Horse escape

Puppy barked and woke us up at 2 am Sunday morning. At first I thought that maybe Puppy smelled a skunk and wanted out but this time it was something different. So I looked outside and saw horses. The horses were right outside the house, not in their pasture. Debby and I went out and rounded up the horses. Amazingly, the gate to the pasture was open, the horses had somehow opened it. On the gate hook we saw a bunch or horsetail hair, after a quick inspection we determined that it came from Kia's tail. So, somehow Kia had backed into the gate handle hook, snagged her tail in it, and opened the gate.

Later that morning at about 8:30 am the horses got out of the pasture again. This time I think Spirit went through the fence. We noticed that we never had any horse breakouts until the two mares arrived, and it only seems to happen when the mares are in heat.

Later that morning Debby saw fresh piles of horse manure down the hill on our driveway. So, apparently Saturday night the horses opened the pasture gate, went down the driveway, fertilized the driveway, came back up the driveway to the house, and then Puppy woke us up.

Picture shows horses getting into the garden on Sunday morning with pigeons flying overhead.