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Question

I want to know your most intimate moments with your horse. I'm talking, when your horse did something you never thought your horse would do, when you needed your horse, and he came through for you ? Share the warm fuzzies with us !

Answer 1

one time in the beginning of winter, i took my horse out on a trail ride, and instead of pushing him too much (he's young, there were gun shots in the woods, and he didn't like that...at all) i just kept him the barn wehre i could brush him and just spend some more time with him...so, i was looking out a little window in the back of his stall, and for no apparent reason, he came over and put his muzzle on my shoulder.  i was so shocked at frist, but then i just relaxed and fell into the moment...

as of right now, he's only done that twice, and i've savored every one...i love how curious he can be, and when i'll pick out his feet or brush his legs, he'll bend his neck to look at me, and start snuffling my hair (i'll start laughing my head off b/c its so funny and i love the smell of his breath)

another best moment is when the barn owner (and his "real owner" (i'm trying to buy him, b/c we have such a wonderful connection)) is there petting him and giving him attention, and he'll move his head around her, looking at me...looking for me, trying to see what i'm doing.  i love him so much!

thanks for bringing up great memories!

Answer 2

Mine is kind of odd. One day, my horse was being really bad. I mean, I would ask him to trot and he would take off at a gallop. So I figured "Okay, big guy, if you wanna canter, then lets canter...". So I asked him to canter and he cantered. He tried to slow so I asked him to keep cantering to get him tired. He looked back at me with an "Okay, if you say so, I'll try" look on his face and kept going. It meant a lot to me that he kept going even though he did not want to. Normally I have to force him to do things but he listened to me without even thinking.

Later on that day he spooked and I flew off. He dragged me for a few feet and I yelled "Stop, Buddy!" and he stopped on a dime and had a "Hey! Wadayadoin down their?" look. My horse stopped when I asked him to? Wow. If you knew him (you probably know one like him) then you would be amazed because he does not enjoy doing things that others tell him to do.

That was not one of our better days.

Answer 3

i recently got my first horse so it isnt like she knows me a lot. well i go to her paddock every day i can, and she walks over (sometimes i have to call her). well one day i was in the paddock next to hers (i hadnt gone to her yet, i was with one of our other horses) and i saw her and caled her. she looked up from the grass and cantered over to me and i was at the fence so she nuzzled me and it was really, really cute.

Answer 4

Mine was I had just sold my OTTB, there was a complication with the wormer and they called, let me know he dided, so I went down to their farm, I sat with him for a minute then to cheer me up they took me into a stall with the most gorgeous chestnut baby, a blaze, 4 white stockings, and I just sat there and rubbed her while she layed there, and when I moved she like, propelled herself toward me so I would keep scratching her.

Answer 5

over at my friends house, they have some neighbors with horses. there is one mare, she really seemed to like me a lot. i would go and visit whenever i ws over there. but then i didnt see her for over towo years. then a couple of weeks ago i went to visit her again, and when i called she came at a full gallop, and whinnied, and then nuzzled me. it was so sweet she remembered me!

Answer 6

mine was the first time my horse sat down beside me and put his head in my lap....well i just felt so good

Answer 7

Our gelding, Copper Fox, shocked me the first day we saw him. after walking him around the arena, our agent (my stable at the time's owner) suggested I get off and walk him by hand, to get used to him and see if he would be agreeable doing such. Not only did Foxy behave, he stuck his nose on my back and walked so close to me that I was certain that he was going to run me over! Ever since then, he's always nudged me with his nose when he wanted to be playful or get my attention.

There was also one time recently where I was walking him into his stall. Instead of cruising in without problems, as is normal for him, he stopped with only his head in the entrance. I tried to get him to go forward, afraid he was attempting to back out and get away, but he stood there. A moment later, one of the barn cats that favors Foxy's stall came shuffling out. Foxy had stopped to let the cat leave! He also thinks the barn dogs are funny, and he's tried to play with them before when they barked at him.

Answer 8

Oh! Jumping on the band wagon here aren't we? Haha, just kidding. For me the most intimate moment with my horse happened when we where helping a neighbor get some body's bull out of their pasture. After chasing the bull around the 500 acer field for two hours, I finally got my chance to dab my loop on him. Unfortunately there where 7 other people involved with the affair that had no freaking idea how do deal with a loose bull let alone how to freaking rope. I go my rope on the bull and had him moving out when, one of the idiots, who was there for no reason cut in font of my mare and she ducked to miss them. That's when the bull got slack, and came after us. Before we could do anything about it he was on us. And, gave us a bit of a toss. The amazing thing was as soon as we hit the ground she was back up. I was thrown out of the saddle. Before I got up and before my dog could turn the bull, my mare was up and over me. The bull was still right there figuring on making me his lunch. That's when Girlfriend gave him both barrels. It gave me nuff time to get back up and in the saddle. Needless to say I wanted the rope and drag the but head that cut in front of me. Luckily girlfriend wasn't hurt, I was bruised up a bit, and bull learned a good lesson. Never p**s off a big black woman(my mare is a black crop out paint.) That was the moment when I knew I was her person, and she was my horse.

Answer 9

This was a while back but i had just sold my 4 year old gelding, Lil Joe. not that i wanted to but he just wasn't working out for me. so of course i was sad i mean i Bawled my eyes out. so i went to the barn, sobbing and went into Cinnamon's stall. Now Cinnamon is one of those old cranky mares that HATE to be fussed with. I just hugged her neck and cried and cried  for a long time and she didn't even budge. Then when i let go she gave me this little nudge and i look that said : hey dont cry, I'm still here. it was just a really special moment between us.

