Around here, driving up in strange people's driveways and poking around will sometimes get you shot. I want to do all I can to make sure this horse is really being taken care of, but I really don't want him to know that it's me that's causing him trouble, now that he knows where my barn is.
Frog is right, some of these back country people would not hesitate to shoot you or your animals. Our neighbor lets his dogs run loose, they tease my horses and poop in my yard (on my front porch too!) but we are afraid to say or do anything for fear of retailiation on our dogs or horses. We cannot even leave shoes on the front porch or they end up in the neighbors yard chewed up. We have no leash laws where we live, the price of living in the country I guess.
I understand that. I wouldn't recommend you put yourself at risk, and I didn't mean to imply that. My situation was different, I didn't have that fear with my 'friend'. But the Humane Society woman can do it... with backup if she wants it.