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Re: [RC] [RC] OT -- Full Moon - Laurie Durgin

My mare was too, acting strange ,particularly at dusk, and the others kept staring, and refused to come eat a couple times, I even had to walk out to them and show them the bucket and the way to the barn.I grumbled, thinking they were being silly about a stray dog or something. (Rascal I learned stops, pricks ears and stares at deers crossing the easement like 1/4 mile away while riding).
Well turns out they were acting odd ,cause there was a pot belly pig that had strayed and taken up residence right outside their pasture!
Needless to say it then turned up in the pasture(which has field fence with hot wire on top). I tried to catch it.It was pretty tame, but if I sat on a bucket and called "piggy,piggy" it would eat the beet pulp within 4-5 feet,(another one for beet pulp!!) but couldn't get it into stall to trap it. The animal countrol came and halfheartly chased it up and down my pasture till they were huffin and puffin. I borrowed two traps, one it kept eating out of ,cause it was too short. The other caught a possum,(which did not survive my epm angst , vengence.Then a ferel cat, twice ,again the animal control guys messed up and let it go. The second time my hubby helped them get it into their truck. I gave up, pig moved out. I fixed hole in fence and horses returned to 'almost normal'.
I have learned ,if they are acting bizarre and looking somewhere , there is something they see and is out of place. Scouts ma, used to act wierd at dusk and leave her food to go stare at a certain area, turned out the kid across the way was in camo playing Rambo.She saw him, lil'l bugger.
Heck who needs watch dogs, just get a mare!!! Laurie


From: "Stephanie E Caldwell" <sec@xxxxxxxx>
To: "Ride Camp" <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [RC]   OT -- Full Moon
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 13:48:21 -0400

Last night when I went to feed my horse she was acting really bizare. She was running around obviously scared of one end of her pasture. After about 20 minutes her HR was down, but she wouldn't touch her food. So, I decided to go ahead and throw her in the stall for the night. She relaxed and started munching away on her hay as I left.

This morning I was greeted by a herd of horses standing in my empty pasture, my nieghbor fixing his fence where his pony had run through a wood/barbed wire fence, and my other neighbors herd of yearling TBs screaming from her front gate. Caught the neighbor who's horses were at my place as he was coming to find them. They'd run through his PVC fence and his neighbor's horses had run through electric and barbed wire last night. My horse was the only one on the road who was where she belonged, wonder if she'd gotten out if I'd left her in the pasture?

In conversation with my neighbor he said it always happens on the last full moon of summer, last night. Anybody else hear that? My horse was acting strange this morning, but I think she was upset at having strangers in her pasture last night. They ate in places she doesn't, slept in her "spot", and pooped in the walkway (cardinal sin with my mare! LOL).

Just wondering,
Steph

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