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    The Great Escape

    So I'm fixing dinner and generally busy in the kitchen last evening and Mr Jeano, who is due to get home from work any minute calls and asks one of his famous rhetorical questions that has no good answer: "Is there a REASON why your horses are running around outside the pasture?"

    Uh, Sweetheart, just where ARE they? Turns out they are just outside the fence and the other side of the pond from the house. (I cant see any of this drama because its several tenths of a mile away, and there are lots of trees.) I told him to hold them there if he could, I'd be right there. I grab a handful of peppermints and head for the barn to get halters.

    Enroute I can hear Mr Jeano bellowing at the horses. I holler, DONT YELL AT THEM, then I hear his car start up and the engine noise recede. Great, they are headed for the neighbors and their horses, if Mr Jeano gets it thru his head that he's better off NOT chasing them with his car, all should be well. Of course I have not brought my cell phone to call neighbor, and now Mr Jeano is out of voice range, and I know he wont think of it.

    I get halters and am trudging as fast as I can uphill on the drive that winds around the pond and pasture. I come around a corner and see my two horses grazing just our side of neighbor's fence line, and visiting with their horses over the fence. Mr Jeano is further up the drive and has had a brainwave and turned his car sideways to prevent horses coming past and getting closer to the road. Worst thing that can happen now is they will head for the BACK gate to the neighbors--then they will head for their hay barn most likely and be easy to catch there.

    My two lift their heads and see me. Busted. I swear both of them had totally innocent expressions on their faces: "Oh, THERE you are! And you have HALTERS! Oh, GOODY!" I held the halters up and the gelding, bless his sweet little heart, started walking toward me. I had them both haltered in a couple seconds, let Mr Jeano get past, walked them to the barn, put them in the corral, secured the chain on the gate that I had evidently not done up properly when I'd fed them, gave them each a peppermint and a stern lecture, went back to cooking dinner. They'd had time to guzzle down about half a bale of hay and try without success to get in the feed before getting bored and deciding to go visit the neighbors.

    Just very grateful that the biggest attraction for them is right next door. They've each gotten away a couple times before but never both together.
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    Sometimes it's funny when they get out. We had a wide brick patio that ran the length of the house and had a full roof over it, and that is where the feed got stored. So when our horses got out or the neighbor's ponies, they'd head for that patio. This is back in the days when clogs were fashionable, so I'd be sitting looking out over the patio and hear clunk clunk and never know whether my friends were coming to the back door, or the barefoot ponies. It was always a little disconcerting to see this mealy muzzle and mohawk mane looking back at me through the window.
    Glad the gadabout was as simple as that!
    Courageous Weenie Eventer Wannabe
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      SO great that it was an easy catch and they're back home.

      I have had several dreams/nightmares about my horses getting out, but so far we've been lucky (I know, I definately shouldn't have typed that, but there it is). My biggest problem is that I have a horse that breaks into my barn, and hangs out in the aisle pooping and pulling things off their hooks and bars. Sounds like you had a level head, and a good pair of horses!
      "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Confucious
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        The worst escape I ever had was when my old gelding in OH got out and started cruising up and down the highway in front of my house, with me screaming for help, running, trying to herd him back to our place all by myself, while the then Mr Jeano was peacefully enjoying being in the nice warm house. I just knew the horse would tangle with a car and cause death and dismemberment and lawsuits and what all. That one ended up just fine, too, and it surely wasnt due to any levelheadedness on my part.

        I need to have a talk with the current Mr Jeano about how you catch when you have no halter. I think he was thinking he could yell at them and push them back to the barn singlehanded, when all I wanted him to do was WAIT for me and keep them in sight.

        My current two will walk through the fires of hell toward you if they hear the crinkle of cellophane. they just wanted to visit with the horses next door and rub their noses in the fact that "we're free wild horses and you're stuck inside that stupid fence." And you can lead either one with a shoelace or a belt or a piece of baling twine. The gelding actually taught mr Jeano how to put on a rope halter!

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