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tashyisaudrey

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Ok. this is quite funny.
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Got to my yard the other day (I always get there earlier than everyone else cos of my work) to find the whole diy section trotting round the yard helping themselves to hay, food etc
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. I hunt round for my mare and find her picking a fight with the goats lol
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Anyway, still confused I put them all back in there stables. One of the horses is new and quite difficult to catch so that was a bit of a challenge for a horse owner who has always had easy horses to catch
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Took me a while
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Still perplexed I decide to become poirot for the day. So, it is how you say pas possible for ze horses to get out by themselves? So the next day I come and the same thing happens again, so I put them all back. This time, my mare has broken into next barn and is rummaging through her box. So that evening I stay a bit longer after mucking out and tidy up to pass the time. I'm hearing a rattling, so PI Audrey adopts penz- nez and magnifying glass and peeps into barn. Said new horse, cleverly unhooks door and clip in front of bolt. Sneaks across and starts letting all the others out ready for said naughty horse party. Incredible. So Has anyone any suggestions. .. I have told owner, she said she had put clip on and was confused how he got it off. Any suggestions for escaping neddies?

Pi Audrey
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!! reminds me of that scene from black beauty!

use a leadrope, clip it onto one of the holes on the bolt (if that makes sense) - works like a padlock but obviously easily unclippable by a person with fingers.
 
thats hilarious!!
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(well as long as they cant get further than yard etc, no sharp objects the usual safety stuff!!))
We had a horse who could open anything nothing could keep him in short of a padlock which is way too dangerous!!we ended up putting grill over his door so he couldnt put his head out to open bolts but felt v sorry for him he would sulk at back of box because he couldnt escape!!
 
I've had problems like this myself!
One of our old mares now dead was a whizz with any bolt or latch unless it had a lead rope clip on. She taught all her offspring the same trick and we learned to keep leadropes on every door..
Last week one of our horses reached out of it's open window and let her neighbour out, but failed to open her own door as it has a bolt you line up to open.
Change the naughty one's bolt for one of those and it will stop, they can't lift and line up at the same time....
 
Seen something like that with dogs, It happened at battersy dogs home ... Where one particular dog went and let himself out, went to the feed room had a bit of feed before continuing to letting all the other dogs out , it was caught on camera , was hilarious lol
 
Yes a lead rope clipped on to the bolt works, and also try putting on a bottom bolt on the door, my old horse was brillant at undoing bolts ( and lead ropes when he was being groomed
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) but the bottom bolt always foiled him!
 
We have one houdini. He always lets 2 other horses out always the same 2 - leaves the other poor sods in their stables.
We have to leave lead rope clipped on door all the time - but it has to be clipped on with the catch facing a particular way - or he can open it. If anybody forgets to clip this on - out he goes. He has destroyed countless kick bolts - as can kick these out quite easily - once top latch undone.
 
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