The things I wake up to

So it's 2 in the dagum morning and I wake up to a bunch of racket like someone is trying to get in my house. So I get the sig and my flash light and start looking, well get to the window and see a piece of rebar bouncing against the window. I shine my light out and there's a horse scratching it's neck against it along with like 5 others and a pony in my yard grazing. Most of em got halters on and look well fed so have no clue where they came from. I got half a mind to go shut them up in the cow pasture but reckon they'll save me from mowing the yard . That being said I always kinda wanted a pony

Ride em cowboy 😊

Sounds like some Wyld Stallions hittin the alfalfa late at your house.....

Party on Garth......

You know your a redneck when......

Shoot low, Sheriff, he's ridin a Shetland.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

lol

News flash Wolfie !

If your dating them wimmen from Farmers Only.com, they may come with some baggage. LoL

That is an awesome story Wolfy!

Date must of walked home and left her ride!

New Horse power for the Fur Wagon

Real horsepower right there.

That just means you are living in the right kind of place.

If I’m not mistaken some top predator baits are made from horse meat...... jk don’t kill the neighbors horse

At your age I woke up to a lot worse things than that.

put them in the pasture , call sheriff give him a description of each , tell the sheriff when the person missing them calls in they can get over and get them if they make it a week on your grass one of them is freezer bound.

What a fun thread, wolfie ! The comments are a hoot

I keep a Bridoon double bridle hanging on the wall next to my saddle , to grab when neighbor's horses get loose. They almost every time end up visiting me , enjoying the grass and clover. I recognize horses in the area without even knowing most of the owners.

I give them a pat, talk to them a bit, then slip my bridle on one, swing up and take them all back .

There's a small bunch who are from the road's end that like to come visit when they escape. They have never gone further into the main road , but I still take them back after I let them trim to perfection around the place .

Hearing any abrupt noise, as you did in the night is always a time for me to grab my Mossburg or .45 and peer quietly out a window .

Consider yourself popular, wolfie

When I was your age that would have been a good sight to wake up to.

Good lookin' horses will make you a ch*ck magnet. I say lettem' hang a our day for a while and see what else shows up.

The fact that the horses mostly had halters on makes me think they were recently transported. Most people won't leave halters on a horse long because they tangle up and catch on things.

Somebody likely took the horses somewhere to sell, where they got loose, or dumped them.

What are you going to do with them?

Keith

There I fixed it for ya.
I see a lot of horses in halters running along fences with T posts. It's a great way to see blood and gore.
Same as handling a shod horse in flip flops but it's done every weekend

Y'all are hilarious lol

Are the horses still on your land?

Keith

na they where gone this morning ,they did an amazing job edging up around my house though lol, gonna scoop up all the poop tomorrow for the worm bin

Actually it's super common practice around here to keep halters on horse for months at a time. Also alot of folks will add a length of stout rope to the halter some the horse purposely steps on it, apparently it's supposed to make them easier to ride or something. Honestly just seems ignorant and lazy to me but then Shaun's the horse I've ever had basically just walked around with the cows their whole lives so what do I knwo

My wife would have been in heaven! Wanting to keep them all. We keep halters on as long as they don't have shoes on in the pasture, when they get shoes the halters come off, had a friend's horse get there shoe caught in a halter some how and die. May have been a freak accident but we don't take chances... I hate horses the wife loves them, what momma wants momma gets though. I used them as leverage at trapping time and I want to spend money!

Leaving a halter on a pastured horse and "we don't take chances" are polar opposites.

I have had that happen at my house as well. One never knows.

Miss Sharon if you can still swing upon one my hat is off to you !

Wolfie hang on to those horses, they may belong to the hot new neighbor you didn’t know you had , lol !

Golf Ball, I have lots of riding miles/years to go ! I am in my prime, and anyway, there is a technique to that swing up .

That , howevah, doesn't apply to the huge warmbloods I rode in Olympic class dressage and cross-country jumping. Bailey, from Ireland, was 19 hands tall . The only way I could get in the saddle was with help from a stair stool , truck bumper, fence rail, or a leg up from a fellow rider .

If they're not too tall I can do it

Some folks leave that dragging rope with the thought of it training them to stand "ground tied" if needed. Others do that in hopes they can catch them easier. Either way, a recipe for disaster.

I carry a big sharp knife in my truck just for the occasions of finding a horse with the halter either stuck halfway on their face with buckles frozen from rust, that they have to be cut off. Sheesh....

I will go ahead and say it Sharon, there are lots of people who have economic success in the city, buy a rural acreage, and stock it with animals they know very little about. Horses turned out in halter's that have buckles rusted shut would be a good indication of what I am talking about.

I carry a folding knife with a serrated blade, it comes in handy if when the wreck is on. Horses hung up to a post or bull riders with a spur hung to the top of the flank rope (where you cannot get to the slip knot), or a calf tied hard and fast to a horse who has lost his mind when the rider got off and missed the flank are times you either have a knife in your hand or it is too late.

No doubt , you saved a lot of grief using that knife when it was needed, Hoss.