RE: RC: More on horses and traffic

["Tamara Woodcock" <nis75p06@mindspring.com>]

My UPS guy is usually very good about closing the gate.  I rarely leave the
horses in the front "yard" long as it only has electric fencing on step-in
posts.  Because the gate was strung across the drive, I think he just didn't
hook it right.  Either way, the whole herd raced 2 1/2 miles on asphalt
towards a far busier road only to be turned back by neighbors who shooed
them down a dirt road and called me.  I didn't even know they were gone!
When I got there with buckets, lead ropes and halters, the neighbors were
trying to catch the yearling colt instead of the top mare and the whole mess
bolted down the road again, this time towards home.  I had to race in front
of them at each long drive or road to block it off.  All eventually cantered
right back into the yard.  Spent weeks worrying about road founder (some of
these horses hadn't left their pasture in 5+ years), and UPS man humbly
apologized and has asked about the horses everytime he has been here since,
and now parks on the street and goes under the strand of fencing with he
packages rather than open the gate!

-Tamara
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob & Amber Roberts [mailto:mlaboure@flash.net]
Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 7:24 PM
To: nis75p06@mindspring.com
Cc: Ridecamp
Subject: Re: RC: More on horses and traffic


Tamara Woodcock wrote:

> (Admittedly, this attitude did make it very hard to use trucks to round
them
> up the day the UPS man left the front gate open, but that's another
story.)

I had a UPS man leave my gate open once, too.  I asked him if he had closed
it
behind him and he said "I always leave them OPEN!"  I was furious.  Normally
my
horses are in a rear pasture, but that day I had shut the front gate and let
them have the run of the whole place, so they could have gotten out onto the
road.  I wonder if he would have helped me catch them.  It's a good thing I
never saw that particular delivery man here again.

Amber