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This is really nice, but have you checked with Ammit about the ice genes?

11218- 60 stall barn. I have a basenji. He is very smart, but if you're a dog person as you know they are very independent. One time I was trying to show him off a family Christmas get together. He wouldn't listen to me at all, wouldn't do any tricks other than he smacked my little 5 year old cousin in the face when she asked him to high-five, then he tried hump my aunt/cousins dog all night in front of a bunch children (he had literally never humped anything or any other dog before and hasn't since). I was so embarrassed because all I did was brag about how he was the absolute smartest, most well behaved dog I've ever met and how I'm always so proud of him before bringing him to this get together.

Ooo this sounds fun! I'd like to enter for 2 Ice 5 genes! (ID: 4344)

I have so many stories to choose from XD So hard to decide!

Ok, so I breed and show rabbits and this particular story happened a few years ago when I was still in high school. I was going to be home along for the weekend so I asked my parents if my friend could stay with me and they agreed since they liked this friend. Well, fast forward, friend is over and family is gone. I brought in my Holland Lop buck that I had at the time because she hadn't met him and I wanted to show her the cute thing he did (he would lick my neck when I held him). So he's inside for not even 5 minutes when he pees all over me! A lot!. So I set him on the floor to roam around while I changed and cleaned up. I come back a couple minutes later and what is he doing? He hopped right over to my friends blanket and peed on it too! I was instantly like, "Ok so back outside for you." I threw her blanket in the washer for her. So then fast forward again to the next time she came over to stay the night. I brought him inside again to groom him and clip his nails. I set him on the ground again and what does he do? Goes right to my friend's blanket and pees on it! I was so embarrassed and a little mad at him. But she was good about it and we both laughed. We are both convinced he just didn't like her XD

16418~1 ice one and one 1ice 5

I had an Afghan hound named Samir. He was a beautiful blonde. Well I rescued him from the breeder just before the rescue themselves came to the kennel. He was a Houdini. The worst incident was when we went for a walk. He slipped his martingale collar and was off at 40mph downtown. He looked both ways before crossing the road luckily. He was gone for 3 days and evaded all animal control and sheriff department attempts to catch him. Just showed up at the door one morning as we were about to go searching again. He was rotten but good for a few laughs. I wish I had video of the circus act he put on with the pros. Tail wagging jumping over their heads smiling as he disappeared.

@Confluence I did, I asked on the Big Thaw post and tagged her there too. :)

@StarStrike, I love that! My old horse trainer used to joke that if you ever wanted to feel a little humbled, just try to show of how well behaved an animal was! :)) I've only met one Basenji before but you can tell just looking into their eyes how intelligent they are. I don't doubt that he knew exactly what he was doing!

@AHayesHorses I had to look up what a Holland Lop looks like but omg, they are adorable! I cant imagine him peeing was very cute though! Glad your friend was a good sport about it.

@ObsidianKitsune Sounds like you had a blast for your first time! I know the feeling of face to neck over a jump :)) at least you didn't get a bloody nose and half to finish a jump course! With a white horse I might add! Glad you went back for more, and got a better horse too.

@Foxx Afghan hounds are absolutely gorgeous! I would have loved to see him giving everyone a chase! So glad to hear he made it back, its terrifying when they disappear.

So generous of you! This is an awesome give-away.
I'm not entering, but I work at a dog daycare and have SO many funny stories! I'm loving reading everyone else's.

We are allowed to bring our own dogs to work, and on one of my first days I met my coworker's dog. As she was explaining how to do something, her dog just decides to lift a leg to my foot!

A lot of dogs have funny habits, but I have noticed a trend with Labradors in particular. They are all obsessed with water. So many of them LOVE to play in the water dishes! Some of them just paw in it, and others dunk their whole heads! Labs are also known to be very loving and affectionate dogs, and this lethal combination of habits tends to create wet patches that often look like pee stains. It's always the client that notices first and brings it to your attention.

20418 - 60 Stall barn.

I had the cutest 32 inch mini stallion named Romeo. He was the most laid back stallion ever. I could even drive him in a cart and have a mare in heat trotting right next to him and he'd never even bat an eye. Being such a little guy he assumed everything bigger than him was a mare. He really loved long legs one of the mares he admired was my neighbors QH.

Well one day I took him to a mini horse show and we were just waiting to go into our class. Plenty of horses around his size and smaller some of them mares. He just ignores them all. Then this lady walks up with a 34 inch gelding and Romeo just falls in love at first sight. He was doing all the talking and really showing himself. I was like Dude I know he's bigger than you but its a boy!. It was so embarrassing.

