5 Ways to Cure Stall Boredom

Our friend Leo trapped in a stall.

Of the many boring things in our lives, being trapped in a stall is probably the worst of them all, especially after your food is gone. Together with the help of a few other horses, we have come up with five easy and fun boredom killers.

1.     Try to find a way out. Start with the doors first. If you cannot get the door to open, try the walls. Often in stalls the wooden panels slide up and out. Even if you do not succeed in escaping, you did something for about 30 minutes to an hour.

2.     Cover your poop. This will blow another 30 minutes of your stall time with each pile you make. The easiest way to cover your poop with shavings is to walk right past the piles repeatedly. Be sure that when you are passing by the poop piles, you kick the shavings up or else you will have a ring of no shavings and poop still out in the open. Be sure to cover all piles before moving on to the next boredom killer.

3.     If you have hanging buckets in your stall, a quick and easy game is to see how far you can pull one back without letting it slip through your teeth. When the bucket slips and falls, it makes a very loud sound that will annoy anyone in the area.

4.     Fun toys. Occasionally, good humans will put these toys in our stalls to play with. The only problem is that we don’t know how to play with them. A few experienced horses who have mastered these toys have recently told me their secrets. You usually either pull on the toy with your teeth, just like you do with the hanging buckets, or bop it with your nose. If you do not have any of these toys in your stall, make some. Rubber buckets that sit on the ground can be played with as a toy.

5.     Pooping in your water buckets. This is a very difficult task. You must be an expert at positioning yourself properly. First you need to take a quick drink of your water before you defile it. This is the danger of pooping in your water buckets--you cannot drink anymore until your human comes and refills the buckets. It may be a difficult boredom killer, but the instructions are simple. Aim and fire.  

That’s our two bits!