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What horse people look like to outsiders

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#1 ·
I saw photos of someone doing a trail obstacle clinic. I remember participating in a few myself.

Then I had a thought of what people who driving by might think...

"What on earth are they doing walking their horses through pool noodles? And mud holes? What exactly is the purpose of all this...?"

:rofl:

"Why is that girl smelling hay?"
"They're so mean, putting blindfolds and socks on a horse!"
etc. etc.

OK, this weirdo is signing out... :pinkunicorn: :blueunicorn:

:cowboy:
 
#2 ·
Yes, I wonder what people are thinking when I bend down to pick up a piece of manure with my hand that fell off the pitchfork, or when I am standing by the road putting lotion on my horses' dry udders because they like it and it stops them from rubbing their tails.
Why is that person picking grass by the side of the road (horse snacks)? Or what on earth is that they have in the machine at the laundromat going clank clank clank?
 
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Three of us laughed about this yesterday. We were looking at some edema of a horse's belly. Unfortunately we all bumped into each other near a main road.

People in cars were slowing down looking at us curiously.

The horse is fine, the swelling was caused by a reaction to an insect bite. Has been seen by a vet. But it was an awesome "over reaction" by the horse's body!
 
#7 ·
How about those quick stops at the grocery store while in your riding clothes smelling like a horse? Or those people who stop by to visit while you're in a hurry doing barn chores so you hand them a pitch fork and tell them if they want to talk, they have to help too! Have you ever had someone stop by while you're cleaning sheaths and udders? peeling chestnuts? pulling a mane? Worming horses when a non-horse person is around can be fun too, especially if your horse makes faces like ours do!
 
#8 ·
The laundromat......hahahhaha......I'm surprised that I haven't been caught yet. I usually go on Saturday or Sunday when there are lots of people, kids & noise! I go way in the back and put a couple blankets in the 55 gallon machines and sit and hope the managers/owners don't come back there. Hope the owner isn't reading this! LOL LOL

PS - it works!
 
#9 ·
My favorite was when I had just finished up a ride, had turned the horse out and was putting away my tack. A van pulled into the drive and flagged me down. They were lost and asking for directions. As I was explaining how to get to the other side of "the ranch" they kept looking very uneasy and concerned. It wasn't until they drove off I realized I was still holding my dressage whip. I talk and direct with my hands a lot so I must have been waving my whip around like a mad-woman.
 
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I realized I was still holding my dressage whip. I talk and direct with my hands a lot so I must have been waving my whip around like a mad-woman.

ROFL! LOL! Hehehehe.. I would've been so tempted to make a 50 Shades of Gray comment, just to see the looks on their faces. Hahaha.


I remember going to my dad's house. It's Thanksgiving, the whole family is there. He tells everyone, "Going out to feed the cows!" He gets on his John Deere, heads out with a large round bail. Typical day at the ranch. No big deal. But when he gets back none of us can recognize one inch of him. He's covered, front and back, head to toe, in shyte! Every single inch of him, covered in poo! All of us, same time, "Dad, what happened?" He's still flinging the poo off him, trying to get cleaned up enough to enter the house, standing in the door frame, "That DB (a horse he inherited who's name is Dumb B****h) decided she was gonna get pushy with the bull in order to get to my truck and they both knocked me out of the bed of the truck and into the creek!" Thankfully, no one was hurt, beside a bit of wounded pride. But the looks on the neighbor's faces when they walked up behind him- priceless.
 
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The funniest one for me was when a friend and I decided to ride to the store for something to drink and a snack. I bought a coke and some cheese its. My old girl Bella heard the wrapper and thought it was a peppermint (I think) and acted like she wanted one so I gave her a cheese it cracker. She was over whelmed with shock that it wasn't a peppermint and stood there with her head hanging down, looking like she was gagging, with a cheese crackers and grass falling out of her mouth. To passers by it looked like she was choking and gagging and we were cracking up at her reaction. The funniest part was how she cut her eyes at us sideways and then shunned us for laughing at her. Needless to say, I don't think that Bella likes cheese crackers too much.
They must have thought that we were horrid people laughing at this poor horse that was apparently going to die.
 
