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| MirandaToo |
Posted - 26 Jan 2012 : 2:53:01 PM
Just wondering whether this is a youngster thing or an Arab thing!!!
Has anyone else got a horse that HAS to look at EVERYTHING!!! A ride that on any other horse takes about 40 mins, can easily take us twice that   !!! We literally have to have a little look in every gateway, then we do a little toss of our head and a snort, as if to say "well I never - just look at those little wooly, white things/dirty black and white things/interesting flowers... etc, etc"!
We quite often try and drift up people's driveways as we are sooooo busy gazing at the houses! And as for people out and about.... well, we like to assume that EVERYONE would very much like to stop and talk to us!!!
The world is a truly interesting place (tho' I'm fairly sure the poor people in their houses are probably quite fed up of us gazing in their windows!!). |
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| coffeebear |
Posted - 29 Jan 2012 : 7:26:02 PM
my gelding is also desperately nosy, cant resist a good snoop in people's houses as we go by, oh so very slowly. everything has to be thoroughly inspected, and the sheer joy when we cross the motorway bridge.....it takes ages as he loves watching the lorries vanish under his hooves. his one wish is that i'd let him hang his head over the side.....i havent the nerve for that though, it looks such a long drop. does make everyone else i hack out with laugh at his antic's, first experience of an arab for them |
| Ennik |
Posted - 29 Jan 2012 : 07:19:04 AM
I suppoe the philosophy is: "Have eyes, will use them!" |
| carol B |
Posted - 29 Jan 2012 : 06:25:42 AM
I used to exercise a huge ploddy Cleveland Bay gelding that just LOVED looking at gardens. He didn't want to eat the greenery, he just seemed to really appreciate a nice well stocked garden full of colourful flowers. He'd stand there looking over people's gates and fences going all dreamy and sighing with happiness. He was such a dear horse...I'm sure he was a gardener in a former life.... |
| arabianrio |
Posted - 27 Jan 2012 : 1:20:40 PM
Yep I got one of those too. Laddie (13 yo Pure Bred Arabian) thinks everyone we meet is up for a chat and has to stop to say hello -including the odd tractor driver who waits for us to pass!! Most embarrassing if a stranger stops in a narrow lane for us and they get his head in their car window as we go to pass!
Have to take him to task if we see a friend at the major cross roads on our main road as I think that would be dangerous!
He also needs to check out most gateways, anyone who is out gardening/ hedge cutting, putting out the washing...oh and another horse ...don't even go there!
I have to say though he is very good at going by without a fuss if we are in a real forward going "training mode" |
| Helen Newton |
Posted - 27 Jan 2012 : 10:37:52 AM
Carly does all these things too, poking his nose in everything, open windows, doorways, bags, up people's driveways if you let him, he stares at views, aeroplanes, hot air balloons. It's a sign of intelligence and an active mind. He is 18 and has never really grown up.....he's the one who plays in the field with the youngster. He also not only pushes gates open with his nose, he will also pull them towards him to shut them....now that's clever! |
| hazelcat74 |
Posted - 26 Jan 2012 : 10:32:12 PM
My mare does this she is 10 this yr, like Callisto she also stares at the road in the far distance if we go down a certain bridleway. People walking with plastic bags she is sure must have something for her, she quite scared a poor teenage lad by sticking her head right in front of him to check out his shopping bag! Our 4 yr old 2/3 arab is much less nosey and wary and had to take the lead last week past a car being winched onto a breakdown truck,doesnt look at everything in the same way though she has only been hacking out a few months. |
| george |
Posted - 26 Jan 2012 : 10:17:38 PM
Lol, Magic, PB is very nosey...she just has to look around, I am constantly trying to get her to pay more attention to me and less at nosing in peoples houses ect. When we get to the top of a hill she will just stop and view the whole way round gotta love those nosey parkers though, she makes me smile to myself  |
| Bebely |
Posted - 26 Jan 2012 : 9:48:36 PM
Oh yes - have I got one that has to look at everything. When I first backed Tamba and started riding out we had to stop a dozen times in ten minutes to look at everything. Now, he is a bit better and we only have to look at something if it is unusual or if it changes.
