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#1 ·
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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#30 ·
Ah, my friend's dales pony.
Rats.

We were hacking out and this rat jumped out of no where, now we don't tend to find many rats wandering the streets, however he bolted after it, and stomped and bunny hopped it to death. Once aware it truly was a bloody pulp, carried on.

My old gelding was behind another when we were out, horse in front pooped, and he tried to jump the whole thing.

50 signs on the roads. I trained Doey to go over it, then went to show my dad. LOOK SEE DAD, WE'RE ON IT. Doey looked down, realised what he was on and tried to move all four feet off at the same time, landed on it again then bolted.


Oh, and kids on trampolines. VERY VERY DANGEROUS.
 
#32 ·

  • BUTTERFLIES: "Nature just doesn't look like that... they're alien!!"

  • Sticks/Limbs on the trail... "It wasn't here when we left, on this windy day, so that means it's a camouflaged WOLF!!!"

  • Wild Turkey: "Even though I was intently following behind this just seconds ago, I've come to a conclusion; it's not a horse, so that means it eats horses."

I've literally experienced two dead broke trail horses spook because a butterfly went fluttering by... Another experience I was leading on an Appaloosa gelding when we crossed paths with a group of wild turkeys; the gelding followed them, head low and curious. After about 50 ft of this, he spooked.... :lol:
 
#33 ·
alien creatures bouncing a weapon of some sort that made a high pitched funny rubbery sound and screaming bloody murder (humans knew that it was a bunch of kids playing basketball) all of the horses spooked and looked nervously at the kids EVERY time we park near there.

Coming over a high bridge over the bayou caused my cousin to yell out "hurry up!!! a boat is coming!!!" Horses came off of bridge and we turned to go by the side of the bayou when all of the horses spooked (not so much Biscuit but his head went up and he snorted!) and cousin's horse had a cow...a very silent pontoon boat floated up and the horses couldn't seem to understand what was floating on the water and why on earth human thingies were TALKING from it. LOL Cousin's horse nervously looked for the boat on the way back!!! It was a gliding talking monster just waiting to eat little black horses!!
 
#34 · (Edited)
It's not trail riding but it was a spooking incident.....

I was pickupman at a rodeo and the funnyman clown had a "Big Bird" costume. It was about 9 feet tall and bright colored. He asked us before the show if he could scare our horses with it. We was like, "Yeah, they'll take it, they've seen everything". So me and my compadre was sitting out in the middle of the arena tryin to look cool and he starts his act. He comes straight at us slowly and methodically while making quiet bird noises and raising his wings. (He had a wireless mic and the speakers were very large). Our horses were on high alert as he approached us, crouching in a sneaking walk. My steady and solid gelding was trembling and my buddie's horse was prancing with his head in the sky. When the monstrous bird got within about 15 feet, he jumped at us and screamed at us with a bird-like "BAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWKKKKKKK!!!!!" while flapping his wings! The two horses evacuated the general premises at a full panicked run. They made 3 laps around the arena. I thought they were gonna have to open up the gate and let us out. Finally we got em stopped and everybody got a laugh at our expense.
 
#35 ·
bahahahahahahhaha

My horse is terrified of water. But only the first time through. "You want me to do WHAT? But it's scary, I'll die, it'll eat me. There are lions and tigers and crocodiles and I'M GOING TO DI- oh. Not so scary after all."

EVERY SINGLE DAMN TIME. This horse is an eventing horse used to water jumps! Silly pony.

One thing that made me laugh so hard was that I saw a pigeon in a tree and I was telling my then horse that it was there, it was going to fly up and out, and no, he wasn't going to die... as we passed it the bird flew out of the tree and the horse didn't even flinch but I swear I jumped an inch out of the saddle! bahahahahha
 
#36 ·
One thing I wish they would find spooky is porcupines!:lol:.No the slow moving creatures are cool:-o lets get our nose down,follow it & see what this thing is passing through:shock: Ewww it is prickly....:-x Guess it's not edible:wink::?
 