#15 ·
My niece's boyfriend did find it a little odd that I was looking at Laela's vulva twice a day at the end of her pregnancy. He also finds it odd that I will grab whatever to eat when I'm starving to death but my horses have to precisely this and that to eat.
 
#18 ·
I live in a livestock familiar town, but I always wonder what people think as they drive by when I am out in the pasture rubbing my mare's teats and belly button. In the summer time this is her absolute favorite itchy spot and she will stop and stand stock still with her neck craned in the air like a nutball giraffe in absolute pleasure, lips going all nutty. But what must they think I am doing under there?! :P

As for gelding sheaths... I was cleaning one of ours yesterday... First time, he didn't care at all, just as I suspected, heck, he dropped it all right there for me to do as I wished... freak (me or him?! :P )
 
#19 ·
I was trimming my horses feet a few months ago and my nephew, who's 12 saw me. He came to the fence and liked real sad, like he was going to cry. He asked me what the horse did to deserve her feet being cut of as punishment.

I always get asked why I blindfold my horses too.

One day I finally got my mare to extend at the trot. I was super excited and had to tell my non horsey husband. I told him "I finally got Mirage to extend today!"
He gave me this weird, almost horrified look. Then looked confused and said, "I thought mirage was a girl.":rofl:
 
#22 ·
I used to live in suburban-heading-for-urban NE Philadelphia. I would drive 90 minutes to get to trails to train the horse I was riding. These trails had no facilities, so I would go dressed in my (often brightly colored) riding tights. I often stopped at a particular Walmart on my way home.. still wearing my riding tights. People gave me all sorts of weird looks.. esp if I was also dirty and covered in fresh scratches (sticker bushes along the trail). I always wondered if I was featured on a "people of walmart" site somewhere!
 
#24 ·
When my sister and I were in college, we used to ride miles and miles of trails together. We rode in blue jeans, tee-shirts, boots, and ball caps. It was not unusual for us to tuck our long hair into the ball caps.

We were on our way home from the barn when we stopped at the grocery store to pick up a few items. A woman came up to us and asked, "Are you girls or boys?" We told her that we were girls, and she went into a tirade about how it was improper for young ladies to go around dressed like boys. That was almost 40 years ago. That poor old woman probably died of a heart attack by now with all the new styles kids wear.
 
#27 ·
I was unfortunate enough to get caught cleaning my stallions penis by the old man that lives along the road, helooked at me disgust, and asked why I was sponging down there, I told him he can't do it himself and it needs done, it's normal?!! lol, he must have went home and told his old wife as the next time I saw her she also looked at me in disgust, outsiders to the horse world have no idea!
 
#28 ·
The UPS man caught me doing the assembly lines health cleaning. This one gelding LOVED his cleaning and would drop and slap 'it' against his belly. Well, I didn't realize I was being observed as I handled this gelding with two hands scrubbing and a rubbing and he is a slapping and I am trying to get the bean out. It probably did look......well any way, I look up and there he is standing. He didn't even want me to touch the pen to sign! Wuss....lololol.

I did notice the UPS man had a reaction to the action though.

Go figure.
 
#29 ·
Okay if anything weird ever happens on my farm, I'm gonna be sure to load the kids up in the truck and go to my husbands work (Wal-Mart) to say howdy, take him out to lunch. Just to see the reactions on people's faces! LOL!
 
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We were fixing fence this morning, and couldn't figure out what was shorting out the electric. Three hours later, we got it working , I then raise my hands in the air exclaiming "Praise Jesus, now I can eat breakfast." Loaded up the dogs and went to Dunkin D's. I'm sure the lady at the drive through wonders if I ever shower, since I'm always dirty and sweaty with no make up on and hair stuffed under a baseball cap.
 
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#31 ·
I've gotten a few slow-down-then-drive-away-very-fast incidents when I ride with my gun on my hip. :) I can imagine the conversations inside that car. "Why does that old woman have a gun?"

The local gas station, grocery, Lowe's, and TSC are used to me showing up with my filthy, frayed jeans tucked into my mud-boots (rainbow/zebra striped) and a dirty tank top to get something I need. I always wonder what the 'normal' people think.

Or the people in the car behind me as I ride through the drive through at Sonic or Burger King.
 
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