Post by malxscfc on Sept 19, 2006 15:59:38 GMT
ojiveojive said:
malxscfc said:
Horses are odd, but usually come to you because they expect to be patted and fed.
Not when they're flaring their nostrils and baring their teeth they don't
.My wife has what I'd always considered was an irrational fear of horses but I'm not so sure anymore. The ones that hassled me at the weekend may well have been wild, they didn't have shoes on, were smaller and stockier than most of the horses I've come across in the past and the area was an open hillside, not enclosed fields.
Oh yeah, I did try the 'walk straight towards them and they'll move out of the way' strategy - that was when they went into pincer mode and out bottled me. The one walking directly towards me from the front had no intention of moving out of the way, it obviously had the genes of an ancester from Ghengis Khan's hordes, whilst the one coming at me from behind looked like he wanted to stick a shiv in my spine. The other eight or so just stood around looking on as if to say "You stupid facker, this is our gaff, fack off before the Mental brothers there sort you out, you fackin' idiot".
Can't say I've ever heard of Japanese Kamikaze shire horses, or an Apache Attack Appaloosa myself.
You do have to use caution if picnicking in the New Forest, though, these days. My sister [the 'pregnant dog' one] was bitten a month ago by a pony, while trying to guard her ham sandwich. (Or may have been cheese.)
OASN, I knew a woman whose horse (called Paley) would always stamp on a snake if it walked over one.... I can't work out if that's a nature or nurture thing.
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