Last night just as it was getting dark some idiot drove off the street through our front pasture fence and then spun around in the pasture and just drove back out through the fence in another place!! Tore out three wood fence posts, dragged the wire out into the street and then just took off heading south! I heard the noise and saw the horses all spooking around by the barn, and when the next car came by I could see something in the street in the headlights. I was afraid it was a deer or a dog so ran down there ... only to find our fence all torn down! Our neighbor across the street (the ones with the loose horse the other day) heard it to and came out and helped us wire some of the fencing back up but its pretty destroyed. The electric fence was not broken, so I propped that up and turned it back on to try to keep the mares away from it. I would have just locked them in the top field but the water trough up there isn't working.

We were working by flashlight so didn't see the place where the car came into the pasture at first ... and it looked sort of okay, but when I looked out this morning there was Poppy the youngest mare crawling under the hot wire and through the downed field fence to reach the green grass along the rode! So I was down there at 5 AM chasing her back into the pasture and then locking all of them in the top field until we can put up new wire this morning. And of course when I tried to pull the down fence back up, I got a big shock from the electric wire! How does that mare crawl under it?

Ay Yi Yi. I hope they did a lot of damage to their car!

 

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