#37 ·
this guy. No joke.
Every year since our equestrian center is shared and owned by the Orange County Fair, this huge guy posts up shop in one of our teeeeeeny little 12x12 stalls. He moos and moos and moos and thumps around in the little stall. The horses nearly have a melt down the couple weeks he's in the barn.
You'd have to see him to understand the seriousness of this monster steer! hahaha!:lol:
 

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#40 · (Edited)
Things to be scared of, from my horse's perspective:
10: Things that move.
9: Things that don't move.
8. Things that are quiet.
7. Things that are loud.
6. Surprises of any type.
5. Trusty inanimate objects we pass everyday, unscathed.
4. Air, when it moves too fast.
3. Anything that moves fast, including my shadow.
2. Things that move too slow. Who knows what they may be up to?
1. Most importantly, NOTHING. As in, nothing is there, but it might materialize at any second and scare me... and I should be scared of the potential for horse eating nothings to materialize.

I think that about covers it, no?

Haha... okay, in all honesty, we got a new barrel in our arena that was a different color than all of the rest that we owned. My trusty horse decided (after passing it 10 times, mind you) that she should take sudden notice and act surprised. After doing the "jump and cower" maneuver, with her chest approximately a foot off of the ground, she huffed and puffed around it for the next few rounds. This is the same horse that could have cared less when a neighbor's horses (and various other hooved creatures which they keep paddocked together) came thundering to check us out as we rode by one day.
 
#41 ·
Shoulder length gloves lol.
My new horse is terrified of humans. Except for his momma of course :P took me 4 months to be able to catch him. Now he's a sweetie. He's afraid of styrofoam coffee cups now. He just decided thqt they are snort and tremble worthy last week.
My old horse was terrified of brooms, donkeys, mules, alpacas, and cowboy hats.
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#45 ·
Chip: Hey Nick, I've been reading these "Top 10 Spooky Things" and yanno what? I'm not afraid of any of 'em!

Nick: Really? Not blowing bags?

Chip: Nope!

Nick: Barking dogs?

Chip: Nope!

Nick: Going through water?

Chip: Nope!

Nick: Rocks? Shivery bushes? Butterflies?

Chip: Nope nope nope!

Nick: Things that move?

Chip: Nope!

Nick: Things that don't?

Chip: Nope!

Nick: How about air?

Chip: Nope... what? What about air? Why would I be afraid of air?

Nick: Well, it's all around you. Yanno, touching you, touching your body, your legs heh heh heh your butt, your tail. And the scary part is, you can't even see it!

Chip: *cocks an ear* Well I know you can't see it but...

Nick: And when it gets angry, it blows. You've felt wind, right?

Chip: Well yeah....

Nick: Big winds comes from anywhere and stop any time. We have no control over it! *wicked look* And air gets inside you, in your lungs. What if it suddenly stops? What if you have no air?

Chip: *breathing heavy* Stops? It can stop?

Nick: Sure, wind stops right? So can air. *evil grin* but the worst part is the amoebas in it.

Chip: AMOEBAS? WHAT THE HECK ARE AMOEBAS?

Nick: Little one celled critters you can't even see! They're in the air, in the water. They are inside you RIGHT NOW!

Chip: THEY ARE??? *running crazily from one side of the pasture to the other* AAAHHHhhhhhhhhhhh aaaaaaaaahhhhhhHHHHHHHH AMOEBAS INSIDE ME! AHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Nick: heh heh heh. My job here is done.
 
#49 ·
Donkeys. and miniature mules.

When Dallas was 3 and in training to pull a cart, I decided it would be a good idea to first take a walk down the road past the neighbor's donkey & mule farm before we tried to drive past it. So, we take a walk with Dallas in his halter and lead rope, and he sees these little donkeys and mules who start braying at him and running up to the fence to see who he is. Dallas dances around at the end of the lead rope and launches himself behind me, peering over my shoulder with his face up against my cheek. Hiding behind me. I thought I would crack up.
 
#50 ·
Curbs:
WTH! All of the sudden the road has an edge! SERIOUSLY? You want me to walk by that! I'd rather get hit by a car.

Orange:
I CAN'T SEE IT! I see the legs, the arms, the face, WHERE IS THE TORSO!? WHERE IS IT!!?????????

