Re: Tresspassing

["Bill and Jan Stevens" <circlebarranch@mcn.net>]

Kat wrote:
"Generally, I have found that if you ask permission before you
invade private property (and you ask nicely-rather than thinking
that it is an entitlement), people are quite amenable to
allowing you to ride on their property.

But it does require that you be polite and accommodating, as well as
respecting their requests that you not go to particular places
or at particular times...oh yeah...and that you not use it as an
excuse to teach your horse about cows, by chasing their cattle.
It also helps if you volunteer to help them round up their cattle if they
ask,
catch their for them bull when it hasliberated itself, and communicate
with them if you find something amiss while riding on their property (such
as a
section of fence that is down).

You'd be surprised how far this goes to building good-will and
how far good will goes to getting permission."

Kat-how very true everything you said above is...Generally we don't get a
lot of riders asking permission to ride here on our private property, what
we do get is A LOT of hunters.  Almost always, we give permission for people
to hunt on our property if they ask, but if they don't we take their license
plate number and name and tell them that we won't press charges unless they
get in trouble elsewhere (other private property owners etc)...Believe me,
it really does make a difference if someone tells you about that fence being
down or a cow that might be ill.

Jan Stevens