Top Ten Spook List - Page 5

PaintsQH · 07-22-2009, 10:48 PM

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Originally Posted by enigma

I reallly see eventing in your future.

Yes, the dreaded couch in the middle of a trail next to a pile of other junk like clothes, a TV and sometimes a pile of beer bottle. Someone had a party

My street and one a few miles up are the only accessible ones to an old tram road and out into the woods. The rest have a huge canal. Anyway, we would be riding along and here comes a car baja'ing on down the trail.

The horses would freak. Not that they were scared of cars but you couldnt see them because of tree's. I think the latest trend is burned or stripped cars. Kinda freaky cause we saw one burnt to a crisp in the middle of nowhere

And no.....I don't live in a poverty stricken area nor am I a hillbilly

Just the local dingbats would use the woods as the city dump. Kinda pi$$ed me off. Moron's...

rideatennwalker · 07-24-2009, 10:47 PM

I don't think any one said this one a Rain Suit.
I would put my rain gear on to go out and feed up during bad weather and my mare just knew it was going to jump off me and eat her or that I was some kind of green monster.

Pocahontas47 · 07-25-2009, 01:29 PM

my horse Stormy is scared of white lines on the road, mailboxes, bikes, donkeys, cows, pigs, dogs, funny looking bushes, other horses, buckets, plastic bags, peices of rubber on the side of the road, coke bottle, once he even hit himself with his own tail and got scared, you name it hes scared of it.

For8tune · 07-25-2009, 06:07 PM

What my horse spooks at can be summed up in 2 sentences....

1. Things that move

2. Things that don't move

dixiesmom · 07-25-2009, 07:48 PM

Rode Dixie today. These are just "paths" on private land and we're new to them so we don't know our way around. Wandered and wandered crossing a small creek several times, passing some sort of transmitter tower etc. On the way back, the only thing I saw was some rocks, but she absolutely froze and WOULD NOT go forward. We had to back track a short way and then go a wider distance from the rocks. She still kept an eye out to be sure they didn't come crashing out of the woods. Didn't really spook, but it's the first time I've ever seen her do that. Of course generally her spook is just "twitching in place" like she has an annoying big fly.

Appy_527 · 08-01-2009, 11:38 AM

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Originally Posted by For8tune

What my horse spooks at can be summed up in 2 sentences....

1. Things that move

2. Things that don't move

Exactly!! I want a t-shirt with this printed on it.

I told my mother this for the first time a few months ago and she started cracking up.

Also, why is it that my horse is pastured next to the road (we live on a busy road with semis and such going by daily) and my horse is NEVER bothered but when I try to lead him down the pasture to out lunging spot, he spooks at a small 4 door car?!?!?!

green.willow · 10-11-2009, 08:22 PM

I know spooking is a terrible, critical safety issue. Indeed, I found this forum because Phoebe and I just went for our first trail ride and I was looking for some advice on helping her get over spooking when the crazy speed demon bicyclists pass us, but this is about the funniest thread I have ever read. OMG-- I have tears in my eyes. Thanks everyone.

rescueme · 10-11-2009, 08:34 PM

What about the horse that's not afraid of anything when you're on the ground next to them, but immediately forgets all the sacking out and ground work as soon as you are in the saddle? Or the dog that is behind the fence and barks at them in the pasture, but as soon as you try to ride by, the dog rushes the fence and the horse suddenly realizes that he's never seen that dog before!!!

merleliz · 10-11-2009, 10:20 PM

How about the wheelbarrow he's been scarfing hay out of for the past hour, that turns into a scary horse eating monster once the hay is gone...

myboyjake · 10-11-2009, 11:34 PM

round bales.. I will eat them in the pasture but my god do not ride me past those horse eating things...

singing tree · 10-12-2009, 07:04 PM

I think horses were real estate salesmen in their former lives - After all, it all seems to be about LOCATION. LOCATION, LOCATION

If you move it, we will spook at it.....

Range · 10-18-2009, 10:04 AM

I wear the blanket, but do not hang it on my stall door.

The cat on the stall is fine, the cat in the arena is not.

The dogs are fine, but please...that yellow raincoat you put on them? That makes the tiny thing more than capable of eating me!

enchanting · 10-18-2009, 12:18 PM

This is one main reason why we never say a horse in bomb proof. So many things that can cause a horse to spook, they may be fine with 99.9% of stuff going on around them, but it only takes at .1% to get someone hurt.