Thanks @Lacy512 :) I'm glad she was good about it too. I don't have that rabbit anymore unfortunately. He passed away a year after that incident. Now I have Mini Lops (although they aren't very mini :D )

18702 and I would love to try for the 1 year basic upgrade =D

I've got two dogs (Jack Russel and GSD) and two horses (warmblood mare and clydie cross gelding) but it so hard to just pick one story xD
I think my favourite recent one involves my little clydie cross gelding. Reggie is well known to have a lot of personality, I like comparing him to a lab in a horse's body. Anyway, he's just turn 3 years old so I'm beginning to break him in slowly. In the beginning he was NOT a fan of long reining and he would try to turn around or kick out at the ropes behind him. Not his fault at all, he was just learning after all. I spent a good while getting him comfortable in the long reins, walk, trot and steering both ways. He was going great, so I called up my instructor to come down for a progress report. She came down, I put all Reggie's gear on, attached the lines and jumped into position behind him. I'm thinking its going well so far as he didn't used to stand still, but today he was rock solid while I mucked around with all the gear and stuff. I ask him to walk on, no response. I asked him again and clicked him up and all I get from Reggie is him flopping onto the ground and subsequently refusing to move. Like completely flat out on his side, looking like he's settling in for a good nap in the sun. We tried getting him up (we did unclip the lines so he wouldn't get tangled if he lept up or anything), but he would just roll back over, he had no intention of working that day lol I couldn't help but laugh even though it was hilariously embarrassing! My instructor was a bit shocked that he would actually do that, but hey, she couldn't say he wasn't happy in the long reins. We had a good chat while we waited for Reggie to finish his 'nap' and eventually he did get up and decide it was work time. Luckily he was good and my instructor was happy despite the initial 'hiccup'

19595 - Basic upgrade would be wonderful!

It took me a long while to think of my "most embarrassing moment" as I realised, mine lies all the way back with one of my first competitive outings.

I am an eventing rider and have been eventing for almost as long as I've been riding, which is about 14 years now. However, my start to eventing was not all that rosy.

When I was eight years old, I had a lease pony named E.T.. He was your typical grey, 13hh pony that almost every kid seems to start riding on. I took him to pony club and started my first competitions on him. Including my first One Day Event. Which was also my first competition not at my own pony club grounds, so it really felt like my first real competition at Grade 5 level (45cm).

The embarrassment started early with my dressage test. I entered at A, trotted down the centreline, stopped at X and did my salute. Shortly after, as I had proceeded to move off, E.T. stopped for a toilet break! My eight-year-old self was mortified as I was stuck directly in front of the judge, desperately kicking my pony who really did not want to move and poop at the same time! I think the rest of the test was fine, but I was very embarrassed to say the least.

I don't remember my showjumping round at all - so I think it must have been fairly trauma free! However the event itself was quite poorly organised and I do remember being almost hassled into the jumping ring as I'd just finished my dressage test. The poor organisation of the event had continued, with my grade -despite having it's little cross-country course separate from the higher grades- not scheduled to go XC until much later in the afternoon. We waited around for hours. It was hot. I'd had a very filling lunch of a hot dog, washed down with a can of Sunkist. The Sunkist didn't stay cool, it was warm and sticky but being a kid, I drank it anyway. To this day I regret this decision and struggle to consume almost any orange flavoured soft drink.

By the time it came for me to get on my pony and get ready for XC I was not feel too crash hot. I felt way too warm with my back protector on, and my tummy felt funny. I tried to warm my pony up, but frankly I just wanted to sit in the shade. Mum was not happy with this, and lectured me on how important it was that I warm my pony up. I kept complaining, "I don't want too." "I want to take my back protector off!" "I feel funny!" I think mum thought I was nervous and was suffering a bit of stage fright (I was not the bravest of riders after all), so I really think she had my best intentions at heart when she convinced me to give it a go.

So I did. My number was called, I rode down to the starter, who was very friendly. I was really starting to not feel good. She began to start the count down 10...9...8... "I don't feel so good" 7... "You'll be okay!"...6...5...4...I was getting ready to go through the start flags... 3... 2... Just about to set off... 1... GO!

And right on cue. As soon as she said 'go', and I swear this couldn't be more well-timed;

I threw up.

Over the side of my pony. Bright orange, Sunkist coloured spew.

And here's the best part..

I kept riding!

Off I trotted and started my course. I threw up again over the first fence, just leaned over the side and let it out. I could hear some commotion from the small crowd near the start. Needless to say I made quite a scene!

By the time I got to the second fence, I was feeling pretty good and had my mojo. I picked up a canter and off I went! I think I had a few stops. But E.T. was a trooper and piloted me around safely. As it turned out, I'd rose to a bit of fame after my little incident. I remember mum and I chatting with someone at Pony Club a few weeks later and they were complaining about the event and the poor organisation and I remember her saying, "Oh! And there was that poor kid who threw up in Grade 5!" It was the talk of the season.
As it turned out I did end up coming down with a bit of a bug in the days after the event, so it perhaps wasn't entirely the Sunkist's fault!

