Re: Stray visitors again!


RPM1 wrote:
The same two horses from earlier this week were raiding our barn and
messing with my mare at 4am. This time they wouldn't let us catch them.
Pat went over to wake the owners. Their response was, "but we fixed
the fence."

That's frustrating. A few hours ago my daughter and I stopped to guard
a loose cow on the road. As we were waiting for help, the whole herd
found the hole in the fence that she had found and tried to come thru,
so my daughter scared them all back away from the fence. The cow kept
wandering onto the road, which has a speed limit of 55. Then some
other guy showed up and the three of us herded the cow thru an open
gate back into the field.

We had waited so long for help that I had called animal control. The
guy in charge of these cows is the same guy who owns the horses I've
captured on the road - twice now! A lady drove by and stopped and
asked if we needed help, to which we replied in the affirmative, and
she said she'd try but she didn't seem to think it was much of a big
deal. I told her I'd called animal control and she said "that wasn't a
very nice thing to do" and drove off. Very nice thing indeed! This
neighbor needs to get his sh*t together. I called animal control back
after we got the cow in and they said they were coming out anyway to
talk to him about the hole in the fence.

The last time I got one of his horses it was really scary. I came
around the curve at the rail road tracks and there in front of me in my
headlights was a terrified TB yearling running right down my lane. I
almost killed it and possibly me and my son... When I went over to his
place the next day to let him know I'd got one of his loose horses and
put it back the night before, he didn't believe me. The year before
when we caught another of his loose horses, he was there for the
catching process, and while the horse was loose he repeatedly told me
it was not his horse. Once it was back on his pasture (which just
happened to be the closest pasture, heh heh) then he admitted it was
his horse. Grrr.

Anyway, good luck Ruth.
cindi

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