The POA I grew up riding would spook at anything (on some days). A piece of straw sticking out of the ground. The sound of something hitting a plastic fence, a flower, a tarp, marching bands, stumps, logs, rocks, plastic bags (now we will eat out of them, but if there is no grain we will not go near them). Just about anything else you can think of. At the same time we could do anything with him.

I was so proud of my ApHC mare a few years ago. We had company over and we brought her out for the kids to pet. Other kids got bored and started running, riding bikes etc. They would ride passed her on the bikes one rode right up towards her and slid to a stop in front of her nose. She just stood there. She didn't even flinch. I rode her bareback up to where the family was tarping hay, and she went right up to it without a problem. Now take her on a trail ride and she is fine over everything except crossing water. If there are leaves covering the water to where she can't see it she is fine, but if there is nothing blocking her view, she's convinced it will get her. When we do go over it, it is with a giant leap to try to make sure we don't touch it.

singing tree · 10-18-2009, 12:25 PM

"When we do go over it, it is with a giant leap to try to make sure we don't touch it."

My Morgan was a "creek leaper" until one day we came to a nice wide shallow river. My wonderful fox trotter went in and stood in the middle. She wanted to go where he was, attempted a leap and landed in the middle in about one foot of water. She stood stock still, not quite knowing what to do. Eventually she started moving, and noticed that it really felt pretty nice. From then on, things started getting better about not making huge leaps over creeks - though once in awhile I am not paying attention, and she will leap. Fortunately, up until now I have managed to stay on!!

qtrhorse1993 · 10-18-2009, 01:05 PM

rolf!!!

singing tree · 10-18-2009, 05:28 PM

I got pretty tickled about that myself. Obviously, if I had landed in the river instead, I may have thought a little differently about her approach....

Oh yes, a few years later, I took her swimming in a lake with a friend whose horse liked swimming. She really thought that was neat. A few weeks later, we went in the late just ankle deep, and she laid down to cool off. Beware of what you ask for...

Lorna · 10-20-2009, 01:37 PM

Just happened to find this thread!!! OMG I am still laughing. Whiskey thought a big black plastic garbage bag was going to eat him--so I tied the bag to the outside of his stall near his feed bucket (he couldn't reach the bag) then I made sure the fan was turned on to make the bag have movement. I sat down and watched him decide if he was hungry enough to eat or let the bag have his feed. It didn't take long for him to realize that the bag was not going to eat him, and he ate his feed without any problems. This problem solved--HOWEVER at a horse show a honey bee landed on Whiskey's nose and he froze. Stopped completly until the bee flew away. The judge is still laughing!!!!

enchanting · 10-21-2009, 11:04 AM

We tried to tie the plastic bags of cans around my POAs feed pan. He would eat the feed as if the bags weren't even there, but let him see that bag anywhere else, and he was long gone.

We were showing at the state fair one year and were going to do a horsemanship class. They had large exhaust fans in the ceiling that left bright sun spots on the floor of the arena. So I worked all during the lunch break to get him used to them so we could do our pattern without problems. Just as we were getting ready to start our class, they decided to move the cones for the pattern to inside the sun spots. He wouldn't go near it. Oh well, I loved that little guy. Heres a link to an old web page that I had of him. We lost him when he was 24 yrs old. http://www.enchantingacres.com/silver.html

Lorna · 10-21-2009, 01:25 PM

enchanting, thank you for the link to the web page. I enjoyed reading about your POA. As far as Whiskey and the big, bad, black plastic bag--you just never know what they will do when they see the same bag in a different setting. Horses must laugh at us trying to figure them out!!!

MCCURDY HORSE · 10-21-2009, 01:44 PM

When I started riding and dogs would dart in and out of the woods, I would just tell my horse "dog". Next thing you know, I was calling everything a dog. Funny, but now if something is spooky to my horse, I just say "dog" and he seems to calm right down.

07-24-2009, 10:47 PM
rideatennwalker Weanling Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Virginia Posts: 340	I don't think any one said this one a Rain Suit. I would put my rain gear on to go out and feed up during bad weather and my mare just knew it was going to jump off me and eat her or that I was some kind of green monster. __________________ A True Horsewoman Does Not Look At A Horse With Her Eyes, But With Her Heart !!!!!!