I always look back and laugh. Especially when people ask, what was your first event like? And I straight up tell them, "Oh, I threw up."


Sorry for the essay. I can't help but be dramatic. :-))

11705- 60 stall barn- I went in the arena with my horse, he's a jumper , so while I was trying to jump him, every time He got near the jump , he would stop and I'd go flying over it like batman. Every.Darn.Time. there was also another time where we were galloping in the fields.... he reared and then went down and when he put his neck down to eat the grass, I also went flying over his neck...face first , right in the mud ( let's just hope it was mud). Well, that's my story, I find it funny every time I tell someone :)) Gotta love horses :x

Congratulations on your haj yeariversary! Mine was a little over a month ago but I missed it so I didnt get to do anything special for it. Its so kind of you to do this! (and thanks to your hubby too! lol)

7731 - entering for ice genes! I'm thinking ice 1 and 5.


So this probably isnt the most embarrassing but its one that comes to mind!

My one miniature mare was 9 months old and she was at her first horse show. She was acting like a perfect little lady a tiny bit nervous but it was her first time away from home so I didnt expect anything less. the show was mostly for exposure I wasnt expecting a ton out of her. First class was showmanship. Pretty big class. We were close to last. She stood fairly well for the amount of time it took for the judge to finally get to us. Well she went from being an angel to spooking and rearing and falling over because the judge had.......a...wait for it its super scary.. CLIPBOARD. lmao. So I get her back up and shes super dirty and I'm trying to talk to her while getting as much sand off of her as I can with my hand and I'm mortified not only was it in front of the judge but all eyes were on me in the ring and out lol. I even heard people gasp when she fell lol and then he moved on to the next horse and when he was done came back and walked around her again trying to get her to realize he and the clipboard werent going to kill her. And when he did one more walk by I was talking to her and I said "relax, hes not going to hurt you" and he said "you dont know that" :))

However the rest of the day after our little mishap turned out to be great and in the next class she got second place out of like 20 horses and I was so proud.

I'm not entering, but wanted to share a story:

When I was 12 or 13 years old I took care of a nice little 1/2 QH, 1/2 Tennessee Walking horse mare. I took her to a show at the local fairgrounds one year. I had to ride her 3 miles to get there...no trailer, and and it was summer in Missouri so I had to cool her down after I got to the show grounds and spiff her up for showmanship. We did pretty well (2nd place), and then went in a pleasure class of some sort. The last class of the day was bareback equitation (haven't seen that class for YEARS! Do they still do it? and Tandem bareback? Wow...memories!). We were in the huge indoor fairgrounds show ring going along nicely, reversed, still walking, and out of the blue my mare dropped to the ground and started rolling in the nice sandy arena dirt! I had stepped off, of course, but my teenaged self was completely mortified! When she was done I just brushed her off with my hands, jumped back on and finished the class. We didn't place, but the judge did give me a wink.

#250 - upgrade

I have two stories!


The first story was my very first horse show, I believe. I was probably 7 years old, showing a 20+ year old quarter horse. He was all black with no white marks, and his name was Trader. He was a true lesson horse - he knew his job. Walk, trot and maybe canter around the ring. Repeat. Not only was this show my first show, it was his first in a number of years. So we get there, warm up and every thing is going smoothly. It was a schooling show, and our first class was called English Pleasure, which was a w/t/c class on the rail.

We get in the arena and Trader feels very fresh. The announcer asks for a trot, and I am doing lots of circles to keep Trader from taking off. And then it's time for a canter. Trader somehow ends up going the opposite direction. To this day, I'm not sure how it happened. I think I tried to circle him but he took off. Again, I'm not sure. So, this 7 year old (me) on a big black, 20 year old quarter horse is cantering the opposite direction of the class, trying to get him back under control. Miraculously, I do and we finish the class. The placings are being called, and I tune them out because I know I'm not going to get anything - my horse took off! To my surprise though, the judge gives me an honorable mention, haha. To this day, I have never seen anyone else get one at this show - they just took pity on me. After the class my trainer (at the time) told me I did a good job staying on and she had never seen Trader go so fast in a decade. :))


The second one isn't so much an animal misbehaving but I wanted to share it anyways (for my embarrassment, of course). I was about 8 years old at a local schooling show, about to enter the showmanship class with my lesson horse, a black "mustang" with a snip named Smokey (mustang in quotes because that was what my trainer at the time had told us, but he had no freezebrand, so I'm now pretty sure he was just a grade gelding with a bit of a roman nose).

Showmanship was one of the first classes of the day, but we had spent a couple of hours getting ready by the time the class was supposed to start. Walking in the ring, I felt fine, just a little jittery and nervous. I went through my pattern and got it over with, and then we lined up at one end of the ring to wait for everyone to finish, and then placings would be called.

