Look Who Escaped

I rode my bike up the driveway and saw Terry. He was getting ready to go to the vet. I asked if I could come and he said I could, so I went down to the barn to put my bike by the barn. When I got around the bend in the driveway and the pine trees weren't in my way I saw Blacky calmly eating grass on my side of the fence. So, I yelled up the drive, "Terry, is there a reason Blacky's out?" Carter was there too, and he yelled back, "Out, what do you mean 'out?" So he came down the drive and walked up to her took her head in his hands and led her to the gate. We shooed the horses away, and opened the gate and Blacky ran through. They then explained to me that Blacky had been with the fillies. Since there isn't an actually fence, just a long strip of plastic, that didn't have an electrical current running through it because it was turned off. They told me that she was probably able to get under the fence because she's so small. All she has to do is drop her head, and the plastic goes right over her head, up her neck, and across her back, and she's free!

After we got Blacky into the paddock, we herded the fillies into the barn because we didn't want them to escape when we weren't there. I went to close the gate behind them, and Terry was walking into the barn, and he asks me, "Are those big horses in there?" Sure enough all of our other horses had gotten in with the fillies in the barn. Terry and I were like that is not good. We were both thinking that there would soon come an explosion of flying hooves and teeth... Nothing... They all stood in the barn and then calmly walked into the back pen. So then came the task of separating them. We found the little red gate that leads from the paddock into that pen open. We summarized that when it was latched it must not have been in tight enough, so the horses just pushed on it a little and it opened. So, we were able to chase Misstack, Ana, Strudder, and Blacky out, but Coffie had gotten past too. Well, we left her and tried to get Santana separated from the fillies. Well we got him a little bit separate, and we shooed him out the gate, and he charged out. Carter went out to try and catch Coffie, but she escaped into the pasture with Blacky. Then all the other horses charged out of the paddock, and were galloping around the pasture with Coffie. The other three fillies called to Coffie, and all the horses ran to the large gate connecting the pasture and the back pen. Well, all the other horses ran off again except Strudder with Coffie. We were able to get strudder away and Coffie was thinking about going after him, but decided to stay with her buddies. So, I was trying to get the gate open, but I couldn't untie the twine string, so I just took my pocket knife out and cut it. We herded Coffie in and all the horses were were they were supposed to be, and we got in Terry's truck to go to the vet. Then I asked Terry if Stretch was supposed to be in the barn, so we had to go back and let Stretch out. Terry had just fed him. Now we were truly on our way to the vet.

And just so you know, none of the horses needed medical attention. Terry just wanted to get some vaccination stuff from the vet.