Poll
Haunted Horses
Are you dressing your horse up for Halloween?
Total votes cast: 577
Comments & Write-in Answers
I am going to be a doll
11/1/2009 10:27:31 AM
check them out and be sure they are safe
11/1/2009 3:35:39 AM
stayibg home
10/31/2009 3:15:18 PM
my horse loves attention, even if it means putting objects on her body.
10/30/2009 11:39:14 PM
We have a barrel race here for Halloween and lots of girls dress their horses for a contest.
10/30/2009 11:18:29 AM
My mare is Dressing as a mouse and I will be a cat
10/29/2009 10:36:24 PM
my mare is going to be lion and my daughter is the lion tamer
10/29/2009 9:27:54 PM
Just another day, says me and my horse.
10/29/2009 6:49:18 PM
The less stress for her the better!!!
10/29/2009 1:27:01 PM
Star's Little Red Tiding Hood & I'm the Big Bad Wolf
10/29/2009 1:35:38 AM
We dress horse and rider up and trick or treat the neighborhood & family
10/28/2009 11:53:27 PM
My current horse has a sense of humor-he seems to like being "dressed up"
10/28/2009 11:06:39 PM
Our barn had it's Halloween party, but my gelding gets scared when he sees other horses dressed up.
10/28/2009 10:38:05 PM
my white arab is a zebra and my quarter mare is a witch.
10/28/2009 10:23:13 PM
It's "requested" by the woman I'm taking a lesson/clinic with on the 31st, don't know what I'm doing
10/28/2009 10:14:56 PM
I'll be the devil and my gray will be a red-spotted appy
10/28/2009 7:17:31 PM
lol no mine will eat i think haha
10/28/2009 6:31:08 PM
Used to--but I'm in an adult barn now--feel silly doing it alone.
10/28/2009 6:25:33 PM
mouse
10/28/2009 5:20:01 PM
I would love too, but might not have enough time to make one
10/28/2009 4:55:28 PM
Our boarding barn does Boo at the Barn but this year my girls just want to go w/o dressing up.
10/28/2009 3:49:49 PM
When my daughter was young, I took her on my horse around the neighborhood as the headless horseman.
10/28/2009 3:43:26 PM
Sonny's dressing as Dennis the Meanace
10/28/2009 3:41:43 PM
Yes we have a contest each year at our barn
10/28/2009 3:37:35 PM
I'm hiding my horses away from trick or treaters because of possible abuse.
10/28/2009 3:08:43 PM
You're kidding, right?
10/28/2009 2:55:14 PM
Mine don't need any excuses to act like idiots!
10/28/2009 2:54:10 PM
MY OTTB barn name is Batman so he will be himself and I will be catwoman
10/28/2009 12:46:45 PM
Will be keeping mine inside and away from the craziness and noise.
10/28/2009 12:37:30 PM
he wore an indian headress
10/28/2009 11:21:40 AM
"Dressing" for any reason would be below my mare's dignity!! She wouldn't allow it.
10/28/2009 11:06:44 AM
Would love to dress him up but have no opportunity. :(
10/28/2009 11:04:23 AM
Riding Group does a costume ride and potluck together each year.
10/28/2009 10:47:31 AM
Next year I will dress up one of the ponies and tak it with the kids...kids too young this year
10/28/2009 10:40:48 AM
were camping & doing a benifit obstacle challenge with a costume contest to follow.
10/28/2009 10:38:55 AM
normally I would, but I will be out of town. ;-(
10/28/2009 10:10:16 AM
none
10/28/2009 9:00:54 AM
We are having a party and contest at our barn! Lots of fun!
10/28/2009 9:00:45 AM
Emphatically NO!
10/28/2009 8:31:28 AM
We are dressing up the horses at Special Equestrians, a riding therapy program. All 9 horses!
10/28/2009 8:28:24 AM
I don't "do" Halloween at all; it doesn't flip my switch
10/28/2009 8:27:24 AM
Halloween was fun, now it is elevated to industrial complex holiday. Buy less, stay green.
10/28/2009 8:18:01 AM
This year she will be a zombie bride, last year she was a unicorn!
10/28/2009 7:51:49 AM
my horse is an animal not a person.
10/28/2009 7:40:46 AM
ballerina with a pink too too
10/28/2009 7:16:40 AM
I don't celebrate the devils day
10/28/2009 3:42:34 AM
Costume Contest - I am going to be a vampire and my horse is going to be a Werewolf
10/28/2009 2:01:51 AM
but I have in the past
10/28/2009 1:45:40 AM
Always won costume class at shows - made full sheet,neck, head costume in black w/stars & moons
10/28/2009 12:59:30 AM
we have halloween party with costume contest at our barn every year --we did 3 pigs & big bad wolf
10/28/2009 12:23:04 AM
I encourage my lesson students to wear their costumes to the barn for a picture with the horses :)
10/27/2009 11:26:46 PM
Horse is going as the Cowardly Lion; I will be Dorothy!
10/27/2009 11:22:30 PM
You have got to be kidding......
10/27/2009 11:07:14 PM
My horses would kill me!
10/27/2009 10:44:46 PM
stay home and just spend time with my horse
10/27/2009 10:43:30 PM
But I do dress up all of my dogs and my foster dogs - and folks come just to see them!
10/27/2009 10:41:10 PM
$ of us are going to dress up ythe horses and ride into the village
10/27/2009 10:04:35 PM
at our barn we have a costume parade and all the kids and horses are dressed up.
10/27/2009 9:46:54 PM
I'll be spending time auditing the Robert Dover Symposium with Robert Dover and Darren Chiacchia. :)
10/27/2009 9:36:19 PM
No, Halloween scares me.
10/27/2009 9:29:13 PM
we don't celebrate Halloween
10/27/2009 9:29:12 PM
sometimes i put a little something on him, but i don't get into it much.
10/27/2009 8:59:40 PM
The riding lesson kids are painting and putting custumes on their horses
10/27/2009 8:48:01 PM
would if it would stop raining
10/27/2009 8:42:45 PM
For years my daughter and a friend dressed their horses for the Halloween Jump off at the NKHA Show!
10/27/2009 8:41:32 PM
My horse and goat wil get treats, but no costume.
10/27/2009 8:35:19 PM
No but my barn mates do
10/27/2009 8:29:04 PM
she will be dressed as the merry widow.with spiders on her black veiled hat..lol
10/27/2009 8:17:06 PM
We do a Hallowe'en on Horseback where 15 horses and riders dress up to raise $ for theraputic riding
10/27/2009 8:10:16 PM
Barn party, costumed horses and riders, games, prizes, food
10/27/2009 8:05:43 PM
Not this year
10/27/2009 7:56:18 PM
Are you kidding? Horses don't even like blankets, let alone costumes!
10/27/2009 11:18:51 AM
for halloween charity trail ride
10/27/2009 9:36:11 AM
will be gone to see Willie Nelson
10/27/2009 9:12:00 AM
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