I had this on the old forum and I thought to revive it...

List ANYTHING that suggests you've been around horses too much.


To "prime the pump":

You have done a kur on foot. (Guilty)

You tried to pay for something with an old carrot. (Guilty)

You click to people to get their attention or get them to move. (VERY guilty)

You think your car is going to spook.

You criticize people's "conformation".

i almost yelled at the driver for driving to close to the other car because i thought it might kick

I get really mad because the car won't "bend" around the turns on the road lol.

I also tell people to "ho" a lot. Which isn't good because they think I'm calling them a name lol.

I got one!

You tink "www.hi-arabian.com" is a an Arab horse forum. (VERY, VERY guilty )

hehe.

When you hear people mention those cute different baby names, you think, aw that would be a nice horse to own.

(Names like, Rainbow, or Denedla, or Cherry) [Yeah, I'm weird]

Im guilty of these...most are to do with my dogs...I cant help thinking there so similar to horses =P :

When you tell your design teacher that you tacked up the sewing machine.
(Haha, I ment to tell her that I threaded up the sewing maching )

When you take your dogs for a walk and exlaim to your dad 'Did you see that? Todd just did a flying change!'
When you try to lunge your dog, but he just gets tangled in the lead.
When you walk your dog you use the lead like a rein, and squeeze down it to ask them to slow down...and it makes no difference. Lol I do that without realising all the time hehe.

You make sure your dog ticks high enough on the jump (guilty)
You pick up your poor doggehs feet like you would a horse and then get mad when they growl (poor maggie!haha!)
You click to your car
You talk to your car as you are going up a hill
You make fure your car isn't going to kick you

Sometimes I catch myself patting the Jeep when I walk behind it =)

I also noticed when the neighbor dog was 'cantering' on the wrong lead, then was excited when he did a flying lead change!

Your arms and legs are stronger then your boyfriend who plays football! haha! That would be funny!

Haha! I am veery guilty of all the dog ones!
You often discover you have hay in your hair and don't bother to take it out (guilty)
You spend more time on your horse's tail than on your own hair (guilty)
You love to write 'horse' or something related to horses in cool font in your binders, and you often draw horses on your math tests (guilty)

Baha, I think I'm guilty of all of these xD Except the dog ones, seeing as I own cats, not dogs.

You'll be sitting on the bus to school/work and notice there is horse feed all over your arm up to your elbow. I've done this so many times.

Haha Shona that is funny! I have never done that though!


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You have more halters then you do shoes. (guilty!)

Lol Dani, It's pretty embarassing when you're scratching your arm and all this yellow/green/brown flaky stuff falls off xD

When you're favourite smell is new leather. Guiiilty.

^^^Aahhh, best smell ever, next to saddle soap or horse bug spray. ("Me: *sniff sniff* *gasp* Who smells sooo good! Kaity: What? Me: Yooouuu! *points at Kaity* You smell like BUG SPRAYYYYY! ) haha, I am so weird. Yes, that happened... In front of Justin.


When your car gets stuck in the snow you say, "Come on girl, you can make it. Just jump." And your brother looks at you funny.

You think they should make a candle that smells like horse feed and mistakenly tell your non-horsey brother this. And he looks at you funny.

You free jump your cats and critique their horse jumping skillz. (Sodo wins all the way .)

This one's REALLY bad:

You start to stall weave (VERY guilty... minus the stall )

I also do brief half-passes to get around things that are blocking my path.

I cluck to Toby [he's the dawggy xD]
I call his paces "Walk, trot and Canter"
Yep, I get inspired for horse names when people are looking for baby names
Yes my favorite smells are horsey ones.
When we pass a certain place and I say "That smells like hoof oil"


Oh my gosh. I have so many. haha

You notice that you don't walk straight down the "centerline" of the hallway and think of what you can do to fix this so you'll be straight. (dressage test overload! xD)

I do a lot of the dog stuff. Once I was walking my dog and thought that she had the perfect western jog. I also do the squeeze and release with her leash that doesn't work. I cluck to her, too. Oh and we tried lunging, but that didn't work. She fell out waaay too much.

You find youself "jogging" or cantering every once in a while..
[haha so guilty. i love to try to be western pleasure!]

haha totaly do all those doggy things XD

When you go over speed bumps, you practice "moving with the horse" or Jumping. [hahaha. i totaly do this all the time. ]

I am totally guilty of the moving with the car over a speed bump thing

Ditto xD

Wherever you go you always try to see whether or not things are 'jumpable'.

I totally do that, too!!

This morning when I was staring out the window in Algebra 2, I thought to myself, "They could fit one jump on the front lawn, and have enough room"

I also thought the other day that they could put some mats down and some dirt and have riding lessons in the gym at my church.... lol

when you look at a school lawn and wish your grass could be thAT GREEN
when you go by a event using hay and get annoyed bout a waste of it
when tell poeple to ho if they dont stop.

