WilD said:Ovid_and_Flem wrote:In reply to Furious_E :
+1,000
As far as legal liability...horse gets out of pasture and gets hit by car. as land owner you're gonna get sued by horse owner as well as car owner.
Someone sneaks on your property and is injured by horse. Your maintaining in legal terms an "attractive nuisance." Trespasser is gonna sue you.
Horse gets hock caught in a fence and has to be put down.
Etc., etc., etc.
I know it sounds attractive. Just too much downside IMHO.
Better idea is stand in a steaming pile of manure while tearing up $100 bills.
We had a horse when I was growing up and this is a big part of why we eventually sold him. He would occasionally jump a fence. You know how sometimes a dog will slip out and LOVE it, and just run around at top speed like a lunatic? It was just like that except MUCH bigger, and I believe considerably faster than most dogs. This only happened a couple of times but my mother was concerned he'd run out onto the highway a mile or so away and cause an accident. Also, he would bite... but that is another story.
Yeah, we had that happen once, and thankfully (to my recollection, at least) only once. Not fun. Horses can cover a hell of a lot more ground than a dog, and once you actually do find it, catching it is a whole other story - they can't be coaxed by a tasty piece of cold cuts like most dogs 
. And you better have a horse trailer to bring it back home.
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