Strange Quirks/habits/funny things your barrel horse does

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KDS Reg. Jun 2007	Posted 2018-07-26 3:28 PM Subject: RE: Strange Quirks/habits/funny things your barrel horse does
Elite Veteran Posts: 1117 Location: MI	When Fly drinks, she keeps the last mouthful of water in her mouth for a while- sometimes even a couple minutes. And she loves to share... if you're not paying attention, she'll dump the mouthful of water all over you. You can tell she has water in her mouth because her tongue will be sticking out a little bit.
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imturnin3 Reg. Apr 2010	Posted 2018-07-26 6:10 PM Subject: RE: Strange Quirks/habits/funny things your barrel horse does
Extreme Veteran Posts: 477 Location: Lost in the swamps	Spooks at the same sign at an arena we go to weekly ?? Smacks his lips and rolls his tongue on his pallet when nervous or board (we call it his coping mechanism) lol
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Delta Cowgirl Reg. Apr 2005	Posted 2018-07-26 6:49 PM Subject: RE: Strange Quirks/habits/funny things your barrel horse does
The Vaccinator Posts: 3810 Location: Slipping down the slope of old age. Boo hoo.	My gelding pees before evening meal (not morning, just evening). Likes to grab my shoe / boot when I'm mucking his stall....and will also grab fork handle and will pick up muck bucket and sling it around.... I usually pull him from the stall and put him in a cross-tie while I clean his stall. Ground ties great out of barn, but in barn I have to put him in cross-tie as he reaches for and grabs anything in reach -- pulling over shelves, tables, etc.... pulling off saddle blanket before I can set saddle on him. He is very busy. My mare backs up to my back while I'm cleaning her stall and 'bumps' me asking me to scratch her butt. We joke that she needs one of those beeper things that commercial trucks have -- to warn you she is backing up. She is a big mare and loves to have her butt scratched.
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pinx05 Reg. Nov 2009	Posted 2018-08-01 11:37 AM Subject: RE: Strange Quirks/habits/funny things your barrel horse does
Chicken Chick Posts: 3562 Location: Texas	Before my old guy had to be put down he kept us on our toes. His main thing was food. He loved to eat. Hamburgers, pickles, pizza, ranch dressing, french fries with ketchup, PB&Js. No food was safe around him. He would literally try snagging food out of the hands of clueless strangers passing by. He would even eat it out of the trash. We had a dog growing up that started getting really skinny. We tried taking him to the vet, deworming him, pouring table scraps to him on top of his food. Nothing worked. One day we forgot a pan of food and went out to give it to the dog only to find the horse had unlatched the gate to the chainlink fence and was chowing down on red beans. The poor dog was just sitting a few feet away watching. So it turned out my sister really wasn't leaving the gate open... and the dog wasn't sick lol. When he would drink he would stick his head in the water all the way to his eyeballs. Oh he was also notorius for getting his bridle off while you were on him. Luckily he wasn't crazy, just a pain in the butt.
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