[Groesbeck Hurricane]

Nothing as racy as naughty yearbook photos:

I receive a call yesterday on my way home from the Sheriff's Office stating my horses are on the highway and how soon can I correct the situation. I explain I had just left work and it was a 30 minute drive. They state that is too long and I have to come up with another solution. My neighbors are not at home, Wife is further out than I am, I have no other solutions than breaking traffic laws, I do not state this to the dispatcher.

I arrive home. Front gate is closed, section of fence I took down is still down. Horses are in their pasture, internal gates are closed, spare gate I had lying on the ground in back is propped up as a bridge to climb a no-climb gate I have wedged in to block access from one pasture to another. My fences are no-climb style in this area with barbed wire on the top.

Horses say they are hungry (always are if you know horses) so I feed them.

Sheriff's Deputy arrives about 15 minutes later as I have started checking fence line. States the back gates were open (kept chained shut), the back gate to the pasture the horses are currently in was open (tied shut with bailing wire as this gate is actually falling apart), and three horses in the yard, one across the street, and one in back pasture with all the grass.

Horses can be strange but why run to the front where there is no real grass (harvested corn crop some months ago) when the grassland is in back and they had full access to a 30 acre hay pasture as I have the complete fence between my neighbor and me down for replacement? Both were more visible from their exit point than the front of the property. But then again, it WAS getting close to the time when I come home and they do expect me to feed them...

I have one really smart horse who CAN and WILL jump my 4.5 foot fences but she has been rather lazy the past couple of years.

But I do not have horses who can undo chained gates or take off bailing wire.

Events happened immediately after school bus drops off students.

I have many reported incidents of my fence line being cut, sections of fence being removed, gates opened and cattle set loose. Some of these instances have been seen and documented by same Deputies.

Nothing shows on camera.

What do yall think? I had taken to "patrolling" my property recently due to the poaching and increased activity around cut fencing.



I have a misdemeaner summons for this Friday to appear in front of my neighbor, the County Judge.