I have a horse, and for a brief while, I boarded him at a barn near the town I live in here in Florida. One time I went out there in the evening and almost lost it - I heard tigers or lions or something or another roaring and I was convinced I was hallucinating, except that my horse was freaked out too. Turned out there was a rather over-the-top pet lover there who was running a retirement home for big cats that had been in the circus. The roaring came at feeding time. I never actually saw the animals, but they sounded like they were pretty close and although the owner of the barn assured me that the “lion lady” kept her pets locked up, it made me too uncomfortable just knowing that they were there and I had to find someplace else to board my horse!========================================
LOL!!! Your poor horse! He was ABSOLUTELY sure that his days were numbered! It IS unmistakable, isn't it? You will NEVER, EVER, EVER forget that sound!! Not if you live to be 200 years old.
You were nice to move your horses and smart too. The STRESS on those poor horses, hearing those PREDATORY roars could NOT have been good for them. It would make me nervous too if I lived that close to roars.
AT least, when I heard the roaring I would know what day it was and what TIME it was...always.
No thanks, I PASS on living near the big cats.
Once, when my job once brought me to the zoo just before dawn, I heard lions mating. Those guys are serious about reproducing, I’ll tell you what.