Just had to rescue a horse from under a fence.

LauraWheeler

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I've just spent 2 hours in the field trying to free a horse who was trapped under some post and rail fencing.
I heard some banging out in the filed so looked out the bedroom window. I thought Otto was alittle close to the fence so looked abit harder and thought something was wrong. I rushed down stares and out into the fields to find he had managed to get himself stuck under the fence.
I ran upto the yard and got some lungelines and tried to pull him over. Typacly I'm home alown :rolleyes: . I struggled he's quite a big horse and was trapped under the fence. So I ran next door to see if the neighbers could come and give me a hand. They were out but there son said they were due back any minuet and he called them and they said they would come streight over when they got back. I went back to the horse and sat comforting him to stop him from panicing. I was sat there for ages. It felt like forever. So I desided to have another go on my own. Just as the neighbers arrived I had managed to pull him out from the fence just enough that he managed to get himself up.
I checked him over and appart from a few scrapes and being very shaken up he's ok. So I put him in his stable with some hay to calm down.
Poor horse i'm so glad I was home and was able to help him. But now my back is killing me from pulling him up. I don't know where I found the strength from to be honest.
 
Horrible isn't it, I got home the other day to find one of mine had attempted to jump out and got a hind leg stuck in the hedge at a horrible angle (I was convinced it was broken it was at such an unnatural angle!) I was on my own too! Scrambled about in holly hedge to free him, and as soon as he got loose he took off round his 'new' field and wouldn't let me catch him!!!

Well done for rescueing yours, hope neither of you are too sore tomorrow!!
 
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