Like said before Pigs:
Years ago 500 lb. hog gets loose from neighbor, comes to the farm and meets ROOSTER, the GELDING FROM HADES! He literally ATTACKED it over the fence, biting the tar out of its back and STILL it continued to walk along the fenceline. So I lured it away with a bad batch of sugar cookies. Apparently some neighbors called the police and they found it napping on my front porch, stopping traffic for blocks. People were actually taking pictures with it. My house was colonial looking, huge pillars, the contrast was hilarious! Only in AR. So I gave the police the rest of the cookies to lure it back to it's farm. Why I didn't video it!!!!! The officer led the "pig" a mile down the road with my cookies followed by his partner in the patrol car. People were pulling over in my yard cracking up and taking pictures!
 
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#52 ·
In this horse book, dont remeber the name but it has some funny things that spook horses like thermonuclear bombs. And the Jack the horse i ride was scared crazy because he saw a squirrel on the fence through the bushes and i feel off for the first time.
 
#53 ·
Most of these have been mentioned before, but my gelding freaks at them.

Pigeons in the rafters of the arena:
"Oh my God! They're above me! They're gonna swoop down and EAT ME!"

Shadows on a windy day:
"Holy jeez, it just MOVED! IT'S STILL MOVING!! Run AWAY!!!!"

Wind:
"What just moved?! Something just TOUCHED ME. And it took my hearing, so the shadows and coyotes will be able to SNEAK UP ON ME."

When he gets sweaty and his legs rub:
"Holy jeez, what was that noise?! It's coming from RIGHT BELOW ME. IT'S GONNA JUMP UP AND EAT ME!!!"

The Wash Rack (while itty bitty holes in the mat for drainage):
"You want me to get on THERE? I may be 1000+ lbs and those holes the size of a penny, but I could FALL THROUGH. And then I'd get STUCK and the SHADOWS would EAT ME."

Objects that have always been in the same place:
"That object has been at the barn since I've been here, but it just wants to placate me. Soon, it'll jump out and EAT ME, just you watch!"

Oh, silly horses.
 
#54 ·
Lol these are great! I would like to add these to the list:
Leaves: they rustle and make noises!
Shadows: oh my god! It's my evil other half! It's going to eat me!
Tractors: oh man! It's an un-natural color AND that thing looks dangerous!

Keep in mind that this is my friend's mare's fears. This mare isn't scared of a lumber truck flying by her, can handle traffic without blinking an eye, has been through a construction site, is fine with gun shots and cannons, and handles horse shows like a champ. YET she is scared of leaves she has stepped over a million times, her shadow that she has to see at least everyday, and a tractor she walks by everyday in her pasture that isn't even running.
 
#57 ·
One time my mare decided that a western saddle was the scariest thing EVER! I went to walk her in the arena and it was sitting on the bench and she would not go near it, she finally got over her irrational fear and we got to ridding and after about 10 laps around she suddenly decided it was scarey again. Oh and another scarey thing is when the pony gets out and suddenly walks past the arena door, on tuesday my friend was getting her bridle on to ride her and he walked by and she flew like a wolf just walked in and tried to eat her, It took her a good 10 minutes to calm down from that, she stared at me wide eyed like "MOM seriously! did you see that, he came out of NO WHERE! I Just need a minute, just hold on...phew ok, I'm ok now" It was kinda cute. She also will spook as a sideways cone after she's walked passed it 10 times she notices it's not right. TB's are funny creatures, I love her but sometimes she is so goofy!
 
#59 ·
I have to say butterflies, my daughters gelding is a fearless bombproof guy, but one day he came across a bush with a bunch of butterflies that took flight when he walked by, he freaked and bolted, mind you this is a very laid back lazy horse, he ran all the way home. My daughter didn't get dumped no one got hurt, except my daughters pride, we shouldn't have laughed at it but it was so funny. He still doesn't like that bush and side steps it it's been several years since the butterfly attack.

My horses don't really care for emus either.
 
#60 ·
Fast moving shallow water! They will plunge through deep puddles, deep creeks, love to wade in the pond! But try and cross a two inch deep rushing stream with 4 inch smooth rock tables and it's like OMG NEVER SEEN WATER!!!!! Nose rattle! You walkin me through this girl!
 
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