Angie we all just do our best. So glad to hear from you. I feel its safer now to discuss some of the critical points of this story we can all learn from. My husband to this day 11 years later does not believe me when I tell him my big ole' Quarter Horse figured out our key lock on the gate. We caught him out I don't know how many times, and I would get kind of yelled at. I would argue with my DH and tell him,"I DID lock his gate." And I DID, but he started me to thinking I was losing my mind. It was the lock you push down the curved bar and it had numbers to turn. I made sure I had it latched down tight, turned the numbers, jerked it down a few times to make sure, then I drove my truck behind a huge shrub and drank my coffee and watched. As soon as he finished his breakfast he went over to the gate and started picking up the heavy chain that was around the gate and post, locked together, mainly to keep other people out of our horse pens. He pulled it around until the lock was on his side and with nimble little lips started fooling with it. Then he pulled the chain way up and let it drop and hit repeatedly. About the 14th time that lock sprang open and he fiddled with it until the chain popped off, pushed the gate open and went on his merry way to visit the other horses! I didn't have a camera or camcorder at the time, so I am still trying to convince DH. Shortly after that this same horse bucked me off and I was hurt pretty bad, DH sold him while I was still in the hospital, so no pictures of the incident of the lock. We do our best.
By the way, I have personal friends that are veterinarians. They feel they have a duty to their clients and their horses. I fully understand outlandish horrible people and trying to avoid them. But they do have a duty to anyone calling for help to give their best.
