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Top 10 Spookey Things from a Horse's Point of View

10. Blowing Paper:
"At any moment it could whip up into our faces, covering our noses. We could suffocate. And don't try to tell us you'd do CPR."

9. Barking Dogs:
"What? You've never read Steven King's CUJO?"

8. Puddles of Water:
"Quicksand."

7. Trash Cans:
"They've been known to swallow horses and transport them into another dimension."

6. Babies and Li'l Kids:
"Long lost tribe of horse-eating pygmies."

5. Plaid Horse Blankets:
"Hey, when was the last time you wore plaid? It adds 100 lbs."

4. Ropes and Hoses on the Ground:
"Dreaded North American Trail Snakes."

3. Ponies:
"Cute, cleaver, hardy. They want to take over the world."

2. Windy Days:
"Two Words: impending tornado."

1. Carts and Wagons:
"Look. You put a human on our backs, we can always buck them off. But hitching a horse to a wheeled object? It's just not right."
 
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More to add:

Shadows:
"There IS something stalking me!!! PROOF!"

Squirrels:
"Look at them! They are full of furry evilness!!"

Water:
"Obviously very scary!"

Mud:
"It is going to make me get stuck. I will then be stuck forever while my friends leave me. As I am stuck I will obviously be attacked by a pack of coyotes."

Tarps:
"NOTHING that makes that much noise can possibly be safe"

Cell phones ringing:
"Its like horror music, it makes scary situations worse."
 
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Pavement:
I have seen it a million times... But it is so scary all the sudden, its gonna eat me... No! I will not go on it. How dare you ask me.

Saddle:
Ahhhhh..What is that???? I have never seen it, why are you putting it there, it is attacking me, see it landed on my back!

Jumps:
Its.... Gonna.... Eat.. Me... WHAT?! You are telling me to go over it?! No way.
 
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Saddle:
Ahhhhh..What is that???? I have never seen it, why are you putting it there, it is attacking me, see it landed on my back!
OMG! This one! lol If you go to put a different saddle on Aires or a different saddle pad, he acts like he's never seen a saddle or pad in his entire life.

I just have to add...

GOATS!! :shock:

My normally fearless gelding who completely ignores dogs, children on bicycles, other horses, all the scary things (especially for a young one), is TERRIFIED of goats and is thoroughly convinced that they are going to eat him. Nevermind that the goat barely comes to my knee. *facepalm*
 
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kittens - little creatures who attack my tail to climb to my back... little devil creatures.

chickens- horrendous birds that eat my food... this will not do!!!

stuffed animals (toys) - they are staring at me! seriously they are still staring..freeze. look they didn't even blink that means they see me... time to get out of here.RUN
 
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And even more scary - Hikers with hiking sticks. It's people walking with things that look suspiciously like whips and other torture devices.

Deer - even though this one looks like the hundreds out in the pasture all year, this buck on the trail with the rather large rack wants to eat me.

Large anthills - They may all come out of there at once and carry me away. Have you seen one ant carry five times its body weight? Imagine what all the ones who live in there can carry away.
 
#58 ·
Apparently pigs are related to bears so when a horses small a pig they panic and try to get away to avoid being lunch
 
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Boulders.
Deer.
Dogs.
Shiny things.
Dull things.
Things that move.
Things that stay still.
Loud things.
Quiet things.
Things they've seen a million times.
Things they've never seen.
Odd Shapes.
Small things.
Big things.
Things overhead.
Things underneath.
Things far away.
Things really close.
Stuff they can see.
Stuff they can't see.
Stuff that isn't actually there.
 
#25 ·
10 Deer
They might be small but they can still eat him
9 wild turkey
Gosh those things are scary
8 pinic table
It just might move. and try and get him
7 shadow
Its a big dark scary thing coming to get him
6 cell phone vibrating in my pocket
as long as u can hear it its scary
5 brids
those little flying things are scary when ur riding and they come out of no where
4 someone walking up the driveway
yea that way scaryier then a trailer coming down it
3 wind
when it hits the barn make load noise so scary even tho he in the barn moast of the time
2 babys
when they cry what the ###$#$ is that
1 Nothing
he just thinks there something there but there not
 
#27 ·
My friend's horse is so funny when he spooks, he spooks on some of the strangest things here's just a sample of the many: frightening yellow flowers that sway in the breeze, prehistoric horse eating squirrels, grey rocks with white stripes (this should never ever be allowed to happen in nature really!), and finally, the ever fearful blood thirsty attack-partridges. I'm enjoying this thread! Thanks.
 
#28 ·
One that has been missed is road signs or barricades. Especially the ones that have flags.

A question for when the horse spooks. What do you do?

If it's safe, I have them approach the object and touch it with their nose.
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If it's safe, I have them approach the object and touch it with their nose.
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I love this method. Cheyenne is taught to "touch" whatever scares her. She might up to it shaking like a leaf and breathing heavy but she will walk up to whatever it is and touch it. Because it's winter we now have pigs in the same barn as the horses and Cheyenne has walked around and "touched" every pig there trying to figure out what they are. She loves the the piglets though.
 
#29 ·
Basically what im getting from this thread is... Horses are scared of 2 things. Things that move and things that dont! Haha.
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