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Things your horses do when you aren't at the barn.

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I thought this would be a fun idea for a thread. Things everyone tells you your horse(s) have done while you're not at the barn. :lol:

My BO just told me about how my mare was taking the salt lick holder and shaking it around cracking everyone up the other day. Sure wish I could have been there to see that.
 
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My horse spends all day in the field and apparently spends most of the day rolling in the mud. I've had other boarders tell me that he seems to look for the MUDDIEST spot and roll in it. My BO told me the other day that lately he's been running around and playing a lot, which is unusual as he usually is super lazy lol.
 
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There is a string around the door to my horses paddock so, the BO can tie the door down when he needs to close it for the bad days apparently, my horse was found opening and closing his door by himself by pulling the string and when he goes outside he pushes it closed with his nose and pulls it back open.
 
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My horse has flooded the barn.
I used to keep him at a friend's house and he was in a stall with a half door where he could hang his head over.
He used to lean down and mouth the faucet handle.
One day my friend walked into the barn and the water was on full, 2 stalls flooded, the handle was broken, and Spike had a bloody lip.
 
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Mine has unlatched the bottom dutch door to the stall and let his buddy out. Actually, he probably wanted to get inside to eat his buddy's feed! And, he pulled the garden hose out of the water tank and sprayed the other horses. Scared them half to death. We figured out who did it because only one of them was dry....and all the others were buggy eyed and breathing hard! He's a delinquent...
 
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yeah I was there last night for an emergency vet visit, my BO called me and said he jumped his paddock fence into, the other horses paddock and scraped himself good. No stitches or nothing but, and when i put him in his stall he was doing it over, and over again. Sort of like "look at what I can do" and every time he closed it he'd trot/canter in his paddock and than do it again. He's crazy
 
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My QH is the queen of mischief. She got all the other horses to wade into the middle of the pond in turnout (small island of grass in the middle), so one of them promptly lost a shoe in the mud at the bottom. She then showed them how to lean waaaaay over the arena fence, pull the apple tree in and eat apples, so one ate apples until he was sick.

She's VERY well-known for opening gates/stall doors and trotting off. My trainer had a friend caring them while she was away, came back to find many, many chains on all the gates and doors.

She escaped and ran away from my trainer one day, ran through and was busy hiding behind the manure pile. When my trainer caught her, she absolutely refused to walk back through the manure pile!

She escaped from her stall one night, spent the night in the barn aisle feasting on a bucket of horse treats and a bale of hay, which she washed down with the contents of water dish for the dogs! She apparently found it too inconvenient to go back in her stall and drink her bucket of water.

When my trainer turned her out with a couple 10hh ponies, she was utterly TERRIFIED of them and tried to hide behind my trainer! She was convinced that if her head was hidden, that all of her was. Uh no.... her giant QH butt was VERY visible!

My trainer has a Warmblood that is absolutely hilarious. He quickly discovered that throwing a tantrum in your stall is a not allowed, so if he wants food or to go out he rolls his eyes back, hangs his tongue all the way out of his mouth and lolls it around. He looks like he is having a seizure and dying! My trainer had him boarded for a while and got a ton of phone calls from other boarders who thought he was ill!
 
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My BO and other boarders tell me the Lakota pulls the hose out of the tank and plays with it. And then he puts his hoove in there and tries to almost climb in there...this from a horse who hates getting baths and just getting sponged off. Now that its winter, he pulls the heater out of the water and plays with it, which causes his water to freeze up. I can't believe he hasn't been electricuted yet. So they had to move the water tank to a spot where he can't reach the cord for the heater.
 
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At my old barn they left a radio on in all the time for the horses. It was Waay up high with the extension cord run along the beams and tucked in so the horses couldn't get to it.
Of course, Jack figured out a way to get to it. I swear, he had to be standing on his hindlegs and looking for something to get into, but he managed it. He tugged the cord into his stall and not only chopped it into at least seven pieces he also stripped the coating off of the cord!!! When the BO told me about it she was laughing and saying that is exactly why she had the electrician wire it so that if something tried to chew on a cord the animal wouldn't get electrocuted.

He also flips light switches, open gates and lets the other horses out, pulls heaters out of tanks, poops in the water tank if he's been stalled longer then he thinks he should, the list goes on and on,lol. Pretty much every time I talk to my current BO she has a story and it normally begins with,"Do you know what Jack did?! The little sh*#....."
 
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Snap is my worst prankster...when I first got him he would lock my other gelding in his stall (they have 3 stalls and an open corral area they share) by untying the gate which it would close on its own, and my other gelding didnt realize all he had to do was push it back open so he was stuck...this happened about 3-4 for times and I still didnt know how it was happening until I retyed it open and was talking to Cochise(the gelding that always got closed in) when I heard the gate slam shut again..and I turn around and Snap (TWH) had the buggie cord in his mouth, and was giving me this look. I got a load of sand one day..used most of it...but put a tarp over it since I didnt have time to spread the rest not realizing that Snap loves tarps(just recently got him), and I came home to find it in the middle of the field. Both my Gelding and Mare have since learned to push gates open for themselves after dealing with snap and his antics. Snap could also open gates...when he was at a trainers..the stud horse next to him kept getting loose in the barn and they couldnt figure out how...so they watched one afternoon...snap was leaning over and unlatching it for him. His new game is to eat the cat food and throw their dishes to get my attention...at which point he takes off at a run to show me I cant catch him:) He also loves to unbuckle the farriers chaps when shes leaning over to do his feet...crazy boy. Should have been named Joker...I pretty much hear him every night using his bunker feeder as a toy to throw around since hes bored..and if the water is gone in the trough..Ill find that upside down too. His favorite thing is for me to get a empty feed bag and put treats at the bottom and leave that for him to play with (rip/shred) all night while hes up in the barn:) Love that boy...
 
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