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Re: [RC] securing horses - rides2farI had a very secure electric pen buthorses at 3:30 > came through it releasing my three. Saturday night at Million Pines we were sitting around talking and suddenly there was a horse in the distance in a one strand electric pen that just started having a fit, neighing, running back & forth in its pen doing rollbacks at each end. We all looked down there and someone said, "That horse is going to get out". A guy walked up from that way and made the same comment. I asked "Did they take its buddy away?" and he said yes, they'd taken it to see the vet. There were two people just standing there watching this horse working itself into an insane frenzy. I watched for a few minutes, just cringing every time it ran towards the other end of the pen, then just decided that it was rediculous to let people who don't know any better endanger everyone else's horses. So I got up and walked down there and in my best teacher voice said, "Hey, put a rope on that horse before it gets out and gets somebody hurt". They said, "She's done this before", and I said, "Yeah, well we've had people almost get get killed before so put a rope on that horse and tie it up". Amazing thing happened. They obeyed. I went back to my lawn chair and nothing else happened. I'm getting bossier in my old age...but I can see that when it's something to do with safety, maybe we should get the guts to confront people. Angie =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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