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Interesting night

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So, last night we are sound asleep (about 10:45), and hear Caleb say "uh, guys their are horses in the driveway". :o This is obvious because the stud is having a fit next to the house. So we go out to lock them in the corral for the night just to discover they aren't ours. Figure we'll lock them up anyway and see who they belong to in the morning. By the time Mike fires up the 4wheeler they are gone :???: So he goes in the pickup and see's they are off the highway on to a county road and act like they know where they are going. So we start calling neighbors. The first ones don't answer, the second one said "oh no", then "oh good, we only have 3, can't be ours". Third neighbor, BINGO, says "oh sh!t, I roped off the driveway" So I tell her where they are etc etc and we go back to bed. About 12:00 (sound asleep again) the phone rings...its her calling to tell us she went out and they were back home on their own...like she had to call us a midnight to tell us :roll:
Oh well, all's well that ends well and no one was hurt.
 
At least it was a nice ending. Maybe she thought you'd lay awake
worrying about her horses. :???:

When we moved to W. Montana, our horses kept trying to go home.
We had a cattle guard, they jumped that and they jumped it more
than once. So Mr. FH strung a rope across the cattle guard (pain in
the butt when you were driving in or out)...worked for a bit and they
jumped that too. We lost a calf and he skinned that and put it on
the cattle guard. That stopped them. They never jumped over it again.

We bought a horse when we were on the Powder River and he
insisted on going home (up the river to the north) and we had to
go get him more than once. He jumped cattle guards too. We take
really good care of our horses, so there was no reason for them to
want to leave, except the 'homing instinct.'

Animals certainly can make life interesting at best, and at the least,
not boring. :shock:
 
Got a call one night from a depity sayin my bison were out on the highway. Got over there and they had got back in. They also had jumped the cattle gap. (What we call it down here). Had to put a gate up. I wish I had never got them thangs. I got them for sale. One took to my son on his horse and run him a ways. There dog broke, bunch up and drive good but u got to push them slow. My old powder river pens are kinda sunk down in the dirt. I dought would hold them but if I get a buyer, we will find out.
 
When we work cattle we sure don't work them like grannys old milk cows. And driven cattle, we genrally walk or trot them. There choice as long as they stay bunched. Dog broke bison walk real slow, stop, then walk real slow again. If u croud them, u got a reck. And I bet watchin u work your pets would be a lot funnyer to me than you watchin some real cowboys work cattle the more efeciant way. No mader where the cowboys are from. My blackberry phone won't let me send no pictures to this site. I can send them email or text. It will almost let me get there. I think maybe I don't have a good signal.
 
So much for getting a good stretch of sleep during night calving... :roll: :lol: . At least the horses got back safely, but I'm sure you could've waited until morning for the news.
 

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