Forget_Me_Not
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Rambo (my small shetland stallion) and Jesse (My pride and joy yearling). We have called the police but heard nothing yet.
In the *...* is what we found when we got up there tonight.
This morning I turned jesse out for the first time (He arrived yesterday from the livery yard which he's been at since he came from wild in augest) There was a non electircfied fence one side of him (leading to the main field...about four acaes big)*There was a few fence posts been taken out in this field and whats weird is the opening with those electric handles had been taken down. No horse is surely capable of doing that.* and a electricfied fence the other side *Untouched* then a small paddock inbetween *The feed buckets and stuff in this field had been distrubed* the next paddock which had Rambo in. His paddock was not electricfied either *There was two points were fence posts had been snapped*
I took this this morning (The sheltands field to left behind me)
We got a call for next door neighbour saying the horses were out in the big field...It was dark by the time we got this message. We have searched the main field by 4x4 and on foot with touches... Athlough it's dark and the grass is long there is no sign of horses. No sign of anything. The fencing in the 'main field' it huge deer fencing with another bared wire fence inside that. There is an joining (Miles big) farm land, a bridle path/lane and woodland. There is a five bar gate which leads to the lane which was padlocked. There is two weak points leading to the woodland... one bit where the fence is broken down to step over, but no signs of the horses jumping this (Still quite abit for a mini sheltand) and a small gap with a bench, no signs of horses pushing past etc. And why would loose horses, go from a large, open, grassy, field into a dark overgrown woodland?
This is the second scare we've had...Last week we turned up in the afternoon to find a horse (Whos gone now) missing and the shetland in a different paddock. The horse was shy and wouldn't go anywhere without company. The neighbour had said they had been happily in the correct field in the morning. We found him in the joining farm field, it appeared he'd some how pushed past a fence (Now fixed) along a small track ( that I struggle to get down) and had clearly been upset. So he'd escaped, but it doesn't quite fit that the shetland was in the other paddock.
All we can do is hope they turn up over night, or as soon as it's light we find them.
Jesse is my everything, don't know what I'll do if anything happens to him.
Anybody got any ideas? Any imput? Please keep your fingers crossed that there happily piggying out unseen in the field.
In the *...* is what we found when we got up there tonight.
This morning I turned jesse out for the first time (He arrived yesterday from the livery yard which he's been at since he came from wild in augest) There was a non electircfied fence one side of him (leading to the main field...about four acaes big)*There was a few fence posts been taken out in this field and whats weird is the opening with those electric handles had been taken down. No horse is surely capable of doing that.* and a electricfied fence the other side *Untouched* then a small paddock inbetween *The feed buckets and stuff in this field had been distrubed* the next paddock which had Rambo in. His paddock was not electricfied either *There was two points were fence posts had been snapped*
I took this this morning (The sheltands field to left behind me)
We got a call for next door neighbour saying the horses were out in the big field...It was dark by the time we got this message. We have searched the main field by 4x4 and on foot with touches... Athlough it's dark and the grass is long there is no sign of horses. No sign of anything. The fencing in the 'main field' it huge deer fencing with another bared wire fence inside that. There is an joining (Miles big) farm land, a bridle path/lane and woodland. There is a five bar gate which leads to the lane which was padlocked. There is two weak points leading to the woodland... one bit where the fence is broken down to step over, but no signs of the horses jumping this (Still quite abit for a mini sheltand) and a small gap with a bench, no signs of horses pushing past etc. And why would loose horses, go from a large, open, grassy, field into a dark overgrown woodland?
This is the second scare we've had...Last week we turned up in the afternoon to find a horse (Whos gone now) missing and the shetland in a different paddock. The horse was shy and wouldn't go anywhere without company. The neighbour had said they had been happily in the correct field in the morning. We found him in the joining farm field, it appeared he'd some how pushed past a fence (Now fixed) along a small track ( that I struggle to get down) and had clearly been upset. So he'd escaped, but it doesn't quite fit that the shetland was in the other paddock.
All we can do is hope they turn up over night, or as soon as it's light we find them.
Jesse is my everything, don't know what I'll do if anything happens to him.
Anybody got any ideas? Any imput? Please keep your fingers crossed that there happily piggying out unseen in the field.
