Conference noted::equitation

    Thank God they are safe!
    

    Glad they are ok!
    
    Yes, it is a nightmare to go home and find your horses missing,
    you wonder, are they dead on the road, did someone steal them,
    are they lost??? True panic.....
    
    But you mentioned that the owner of the field was PO'D ???
    Surely, he would understand having horses of his own. It's
    not like you planned it for Pete's sake!! Have your horses
    done this previousely?
    
    t
    

    
    This is the first time they have gotten loose, and he did
    understand, which is why he refused damage payment (I assume).

    We must have chicken horses.  The calves had taken down the outside
    fence and strolled into the housing tract accross the street. (cows
    make such a mess and leave a trial you could follow with your eyes
    closed.)  Our horse just seemed to stand there and stare at the
    opening.  
    
    Virginia

I had a similar experience about 2 months ago. I came home from work to find my 
neighbor walking down my driveway, with a strange pickup following him. As I 
pulled in I was  a little perturbed that my neighbor had been so presumptuous as
to be wandering around my property with strangers.......Well....did I change my
tune fast....

Apparently, around 3pm, my neighbor - just home from a night shift, was about to
jump in the shower and go to bed, when he looked out his front door to see my
two darlings peering in the door. He immediately went out and caught them - 
fortunately they both had halters on. Well of course as many of us know, leading
two horses by hand, with no lead rope, can get interesting, and it did, if one 
finds a reason to spook....

Neo (my TB) nearly ripped the man's arm out of the socket, and he let go of 
Zeus (the sofa on 4 legs). They tore around the yard a few times, then 
high-tailed it up the road towards Barre center (~5 miles away). 

Well my neighbor - whom we have since named Uncle Mike - chased them on foot for
several hundred yards, 'til another saintly individual in a pick-up truck picked
him up and gave chase to the two bone-heads.... Well to make a long story short,
they eventually corralled them at another saintly person's farm and the owner
of the farm and my neighbor, led the children home 3.5 miles on foot, escorted
by the pickup truck.....Did I mention that traffic was stopped in both directions
for several miles while all of this was going on?

Well when I arrived home, it was 7pm and they had just deposited the two smiling
sweat-encrusted, worn shoed angels in their stalls. A four hour horror show - 
involving my babies, and I was totally unaware, I just came home like every other
day, unknowingly involved in potential lawsuits, horse carnage, and a host of
other things I don't even want to think about....

Apparently - Zeus (the smart one) jiggled the latch on the gate to the pasture 
open....

Well, needless to say we have since fenced in our entire property, including the
front yard, and we have installed a nice big gate at the end of the driveway. 

We were lucky beyond belief.........I have the best neighbor in the WORLD!!! :-) 

    
    
    	I would bring something over to the neighbor, that helped you
    	out.. (wine and cheese)  It can be a nightmare having a neighbor
    	that doesn't like horses (take it from some who knows)
    
    	I am so glad you found them.
    
    	Donna

    <-- Said neighbor get's his choice of pet food gratis! (8

Actually we gave him a sizeable gift certificate to a nice restaurant in the
area. You are right I am very lucky to have a neighbor that likes horses. We
live in a small rural community in central Massachusetts and people really watch
out for each other on my street. It is great. Not to mention the fact that there
are about a dozen other small farms on my road.

Lot's of ponies :-)