Unusual Horse Stories - Page 1
We had a contest for unusual horse stories-- people sent in the quirky things they've seen horses do. Below are the top entries we received!
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I bought some horse property last year, and inherited a young mixed breed gelding, named Wrangler, with it. I don't know anything about his history, but I have discovered that he is quite the character! Before I moved my horses here from our previous home, Wrangler was here alone without a herd to keep him company. At night, Wrangler would get afraid of being outside in the dark alone, so he would go into the run-in shed off his dry lot and turn on all the lights inside. I couldn't figure out how all the lights kept coming on, and it was running up my electric bill, so one night, I hung around to watch, and I caught him in the act. Now, Wrangler is in a herd where he feels safe, so the shed lights are no longer burning all night. - Lauren Dixon

 

The weird but funniest thing I've ever seen a horse do was one of my foals
called "Spot Baby", used to lie upside-down on you. He would actually fall
asleep - there was nothing you could do to wake him up! All you had to do was
lift his foot and he'd roll over and not wake up for hours!
Another trick we learnt with him was that when he was asleep, if you tickled
his tummy he would stick his front legs up in the air.
- AMBER WOODHOUSE www.goldenoakstud.com

 

His name was Pharoah. He lives at Valley View Ranch, which is where I went for my summer vacation. Pharoah was a beautiful strawberry roan. I think he was a Paint and Quarter Horse mix. One time, I was riding him, and we were waiting for our turn to do the Georgia Barrels rodeo pattern. Pharoah then picked up his hind leg and started itching it with his mouth...while I was on him! I had never seen a horse do this while someone was on him. Then, you would be standing on the ground, waiting to enter the arena or to mount, and he would reach his tounge around to the side of his bit and take it and the rein in his mouth. Yes, he put the side of the bit and the rein in his mouth and sucked and chewed on it. No matter what you did, he wouldn't stop it! That's Pharoah. He loves to play. - Jessica Robinson

 

The most unusual thing I have ever seen a horse do was a learn to 'rope' with it's lead rope. Speckles, an appaloosa pony at the ranch I interned at learned to spin his lead rope in a circle and in the air around his head. He would take it in his mouth and spin it in a circle to the right a few times, then switch to the left. He could spin it in the air or towards his feet. If you handed him the rope end (not with the hook) he would work it with his mouth until he got a hold of the rope right by the clip. Speckles is the escape artist of the barn, he is very good at letting himself and all the other horses out for a little extra time in the yard! -Andee Chapman

 

 

I once had a young filly that loved the "icky" plants that grew in my indoor arena. You know, the plants that grew right a long the dusty wall. Well, her favortie thing is to be lead in the arena while all the doors were open and eat those discusting plants! Well, one day I wasn't going to sit there all day and lead her around in the arena to get fat. So I closed all the doors and let her loose. She had the biggest tantrum I think I have ever seen a horse have. Not until she started to ram her hindquarters into the NEWLY built left side of the arena did I stop laughing. (Hurrican Katrina Aftermath) She screamed at the top of her lungs, she galloped around in a strange free panic with the plants hanging out of her mouth. She then, full gallop ahead started right towards the metal wall. She rammed it right out of the arena. I was completely and uterally stunned. I then realized I had a broken wall and a loose CRAZY filly. Remarkably the filly did not run anywhere, but mozily walk and grazed on the puetred plants. Not a scratch on her body. Her Registered name is now; "Stronger then Katrina" because she rammed out the wall that Hurrican Katrina riped off. We call her Kat for short.
- Melony Conners

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