I was probably the third or fourth of maybe ten in the class. By the seventh or eighth person, it was very clear to me that I really needed to use the bathroom. Like really needed to go, so I am just trying to make it through the last couple of people until I can hand my horse off to someone and run to the restroom. I'm attempting to do the most discreet of potty dances when the judge, who must have been facing the line up walks over to us instead of nodding to the next person to begin their pattern. She asks me if I need to go to the bathroom. I say yes. She tells me to go. I ask what I'm supposed to do with my horse. She offers to hold my horse for me and I run off. Of course, this was one of the few horse shows my aunt came to see and to this day, she still teases me for it, but I can laugh it off now.

Also, yes, both of these shows were at the same fairgrounds. :P

I was just reminded of another story I would like to share. My little sister was gifted a pony for her birthday. Lovely chocolate dappled palomino. She was way too fat (she had so much fat deposit in her neck that the top of her neck flopped over like the mane does) and foul tempered, thus it was my job to "warm up" the pony for my sister. During one of these warm up sessions I'm taking her over some boards (so she watches her footing) and as a fat lazy pony she decided to side pass off the boards. I'm in my sisters tiny saddle leaning and pulling the pony back towards the boards. She decided that was too much work and bucked. So, with what amounts to no saddle I came off rather easy. Face first into the ONLY pile of poop. My mom is rolling and yelling "how dare you get s**t-faced without me". I lay on the ground with a very broken finger trying to remember how to breathe. I still hate ponies to this day and have yet to out live the teasing that resulted.

Bourbon 4519: 60 stall barn

A little old, but this is a story on my jrt X when he was a puppy at the beach. Zeppelin was dead cute as a puppy, he would get whole schools of children screaming through the playground walls at the sight of him. We took him to the beach when he was about 16 weeks old and let him have his first romp offlead. In the winter months all beaches become dog beaches here so there were only dog people around. An owner comes up to me with a saluki and we get chatting about Zep as he's frolicking around. Zeppelin doesn't notice said dog and runs back at one point and is startled by the saluki who doesn't really care much.

His response was to leg it to the sea screaming which attracted the attention of three seemily lazy pugs. This proceeded into a chase, the pugs chasing Zeppelin, and me and the two owners of the pugs not far behind. These pugs managed to herd Zeppelin into the sea and kept running and barking at the him. The owners grab the silly pugs and I'm trying to call Zeppelin back but he keeps going further in. At some point I realised that he was panicking and couldn't swim. So I had to jump into the sea, screaming, trying to catch a screaming puppy in the middle of winter being screamed at by some pugs with their owners screaming at them. I got Zeppelin out at the cost of my clothes and my pride. He now absolutely loves the sea.

Happy haji-versary! So kind of you to do this. :)

6554 - I would love Ice 5 & 8

So one of the many embarrassing horse stories, this has to be in my top 5!
I'd just brought my mare in from a field full of beautiful, lush green grass.
It was a wonderful sunny summers day so I decided to take her out for a ride. On the ride, there were people everywhere enjoying the sun (while it lasted - we live in the UK ;) :)) )
and there was one guy who was washing his car and he was very friendly and said hello - the next thing I know, my mare decides to do the biggest greenest poop (too much green grass!) , which splattered up the side of his shiny clean car... :)) it was so so so embarrassing! Thankfully the guy just laughed it off and said "looks like I missed a spot"... we still haven't ridden that way since! So embarrassing haha

Stable ID 638
Ice 5
We have a rescue dog that is a handful, she is constantly into mischief. From the looks and actions of Rascal, she is a Rat Terrier, Jack Russell or Fox Terrier mix. She is extremely fast and extremely vocal. She fancies herself as quite the hunter and has caught mice in the closet, where she dug out ever bit of paper and clothes and anything else she could reach along the way. She will hide beside the bedroom door and race out of it and down the hallway before you can say "No".

But the funniest thing is when you try and scold her, she will talk back to you. And the more you scold her, the more she talks. It is the funniest thing you ever heard, she will look you right in the eye and answer like she knows exactly what you said and tells you what she thinks of it. She is definitely a "rascal" lol

Thanks Lacy! It's been lots of fun sharing and reading.

Thanks for the opportunity and reading everyone's stories is always great lol

Thanks Lacy!

Shoot..i forgot. Good luck everyone.

Ok everyone, we have a winner!

Congratulations to @JordanK for winning the basic upgrade! You should receive it at some point tomorrow Jordan.

I want to saw a huge thank you to everyone that entered. I really enjoyed hosting this and I hope to do another some time in the future! I was hard to pick even 3 to nominate, there were so many funny and great stories!

Whoo! Congratulations Jordan!

Congrats Jordan!