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Yikes were the horses okay after wreaking all that havoc :-O
I'm a mare owner too...definitely had more then one occasion of wanting to cry. Plenty of memories of being out very late after work putting fences back up, or battling storms to keep everyone safe. You have to be just a little bit crazy to put up with it all.

There is nothing quite like broken fences and loose horses in the middle of the night to make one wonder why they keep horses! I am glad your dad was able to help you get things fixed and be a good sport. Mares - sigh. ;)

So glad they are ok — geeze. You know how many times I’ve said “Horses are jerks” under my breath? Lol! I totally feel your pain! We recently had to re do our fence— it used to be just electric w T posts but our stud colt kept going UNDER the fence when he was a foal... I thought something was wrong with the fence because how did he not get electrocuted? Well we checked it — my husband actually touched it and it popped him good so we figured maybe our colts fluffy foal coat was a good enough insulator? Lol All the other horses steer clear and as he got older it did start to electrocute him but he didn’t stop messing with it... ended up doing a lot of damage to the fence to the point of bringing it down a few times and getting loose. He’d paw at the fence and see if he could get under it like old times which created grooves in the ground and the wire would pop off the yellow clasps. He’d scratch his mane off on the T posts. Sigh... All kinds of stuff.... What we certainly didn’t want was the stud getting loose around the mares... so we had to go extreme and get wood post fencing with electric along the insude... So far he hasn’t done anything to the fence.... knock on wood.