I just felt all those in the southeast need to be warned. A few of us in the Spartanburg and Greenville SC area received several calls from a cell phone asking questions about our miniature horses.
They wanted to come see ours and my husband told them they would have to come the next day. Well they showed up anyway.

Lucky for us our neighbor asked them what they were doing since they showed up in a white F250 and big white Ponderosa goose neck. They told her they were here to pick up 10 miniature horses. She called my husband and found out no they were not.

There were three of them, 2 Hispanic men and one woman, who wore those big sunglasses so you could not to see her face. My neighbor made them leave and tried to get their tag but the man backed out my 1100 foot drive so she could not see it.

We gave the police this info. Just wanted to share this so it would not happen to anyone else. Had it not been for our neighbor we would have lost our entire little herd.

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Internet resources and classified ad sites with horses for sale can be a  thief's index to where they find their next horse. On these sites the information is right before them and can have the vital information they need to find your horse through a farm directory, trainers, tack for sale, show schedules, registries from around the world, bookstores, forums, message boards and more. 

The internet is an online library resource for a thief for all horses as well as mini horses. In a few clicks of a button at thief can find miniature horse breeding facts, pick out a horse color and sex, find miniature horse farms and they may even know when you are going to be away from your farm attending a horse conference or horse show. In other words, the online horse classified ad sites and message boards are have it all.

Of course we are not going to quit listing our horses in classifieds nor are we going to stop putting our information on our websites. What we can do is to plan ahead for the worst, just like we do when we buy insurance, betting the worst will not happen.

Identify your horses and tack. Post signs on your property.