I'm not near any busy roads and my outside gates are a long way from the house so it really wasn't big deal that the horses got out. I just wanted to catch them before they got around the house and tore up the yard.
What is it with people that they chase horses? What were those idiots going to do if they actually caught the horse? That's like dogs chasing cars, what are they planning to do if they catch one? Drive?
You should have kept that horse, they probably wouldn't have looked for it. Doesn't sound like they cared about it anyway.
I was surprised that the lady didn't stop by.... I'd have been thankful for one, but also a little curious about what had happened if my horse got out and ran down the road. That horse is still over there, along with a nice older black horse. I look in on them from time to time. They have good pasture and apparently someone waters them. Their feet are always mildly to moderately unkept, but always just barely good enough that I wouldn't get someone involved to investigate their care more.
Sortof morbidly funny story that I always think of related to that horse in the road:
About a week earlier, I had a plumber here who was really strange in a lot of ways, but the most memorable was that when he was all done and walking out to his truck, he gazed out at the horses and said "Do you ever know anyone who has a horse die?" or something equally odd like that. While I blinked at him, he said "Because I have a couple cats and I am always looking for sources of meat". I said "You must have a lot of cats!" He said "I have two tigers". I stood ~blinking~. He said "I usually buy whole turkeys and outdated meat from stores, and the county will call me to road kill deer, but I got a dead horse once and it was great." I said "Well, my old horse there will die someday, and disposal of any kind is something to consider, but it never occurred to me to feed him to a tiger". He said "Well, keep it in mind" he said." I said that if Bay was ever put down, he'd be one of the things I thought of, at which time he said he would want him only if he died naturally or was shot.... not if he'd been put down with drugs. I said "After more than twenty years of service, this horse is not going to be shot with a gun under any circumstance, but rather put down with nice pleasant drugs, if need be." As a courtesy, I said I'd keep him in mind if one of my horses happened to die of natural causes.
Well, about a week later, I am in a car headed down the road and see this neighbor's loose horse running down the street. My first thought was "Tiger Food".
;~D