Why do horses do these things!

[shanti]

So, in my paddock I have what I call a danger pit. It's basically a large circular sunken in part of the ground that the previous owner of the property used as a dumping ground for car parts, broken plates, glass, beds and rubbish. It's a real hazard and we are planning to get an excavator in to clear it out but in the meantime, we have fenced it off with tall posts and 4 strands of sighter wire. No problem, horses are safe.

Well as I was about to leave for work, I glanced down the paddock and noticed the idiot Archie in the pit! I ran down there straight away (I work an office job so was really not dressed for this) there was no broken wires anywhere, everything was intact, but this is a 15.3 Standardbred, not a Shetland and I have no clue how he managed to get in, and, more pressingly, I had no idea how to get him out.
In the end I had to untie the top wire two wires, push down the bottom wires as far as I could and try to lead him out at the same time, my hand slipped from the wire when he was halfway out so his front legs were out but his back legs were in so I had to try and stand on the wire so I had both hands free in case he panicked, and then it started pouring with rain of course
Finally got him out and I had to tie the wire back up in the rain with no gloves or tools. No injuries thank goodness.

F@&%ing Horses!! Still no idea how he got in there. Maybe he wants to be a show jumper

He pretended to look sorry after his 'rescue' but I don't think he was sorry at all!

 

[ponyparty]

Horses eh! Always seem to do it at the most inconvenient of times too. Glad he’s not injured at least..!

 

[meleeka]

You do realise he’s been waiting for that perfect moment. Clean clothes = check, short of time= check, rain= check!

 

[poiuytrewq]

I remember similar years ago. OH decided he wanted chickens so made a big run with a high enough fence in my horses field.
Turned up one morning to find a 16.2 hulk of a horse who imo definitely couldn’t have jumped that stood quietly in with the chickens.

 

[Gloi]

I had a pony at one time that if he didn't want to be caught would go into the middle of the pit in the field . Fortunately no rubbish, just belly deep water.

 

[Annagain]

Our winter field's been re-fenced now and has a length of electrified wire along the top rail but when it was just a rail, one of the horses would chew it so the YO put a length of electric tape about 1.50m in from the fence, that went down to a narrow point at the gate. As soon as the battery started to go you could guarantee Monty would get over it completely, walk down to the narrow point so he couldn't turn round, think he was trapped and just stand there until he was rescued. Arch in the meantime would get his front legs over but then realise this was enough to reach the good grass and not bother to get his back legs over.

I'd often be one of the first to get them in so I'd have to turn the fence off (It still delivered a shock just not enough of a one for the horses.) take out enough stakes so I could push it down and stand on it to get Archie's front legs back over while also trying to stop the other 4 horses taking the opportunity to dive for the good grass, put it back up while I took him in (see point about other horses) then come back, push Monty back to point where it was wide enough to turn him round and repeat the whole process for him. Always happened on the days I was in a rush.

 

[PurBee]

Well done for managing to keep clean!

Ive given up trying to figure out how my Mr Houdini gets the other side of electric fencing. He has many skilled techniques!

When he was young and (more) foolish, i got up one morning to find him perched on a small high bank bit of grass, beyond the 4 strands of live fence line.
He saw me and that time looked ashamed at his foolishness! God knows how long he was perched up there for…all 500kg of him on a high narrow bank for a mouthful of grass!
His simple young mind could only work-out 1 way escapes - now he’s older, he‘s figured out the 2-way escape out and get back in!

 

[Bluewaves]

He is adorable looking.

But what a rescue adventure at that time of the morning!