You need to remain confident and casual. Ripple will take his cues from you. The less affected you are by his spooked behaviour the better.
mine go loopy in the wind - I don't think they're scared, just a bit hyper (Scooby was the same). I hope they're not scared and that I have been misreading them all this time.
All right, here I go again, unable to resist. My OH worked pretty far north in a mining town before I met him and he came out of there with a bunch of sayings I'd never heard before. Maybe they aren't as unique as I thought, maybe you've heard this one? Useless as a fart in a windstorm.
Tara does this a lot. The other week it was a mini whirlwind, blowing leaves about, and took a week before she would even walk down that path. She also gets spooked by, what I can see, is nothing, but don't forget, dogs can "see" things we cannot!!!!!
Doug is very deaf now and his "Bottom Burps" are very loud. He can't hear them (he thinks silent but deadly he he) but they are terrifying. Rory was really scared the other day and looked at me with total horror. So funny Dougs always thinks he's got away with whilst quaking like a duck
From my experience of horses they will spook at anything, a crisp bag laying where there wasn't one the day before, a bird in a bush singing, lawn mowers in gardens, in fact anything which may be described as not the same as it was last time
Oh yes my most weird horse spooking incident was riding my old grey fellow passed a field with just a bridle and no saddle and him seeing a small herd of stags walking through the corn. All you could see was there necks heads and antlers. He was snorting like crazy and rearing and all the silly horsey stuff. It was all very funny and all ened well he was a wonderful pony usually bomb proof. I do think dogs have this same attention to detail and do notice things we might not. Mine always pick up on new things and are very empathic. Also they can behave like prancing ponies and often do.