Sadly for our rate of progress, nearly everything changes on a daily basis in the countryside. His latest concern is a pile of straw/cow muck a farmer is dumping at the side of a field to spread later I guess. Unfortunately this seems to be an on going project and the shape and size changes daily so that needs plenty of staring at.  |
| carole ferguson |
Posted - 26 Jan 2012 : 8:53:34 PM
When out riding on Asters - if we met anybody walking or riding - she would always stop - just in case someone wanted to have a chat. She also used to watch the aeroplanes flying over - (we lived near Lingfield - not far from Gatwick airport) - and she would stop and watch them until they were out of sight. Never seen a horse do that before. |
| Honeyb060674 |
Posted - 26 Jan 2012 : 8:47:48 PM
Sunny is VERY nosey a real Wandering Walter as he doesn't watch where he's going & straight lines are for losers! Driveways, behind bushes, poor unsuspecting dog walkers & people who stop in cars on the lane to let us pass. He once stuck in his in some poor guys window to say "HI!!" and will happily stop & stand for an eternity for a good chat |
| Meggie-Lu |
Posted - 26 Jan 2012 : 7:43:35 PM
Defo not an arab or youngster thing!
My Aunty Nick (Nichole Waller on here) her Welsh x mare and her nice's pony both take a long hard look at everything.
Mouse was the same he was 19, had seen everything but still insisted on stopping and staring at EVERYTHING! My theory is if they look at it they understand what it is more. |
| lulu |
Posted - 26 Jan 2012 : 7:36:46 PM
Knew a welshie just like that even when he was in his 20's would dive up someone's drive he loved anything that flew and could watch planes, hot air baloons and hang gliders all day if you let him. |
| gossy |
Posted - 26 Jan 2012 : 5:34:45 PM
yes its definitely an arab thing |
| Pheebs |
Posted - 26 Jan 2012 : 4:27:49 PM
Billy loves to take in the scenery so much he often trips over- and he's not an arab! |
| Callisto |
Posted - 26 Jan 2012 : 3:59:06 PM
Even more frustrating was my Anglo who liked to prove how good his eyesight was by stopping (for ages) to watch the traffic on a road in the far distance..... |
| Susie T |
Posted - 26 Jan 2012 : 3:17:17 PM
MirandaToo - you have perfectly described my mare, and she is 8 so I can't put it down to youth. She is just very nosey! I also like to think that it is because she is so intelligent and weighing up her surroundings, but it is frustrating drifting across roads and her pretty much turning right round to have casual look at what we have just passed |
| MirandaToo |
Posted - 26 Jan 2012 : 3:09:13 PM
haha  Kes!! |
| Lizbuf |
Posted - 26 Jan 2012 : 3:03:23 PM
lol, my young lad was exactly the same when we first started hacking out. It was like he quite literally couldnt believe his eyes ha ha! He has now settled down now and is nowhere near as nosy, he is almost 6 and has been probably hacking out just over 12 months.
As for stopping at people out and about, that something my older lad has always done, he is now 13 and he has never changed! He just thinks everyone wants to say hello, and that they may have something hiding in their pocket for him lol.......... i just think he is very friendly |
| Kes |
Posted - 26 Jan 2012 : 3:01:13 PM
Hehe, I've got a nosey parker as well!! I put it down to his intelligence in that he doesn't want to just walk/trot along, he likes to look, work things out and understand.
And don't mock the window gazing :) People always say to me what's so interesting riding on the roads. They don't realise the birds eye view have up there and can see over fences. My constant babbling to the other person with me goes something like "omg would you wear that dress on the washing line? sunbathe in that!!, terrible curtains, you've burnt the BBQ, nice pool, phwoar, check him out!!" It goes on and on..... |
