I hate it now that it's completely dark when I go to see maya after work. She's in a field on a B road that gets a fair amount of traffic but there are no houses nearby at all and it's very dark!
I always get those creepy feelings that I'm being watched, but always tell myself I'm being silly but after tonight I'm seriously creeped out! :frown:
Her field is down the road from the main yard so I park my car at the gate. She was taking ages to eat her feed and I'd been and checked around the entire field, checked water, taken hay out, so I decided to go and sit in my car.
I had the door open and I looked down and something immediately caught my eye. It was really out of place despite the numerous amounts of crisp packets and McDonald's that normally turns up at the road side.
It was a neatly folded bit of paper near the gate and I immediately knew what it was! :frown: Because I'd seen it before (well not in that way! :giggle, it was a page from a certain type of magazine left strategically at the gate.
About 5 years ago when my mum and a few friends had horses we were in a different field on the same yard and road and the same thing happened numerous times. We had to keep handing them into the police because of the children on the yard. Back then the pages were left neatly folded under the padlock when we'd go and turn the horses back out after a ride. Apparently it had happened before to someone else on the yard who walks the greyhounds up and down the road. The pages were left for her to find in the mornings during her routine.
We left the yard due to grazing issues and I returned on my own a year ago on my own after my mums horse died and friends left (but maya was on the main yard until this year).
I'm treating this incident as a one off and letting YO now as there are kiddies about. If it happens again I'll be collecting evidence :nerd: for the police.
I'm just a bit freaked out that someone HAS been watching me and knows that I use that gate now. In the summer I would park at the yard and take maya down to the yard to ride etc first using the back route through the fields.
How do you guys stay safe alone in the country side at night? :nerd:
I always get those creepy feelings that I'm being watched, but always tell myself I'm being silly but after tonight I'm seriously creeped out! :frown:
Her field is down the road from the main yard so I park my car at the gate. She was taking ages to eat her feed and I'd been and checked around the entire field, checked water, taken hay out, so I decided to go and sit in my car.
I had the door open and I looked down and something immediately caught my eye. It was really out of place despite the numerous amounts of crisp packets and McDonald's that normally turns up at the road side.
It was a neatly folded bit of paper near the gate and I immediately knew what it was! :frown: Because I'd seen it before (well not in that way! :giggle, it was a page from a certain type of magazine left strategically at the gate.
About 5 years ago when my mum and a few friends had horses we were in a different field on the same yard and road and the same thing happened numerous times. We had to keep handing them into the police because of the children on the yard. Back then the pages were left neatly folded under the padlock when we'd go and turn the horses back out after a ride. Apparently it had happened before to someone else on the yard who walks the greyhounds up and down the road. The pages were left for her to find in the mornings during her routine.
We left the yard due to grazing issues and I returned on my own a year ago on my own after my mums horse died and friends left (but maya was on the main yard until this year).
I'm treating this incident as a one off and letting YO now as there are kiddies about. If it happens again I'll be collecting evidence :nerd: for the police.
I'm just a bit freaked out that someone HAS been watching me and knows that I use that gate now. In the summer I would park at the yard and take maya down to the yard to ride etc first using the back route through the fields.
How do you guys stay safe alone in the country side at night? :nerd: