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Re: [RC] lost horses - Barbara McCrary

Horses do track on the trail, but it appears they are smelling other horses.
I've known of horses that got away on the trail and showed up at some ranch,
several days later, with saddle and bridle intact. I would seriously
question whether a horse would return to an old home, a state or more away.
I feel that horses are nowhere near as attached to individual people as are
dogs. Dogs will go to enormous lengths to return to a beloved master. While
I feel my present horse likes me better than anyone else around here, I
would be very surprised if he would cross one or more states to return to
me! He'd probably stay with the first person who would feed him apples.

Barbara

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Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 3:52 PM
Subject: [RC] lost horses



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From time to time I'v seen postings here and herd about people being

seperated from their horses on trailrides-or they jump the fence. What I was
wondering is how would ahorse survive alone in the woods-if you fell off and
they ran away? Would they return back to camp? Or if the park was close to
their home-would they go back there? Do they have the same "sent-smelling"
instincts as dogs when they are lost? Foe instance, I you move from one
state to another could they find their way back to their old home?




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