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Location: Arkansas | You love to see your horses looking beautiful and shiny and happy and give them a treat cause you love them so much? We all get the "happies" from this, right? Well, my "happies" didn't happen tonight for me in this bucolic situation when Chan called me at 9 and told me I needed to get in the Pioneer and ride my pasture to count horses because his new worker left the gate open for who knows how long when he went home to put up a dang mailbox instead of servicing the tractor in the pasture pond like he was supposed to. . . . . Thank the good Lord for 5 wonderful horses that were all in the barn under their fans. They all got a treat, a rub, and love for being so good. Then I wanted to find the new guy and explain that the gate and chain were there for a reason. . . . Instead I was nice and told him I had accounted for all my babies and maybe he should go home after he finished fixing a flat. Which I still don't understand why it wasn't fixed, oh, say, during DAYLIGHT HOURS????????
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| Thank Goodness they were all there! One of my kids left the back pasture gate open once and that super nice colt wandered out.. my hubby leaves out at 4am for work and as he was driving down the gravel road he spotted that pretty lil palomino laying flat out in the bar ditch! He thought he was dead but as soon as he got out of the pickup the horse jumped up to his feet... he was just snoozing lol! He followed my husband back up the road to the pasture. . Everyone got a lecture that morning about gates! |
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Location: East Texas | Glad your horses were all safe. I got that call a couple of weeks ago while at work. They said our horses were racing down the side of the highway, but the good news was the new black horse was winning.......we got them all back in safe and sound.
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| want2chase3 - 2017-05-12 5:25 AM
Thank Goodness they were all there! One of my kids left the back pasture gate open once and that super nice colt wandered out.. my hubby leaves out at 4am for work and as he was driving down the gravel road he spotted that pretty lil palomino laying flat out in the bar ditch! He thought he was dead but as soon as he got out of the pickup the horse jumped up to his feet... he was just snoozing lol! He followed my husband back up the road to the pasture. . Everyone got a lecture that morning about gates!
I would have had a STROKE! |
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My Heart Be Happy
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Location: Arkansas | I realize not all people are "horse" folks-----but does it take a whole lot of intelligence to shut a gate when you KNOW you're leaving the area and there are 5 horses in the pasture?? This wasn't an "oops I forgot"---he left it open and went home. . . . And we live on a country road that people think is the Indy 500 track, so 80 and 90 mph can be normal. So glad all of yalls were fine and easily rounded up. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Rule around my place  ... If you find the gate closed when you come on to my place then close the gate behind you, if the gate is open when you come in then leave the gate open.  |
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Location: Arkansas | Southtxponygirl - 2017-05-12 11:24 PM
Rule around my place ... If you find the gate closed when you come on to my place then close the gate behind you, if the gate is open when you come in then leave the gate open.
We have that same rule. And I hate to be mean Miss Roxie, but we have doofies on our farm. . . . |
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| Chandler's Mom - 2017-05-12 9:47 PM
I realize not all people are "horse" folks-----but does it take a whole lot of intelligence to shut a gate when you KNOW you're leaving the area and there are 5 horses in the pasture?? This wasn't an "oops I forgot"---he left it open and went home. . . . And we live on a country road that people think is the Indy 500 track, so 80 and 90 mph can be normal. So glad all of yalls were fine and easily rounded up.
That's how people drive down our road too.. makes me nuts! Can't tell you how many cats that have been run over. My kids aren't allowed to go near that road on their bikes. I always tell my husband we should build our own speed bumps out there to slow these maniacs down! |
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Location: Arkansas | want2chase3 - 2017-05-13 7:18 AM
Chandler's Mom - 2017-05-12 9:47 PM
I realize not all people are "horse" folks-----but does it take a whole lot of intelligence to shut a gate when you KNOW you're leaving the area and there are 5 horses in the pasture?? This wasn't an "oops I forgot"---he left it open and went home. . . . And we live on a country road that people think is the Indy 500 track, so 80 and 90 mph can be normal. So glad all of yalls were fine and easily rounded up.
That's how people drive down our road too.. makes me nuts! Can't tell you how many cats that have been run over. My kids aren't allowed to go near that road on their bikes. I always tell my husband we should build our own speed bumps out there to slow these maniacs down!
That is exactly what I said----I want my own speed bumps built. NOW |
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Location: Gainesville, TX | Wow. Some people. |
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Location: Arkansas | oija - 2017-05-14 11:50 AM
Wow. Some people.
Yep, there's just no accounting for them. . . |
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Location: Displaced Iowegian | Thank goodness that you have "good" horses......and they were safe !!! |
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Location: Arkansas | NJJ - 2017-05-14 6:00 PM
Thank goodness that you have "good" horses......and they were safe !!!
I really don't know how I was blessed to get the 5 I have. . . . Even on the times they got out (yep, you guessed it, doofies left gate open  ), they will walk across the road to the other ponds and we can get on the Pioneer with a cookie and they will follow us back into the pasture. Usually no halters needed (my "three stooges are my "escapees") and they trot back in and we lock the gate and all is good. I'm so thankful I have the ones I have. |
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