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Post by Lynne on Feb 26, 2003 16:28:37 GMT -5
You know she was doing the fence leaping. I tried to fix the fence and she got hurt a little over a week ago...cut her knee (valentines day). It was healing up very nicely but today she managed to open it up again. I knew as soon as I got hom and saw blood drops in the snow by the back deck. She's here and it doesn't look bad, just like it opened again...but I came in to find this e mail from Joe:
"Lynne, I heard some banging around on the porch this m,orning and thought it was the dogs. No. I opened the door and Crazy legs was standing on the back porch. She looked at me and jumped off. I think she was looking for dogfood.
I have a 6 pm tonight. see you soon.
J
ps Did I mention that crazy was standing on the back porch?"
she not only leaps fences now, but she can undo our doeble ended snap on the gate with her lips and then she pushes it open until it swing far enough for her to make it through and now SHE CLIMBS ONTO SNOWY DECKS?!
I'm gonna have to hope my tax return is enough to redo my gate latches for better ones and replace the whole section of fence that she likes to jump. This is nuts and way too much worry!
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Post by niaru on Feb 26, 2003 16:38:28 GMT -5
LOL! You need an 8 foot fence all around this escape artist! Maybe she was a dog in a former life...wants to be close to people...Good luck!
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Post by Linda on Feb 26, 2003 16:48:11 GMT -5
Lynne, So far my horses have not been able to undo the plastic side-release buckles on dog collars. I use dog collars to hold back open gates and to secure those gates I don't want opened. The price is right.
The last time you posted, I suggested you attach 3-4 foot grade stakes to the sides of your fence posts and then buy a spool of baling twine to make a couple more "wires" way up in the sky. Tie plastic flagging to the new "fence". It looks pretty impressive. Best thing, if she does hit it, it will all come down without hurting her. You are basically just putting an extension on your existing fence posts and then using twine as though it were wire.
Linda
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Post by Lynne on Feb 26, 2003 16:58:05 GMT -5
Thanks for the idea Linda!! ;D The dog collar approach will solve several problems at once and VERY inexpensively! Besides....it might even look cool...Hee hee hee... What is a "grade stake"? I think I'm gonna have to totally replace the section she is jumping over as soon as it thaws anway because it adjoins the neighbors property and they're the ones that want us to pay half of a new nine thousand dollar fence....of course...at times like this a new field fence with new posts sounds pretty good. What is there right now (at least in that section) is t-posts and trees as posts..... I guess I should screen in the deck....UG.... Thanks for the great ideas!  Lynne |
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Post by ZenRider on Feb 26, 2003 21:10:27 GMT -5
Maybe you should just give in and give her a bedroom of her own?!?! :hahaha: I like everyone else's ideas too. Though Niaru, probably has it right about needing 8 foot fences.  |
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Post by Linda on Feb 27, 2003 0:46:59 GMT -5
Lynne, We get "grade" stakes here in a bundle. They may also be called "surveyors stakes". they are about 1 inch by 2 inches with a sharpened end--and very, very cheap. They come in different lengths. (Of course, you could just take bigger boards and make these smaller ones.....) We just staple the baling twine to the grade stakes. It makes a great fence for horses who are respectful of such things. The baling twine with flagging attached makes a great visual barrier. We even have it strung across the tops of our New Zealand fence between the two pastures. We wanted to make sure that no one ever thought they could just run down the hill. The plastic flagging doesn't slide on the baling twine, it stays right where you put it. When we first moved out here, grade stakes and baling twine WERE our fences. However, when Fuerza came to live with us, she wasn't impressed..... Now we have real fences that we can even electrify when necessary.
Lynne, did you ever see the old Walt Disney movie "The Horse With a Flying Tail"? It was about the Olympic jumper Nautilus. He was a western cow pony--palamino if I remember correctly. However, he jumped all the corral fences. Someone connected to the jumping world saw him clear those fences in pursuit of a cow and pulled out his checkbook. The horse went on to become famous. This kind of talent can't be made. You just might be trying to discourage the next Olympic champion you know ;D Linda
PS--don't forget to color-coordinate your new dog collars!!! There must be colors that go best with your WT motiff. Mine is second-hand red collar. It still has the dog-tags attached.
