What Are The "DUMB" Horse Things You've Done

[Jean_B]

Big horse related from many years ago -- NEVER ride a horse for the first time in the spring after a long winter rest...bareback and wearing a snowmobile suit--you know -- the SLIPPERY kind!! All was fine until the sucker started crow hopping (what WAS I thinking anyway??) and I was about 3 miles from home. It was a long cold walk home and he was waiting for me when I finally got there.

 

[sandra dittus]

This one just happened yesterday.... I love to dress my horses up for Parades, Christmas , Halloween ect...

We are wlaking in a Childrens Mardi Gras parade next week so I decided to try on the gold lame' coats that I had just finished putting bright shinny trim on, the sun was shinning and those coats were bright (put you sunglasses on bright) Everything was going fine until I decided to but a headband with shinny pom-poms that jiggle on one of them, She freaked ran down the hill toward her pasture, the other horses that were in the pasture seen that gaudy monster coming toward them and they all ran like the devil was chasing them. After chasing her for about 10 min. I finely caught her I took off the pom-poms and she was just fine. It was windy out so I figure it was either the noise of the tinsle or they were tickling her ears. Glad I tried them on before going to the parade, the parade is next week so we have time to practice think I will leave the head-band pom poms home.

Sandy

 

[dannigirl]

Now I don't feel quite so silly since it seems everybody does dumb things. One of my dumbest was while feeding. We have all of our mares in a dry lot at night because the pasture runs along a woods area with cyotes and stuff so we like to know they are safe. To get them from lot to pasture and back again, they go through an aisle in the barn--in one door--around 4 stalls--out the other door. Actually, it works great--as long as you close the other gates in the barn. There are 2 gates and a door between them and getting out for "freedom run" and don't you know that I let them all open one night when I was in a hurry and hubby was working late. I was standing in the pasture watching and counting mares and thought how strange it seemed that not many were coming through, when I looked up and they were running around the outside of the lot. Fortunately two guys were leaving the neighbors and they helped me get them in, but I really do check that gate every time now. I close all three.

 

[littlehorse2]

[SIZE=14pt]MIne happened the other day. I was in the barn cleaning my stalls and I left a gate open in the barn, my hubby came out and said should this be open Trisket is in the run in. I said yeah she never tries to get out, I shut the gat anyways. Well when I was done with the stall I was cleaning I have to go out through the run in to get to my manure pile, I thought I shut the gate tight, but nope. I get done dumping my wheelbarrow and turn around to see Trisket moseing(sp?) out the door. She doesn't like to be caught, she she took off up the hill. I yelled to my mom's foster kid to go up there andtry to get her down to me. Not a problem she's still sacred of people (she was a rescue). Called to my hubby to get grain beacuse she's food hound and will come to food. Thank god she is a food hound. I caught her and got her into her stall.[/SIZE]

There was also the time last fall that I forgot to lock the side door on my big stall and Bell and Smarty got out some time in the Am before 7am. We had everyone including the nieghbors looking for them. The where about 1/4 of a mile up the big hill behind my mom's house. I paniced because people don't stop for animals around here, but no horses on the road. I got them and brought them into the run in. They slept most of the day from their little adventure, plus they were full from eating grass.

Christy

 

[slaneyrose]

There is more but this is all I'm going to admit to for now Thankfully I do the dumb things to myself and not to my animals. I really don't know how I keep from earning myself that Darwin Award sometimes.

 


These were hilarious and I think you DO deserve an award for these Shirley!!!!! :aktion033:

 

[KrisP]

My absoulute DUMBEST was as a kid, I had a little 1/2 QH 1/2 arab and we used to race through the corn fields with our stirrups out letting the rows of corn go under our legs :new_shocked: I know STUPID KIDS! But one time we came to a low spot in the field where the corn didn't take, just a HUGE mud puddle, my horse came to a DEAD STOP, next thing I knew I was flat on the ground looking UP HIS NOSTRILS! AHH, what a GOOD horse Fletcher was, saved my life more times than I can count!

K, going to tell on hubby now, such a sweet and well intentioned man, lol, but NOT raised with animals so some times it can get interesting, lol! He seems to forget that animals don't turn off like a tractor does! I use my trailer during the day for a quick holding pen when turning horses in and out, I'd put Tucker in there for a few minutes to go hay one barn and then bring another horse out, I'd just been through ALL the barns and paddocks so KNEW that everyone was in their places. Suddenly hear hubby hollering "LOOSE HORSE LOOSE HORSE" and he NEVER YELLS :new_shocked: :new_shocked: Came around the corner to see hubby hanging onto the tailgate of the truck with one hand and the other arm around Tuckers neck and being pulled in two! LOLOL, he'd noticed a piece of the trim on the trailer door was loose so had opened the door to fix it, not thinking that Tucker might actually exit the trailer

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: BTW, there was another stud in a round pen not 20 feet from them and Tucker was itching for a fight, lolol! :bgrin

krisp