but this time they were items that the estate workers had left nicely positioned to spook horses being brought in from the field = the fact that the horses will have watched the workers put the items there being completely not the point, of course! one white object that on closer inspection might be a section of corrugated roof, and one large tank, made of green plastic and still with it's labels on - possibly for heating oil.
ME go past THAT, said molly tanking off backwards on the end of the lunge line (i use that to get her out of the field as there's no space to turn round ...). much snorting, sidling etc later, she consented to go past when she realised it wasn't coming after her. She wasn't the only horse who took that view of those objects either!
so when i'd groomed, i decided rather than ride, some ground work followed by some familiarisation with said object would be a good idea (had i ridden back to the arena, she would have spotted the objects again ....)
so that was what we did. eventually she was right up close to it and not a problem.
Mind, you can guarantee she'll have forgotten about them time she goes out in the morning (last night, she decided she wasn't going to be dragged away from her hay into the cold, rugged or otherwise....so she's in nights now). So I'm up at 0600 for the foreseeable...(till April, probably ....)
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2 comments:
Don't you understand? They don't belong there! PJ once spooked at a man changing his shoes while sitting in the back of a jeep. Gee whiz! Obviously, he just should not have been there!!
Good chance to check Molly's long term memory here. If she doesn't spook in the morning, hope rise that she will remember the next thing you train her to do. *G*
Sometimes what horses do simply makes no sense at all. Sorry, horse whisperers out there, but I do believe horses have vivid imaginations and often enjoy creating monsters out of every day objects just for the thrill of it.
they are silly the things they sppok at - there's a thread on richard maxwell at the moment, one poster's horse spooked at seeing it's own mother (mind, i reckon mothers are always very scary!)
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