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Post by Smay on Feb 27, 2003 8:41:17 GMT -5
The movie was a Disney movie? I gotta find that one cause I slightly remember that story and it's a good one! Lynne, if I were you, Miss Crazy Legs would be getting tied up. Poor thing, but she is gonna hurt herself doing this $hit. I DO like that Linda Idea of the stakes and baling twine with BRIGHT ORANGE PLASTIC TAPE (surveyor's tape) flags fluttering from the twine! Just a bright visual reminder that YOU CANNOT JUMP THIS HIGH MISSY! But surely, this horse needs to be developed into a jumper. If that little fatso can jump that high just for KICKS, then she needs to start working for her supper!
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Post by niaru on Feb 27, 2003 8:48:40 GMT -5
I agree. She MUST become a jumper!!!
I have to look into that "Horse with flying tail" movie for Morgane. She's bringing horse books from the lschool ibrary and talking about her future lessons (we had to stop when the cold weather set in). I'm thrilled! At least ONE of my kids will ride with me some day!!
I love your dog-collar idea Linda!
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Post by Vida on Feb 27, 2003 10:42:05 GMT -5
Too funny! I use the dog collar snaps on two of my gates as well for Mikhail, the great Houdini. He comes on our front porch too or comes to look in the windows. Maybe we should put them in together although he's too fat to jump anything high!
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Post by Johnnie on Feb 27, 2003 13:19:48 GMT -5
Lynne, I might even have some bright neon flagging (aka smay's surveryor's tape) that I could send you. Let me look. It may say something like Wetland or Protected Wetland on it. I used to work as environmentalist. I may even have some that says Endangered Species. We used to have to flag off these turtles that were endangered after one got run over by a crane...oops. Anyway, if your lumber yard doesn't know what surveryor's stakes are, try asking for tomato stakes. I used to have a couple of bundles of them, but my mother stole them for her garden.
My other suggestion was to send Legs to Michelle and let her take her in the jumpers. They could probably win you quite a bit since the Jumpers pay cash back...lol.
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Post by Einstein on Feb 27, 2003 13:44:28 GMT -5
Yup, I'd take her! All 5'10 of me ;D
I think Joe should have taken a picture of her on the deck! How freaking funny!!! I probably would have wet my pants if I had seen that, expecting a dog and getting a horse on the deck!!
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Post by Johnnie on Feb 27, 2003 15:02:34 GMT -5
Hey now, my friend Connie is 5'10 and used to event a 14'2 Arab..lol. How tall is Crazy Legs anyway?
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Post by Lynne on Feb 27, 2003 16:47:42 GMT -5
Oh you guys...its getting worse if you can believe it  I had my annual observation at work today and was stressed for the stage show. I went out at five this morning to feed hoping to do it quickly and leave early. No Crazy Legs. Nowhere. Usually if she has gone off for a tryst with a belgian she comes home for breakfast. No Legs. So I drove around the property and checked her usual jump sites. I couldn't find tracks leading to them. I freaked. I looked everywhere I could think of and then gave Joe my number at school and headed out thinking I could go in, do the observation and come home. Well, I exited our property and drove the 1/2 mile drive to find her about twenty yards from the end of it (yes, the highway) I think she was afraid to cross the creek? She saw me and I called and then I backed back to the house and she followed. I was gonna put her in a stall but the wench (sorry  ) sho used to run up to greet me, won't let me catch her since the knee cut and rounds of antibiotics. So...Arabian horse needs home with someone who has the Berlin Wall for fencing?!!! Really, I think that I need to know serious fence solutions, while I try the surveying tape and posts in the meantime, but I don't think I can do that around all twenty six acres (although I like the swampland tape idea...HAHAHA). So fence.....ideas on scales of one to ten for price (ten is cheap), safety (10 is safe) and easy installation (10 is easy). What am I gonna do?  Oh, to answer questions....I guess she is 15 hands? Maybe a kiss under. Havent sticked her...she's so fat it throws the perspective out of whack! She's just started this stuff in the last couple months. I feel like she might have the same winter cabin fever I do and is utterly bored and way too smart! I need just moderately decent footing and some daylight and I need to start doing SOMETHING with her!! How pathetic is this? I feel like a person who has a dog that keeps getting loose. Who knew it could happen with an equinnial? Vida!!! So GREAT to see you!!! ;D ;D Yes, leets do put them together. Although you'd think Crazy would be too fat to jump.....not to mention short. She might just teach him the ways of the wicked  |
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I had my annual observation at work today and was stressed for the stage show. I went out at five this morning to feed hoping to do it quickly and leave early. 
) sho used to run up to greet me, won't let me catch her since the knee cut and rounds of antibiotics.
