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I agree.  I board at RMTC in Pike National Forest.  Horses see rattlesnakes all the time.  One would assume they have a healthy respect for the snakes and impending danger.  However, on more than one occasion, my horses have walked over the snakes on the trail or even on the dirt road.  Quite frankly, so have I.  Lucky?  Absolutely! 

 

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> > I was trotting along a woods trail the other day - come around the 
> > (blind) corner and as I look down see my horse trot right over the top 
> > of a diamond back rattler. That sucker was as big around as my upper 
> > arm. He just kept on trucking. Now this is a brain dead Arab that will 
> > spook at a stick in the trail - but trot right over the top of a big 
> > rattler. 
> > 
> > This is actually the second time he tried to trot over a rattler. The 
> > other time I saw the snake and pulled him up and made him walk around. 
> > 
> > Go figure. 
> > 
> > I wouldn't put too much stock in your horse growing up in "snake country." 
> > 
> > Truman 
> > 
> > Kelsey Corey wrote: 
> > 
> > > I was riding double with my cousin a few years ago on her grandfathers 
> > > horse on a trail at their house when 
> a garter snake came across the 
> > > trail. the horse squealed and struck out at the snake... I assume the 
> > > snake got away, because we couldn't find it afterwards, but I thought 
> > > it was amazing that the horse reacted to a little garter snake like 
> > > that, because I had never seen one of my horses do that to the 
> > > hundreds of garters on my property. Turns out the horse was born in 
> > > Texas and showed on the rodeo circuit in the southwest for ten 
> > > years... Just thought it was interesting... sorry it's off topic... 
> > > 
> > > -Kelsey Corey 
> > > AHA Region 5 Youth Director 
> > 
> > 
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> > "The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite 
> > of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." Niels Bohr 
> > -- Nobel Laureate, Physics 
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