Dee
Well-Known Member
We had a weird situation happen to us yesterday.
We are selling one of our mares. I have her posted on equine.com and etc, but I decided I should also put her in our local paper. We are a pretty big horses/livestock area so it is a good place to advertise.
So yesterday when I was at school I got a phone call from my mom at home saying that some people called about Annie and where driving through our area back from a trip and wanted to stop by. My mom doesn’t know a whole lot about the horses so she asked if they could wait until I got home, but they lived 3 hours away from us and were going to be driving by our area. I just told my mom that yes they can come out and see our mare, but NO MATTER WHAT they could not take her and that they could have to come back and get her. That way I can met with them and talk to them about what kind of a home she was going to. My mom was fine with that.
So later on in the day at lunch I checked my messages on my cell and I had one from home. It was my mom again and she told me that there was no way we were selling to these people. I wanted to know what had happened so I called her back.
My mom said that there were 2 men who came out and were looking at her. They asked if she would lead well so my mom took her out and walked her around. They talked to my mom and looked at her for about 20 minutes and then asked if they could take her to the truck to see if the one mans wife liked her. My mom was kind of shocked because why was this woman in the back of the truck all this time? She thought that maybe she had health problems or was maybe handicapped so that she why she couldn’t come out.
They took her out front opened that back door of the truck and sure enough there was this woman. She got out and they asked her if she liked our mare and what not. My mom said the women look angry. She didn’t smile and barley said about 5 words.
They took Annie back to the field and the 2 men started to whisper to each other back and forth and were acting strange.
That is when my mom started to feel uncomfortable and told them that she heard the phone ringing and she would be right back. She went in the house and called our neighbor and asked her to send her husband down because she was just getting a funny feeling about the whole situation. We live out in the country so it was a smart call my by mom if you ask me.
When she got back outside the 2 men and lady were checking out our other horses. My mom kept telling them, “Those horses aren’t for sale.†Still they were just asking what horses were registered and not. By this time my mom was getting worried and rather *#@$^% off. That is when our neighbor pulled up in the driveway and pretended to be “Just Dropping By To Say Hello†(Thank goodness for great neighbors). As soon as Ray (neighbor) got there they pretty much shut up and took off without saying much.
As soon as my mom told me the story the first thing that came to my head was “Were these people checking out our place?†I don’t want to sound rude, but should I worry? It just sounds weird to me. I have a lock on the gate and we have been leaving the overheard light on all night. It would be hard for them to cut and of the page wire because it is so heavily treed around our horses field. We also have a VERY LOUD goat that craved human attention! The minute he sees people he just starts yelling out until he get attention (Sunday yard work is very noisy around here). So he is are alarm. I slept with my window open last night because it backs on to the horses. I also checked up on them throughout the night.
OK am I being a worry wart????
We are selling one of our mares. I have her posted on equine.com and etc, but I decided I should also put her in our local paper. We are a pretty big horses/livestock area so it is a good place to advertise.
So yesterday when I was at school I got a phone call from my mom at home saying that some people called about Annie and where driving through our area back from a trip and wanted to stop by. My mom doesn’t know a whole lot about the horses so she asked if they could wait until I got home, but they lived 3 hours away from us and were going to be driving by our area. I just told my mom that yes they can come out and see our mare, but NO MATTER WHAT they could not take her and that they could have to come back and get her. That way I can met with them and talk to them about what kind of a home she was going to. My mom was fine with that.
So later on in the day at lunch I checked my messages on my cell and I had one from home. It was my mom again and she told me that there was no way we were selling to these people. I wanted to know what had happened so I called her back.
My mom said that there were 2 men who came out and were looking at her. They asked if she would lead well so my mom took her out and walked her around. They talked to my mom and looked at her for about 20 minutes and then asked if they could take her to the truck to see if the one mans wife liked her. My mom was kind of shocked because why was this woman in the back of the truck all this time? She thought that maybe she had health problems or was maybe handicapped so that she why she couldn’t come out.
They took her out front opened that back door of the truck and sure enough there was this woman. She got out and they asked her if she liked our mare and what not. My mom said the women look angry. She didn’t smile and barley said about 5 words.
They took Annie back to the field and the 2 men started to whisper to each other back and forth and were acting strange.
That is when my mom started to feel uncomfortable and told them that she heard the phone ringing and she would be right back. She went in the house and called our neighbor and asked her to send her husband down because she was just getting a funny feeling about the whole situation. We live out in the country so it was a smart call my by mom if you ask me.
When she got back outside the 2 men and lady were checking out our other horses. My mom kept telling them, “Those horses aren’t for sale.†Still they were just asking what horses were registered and not. By this time my mom was getting worried and rather *#@$^% off. That is when our neighbor pulled up in the driveway and pretended to be “Just Dropping By To Say Hello†(Thank goodness for great neighbors). As soon as Ray (neighbor) got there they pretty much shut up and took off without saying much.
As soon as my mom told me the story the first thing that came to my head was “Were these people checking out our place?†I don’t want to sound rude, but should I worry? It just sounds weird to me. I have a lock on the gate and we have been leaving the overheard light on all night. It would be hard for them to cut and of the page wire because it is so heavily treed around our horses field. We also have a VERY LOUD goat that craved human attention! The minute he sees people he just starts yelling out until he get attention (Sunday yard work is very noisy around here). So he is are alarm. I slept with my window open last night because it backs on to the horses. I also checked up on them throughout the night.
OK am I being a worry wart????