Cat
10-11-2008, 04:40 PM
Ugh - I'm tired, my legs are scratched, itch and hurt, and my husband is not a happy camper. Lets just say Bandit is not helping his case. As we were getting dinner ready I saw the horses running around and I look out and see Bandit chasing after Toby as he weaved in and out of the other horses to escape him. I made a comment about it to my husband and just rolled his eyes and asked me if i had him sold yet.
Just as we were finishing eating hubby goes "Horse!" I look up and there is Toby. Look out the door and both Toby and Bandit are out - but thankfully the rest were in the field. I think they blowed over the electric fence but did not break it - the wire was stretched but intact. It seems Bandit was after Toby so bad that Toby would rather got through the charged fence (extremely well charged - full bright bars on the reader and something he usually avoids with all his might) and he followed him! I figured Bandit probably jumped.
Well they went down the road - thankfully towards the dead-end and not the main road, went through the field there, then into the woods - which scared me as there is a big hole in there - cave? sink hole? - along with trees with big thorns right at eye level, and in the woods we lost them. When we finally found them again they were sitting outside our fence at the bottom of the field.
A shake of the sweetfeed I had in the bucket brought both boys right over and Toby let me catch him, but Bandit wouldn't let me even touch him. :mad: So I just walked away with Toby and of course Bandit followed when he realized he was being ignored. Walked Toby into the field, but Bandit would NOT follow. So I handed Toby off to hubby who put him back in the dry lot while I tried to get Bandit. Well that little stink pot decided to check out the neighborhood some more and sweet feed or nothing was inticing him. By this time hubby was back so we both circled to the outside. We did have a fence open for him to enter back into the pasture if he so wanted and that was what we were trying to drive him towards, but spun and headed towards the other horses. Before we realized what he was doing, he poughed back into the field through the hot fence again!!! He snorted and bucked when he went through, but he went. :jawdrop:
I was stunned. We have a very strong charger on that fence and I have never heard a horse breaking through fence to get back IN. Well I checked the charge on that fence and it is still strong as can be in charge. No horse in its right mind should be busting through it because we have it strong enough to shock through the thick manes of both Toby and Apache - so we already need a stronger shock than most horses need. Man oh man, that horse is just :crazy:
And of course this took just long enough that it destroyed all plans of a nice evening ride. :mad:
Just as we were finishing eating hubby goes "Horse!" I look up and there is Toby. Look out the door and both Toby and Bandit are out - but thankfully the rest were in the field. I think they blowed over the electric fence but did not break it - the wire was stretched but intact. It seems Bandit was after Toby so bad that Toby would rather got through the charged fence (extremely well charged - full bright bars on the reader and something he usually avoids with all his might) and he followed him! I figured Bandit probably jumped.
Well they went down the road - thankfully towards the dead-end and not the main road, went through the field there, then into the woods - which scared me as there is a big hole in there - cave? sink hole? - along with trees with big thorns right at eye level, and in the woods we lost them. When we finally found them again they were sitting outside our fence at the bottom of the field.
A shake of the sweetfeed I had in the bucket brought both boys right over and Toby let me catch him, but Bandit wouldn't let me even touch him. :mad: So I just walked away with Toby and of course Bandit followed when he realized he was being ignored. Walked Toby into the field, but Bandit would NOT follow. So I handed Toby off to hubby who put him back in the dry lot while I tried to get Bandit. Well that little stink pot decided to check out the neighborhood some more and sweet feed or nothing was inticing him. By this time hubby was back so we both circled to the outside. We did have a fence open for him to enter back into the pasture if he so wanted and that was what we were trying to drive him towards, but spun and headed towards the other horses. Before we realized what he was doing, he poughed back into the field through the hot fence again!!! He snorted and bucked when he went through, but he went. :jawdrop:
I was stunned. We have a very strong charger on that fence and I have never heard a horse breaking through fence to get back IN. Well I checked the charge on that fence and it is still strong as can be in charge. No horse in its right mind should be busting through it because we have it strong enough to shock through the thick manes of both Toby and Apache - so we already need a stronger shock than most horses need. Man oh man, that horse is just :crazy:
And of course this took just long enough that it destroyed all plans of a nice evening ride. :mad: