Well, he lived here with Belle for 6 years, and we had no problems.
I’m thinking if I do bring Hope home I may put up more then just the one strand of hot wire that I have separating the runs. The problem I have doing that is getting T posts in the ground. It’s just very hard to drive them far with my rock. Right now I just have small rebarb type posts that only come up about to the top of their legs. I really think is all I had when Belle was here was one strand but I had it hooked to trees, so I could get it up higher. The only other thing I’m thinking I could do, would be to run another line, so there is an alley way between them. I could use the smaller posts to do that.
It is an issue I have been thinking about.
You might try setting the t-posts in cinder blocks filled with concrete. That’s what we do on our place when we hit a rocky patch. It seems to work pretty well when all you need them for is holding up the wire. As long as you can get your tension at the corner posts it ought to work ok.
And yes, my horses are used to electric fence but mine looks different than yours. I’ve got that fatter white electrobraid so it might not hurt to make sure she knows where yours is if it comes down to it, and maybe tie some marker tape on it too where it goes through the woods.