What does your horse/pony do that makes you laugh?

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Have come to the conclusion dhorse isn't the brightest spark after all. I've never managed to get him to lunge. Tried him on a school surface (sand and rubber) and he rolls, drops straight down before you can do a thing about it, on grass he puts his head down and eats, and eats and eats... He is totally immune to whatever I do, even a good wallop with the whip. So, my mum hit on the idea of digging out our old pony's grazing muzzle, one of the old-fashioned bucket types. Well it was hilarious! I was laughing so hard watching him try to work out why he couldn't eat the grass, the look on his face was priceless. Mind you, it wasn't so funny when I was leading him in and he tried to clout me round the head with the bucket .

Dpony hates ramblers and if she is in the field with the footpath in it,stares at them with an expression on her face like someone has just farted.Also,if she is in the field opposite my neighbours,every morning they open their bedroom curtains to find her staring at them.As soon as they speak to her,she very ostentatiously turns her bum to them.She kicks the gate at tea time,thinking that it will make her tea arrive faster,if she doesn't want her feet picking out,she will cross her legs and she sometimes crosses her front legs and curtsey to me when I go to fetch her in.

Yesterday,newboy was having a good look at my friend's alpacas,when one of them spat at him.The look on his little pony face was one of utter confusion.

I was bent double the other day, trimming Alfie's feet, when the little bugger grabbed the back of my bra, pulled back hard, and let go! I'd have laughed my socks off, if it hadn't hurt so much!
One of the ponies on our yard crosses his front legs, in order to scratch one leg with the other!
The funniest thing I've ever seen, is bedtime on our yard. The ponies exit the field in strict order. It's the same order their stables stand in. If you open the gate, and stand back, they run out, turn, and enter their stables in perfect synchronisation. It's like a drill ride, without the riders! It's even funnier if an unknowing bystander is on the yard. Seeing them squeak and run for cover as 8 assorted equines bear down on them, is very amusing!

Watching a small child, trying to pick up one of Ducky's feet, when she has sneakily shifted her entire weight onto it, is rather entertaining as well!

Lol at Alfie pinging the bra strap! I still remember my friend's face when in the first year at secondary school she pinged another girl's bra in the corridor. Except when she turned round it was actually a very short female teacher .

My old pony was a real comedian. When we were renting a field where we had to fill an old bath from a hose he used to watch me walk up the hill and put the hose in the bath. Then he'd watch me walk all the way back to the tap, and with impeccable timing as I turned on the tap he would pull the hose out of the bath with his teeth and drop it on the ground. He also used to pick up his empty bucket by the handle and give it to me as if asking for a refill. None of his buckets had the little wooden roller on the handle because his teeth would split them all after a while.

The horse I frequently ride for my lessons isn't fond of Polos but absoutely loooooves extra-strong mints. He chomps them enthusiastically, then hangs his tongue out the side of his mouth to cool it down...

We have that too Saggy except ours race in at trot or canter with sparks flying. Sometimes though we get three horses in one stable.

When the horses are turned out for the summer in their 12 acres, if my mare sees me in the field she will set off towards me at a trot. The other 4 notice and set off after her. She then breaks into a gallop and they all race past me, at which point she swivels round and comes back to me for her apple, before the others have noticed what she is up to.

She also manages to cross one back leg over the other is she is being awkward.

Whwen tied on the yard, my girl will bang her front foot on the ground till she gets my attention. Even if it's not feed time.

But the funnist thing I ever say was my friends pony who grabbed a mouthful of leaves off a bush at the fiels gate just as she had been turned out. A whole branch came away on her teeth and she panicked and raced round the field with it in her mouth hopping over it as it went underneath her. daft thing didn't think to drop it. She ran round in a panic for quite a while before she let it go.

My mare only ever wears a rug before a show, if we rug her in the field the gelding gets excited and mouths and puls on the rug and "helps" pull it over to his side, though can be a bit overzealous and pull it off her

The mare throws her feed bucket if and only if there is not much grass and there is no hay

the gelding will put his nose to your face and wobble his lip once if you ask "gizzakiss"

In the Winter when they are rugged and bored they like to play follow the leader - holding onto the tail flaps of the other ponies rugs whilst they march around the field. Unfortunately they are sometimes too zealous and rip these tail flaps off...

ah we do 'gizzakiss', must upload photo of the face he pulls - tongues and everything!

heard great story about my horse sitting down on a hack, a new livery at my yard rode him in his youth so it's lovely to fill in yet more of the back story. It's not the most exciting story and I had heard it before but nice to hear it from the rider concerned. He was out with a group and just sat down on the verge, when the rider got off he had a bit of a lie down for a minute but when she remounted he took off and galloped non stop for a long time and shredded her hands - which is how I came to hear the tale, she was admiring my shredded hands. Not much change after all those years! Luckily this sort of thing is no longer the norm and he is very chilled.

One of my horses has no sense of personal space whatsoever, he is very funny to watch in the paddock he follows his friend as though glued to his side. The only time he 'detaches' himself are if the flies are bothering him, in which case he stands directly behind his friend so that his friends swishing tail keeps all the flies away from his face. After owning him for 3.5yrs I can't work out if he is the most intelligent horse i've ever known or the daftest!

My favourite thing is when I call dpony in the field and he canters over to me, tail and mane flying. It makes me smile so much, and when ds calls him he whinnies then does it.
He also likes to throw his bucket around - displaying his distain that it only ever has chaff in it. And then hoovers it up from the ground.

The horses on the yard who are used for lesson mostly live in a big herd, and they know that when the gate is opened and propped open that their buckets will be in the indoor school. So they all come running up the track and in, and get a bucket each and just stand there waiting for headcollars. Ds calls it the stampede

My mare makes a noise like "Anne" from Little Britain - eh, eh, ehhhhhh - after she's done something she's chuffed with.... followed by a snort.

oh have just remembered the hilarity that is offering my horse something 'exotic' like a banana or an olive

never knew horses had so many ways to communicate disgust and disappointment

but also really like the little things they do that they shouldn't, but are so clever, like when they would bring themselves in from their old field (blatantly jumping a series of electric fences) and stand as if tied and wait for breakfast (well one of them did that, the other just mooched about licking walls and things - he was so starved of nourishment) or carefully undoing bolt of stable door to escape or just kicking it down if horse proofed, untying their lead ropes, wiggling out of head collars and leaving them intact and entire - see also rugs, found in field with most straps and surcingles still done up

and new favourite thing is coming through gate number one from field, it's v squelchy and my boots often come off so I slip through the fence and pass lead rope across so horse can come through gate - but he sticks his head through the fence where I went, and looks genuinely puzzled at how he might go that way too

Aah, yes. My dear horsey, being very polite and well bred wouldn't dream of doing something as ill bred as BITE - instead, if he disapproves of some element of his grooming routine, or if he has to have a foot wash or some other medical treatment to foot or leg, then he will give me a 'wedgie'. Somehow he always manages to get my actual pants rather than jodhs or jeans too. For some time I have been extra careful not to wear a thong to the yard...