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Libby Frost
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 Posted - 22 May 2005 : 10:43:23 AM
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 Is it just me or other people very dubious in a thunder storm? My fear was made worse by the fact my sisters pony was struck some years ago, one flash, and one bang was all it took.I thought i was very heroic yesterday getting my boy in , in a storm !! What are your views??
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Kazzy
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Posted - 22 May 2005 : 11:11:57 AM
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I dont like thunderstorms either, they scare me.
I have two Arabs, my gelding does not bother at all in a storm,
but my mare totalling uncontrolable whether shes in the stable or
in the field, In fact she is worse in a stable she tanks round
the stable and you cant stop her!!
Like you said I have heard of awful stories of horses and especially
cows being hit by lightening poor things dont stand a chance.
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mazey
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Posted - 22 May 2005 : 11:28:33 AM
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| Libby just posted y ou a note on the imprint training thread - check it out |
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Roseanne
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Posted - 22 May 2005 : 1:48:32 PM
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A cob belonging to a neighbour of ours was killed by lighning last year. There were two factors that made things worse for the horse - one it was shod (metal shoes!) and secondly - according to my vet - the ironstone we have close to the surface in parts here will have attracted the electricity and the shock will have hit it and the ground below become electric-filled too. Double whammy. Owner was completely distraught as you can imagine. She found the horse's body, all singed...
I thought they were all very brave riding on in the most vicious thunderstorm at Wales and the West yesterday. The lightning had us lot standing in the pavillion gasping! It was rolling all around the Severn estuary. Very dramatic. And very wet!!! |
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nicolanapper
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Posted - 22 May 2005 : 3:40:33 PM
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I too hate thunderstorms. None of my horses have shoes on so that helps, but I suppose if they have rugs on the metal buckles/straps may help to conduct the lighting. We do however have a horrible pylon in our main field, at the top of the hill, and I am told that lighting is more likely to hit that than the ground. But do not quote me on that one, I may be wrong.
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Debbie
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 22 May 2005 : 4:58:19 PM
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Hi Libby, well I went into slight panic attack standing in the middle of the Wales and West ring yesterday with lightening all around us. I lost Mahleika's mum - Mahbouba in a dreadful lightening storm on the cliffs of Tintagel in November 1994. I was tucked up in my cosy cottage for evening chatting to Suyen who was staying the night and watching the ferocious storm gathering might! In the morning we had a phone call to say that the horses were in a terrible state and one was dead. Of course it was Mahbouba!! She must have been struck very early in the storm because she had a mouthful of grass and just fell where she grazed. The other 4 mares were in a dreadful state and had scrambled over natural stone walls and were out on the road. They were traumatised but only had superficial wounds. A riding stable 2 miles from the field lost 7 ponies that night.
So I really hate my horses to be out in a storm as you can imagine. |
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Libby Frost
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Posted - 22 May 2005 : 6:23:08 PM
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| Im really sorry to hear about Mahbouba,she was a lovely lady,it worries me, lightning,in fact, id just got Herb in his box when there was an enormous flash! Had it happened minutes earlier i would have had two very frightened horses in my hands.It was at this point that i thought i do believe in god after all!!What makes it worse for us is we are so exposed being right on the edge of Bodmin moor. |
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Debbie
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 22 May 2005 : 6:25:57 PM
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| Well Libby, as you can know....the cliffs of Tintagel are extremely exposed to the weather elements being on the north Cornish Coast |
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Libby Frost
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blue
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 22 May 2005 : 8:48:23 PM
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I have a terrible fear of being court out in thunder storms, so generally if its forcast I will find some excuse not to ride as I hate it
I have been caught out riding in thunder storms on more than one occasion on my old girl. One time I was on the top of the North York moors with my friend and Blue galloped hell for leather towards the woods and my friends 10yr old TB x couldn't keep up with her (she was 22 at the time), it was terrifing but thankfully there were only two rumbles.
I don't know how people carry on at shows and competitions I know I couldn't and I don't think my girls would either. |
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Judith S
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Posted - 22 May 2005 : 9:50:23 PM
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We had an horrendous storm here just over two weeks ago - about 3 o'clock in the early hours - got up next morning to find my 3 yr old Arab filly in a poor state - having been terrified by an overhead storm (we had a direct hit on the pole outside our house - blew the socket off the wall - was like an explosion going off!!) - she had galloped down the field & hadn't been able to turn in time, had gone through the electric fence, tripped on the bank & rolled through the stock fence & demoslished it -missing colliding with a tree by inches- pig-netting & barbed wire - then righted herself & galloped across neighbours field & jumped a barbed wire fence clipping the top wire. Amazingly shes OK - had many, many, many, many lacerations, one bad one just above her eye - missing it my about 1/2"!!! The Vet was amazed as we were that she was sound & her wounds were superficial!
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Libby Frost
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Posted - 23 May 2005 : 09:56:55 AM
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| Myself and Lisa were coming back from a local show,( in Lisa'a aluminium transit) and we had thunder and lightning directly overhead!! Not my idea of fun, with two babies in the back!! |
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Vera
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Posted - 23 May 2005 : 10:18:53 AM
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You're actually very safe being in a car or horsebox during a thunderstorm. As long as no-one steps out and completes the circuit.
I love thunderstorms, love looking at them and the smell. But I've never lost a horse or known anyone struck so would probably feel differently if I had.
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Cate
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Posted - 23 May 2005 : 11:01:08 AM
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| Well not a horse, but my great grandmother was killed by fork lightening in her house on the Island of Lewis in the village of Valtos. A tremendous storm was waging and the men were not back from fishing, so she took hold of the brass door knob to open the door to see if they were coming and the lightening struck the other side of the knob and killed her! |
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Katie
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Posted - 23 May 2005 : 11:43:48 AM
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| I dont mind thunder storms and none of my horses seem to bother either but I always try to bring them in when there is one, for safety's sake. |
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angel2002
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Posted - 23 May 2005 : 1:39:39 PM
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Mine don't take any notice but I do make sure that they are safely in their stables. A friends mare had serious injuries after going through a fench during a bad storm one night, my gelding was also out at the time and paniced but only sustained minor cuts.
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