Answer 10

A while back my cutting horse Janey didn't like anyone. ANYONE, and I feared that we wouldn't ever get along. I didn't really like her much when my parents bought her for me but I got her. Throughout the first few weeks it was the same old same old. She didn't like me or anyone else, but one day when I was takinf off her boots after cutting on her frount left foot she place her mouth right on my ear and was breathing hot air into it just sniffinh me and I looked up at her and her ears were up so I giggled and kissed her nose---something she'd NEVER let me do. And since than she's loved me and i've loved her.

Doesn't mean she loves my mom or anyone else though ;)

Answer 11

Well the best thing that happened to me so far is...The horse became WAY less lame like he wasn't even lame anymore

and He picked up his right lead!

Answer 12

A year aggo when I had had my TWH mare for 1/2 a year she was still rembering her horid abuse by a former owner, and you could see it in her eyes and in her actions. She hated being touched and would run from anyone in the pasture, if you touched her in spots she would tremble all over in fear. I did not know what to do, I was 13 years old and she was my first horse, I would not give up on her. So every day I would spend 2 or 3 hours after school just sitting with her, after 7 or 8 weeks like this I had given up on her ever being able or willing to "love me".  Then one day I was standing on the fence looking at the pasture after a ride wating for her to cool off and I felt a tug on my sholder, I reached back to swat it away and I encountered a soft nose, as I looked over the nose bacame a head and the head was draped over my sholder. I stood a still a stone, knowing something was happening and I was not going to stop it. After almost 6 or 7 min. she moved off to do horsey things. After that day everything changed, she started greeting me when I came in to the barn and she would come if I called her namein the pasture. Today you would never know she had been abused and starved not even 2 years ago. Raven (thats her name) now is the best behaved horse in the barn and the most versitle she jumps, trail rides, rides on the rodes, ect...

Believe it or not you can walk between her legs and pull on her tail, stick you fingers in her nose (2 year old dont ask), and she does not care. Recently we were riding in the pasture and she went down on her side with me on her back, My foot was stuck in the irons, she kicked her legs to keep the waight off the side where my leg was traped. When I got free, she floped on her side and sighed, got up and walked over to where I was sitting on my butt looking like the luckiest kid on earth, my Friend, my Raven, my Angel she kept me safe and for that she is my Horse.She has done a few more remarkable things in the years we have had her and earned the respect and love of the people arround her.

Answer 13

About 30+ years ago I took my then 7 year old AQHA gelding to a renown trainer in Norco.  Roy Traylor was known for taking on the "tough" horses and top trainers in the LA area would send their incorrigible horses to him, such as Jimmy Williams and so on.

Well I took my little gelding (16.2 hh) to him with one thing in mind.  I WANTED him to push peanuts and no matter what I did, I couldn't get him to lower his head.

Roy took one look at the horse and said "There's NOTHING wrong with him, that's the way God made him and it's physically impossible for him to do that!".  With that he put us on the rail and had us popping over fences.  Then he hollered at me to take the triple and as I pointed the big guy towards it, I thought, "Well we've done 3'9" and a spread, what's 4'?"  The first of the triple was 4' the second was 5' and the last one was WAY taller than I am (I'm 5'3") so I was judging it at about 6' and all were stationary jumps!

So, we make our approach, and sail over it!  Then after landing, took off for the middle fence (5') and I'm still thinkin'..."Well we made it over 4' what's one more foot?".  We jumped it and cleared it!  Then after landing from that, I looked at the 6' fence, my faithful horse looked at it and we both said "NOPE!!!" and stopped FLAT!

Oops!

Roy told me to go to on the rail and make the approach again.  I knew we were in trouble...  I picked up a canter again and headed for the first fence and sailed over it, same with the second fence but as soon as we landed I'd remembered something that sounded like a BB gun getting pumped with air prior to my take off on the first fence.  Sure enough, Roy shot my horse in the tush and the two of us SAILED over that last fence!  

Upon landing however, I was sitting on the big guy's neck in front of the pommel of my ever faithful Stuben Siegfried (I still own this saddle!) and my life flashed before me.  I was figuring that this guy was going to get even with me for EVERYTHING I'd ever done to him in the past and anything I would ever do to him in the future.  

Then, this big horse slowed down to the nicest western pleasure lope I'd ever felt, took that upside down neck and put me right back in the saddle!  That was the first time he'd saved somebody's bacon, but in the years following, wouldn't be the last.

Answer 14

About three years ago when I was learning to jump I was riding a horse named Buddy(how ironic) and we just jumped a 2'3" vertical and there was a sharp turn afterwards to a rolltop well on the turn he knew his job because he was a school horse so he made a 'jumper' like turn and because I was a novice rider I almost came off the other side but he made a slow stop and like spread all of his legs thinking I was going to fall, he basically saved me from falling! LOL I wuv u Buddy! :D

Answer 15

My favourite moment was when i was setting up a jump couse and my pony walked away and I was scared he was gona take off and then he started trotting, then canter and i was scared then i just Yelled " Mario STOP!!!" and he did stop right away and then he looked at me and came totting over and ever since then he follows me like a puppy dog. also it weird how he HATES other people but me.