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Post by jen1 on Jan 6, 2011 22:06:28 GMT 1
minute pootle down the , A682 , its the second time in his short life he has seen , buses,artics, tipper wagons , vans up his ass, and grates honestly not bothered by traffic at all but those gutter monsters were out in force,  tom does tarps, :)he does bogs,  puddles, ;Dim hoping he will just grow out of the grate and drain cover thing , cos i havnt a clue how to train for this one,  but he is only 3 all 17hh of him,  |
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Post by laurac on Jan 6, 2011 22:19:32 GMT 1
what a brave boy he is, i'm, sure those scary grates will disappear  |
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Post by 2 bays & a grey:D on Jan 6, 2011 22:27:58 GMT 1
blimey, wish I was brave enough to bomb proof for all of that!!!
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Post by Mellymoo on Jan 6, 2011 23:18:32 GMT 1
Bless him! None of ours like grates either I'm afraid, but we don't ahve a massive spook sideways at least!
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Post by jen1 on Jan 7, 2011 11:30:18 GMT 1
what a brave boy he is, i'm, sure those scary grates will disappear you will have to fetch em to mine, i think traffic training is my forte, mainly because traffic just doesnt bother me, |
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Post by jennyg on Jan 7, 2011 14:59:31 GMT 1
I'll send mine up to you then Jen! It's so quiet by me, especially at weekends or evenings so she just never gets the chance to meet lorries. As a consequence she is not bombproof - sensible but not overly keen on tractors and large vehicles. I would love to be able to stand her at the junction of an A road and let her watch thing whizz by.
Your horse sounds fab!
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Post by jen1 on Jan 7, 2011 18:53:36 GMT 1
did i mention all of mine were bomb proof with large objects ,lol  |
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Post by Hannah on Jan 7, 2011 21:45:22 GMT 1
My first pony was scared of drains and man-hole covers. Doing my Riding and Road Safety test was interesting as he spooked all over the road!
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Post by auburnalia on Jan 7, 2011 22:17:54 GMT 1
Oh he is clever! ;D
And if being scared of drains is the worst he's going to do, well that's not so bad! ;D
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Post by donnalex on Jan 7, 2011 22:20:27 GMT 1
Maybe he has been watching Ghostbusters?
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Post by shadsy on Jan 7, 2011 23:04:24 GMT 1
hey.
mine spooks at drain covers too (though he spooks at puddles and daffodils and grass...) but a thought on the drain covers - i have worked out that mine isn't scared of the cover so much as the water underneath them as he also spooks at pipes under the road especially when the water in them is going fast. If that is the case then you might be able to desensitise him by running water through things where he can't see and somehow get it under his feet?? just a thought.
Well done on the rest of the desensitising - if you want to have a go with mine?? lol i agree with auburnalia - if that's all that bothers him you can't have too much trouble. especially as you hear loads of horror stroies involving ponies going through the covers or slipping on them and breaking their legs so maybe him not wanting to go over them is just because he understands their danger?
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Post by Caroline on Jan 8, 2011 1:48:07 GMT 1
I don't blame him - I'm terrified of drains too!
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Post by jackiedo on Jan 8, 2011 9:52:12 GMT 1
Zarello is scared of nothing on the road, but not too sure about dangerous sparrows, crisp packets and will walk past a grate 99 times then decide on one occasion she does not like it, leap sideways, do a really good piaffe for a bit then carry on as normal. I think she sees dead people from time to time lol..
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Post by specialsparkle3 on Jan 8, 2011 10:12:48 GMT 1
. I think she sees dead people from time to time lol..[/quote Not as silly as it sounds------------------I used to ride in a forest where a rider was killed and the horse was reputedly buried in an unmarked grave a long long time ago. I never knew a horse that didn't spook at the precise place the grave was said to be !!! |
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Post by jen1 on Jan 8, 2011 14:26:08 GMT 1
hey. mine spooks at drain covers too (though he spooks at puddles and daffodils and grass...) but a thought on the drain covers - i have worked out that mine isn't scared of the cover so much as the water underneath them as he also spooks at pipes under the road especially when the water in them is going fast. If that is the case then you might be able to desensitise him by running water through things where he can't see and somehow get it under his feet?? just a thought. Well done on the rest of the desensitising - if you want to have a go with mine?? lol i agree with auburnalia - if that's all that bothers him you can't have too much trouble. especially as you hear loads of horror stroies involving ponies going through the covers or slipping on them and breaking their legs so maybe him not wanting to go over them is just because he understands their danger? great theory but i have a river on the farm canal; at the other side and he does water in hose pipes, when he was born which was june time by august we had rain rain and a bit more rain and tom used to attack puddles like he was a polar bear with both front feet, he does the same to rugs on the floor not that i keep them on the floor but when you have 8 horses out and your doffing off on those funny day when the weather is being silly we have a hard job trying to keep tom off the rugs that are pulled off, |
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puddles, ;Dim hoping he will just grow out of the grate and drain cover thing , cos i havnt a clue how to train for this one, 
but he is only 3 all 17hh of him, 
