[bay_blnd jmpr07]

Quite awhile ago 3 horses got loose that are down the street from me. A lady who knows I'm a horse person came to my house to see if I could help. I went down with 3 of my halters and leads. By the time I got there 2 of the horses(the oldest and the youngest) had gone back into their paddock. The middle horse had been trapped in another farm's paddock. He was RUNNING!! Back and forth. I was able to get him to calm down and let me come to him and put a halter on and walk him down the street to his barn. I put all the horses in their stalls and looked them all over. I checked all their legs for heat and looked for any cuts and scrapes. The youngest horse had some scraped on his face and a few on his front legs. All were just scrapes and not bleeding. I went home and called the owners and left them a message about their horses getting loose and that I checked them over and told them about the one horse's scrapes.

Luckily I knew these horses having taken care of them for a week, so I knew their personalities a bit and their ages so I was able to assess if they were ok or not. And I think it did give me an advantage to catching the last horse. And since I knew who the owners were I had their number so I was able to call.

Now what if I help catch some horses that I don't know the owners? I know I would be even more careful and cautious. How else would I go about catching/looking/letting the owners know?

[Stormyheart6160]

If you KNOW who owns them, just go to their house and tell them what you did. If you DON'T know who owns them, get them in a pen at your house and call your local animal control. That's what I just had to do.

[JamieH_7]

Stormyheart you couldn't have said it better! )