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Good for you, Angie!!!  Safety should always be the most important but 
many people just don't have enough experience to know what is safe and 
what isn't.  You save a lot of people a lot of grief and hard lessons.
Laney

rides2far@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > I had a very secure electric pen but 
> >
> > horses 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
>
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