My horse cannot be trusted

[Weighaton]

Many years ago we had a scare in which we were sure our QH gelding was stolen. He simply disappeared off of the farm without a trace. No hoof prints, vehicle tracks, nothing. My husband searched the farm while I canvassed the auctions that were happening in the coming days. After 18 hours the horse was found in the TACK ROOM!!!! The door was shut. The lights were out and he was completely quiet in the pitch dark. The tack room was destroyed with feed, saddles and storage stuff everywhere.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe4K5ad6Xgc

Today I decided that the tack room needed a good scrubbing so I emptied it so that I could clean. The QH gelding was looking over his stall door longingly so I decided to let him into this area in front of the barn with all of the beautiful grass for a while. I let him out to graze and he wandered off a bit and I walked back to the round pen to get something. As I walked back into the barn I heard something.....

http://pets.webshots.com/video/3088767120082183223TdDZui?vhost=pets

He has never left the farm so I can only assume that he is not going to have any issues being trailered.:)

[twofatponies]

OMG

I can't believe how badly he trashed it the first time!

I'm dying laughing.

[KateKat]

but...but MOM!! I love the tack room!!

LOL, that was too funny!

[Weighaton]

There is a nice iron couch in the tack room with firm cushions - I half expected him to turn and sit on it like "Hey this looks so much better than the last time I was in here!! Keep up the good work."

[Brown Horse]

That is TOO funny! Kinda scary how he got locked in there...coulda hurt himself but I'm glad he didn't :) Silly horse.

[tikihorse2]

OMG! This is hilarious! I love how he stuck his muzzle right into the camera--so funny.

Obviously it's HIS farm and he just lets you live there and take care of it for him. :lol::lol::lol:

Thank you SO much for sharing this!

Kim

[danceronice]

And we're worried about what the two cats will do locked up over night! (One of our cats, Thursday, is only about 12 weeks old, so we lock him up at night to keep him away from possums, raccoons, the local badgers, etc and tonight we decided to put his friend Friday, a year-old cat, in with him.)

[Weighaton]

Oh yeah who knew... once upon a time he looked so innocent.

http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2846376140082183223ZbwjPt?vhost=good-times

It was only a miracle that he walked out of the tack room the first time without a scratch on him. There was a huge broken mirror, fencing supplies..it was a horrible mess.

[KrazyTBMare]

So funny!

My boarders horse did something similar but not as clever as your boy.

I am closing in my old wash rack to make a hay/feed room so its enclosed with 3 walls and the front wall is open and I have a gate there. Well my step dad let the horses out one day and didnt latch the gate and I came home to find my boarders horse INSIDE the hay room, with the gate closed behind him so the other horses couldnt get in. BTW The gate only opens out, it doesnt swing in. I couldnt figure it out.

Well the other day I was letting him nose around in the aisle and he walked into his stall, turned around, and pulled his stall door closed. LOL So I knew how he did it. Sneaky bugger.

[Risk-Averse Rider]

I remember when that happened - how worried everyone was... and then you found him! :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

[coloredhorse]

Hysterical ... and a relief to me that I don't have the only one! :lol:

The Little Bay Alpha Mare was "missing" one evening at feed time. I decided to feed her BFF (who was surprisingly blase about her missing pal ... shoulda been a clue!) before starting to canvas the neighbors' properties. Who should I find in the feed/tack room but the LBAM herself. She'd munched on some hay cubes, pulled a few things off shelves, pooped several times.

It was just bizarre ... door was closed, nothing amiss ... except, of course, for the horse in the tack room. After later seeing her successfully manipulate a doorknob with her lips, I concluded that she'd gotten the door open (it was a blustery, rainy day, so I'd left them with free access to their stalls) and the breeze had blown the door shut, closing her in.

And she's tried it again since then! I had to add a latch to the door so she can't open it on her own.

I am seriously glad to see I don't have the only one! :cool:

[sketcher]

When I was a teenager I took care of some horses, one of which was an escape artist. The routine was that you close the bottom stall door and put a horseshoe through the latch, lift the very heavy grill and swing it closed so that it rested its weight on top of the bottom half of the door, hook chain around nail and turn bent nail so horse couldn't start the escape process.

One day I forgot to turn the nail so this horse squeezed his nose through the bars, unhooked the chain from the nail, pushed the heavy top portion of the door open, reached over, removed the horseshoe, undid the latch and he was free. He then proceeded to go to the tack room and slide the door open - which by the way had to be lifted to slide because it was just a piece of plywood sitting in a track and didn't really slide.

I returned to find him in the tackroom. His hind end had fallen through the floor of this old, 3 story barn, his front legs stretched out in front of him cradling the grain barrel which had tipped towards him, his head in the grain barrel happily munching away. From underneath the barn you could see two hind legs just hanging there.

We had to winch him up and slide something under his feet to cover the hole in the floor. It took us over an hour to get him out of the hole. Thankfully he only had a few scratches and hadn't had a lot of time to really dig into the grain!

[dotneko]

I have done a VERY BAD THING. I have taught Fabian to go
into my tack room and open the fridge (the boarders keep their
carrots in there dontcha know). He will also stand and wait
in front of the candy machine for someone to buy him something
- he really loves the Sweet and Salty trail mix that is in there
we fight over the M&M's and raisins, but the sunflower seeds
are all his. You can't put money in it without fingers, so he
must rely on the kindness of strangers.
It really doesn't help that his stall is opposite the tack room
door - he watches the goodies come out all day long.

(I am not allowed in the barn after 9 anymore, since that is
when my trick training happens - No more tricks)

Dot

[JohnDeere]

The resident goofball one winter night opened the stall door and stayed all nite in the aisleway. The doors were closed so he couldnt leave but he sure did have a good time. Cleaned up the hay wagon (with the morning hay in it) pulled down all the Xmas decorations/bridles/halters/leadropes/brushes, cleaned up all the spilled grain in the feedroom (grain is in chest freezers so he coudlnt open those), and generally had a ball.

Why the other horses didnt raise the roof I will never know!

Sketcher that is a great story!

[TheHorseProblem]

Many years ago we had a scare in which we were sure our QH gelding was stolen. He simply disappeared off of the farm without a trace. No hoof prints, vehicle tracks, nothing. My husband searched the farm while I canvassed the auctions that were happening in the coming days. After 18 hours the horse was found in the TACK ROOM!!!! The door was shut. The lights were out and he was completely quiet in the pitch dark. The tack room was destroyed with feed, saddles and storage stuff everywhere.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe4K5ad6Xgc



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