Stoooopid Neighbors

[sundance]

We live on 25 acres WAYYYYYYYYYYY back in the woods and come hunting season, its like its open property for hunters, we have private property and no trespassing signs out but guess they can't read.My dogs run free and I'm so afraid someone will shoot them and claim they thought it was a deer. they both wear orange collars but hunters are also blind i guess.

 

[d.k]

*Thing is you could probly think of a million things they could do & not get near the horses-- Spent my first summer oiling tack, cleaning brushes, raking rings, washing dust of stuff, breaking bales, mucking out, hauling buckets, stowing supplies and on and on and rarely got to do more than pet a horse on the nose or feed em carrots!! Didn't even get to brush 'em inside a stall until the second summer and never alone. By which time, natch, a lot of the "horsey madness" had simmered down considerably!!!

Still like horses-- but, I'm WAY too lazy to own one-- and very, VERY aware of what they are capable of. . . P.s. YOU NEVER went onto somebody's property w/o permission??? You were not a 'normal' kinda kid, Lizardz!!! I hardy ever stayed in my own yard-- too ADD I guess!

My yard bored me!! Come to think of it-- everyplace we ever lived I roamed about a two mile radius. . . Think I oughta call my mom and apologize. . .

 

[lizardz]

d.k. - all good ideas, and if they were a little older I would probably consider it. They were all maybe 7 at the oldest - could have fit under the taller horse's belly. I think maybe one of the girls was having a party with her friends over and dad thought "oh, wouldn't it be fun to pet the horseys" I don't mind them petting them over the fence - acutally, so many people feed these guys carrots and apples it probably wouldn't hurt them if I didn't feed them

They're so used to people feeding/petting them that if they see someone walking along the road, they run over to the fence. They didn't this day because I had just fed them. They are acutally more like dogs than horses - very large, unpredictable dogs. Oh well, hopefully the "Posted - No Tresspassing" signs will work. I put them about every 15 feet. Of course, there are always those who either can't read or who think this doesn't mean them.
Liz

 

[2dream]

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The signs are more for protection from lawsuits. At least with the signs up no one can say "Well, your honor, we did not know".

 

[Chickerdoodle13]

We have had multiple issues with our horses. Unfortunately, one side of our property faces a house that is usually rented out to city people. Sometimes, they have good intentions, but the are completely CLUELESS!!

This one lady kept trying to feed the horses garbage. She threw moldy straw bales into the pasture after halloween along with several moldy tomatoes. Luckily the horse did not touch either, but my dad went and talked to the lady right away. She felt horrible afterwards and sent an apology letter, but I just don't understand why you would try to feed an animal that garbage! I don't even give other people's dogs treats unless they give me permission!

Another time we had this family move in two doors down with a young boy and girl. The girl kept coming over when my dad and I would ride int he upper field. A few times she even came in the arena! Both of them would hang on the fence as well! I can't tell you how many times I yelled at them! My dad always told them they could come knock on our door one day and we would let them see the animals, but they had to wait until it was a good time for us and their mom had to give them permission. It got to the point where these kids were always pestering us about seeing the animals! A few times I even caught them in the field with the horses trying to pet them! I screamed out the back door and they ran, but I told my dad we needed to speak to the parents. Before we got a chance to, they moved and we have not had a problem like that since.

However, we did have some guy playing fetch with his dog on our one field closest to the street. My dad spoke to him right away and said it was private property.

I think that has been it, but people can be so annoying. We also have a protective dog and while I doubt he would bite someone, he does bark and run up to people who come on the property when we are not around to contain him. My dad has hung up no trespassing signs AND beware of dog signs. So far, they have seemed to work. We don't get unwanted salespeople any more.

 

[Rosalind]

Be really, really careful. In many states, horses fall under the "attractive nuisance" parts of the law--that is, the law feels that if some idiot climbs a locked gate and a fence to pet the pretty horsie, and the pretty horsie gets spooked and kicks the idiot in the head, it's still your fault for not adequately keeping people away from the horse. Similar laws apply to swimming pools, and each state/city has their own code requirements on height of fence, locking ability of gates, etc.

Now, personally I rather think that any fool who trespasses deserves exactly what they get, but you know how people can be jerks sometimes.

 

[SpottedCrow]

Absolutely Rosalind...

Attractive nuisance takes prescendence over personal responsibility these days...

someone wanna through more chlorine in the gene pool?

 

[Rocket Raley]

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[ams3651]

We had a similar problems years ago with people driving in planted fields. Well one day a boad with nails in it accidentially fell off the back of the truck and we didnt have that problem anymore. Accidents like that happen all the time out here.

Last winter, in my house only a month or so, I look out my back window and see someone cross country skiing thru the field behind my house, like so close I could have spoken to them. It was a friend of my cousins I think and they must have assumed I wouldnt mind. I wouldnt have minded, had they asked. My 2 acres and home sits along the road surrounded by 47 acres that were split when someone else bought the land. I have another neighbor who thinks it ok to ride his snowmobile where he feels like it. But the property owners around me dont like it...and I happened to mention to them one day that the guy has a snowmobile....

I also have a sign that says "caution - dog Enter at your risk" I thought it sounded better than Beware.

 

[kbarrett]

You have every right to be upset. Entering your pasture was way out of line. Feeding treats over a fence is one thing but in an open field can be a disaster unless you're very experienced. I had an oh s**t moment just last summer at work feeding the 2 mare/ foal herds. I was about an hour early and the first group was still out at the other end of a 20 acre field. The closest mare came in and started eating and I went up the line & put feed out for the second herd. The first group still hadn't started in and I started to panic about a single mare eating finishing hers and starting on the 16 other buckets...easily 150lbs. I called, they didn't come so I grabbed a bucket and headed out shaking the bucket & calling. Stupid me should have stuck to the fenceline Once they heard the feed I had 15 galloping mares and their foals running straight for me, the first few to reach me got a handful of grain and sent on their way and I ended up throwing handfulls of grain at butts to break up pecking order fights and send them on their way. I had just been so worried about that single mare gorging on feed and having colic.....it was odd for them to still be so far out as they're usually milling around and can hear all the impatient calling when the horses in the barn get fed.
Treats and food are just not a good idea in the open with more than a couple of horses.....not even taking into consideration somone not familiar with horses.
Maybe you should run a few strands of hot wire on the outside of your fences...