When you sometimes have trouble refraining yourself from 'cantering' everywhere xD

omg same here I! I do that all the time.


haha I seriously do that ALL the time, and then they get all mad cuz they think i'm calling them one XP



I don't even bother refraining myself anymore XDDD I just canter all the time.

going down the hallways at school, wishing it smelt like horses

XD XD Bahahahahaha Same here i "Cantered'' down our stairs the other day aaaaaaand uh tripped hahah.

Yeh hahah i'm always like "That would be the perfect arena," or "we coulda used it for a jump" hahahah and stuff like that..

I canter all over my house, and I switch leads as I enter and exit rooms


I find myself telling cars and people to 'yah'. Oh, and yesterday, we drove past this empty building, and I said, 'They should put a showjumping arena there.' Also, I avoided washing my hands Friday until it was time for lunch because they smelled like horses

When your friend isn't at school because of a cold, and your first thought is to mix them up a bucket of beetpulp XD

And I definitely canter and switch leads

I also always hold my hands the way you would around reins, and I half halt when I want to slow down, and move them when I turn around corners and stuff XD And I also half pass and leg yeild to get around stuff or move over

And all the dog stuff.... It all worked for my dog though o.O Like, she would slow down if I half halted on the leash, and she new all the horse lunging commands (she wouldn't lunge, but I'd just use them when she was on the leash usually). Geez, I pretty much do everything on here already Yay horsepeople XD

Bahahah Change leads...i do flying lead changes

And i was taching my little 5yr old brother how to post to the trot and sit properly on my back hahahahhahaha
and i yield hannuhs out the way using "Pressure points" XD

If you ask the person you are buying your car from what your car's registered name is.

I definately do that too!!


Yeah, I've gotten pretty good at those


Yesterday, it was really nice outside, so I set up three 'barrels' and was pretending to barrel race

XD
hahah registered name!!!
yeah and the other week me and hanners were talking to someone with an unusual name and afterwards i was like to han,
"Her name would be kinda cool for a show name" hahahahah

and i did a jumping course "Cantering" up to the jumps and doing clear rounds......bahahah also this is really stupid, feathers learning to jump and we were taking her over some small jumps, and she stopped at one and i was like wait a sec...and i was like feather watch me and i ran up to the jump and jumped it hahahha feather was staring at me oddly...XD

Whenever I'm carrying stuff, like bags, I have to hook my little pinky under it like the handles are reins. I do it with my toothbrush as well, lol.

-Your aunt yells at you for singing the sheath cleaning song at a Walgreens

(Happened once when I was nine. xD)

I went for a walk with my best friend yesterday, and her dog was hyper, so I told her she should have lunged him before she left. Then she looked at me funny, lol.

^I have lunged my dog before. Not to much success!

If you teach your dog to jump like a horse (Tucked) Instead of like a dog (Legs out) haha! (Maggie jumpes like a horse!!)

I do the cantering and lead changes in my house too!! I click at myself sometimes!!

When you shake your 'mane' to get a fly off your face.

Oh, and my bestie has been pointing out that I 'spook' at loud noises or quick movements. Like when I denied it, she screamed and clapped her hands in my face....I spooked. xD She was laughing at me for the next five mins and calling me an arabian.

when you watch cars turning the corner and seeing if they have a nice bend in their turn

-You've refered to a power walk as an 'extended walk'(for all you Dressage peeps )

OMG, there is a horse next door than looooves attention because everyone forgets about it and so I went over once (after I [not on purpose] washed my hands with apple soap) and it was like 'yeaaah!'. Then afterwards, I smelled my hands and I didn't want to wash them (MY KINDA PERFUME) but the horse was so greasey I had to.

You set up elaborate jumping/cross country courses/dressage test/western events/etc and "ride" them all.....on foot! XD

xD

I do thatttt.

Haha i used to make my friend jump over bits of canes balanced on buckets when I was little. xD She hated it.

Counting out strides inbetween objects, while also checking out its jump potential.

When you teach your dog to jump like a horse on the correct lead...

My friend has a Border Collie x Australian Shepherd dog, and he's very energetic. She has a job, and will also be starting college soon, so she didn't know how she would have time to walk her dog.

I replied to this conversation, "You could always lunge hi-.... Oh wait, you can't really lunge dogs. Nevermind." XD

When there's a new foal in the barn, you have to tell EVERYONE, yet you say nothing about the new baby in the family XD

Yeah, majorly guilty. xD

My ear moved toward a sound I heard today....

When you watch the poeple in your school and define whether their 'gaits' are fluid enough to win a dressage test.

Also, When you tell your friends they culd be good showjumpers because their paces are fluent and they have good 'impulsion'.

When you go to open your school book and a dressage test falls out.

When you click to poeple to make them walk faster : ) I am impatient. my friends look at me strangley.

It's so scary how many of these I do - mainly, all of them. O_o

....I've decided horse people are insane. XD