What have you been trained to do by your horse?

[Dexter]

To dismount by swinging my leg over the front of the saddle. Otherwise she squeals and threatens to buck lol.

[sascha]

Giant Pez dispenser checking in. Peppermint for each hole of girth tightening or there will be hell to pay.

1 scoop of orange gatorade powder on her alfalfa soup which must also contain apples, pears, and carrots.

Wet hay. Started that when she had an upper resp virus this winter. Can't stop. Have tried.

I am whipped.

However, I'm not the only one. She has an entire family trained to stand there while she licks them. If she's in her stall and wants in ear rub, the ear will poke through her stall bars until one of her minions notices she is in distress.

I hate to think of the train wreck of a spoilt brat she'd be if she were human.

[Foxtrot's]

She trained me to be lulled by her calm demeanour and to let down my guard - today, in fact, in the sun, I wanted to hose her sweaty neck - too cold she said, and walked off and I wasn't holding on tight enough...at the horse show. Brat horse, dumb owner.

[OverandOnward]

To write large checks for her care, feeding and training

Yes, not because it makes sense for me, but because it makes him happy to live in this style to which he is accustomed.

I asked him about pasture board, in this less-active phase of his life. He said he rather likes spending cold rainy nights in a warm dry stall. Meaning someone has to bring him in, then take him back out the next day ... I think he likes being personally escorted in and out, too. And there are more horse cookies in than out.

[OverandOnward]

One peppermint for every 3 minutes of cooperating with braiding. (I'm a slow braider.)

When I informed him it was not convenient to stop every 3 minutes being that it is a big process for me to get my hands sorted again, he agreed to giving me a backward eye/ear roll every 3 minutes, meaning another peppermint is due in the peppermint meter total. I pay up in arrears. This is working.

[pezk]

What have I been trained to do by my horse? That's easy...pay her bills.

[Sooner or Later]

Two treats are expected. One treat will not do.

As I learned after giving him one treat, then went into the tack room to finish up some things, came out and he's still hanging his head over the gate with the "I'm such a pretty horsie" look on his face...

Fine. One more treat, and THEN he turns around and heads out to his buddies.

[pony baloney]

Zar has trained me to add the correct amount of TCSr to his wet alfalfa pellet snack. If I get it wrong, he dumps it out.

He's also trained me to lead him to "Poo Corner", which is the corner of the ring where he'll poop before our ride. It's beneath him to go anywhere else.

[demidq]

My mare has trained me to give her a "cup of tea" when she comes in- bucket of warm water with 2 handfuls of feed dissolved. She'll drink 2 gallons in one go, despite the fact she has water available at all times in a heated bucket inside and out. She makes a bit of a fuss if it's not ready when she is!

[Foxtrot's]

My horse can count, too - to two. My husband gives her two anise candies and she knows at the late night feeding if he has short changed her.

[billiebob]

My horse doesn't like an audience when he pees. So at my old barn after a ride I'd untack and put him in his stall while I put my tack away so he could have his privacy. I also learned that sometimes when he's bad under saddle it's because he has to pee.

He's also trained me to cry when I look at my bank account.

[phoebetrainer]

One of mine has trained me to fiddle with his forelock - twirl it round my finger as I'm talking to someone or waiting. He puts his forehead low against my leg so his forelock / top of head is just at my hand height, and before I realise what I'm doing.......

The other day one of my mares had some brush in her tail. She was spooking and leaping away from it, then trotted up to me and stepped sideways and presented her tail to me. Once I'd detangled it, she ambled off, relaxed again. I have no idea how she would have managed if I hadn't happened to be there!!

[SmartAlex]

My horse has trained me to forego horse bubble baths and accept that the fifty shades of grey are now the fifty shades of buckskin. Or at least it looks sort of like buckskin.

[rascalpony]

Haha if pony knows feed is coming, pony bangs LOUDLY on stall door to ensure she is fed first. Good thing I love the brat

Pony and horse get hay off of my hayfield. When it runs low in winter, it's supplemented with hay from the feed store. Horse and pony promptly go on hunger strike against hay from field. Frustration with now unsatisfying and unusable hay rises. Give horse and pony only older hay or they can starve. Horse and pony continue hunger strike. New hay is given. Horse and pony win.

[drawstraws]

One of my geldings taught me that once he was done with his senior feed in the morning, that if he banged on his stall door I would drop what I was doing (usually cleaning one of the other stalls as the three other boys have been let out already) to come get him to turn him out. No waiting patiently for this one, just BANG BANG BANG with the front leg. I did put a stop to it once I figured out that he had me trained so well. But they do all give the "cookie face" at night and everyone gets a good-night mint when they get tucked in and I tell them I love them and turn out the lights.

[ako]

He taught me that he's smarter than I am.

You see, I foolishly felt the need to stop him from pawing on cross ties. So when he pawed, I would lightly smack his chest. So what do you think he started to do when I'd walk away for a moment and leave him (OMG!) unattended???? You got it, the brat started to paw to get me back!! Horse owner fail.

Ha, I remember early on asking my fiancé (now DH) to put on the front boots. I warned him to crouch off to the side so he wouldn't get kneed. So horsey reached across and kneed him with his other leg! Twice! When he knocked my fiancé down with the 2nd one, the look on my horse's face was just priceless. He's been training us ever since.

[Mia412]

My horses have conditioned me to drag myself out of bed to feed them in the morning before I make coffee or feed myself. Spoiled ponies!