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."
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."
Mountain bike rider in goggles and orange (during hunting season) approaching on the trail - looks to be someone who landed here in a UFO to Montana. Do a 180 and RUN!!!
The noise the gravel makes when it comes off their hoof and rolls thru the leaves in the woods. Because it MUST be a horse eating creatrue come to get them!!!
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*
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
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.
Tadpoles - OMG, something is MOVING in the mud hole!! Not only will I get stuck and have to await the coyotes coming to eat me, but things will be swimming around my feet and TOUCHING my hooves...
Pigs-oh my god!! OH MY GOD!!! it's coming my way! It's short, fat and smells bad and IT'S COMING TO KILL ME! SOMEBODY SAVE ME!
One time the neighbors huge pig came wandering into the horses pastures and they all nearly lost their minds, mine was hiding behind her gelding friend lol Bella was jumpy for a week after that!
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.
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
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.
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.
Basically what im getting from this thread is... Horses are scared of 2 things. Things that move and things that dont! Haha. Posted via Mobile Device
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