I often talk about small-town life here in Cornville. Well, I just had a bit of excitement. Walter started barking at the window he mans (dogs?) when Fed Ex or UPS is bringing a package. I couldn’t for the life of me figure out what might be coming so I took a look. Sure enough, someone was in our driveway…a riderless, saddleless horse! It looked like the one in the image above.
My living room windows look out onto horse pasture so seeing a horse is a common thing, but seeing one on this side of the fence was pretty unusual. This was only the second time in 30 years that I’d ever seen a horse escape and it was the first time that I remember having a horse in my driveway!
I ran to the phone and called the neighbor who I figured must be one horse shy. No response. That was either a really good thing because they were actively after the horse, or a really bad thing because they might not be home. What to do?
I grabbed some shoes and out the door I flew. By this time the horse was down the road a bit and cars were stopped in both directions. We may be in the country, but we live on a very busy road. Not good!
My plan was to grab my outside extension cord and go after the thing. No, I do not know how to lasso a horse, but I figured if the horse was friendly it might come to me and then I could get the cord around its neck.
Thankfully, when I got nearer I found my neighbors out there. The horse wasn’t haltered yet, but at least it was headed home. Whew! I was just typing an email to friend saying that things were pretty boring around here lately. I guess I’d better watch what I type!
Image taken from The Horse Channel website
What exactly we going to do with the extension cord? Plug it in? What sort of horse is this exactly?
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I was going to use the extension cord as a lead/makeshift halter. I didn’t have a proper horse lead or rope, so that was the next best thing. It is a horse horse…you know, the kind you ride. The photo is pretty darned close to what it looks like.
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Impressive it’s like MacGyver for horses
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Hey, whatever works…or would have worked in this case.
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Oh you mean to tie up right I see. So just to be clear your initial plan was to run through the traffic trailing an extension cord behind you in an attempt to capture a horse .
OK.
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I was going to take it coiled up, silly! No trailing!
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I envisaged you trailing a lamp or something behind you
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Hahaha, naw. We keep a cord outside to plug in the car engine heater.
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What a beauty! Hi Ho Silver, away!
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Lol is there anyway there was some type of video recorded of you flying out red door with an extension cord? I’m asking for a friend 😂
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the door*
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No video that I know of…sorry
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Oh darn. That would have been great!
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Definitely not boring! A loose horse in traffic is never a good thing. Good thought on the cord, but really funny 😀
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I have to admit, my horses have gotten out more often than I’ve liked over the years. Once a moose helped them out, another time they got in a tiff and one pushed the other through the fence, once one went under a gate (don’t ask), and I had one particular mare who managed to semi-regularly (read, whenever she was bored) free herself from her pasture without breaking or opening anything (and often get herself into other pastures in, I can only assume, the same way). You can imagine that I have received some interesting phone calls.
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Oh my goodness! You should be the one writing horse posts! Plus, that way I can see pics!!!
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Haha, while I certainly have a few stories I can’t say I’m much of a photographer so very few photos accompany them! The stories also only tend to become funny in retrospect (retrieving a horse on snowmobile in the dark tends to lack humour in the moment).
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Do a post! Even without pics. Do a post!!!
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Yep, be careful what you ask for, it could just suddenly get interesting!
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I’m just trying to picture this!😁
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Linda, you never miss an opportunity to horse around. 😃❤️🌹🐉❤️
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Haha! ❤️💕❤️💕❤️
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Wow! Incredible !
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This is brilliant!
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It would have been even more brilliant if I’d had a chance to catch him!
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I have this image of you running along the side of the road, extension cord in the shape of a lasso, and you whipping it around your head as you yell “Whoa Nellie!”
Of course my extensive knowledge of horses is from cartoons!👩🌾 Wrangler Linda!
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Yes, it was exactly like that! Uh huh…yup!
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One of our ponies is a little escape artist – definitely gets the heart pumping!
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Oh my gosh, yes! If I had to chase horses on a regular basis, I’d be a nervous wreck. I live on a very busy road and their barn is on the other side of it. I’m sure the passing drivers are amused when I stop them to shoo the horse across. I have this crazed frantic look on my face. Whew!
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That’s so nice you do that for them though!! One of our neighbours helps us buy another one will beep at them and get if he sees them! I understand his annoyance but beeping makes it worse !
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Oh dear!! They must think it is imperative to run even further afield!
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