magnet against a tree and laid the bag down for a moment to rest and of course Jack wanted to pick up the magnet. After she wrestled it away from him he ducked behind her and grabbed the bag of metal and took off at a gallop swinging his head and flinging everything back into the pasture! He was quite proud of himself.
Buzz has a sense of humour when I walk up to him in the paddock he walks/trots off I stop there cross my arms and he comes back like 'chasy' but then he likes to do this thing when I ride I get off sometime I just let him stand and he usually stand sometimes he doesnt and he walks off to where the entry is with me following then just stand there like 'I think we have done enough today'
There is a horse at our barn that is a big dork. IDK if he has a sense of humor or not, but he always keeps us laughing. Sometimes when we let him in he goes to somebody elses stall (he knows which one is his), If you don't let him out in a timely manner, he will let himself out, he thinks he has to be a part of anything that goes on at the barn and if we are all in the barn and he can't see what we are doing he runs around and calls to us...it drives him crazy Oh and don't even think of leaving the water hose around him unattended
My horse really does have a sense of humor. Or she's just a brat. Haven't decided yet.
Her recent most favorite thing to do is to put her head between my legs while I'm picking her hooves to try and grab the hoof pick. It makes me laugh everyting cause she just looks so silly.
Of course horses have a sense of humour. It is just that some humans don't recognise when they are being kidded.
On our yard there is a big shire mare,Tara, who really is in trouble. Hopefully she'll make it. She got caught in the electric tape and both of her hind legs are a bloody mess. When the wounds have healed more she is off to the vets for the fitting of a cast on her left hind. In the interim I have been giving her some TLC. She is a 750 kilo treasure really. It has been painful for me to watch her suffering.
Yesterday I took her out into the paddock where there is some spring grass. Understandably she has lost condition over the last few weeks of misery and she needs some of that green green grass. Getting out was fine, we hobbled along at a snail's pace until she realised where she was heading. Then she speeded up the hobbling. The problem came when it was time for her to come back in.
I went out, slipped the head collar on and gave her a bikkie. She ate the bikkie.
So I said: "Come on then Girl" - would she move? - no, not never, not no how.
She merely looked down at me and said "Nope, I ain't going". And there was nothing I could do. So I left her there.
About an hour later, her regular rider: a nine year old, lightly built boy reached the yard and went out to her in the paddock. Luckily I had left the head collar on. He reached up, clipped on the lead rope and she followed him like a lamb. As the couple passed me by at the gate to the field, I'll swear she smiled at me.
Heavy horses are of course something different. Either Tara agrees to do something or it doesn't happen. And sometimes she tries it on. It is not real disobedience it is just her being mischievous.
I just hope that leg heals. I'll forgive her anything so long as she gets better,
Cougar is always doing things that are simply to be funny. He's such a clown. You know he's 100% comfortable with you when he sneaks up behind you and steals your hat off your head and throws it into the water bucket without you being any the wiser.
Oh yes!!! Yesterday Love Story swerved real sharp while I was on her, deliberatly to get me off, and I landed on a jump. Ow!! Lol. And then she just stood there with a really smug look like "Well, not MY fault you cant hold on" Silly mare lol *shakes head*
Oh, and this is her attept at a glare:
Lol. Ay my girl ^^
And catching her? Oh please. More like, run around for an hour trying to lol.
We also have a pony at our barn called Shorty. The other day he grabbed my friends bag and took off. Lol
OMG is your horse really 18.3 hh? Wow! But he is drop dead butifull lol. If he goes missing I PROMISE you it wasnt me heehee
Oh yeah, my horse is bursting with it.
One of her favorite things to do, I think, is try and play mind games with me.
like I swear things that should make her jump she pretends like nothing happens.
One time some birds flew out from under her when we were walking threw some tall grass, she did not even flinch, I wet myself a little, and the whole time I could just hear her though process "Birds, what birds? Okay mom this can only happen so many times before I have to report you to your orderly, AGAIN."
Sam definitely does! Last fall he was grazing, and noticed a little cat sitting on a fence post across the pasture.. his eyes popped open ( he has appy eyes! ) and he sloooowwwwly snuck up behind it, thunked it off the fencepost with his nose, and took off running! =)
^^ thats hilarious! my horse does, but i think its twisted :/
he likes to unzip my jacket when its freezing cold
if you have money, he eats it. like i have actually lost 20 bucks.
he likes to inspect his grooming things by grabbing the bag, dumping it on the ground then sorting his brushes..one pile one way, the other pile the other way...
if we are in a hurry, and im stressed, there is alwasy a tantrum.
but you gotta love them, even when that make fun of you!
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