please help lost horses
 

Hello everyone, I don't post very often, but am an avid reader.

I need your help...especially those of you in North Carolina.

I just got word from a friend of mine that she has lost two horses.

She was riding up in the park with her son, and were just letting the horses graze a bit before letting them back into the trailer to bring them home. All of a sudden, they both spooked and took off into the forest. They searched for 9hrs into the night, to no avail. Please keep an eye and ear out for them. They were at the Heintooga Trail Head, off of the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina.

They are both white/light grey arabs and are both wearing halters and lead ropes.

If you hear or see anything, please contact the owner at this email: swasapp@verizon.net or post the information on here, as I'll be checking back often.

Thank you so much, as we are all devastated.

I will keep my ears/eyes open.
You should post this on the equine board also, lotsa trail riders there.

I wish them lots of Good luck. Our pony did that but we got her back within hours. She was circling in the woods looking for us when we found her. Another time a neighbor's mean dog chased her down the highway (Route 6! The highway from ----) and a man and his son in a pickup drove up beside her, reached out grabbing her halter caught her. They took her home and called the state police. Please keep looking because their lead ropes might get caught up on something and they would be stuck. I would borrow horses and go out looking everyday if I could.

if'n they come on my land its SSS

Real nice.
You really are one of the good guys, huh?

You reap as you sow.......

Boy someone is not being very nice.
I like to be the kind of person who would help anyone that needed it. Maybe you should try it????

We are basically "good people" around here and we will help get the horse back to the rightful owners. Your best bet is to contact the local radio stations and the police departments in the area the horses were last seen. The radio stations will circulate the request and will keep phone numbers of the owners so that when someone spots the animals the owners will be notified.

Yeah, have fun with that. Burying two arab horses, hope you have a backhoe :rolleyes:

Always good that someone can count on a kind word around here.

thanks to those offering kinds words. It's good to know there are concerned folks around!!

Geeez people, i was just jokin.... forgive me for not putting a lil ol happy face next to it so yall could figure it out :shrug:

Sorry to see so many with no sense of humor or reality. I thought the sss message was funny the funniest message on this forum in ages.

It coulda been if there was a winky face included. Other than that, I take things as the english it's written in.

Do you really think someone would shoot a couple of lost looking horses for coming onto their property? Please....................

How far from their barn where they lost? I have had horses return from 25 miles away on their own. It took two days to ride them there and they were back before we could get a ride home. Of course that was 1979 in northern Calif. Good luck to you! Daryll in NW FLA

Sometimes it doesn't pay to be a good guy. Several years ago an unfamiliar stray horse appeared in our front yard early in the morning. Before I left for work I caught it, put a new halter and lead on it and tied it to tree beside the driveway where I thought the owner would spot it. It was gone when we came home, so was the new halter and lead, never to be seen again. Never a word of thanks from whomever owned the horse.

Oh man! I just hate to hear that they are lost. I don't not know if this will help or not but I can tell you what people around here have done to get their horses back from wilderness pack trips.

Firstly, are these horses mares or geldings? Then(speaking to the owners of said horses), do you have any horses close to you that these horses that are lost would know? Taking "Horse friends" up to where the lost ones are can get them back in a hurry. Then...

.... IF the lost ones are mares..try very hard to borrow someones Stallion.. the breed makes no difference..it could be a shetland, welsh or something small if that's the easiest. Many times mares will come to a stallion that is calling.

If the horses are geldings try and borrow a mare, hopefully she will be in season..even though geldings are "cut" they will sometimes respond to a mare in heat or any mare at all.

I wish you good luck and I hope you will let us know when they are found. Just makes me crazy! Poor things.The owner must be going nuts!!!

LQ

I wish you the best of luck at finding your horses. If you have pics of them make up flyers to post around. A picture is worth a thousand word, especially if whoever finds them considers just keeping them. And GOOD pictures may be the only way to prove they are really yours unless they are marked in some other way

I second calling all of the local police dept's, radio stations and also any forest service ranger stations. I sure do hope your friend recovers her lost horses safe and sound!

My horse went through her pasture fence one night when a nasty storm took down a tree too close to her for comfort. She ran for a few miles down the dirt road, got onto the main road and into the parking lot of a nearby hospital! The hospital called the police, which is who we called the next morning when we realized what had happened! What an awful feeling that was when we realized she was gone!!

All ended well for us. I hope the same is true for your friend. Keep us posted!

Erin

Wondering if they found them yet?

Definitely put out the word or fliers out at the trail.They will come to the other horse and riders there sooner or later.
If she whistles for them when its feeding time at home.Be sure to whistle ever once and while, when searching.My mom has found a many a lost horse this way.Stop listen and whistle.Most will neigh when they hear you.Especially if the lead rope has them hung up.Make sure others that might be searching no how to whistle the same way the owner does.They might not answer just any whistle.
Wondering if a pa speaker on a CB or a bull horn would carry to sound farther?
Tracking horses is so easy.Unless there lost in a riding area.That sucks!

Good news...The horses were found!!!! This is the email I received from my friend (the owner of the horses)....

After being missing in the National Park since last Monday July 17th and after several all day search rides and 100s of phone calls and many long drives and much HELP from many of you , finally on Sunday July 23rd I borrowed yet another two horses (this time from my blacksmith) and a friend and I went to the original trail again to seek the equines or some trace thereof.
We had just given up when I saw something white on the trail ahead through the trees. It was Zinc and Allasin!!!
They are fine and did seem very happy to 'find' us.
Seems that they had been traversing back and forth and into some high mountain bald grassy and shaded patches and up and down a couple of smaller unused farm roads just inside and outside the National Park behind the highest point at Cataloochee Ranch. They wanted into that gorgeous pasture there I suppose to be with the other horses but couldn't find a way in.
All is well again and this has been about the longest week of my life.
THANK YOU ALL FOR CARING AND HELPING AND SENDING YOUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS!!!!!!!! Swa

Glad they were found.

I love happy endings! :dance:

:)

Wonderful news! Now tell them to run out and buy some tie down stakes LOL

THANK YOU for letting us know they were found! I can't imagine how horrible for those owners to worry about what happened.

Great news!

I too am so happy the horses were found. I have been checking this thread for any info. So happy :)

I caught the humour. It was a poke at the SSS crowd I think. It was really quite funny when you think about someone going through all that trouble to bury a couple of horses, just for trespassing, and with a shovel no less. Might have been bad timing for such a joke however. :)

Anyhow, glad the horses are OK. :goodjob:

nah, it was a good joke. I got it. Good timing.

Wonderful news!!! I am so happy for the horse owners!!

katlupe