Matsimoo
Member
Hello, where to start.
A few months back we found the gate to our field had been marked with black marker pen (3 little black boxes) had been marked on the gate. We have 3 horses in the field. My mum rang the police and asked what was the best thing to do as we were pretty sure our horses had been marked up for theft. They advised that we stayed blocking the gate at night to ensure no one could get in to take our horses. So that's what we did, my mum stayed up there every night for 2 weeks in her 4x4 blocking the gate to our field.
During them 2 weeks, a horse lorry came in the early hours of the morning to try and take our horses, my mum only noticed as the horses got spooked and were cantering around our field. (The thieves had tried to gain access to our field by driving through another field). The yard down the road from us with ponies also had their gate rammed off and their caravan with tack, generator etc had been stolen. The caravan was tracked down and they retrieved it from where it had been dumped (but it was totally ruined).
Anyway, everything seemed to go quiet, therefore my mum stopped staying up in her car to block the gate way. Then this morning we received a phone call from the farmer who owns our field to say that he had driven past and the gate to our field was wide open, with the padlock smashed off. Luckily our horses had stayed in the field. When we got up there we went over to the horses to check them all over and our chestnut gelding was in a bad state. He has got wounds all over his left hind leg and one on his front left leg. He also has some grazes on his belly and shoulder.
After seeing this we walked the field to see if he had caught himself on any fencing or if he had been attacked by someone/something. After investigating the fencing, we saw that our electric fencing (not live) had been cut through, making it possible for our horses to get to the barbed wire which was set further back behind our fencing. Also the wooden posts which the barbed wire was attacked to had all been pulled out of the ground. Anyway, it looks like he had been driven down to the bottom of our field by a car/4x4 to try and heard him to steal him but he ended up falling down a ditch and getting wrapped up in barbed wire. There are car tyre marks on the grass and also fresh deep hoof prints in the ground from where we assume he fell down. I was then informed that the yard down the road with the ponies also were broken into last night and their gate had been rammed again, the thieves had now gone in their new caravan and wrecked it and stole a can of petrol.
We have informed the police but they are unable to come out and see our horse until Friday morning. I just want to warn people so that they know and to make sure you check your horses more often.
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A few months back we found the gate to our field had been marked with black marker pen (3 little black boxes) had been marked on the gate. We have 3 horses in the field. My mum rang the police and asked what was the best thing to do as we were pretty sure our horses had been marked up for theft. They advised that we stayed blocking the gate at night to ensure no one could get in to take our horses. So that's what we did, my mum stayed up there every night for 2 weeks in her 4x4 blocking the gate to our field.
During them 2 weeks, a horse lorry came in the early hours of the morning to try and take our horses, my mum only noticed as the horses got spooked and were cantering around our field. (The thieves had tried to gain access to our field by driving through another field). The yard down the road from us with ponies also had their gate rammed off and their caravan with tack, generator etc had been stolen. The caravan was tracked down and they retrieved it from where it had been dumped (but it was totally ruined).
Anyway, everything seemed to go quiet, therefore my mum stopped staying up in her car to block the gate way. Then this morning we received a phone call from the farmer who owns our field to say that he had driven past and the gate to our field was wide open, with the padlock smashed off. Luckily our horses had stayed in the field. When we got up there we went over to the horses to check them all over and our chestnut gelding was in a bad state. He has got wounds all over his left hind leg and one on his front left leg. He also has some grazes on his belly and shoulder.
After seeing this we walked the field to see if he had caught himself on any fencing or if he had been attacked by someone/something. After investigating the fencing, we saw that our electric fencing (not live) had been cut through, making it possible for our horses to get to the barbed wire which was set further back behind our fencing. Also the wooden posts which the barbed wire was attacked to had all been pulled out of the ground. Anyway, it looks like he had been driven down to the bottom of our field by a car/4x4 to try and heard him to steal him but he ended up falling down a ditch and getting wrapped up in barbed wire. There are car tyre marks on the grass and also fresh deep hoof prints in the ground from where we assume he fell down. I was then informed that the yard down the road with the ponies also were broken into last night and their gate had been rammed again, the thieves had now gone in their new caravan and wrecked it and stole a can of petrol.
We have informed the police but they are unable to come out and see our horse until Friday morning. I just want to warn people so that they know and to make sure you check your horses more often.
poor boy must have been terrified. I suppose him falling down the ditch was a blessing in disguise, who knows where he would have ended up if they'd got their hands on him. I hope he recovers x