07-25-2009, 01:29 PM
Pocahontas47 Newborn Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Huntland,TN Posts: 22	my horse Stormy is scared of white lines on the road, mailboxes, bikes, donkeys, cows, pigs, dogs, funny looking bushes, other horses, buckets, plastic bags, peices of rubber on the side of the road, coke bottle, once he even hit himself with his own tail and got scared, you name it hes scared of it. __________________ Pocahontas & Blazer

07-25-2009, 06:07 PM
For8tune Yearling Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Monroe, GA Posts: 553	What my horse spooks at can be summed up in 2 sentences.... 1. Things that move 2. Things that don't move __________________ Proud Mom to a Spoiled Rotten Arabian Gelding ~Fame Fortune~ http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/fame+fortune

07-25-2009, 07:48 PM
dixiesmom Weanling Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: North Carolina Posts: 434	Rode Dixie today. These are just "paths" on private land and we're new to them so we don't know our way around. Wandered and wandered crossing a small creek several times, passing some sort of transmitter tower etc. On the way back, the only thing I saw was some rocks, but she absolutely froze and WOULD NOT go forward. We had to back track a short way and then go a wider distance from the rocks. She still kept an eye out to be sure they didn't come crashing out of the woods. Didn't really spook, but it's the first time I've ever seen her do that. Of course generally her spook is just "twitching in place" like she has an annoying big fly.

10-11-2009, 08:22 PM
green.willow Halter broke Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: nowhere Posts: 104	Laughing til I cried I know spooking is a terrible, critical safety issue. Indeed, I found this forum because Phoebe and I just went for our first trail ride and I was looking for some advice on helping her get over spooking when the crazy speed demon bicyclists pass us, but this is about the funniest thread I have ever read. OMG-- I have tears in my eyes. Thanks everyone.

10-11-2009, 08:34 PM
rescueme Halter broke Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: My dream home Posts: 113	What about the horse that's not afraid of anything when you're on the ground next to them, but immediately forgets all the sacking out and ground work as soon as you are in the saddle? Or the dog that is behind the fence and barks at them in the pasture, but as soon as you try to ride by, the dog rushes the fence and the horse suddenly realizes that he's never seen that dog before!!! __________________ "Poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine."

10-11-2009, 10:20 PM
merleliz Seasoned Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Fairburn, Georgia Posts: 4,467	How about the wheelbarrow he's been scarfing hay out of for the past hour, that turns into a scary horse eating monster once the hay is gone... __________________ VOTE FOR "DUSTY TRAILS HORSE RESCUE" DAILY IN THE PETFINDER SHELTER CHALLENGE! http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/c...faces?siteId=3

10-11-2009, 11:34 PM
myboyjake Weanling Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: ohio Posts: 353	round bales.. I will eat them in the pasture but my god do not ride me past those horse eating things...

10-12-2009, 07:04 PM
singing tree Long Yearling Join Date: May 2009 Location: Hartville, Ohio Posts: 1,025	I think horses were real estate salesmen in their former lives - After all, it all seems to be about LOCATION. LOCATION, LOCATION If you move it, we will spook at it.....

10-18-2009, 10:04 AM
Range Kid Safe Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Back of Beyond Posts: 6,739	I wear the blanket, but do not hang it on my stall door. The cat on the stall is fine, the cat in the arena is not. The dogs are fine, but please...that yellow raincoat you put on them? That makes the tiny thing more than capable of eating me! __________________ "Be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it all... you just might get it all, and then some you don't want." Chris Daughtery

10-18-2009, 12:18 PM
enchanting Halter broke Join Date: May 2006 Location: Ohio Posts: 197	This is one main reason why we never say a horse in bomb proof. So many things that can cause a horse to spook, they may be fine with 99.9% of stuff going on around them, but it only takes at .1% to get someone hurt. The POA I grew up riding would spook at anything (on some days). A piece of straw sticking out of the ground. The sound of something hitting a plastic fence, a flower, a tarp, marching bands, stumps, logs, rocks, plastic bags (now we will eat out of them, but if there is no grain we will not go near them). Just about anything else you can think of. At the same time we could do anything with him. I was so proud of my ApHC mare a few years ago. We had company over and we brought her out for the kids to pet. Other kids got bored and started running, riding bikes etc. They would ride passed her on the bikes one rode right up towards her and slid to a stop in front of her nose. She just stood there. She didn't even flinch. I rode her bareback up to where the family was tarping hay, and she went right up to it without a problem. Now take her on a trail ride and she is fine over everything except crossing water. If there are leaves covering the water to where she can't see it she is fine, but if there is nothing blocking her view, she's convinced it will get her. When we do go over it, it is with a giant leap to try to make sure we don't touch it. __________________ Enchanting Acres Appaloosas www.enchantingacres.com

10-18-2009, 12:25 PM
singing tree Long Yearling Join Date: May 2009 Location: Hartville, Ohio Posts: 1,025	"When we do go over it, it is with a giant leap to try to make sure we don't touch it." My Morgan was a "creek leaper" until one day we came to a nice wide shallow river. My wonderful fox trotter went in and stood in the middle. She wanted to go where he was, attempted a leap and landed in the middle in about one foot of water. She stood stock still, not quite knowing what to do. Eventually she started moving, and noticed that it really felt pretty nice. From then on, things started getting better about not making huge leaps over creeks - though once in awhile I am not paying attention, and she will leap. Fortunately, up until now I have managed to stay on!!

10-18-2009, 01:05 PM
qtrhorse1993 Yearling Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Johnstown, New York Posts: 706	rolf!!! __________________ The world meets no one half way, but your horse will meet you all the way.

10-18-2009, 05:28 PM
singing tree Long Yearling Join Date: May 2009 Location: Hartville, Ohio Posts: 1,025	I got pretty tickled about that myself. Obviously, if I had landed in the river instead, I may have thought a little differently about her approach.... Oh yes, a few years later, I took her swimming in a lake with a friend whose horse liked swimming. She really thought that was neat. A few weeks later, we went in the late just ankle deep, and she laid down to cool off. Beware of what you ask for... Last edited by singing tree : 10-18-2009 at 05:31 PM.

10-20-2009, 01:37 PM
Lorna Weanling Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Belle Chasse, LA Posts: 321	Just happened to find this thread!!! OMG I am still laughing. Whiskey thought a big black plastic garbage bag was going to eat him--so I tied the bag to the outside of his stall near his feed bucket (he couldn't reach the bag) then I made sure the fan was turned on to make the bag have movement. I sat down and watched him decide if he was hungry enough to eat or let the bag have his feed. It didn't take long for him to realize that the bag was not going to eat him, and he ate his feed without any problems. This problem solved--HOWEVER at a horse show a honey bee landed on Whiskey's nose and he froze. Stopped completly until the bee flew away. The judge is still laughing!!!!

10-21-2009, 11:04 AM
enchanting Halter broke Join Date: May 2006 Location: Ohio Posts: 197	We tried to tie the plastic bags of cans around my POAs feed pan. He would eat the feed as if the bags weren't even there, but let him see that bag anywhere else, and he was long gone. We were showing at the state fair one year and were going to do a horsemanship class. They had large exhaust fans in the ceiling that left bright sun spots on the floor of the arena. So I worked all during the lunch break to get him used to them so we could do our pattern without problems. Just as we were getting ready to start our class, they decided to move the cones for the pattern to inside the sun spots. He wouldn't go near it. Oh well, I loved that little guy. Heres a link to an old web page that I had of him. We lost him when he was 24 yrs old. http://www.enchantingacres.com/silver.html __________________ Enchanting Acres Appaloosas www.enchantingacres.com

10-21-2009, 01:25 PM
Lorna Weanling Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Belle Chasse, LA Posts: 321	enchanting, thank you for the link to the web page. I enjoyed reading about your POA. As far as Whiskey and the big, bad, black plastic bag--you just never know what they will do when they see the same bag in a different setting. Horses must laugh at us trying to figure them out!!!

10-21-2009, 01:44 PM
MCCURDY HORSE Weanling Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Sweet Home Alabama Posts: 233	When I started riding and dogs would dart in and out of the woods, I would just tell my horse "dog". Next thing you know, I was calling everything a dog. Funny, but now if something is spooky to my horse, I just say "dog" and he seems to calm right down. __________________ Anita