7 Times Horses Destroyed Everything
Accidents are bound to happen when you put a 1,000-pound animal in the barn and expect it to adhere to certain “rules”. We can train our horses all we want, but at the end of the day, they’re still animals with a mind of their own.
Horses can be destructive, and usually at the most inopportune times. Here are seven times horses went over the top about a spook or boredom antics turned into disaster. Either way, all horses came out of these real-life situations just fine, so feel free to have a good laugh.
Pasture Turned Pond
“When my guy was younger, he carefully took the float off of the water tank, and then the quick connect off of the hose, and flooded the pasture. It probably ran for 7 or 8 hours overnight before we found it. He’s always been very mouthy and it was just a toy to him. It was a full on pond and he had a great time.”
Going, Going… Sinking
“My horse let himself free out of his field and thought the pool cover was land, so he ran across it and then got stuck. He just stood there waiting for help. He was totally fine. The pool cover, not so much.”
Making A Good First Impression
“Mine took down an entire fence line when she unsuccessfully tried to jump it…. and walked away without a scratch. It was her first turnout day at a new farm and I wanted to die. I brought the owners many bottles of wine.”
The Mechanic’s Apprentice
“My husband is a mechanic and he does a lot of side work at home. I had a young Thoroughbred and he ate the paint off at least 3 or 4 customer vehicles and my husband had to pay to repaint parts of the vehicles. Our own pickup still has teeth marks on the hood.”
The Great Treat Hunt
“Mine let himself out of his stall while boarding for a show and checked all the tack trunks in front of the other stalls for treats, invariably displacing the contents of over 10 trunks. And then he let himself back into his stall like nothing happened. (I spent that entire day apologizing and helping re-organize everyone’s tack trunks and restocking treats.”
The Basement Intruder
“The one recessed basement window that was exposed to the field where the horses spent much of their time at my old house was also a great place for horsey sun bathing. I loved this because I could say hi. One spring day, while there was still snow and poo creating a small slide in the recessed hole, my mare dozed off a little too close to it and FELL IN! She managed to cast herself in there! My husband yelled at me to get her out from being so close to the window and when I rounded the corner there she was, cast in the basement window well just waiting for me to rescue her. In the process of putting ropes around her legs while my husband was cussing me out under his breath but helping, she put her foot through the window then broke the whole thing out. Luckily there were no vet bills.”
Mr. Clumsy
“One morning my gelding came in from the pasture with a weird swelling above his stifle and three fat legs. We couldn’t figure out what happened at first… but over the course of the day my barn owner and trainer figured it out. She text me eventually to say ‘I know what your dumb horse did.’ Terrified, I read the rest of her message: ‘he must have been grazing on top of the bank (jump in the pasture) and rolled off of it, because he broke the entire top rail off.’ Luckily, he was fine. But being that clumsy takes serious talent.”