Houdini and Neighbors

I am blessed with three wonderful boys....all geldings....each touch my life and enrich it in different ways. Lately, I am beginning to think that Paddy's role in my life is to teach me not to assume anything - especially that he will be where he is suppose to be. Over the last few weeks, he has decided that the grass IS greener on the other side of the fence. He has discovered a hole in the fence that he can squeeze through (Streak and Nolan cannot). So, I was going to repair the fence and moved them to a friends 20 acres for a week until I could get the repair done. Well, I was out looking at the fence trying to determine what needed to be done to stop my little escape artist when my neighbor came over. He informed me how I needed to fix the fence, the ONLY brand of fencing to use along with the style of fencing and that I needed to make sure that the fencing was repaired properly since this is HIS fence. Needless to say this ticked me off somewhat (OK more than somewhat). I care about my horses more than this guy (he is always telling me that they are JUST animals). I'm not saying he is abusive to his horses, but to him they are no more than something to have fun on, not something to enrich his life. I went to Tractor Supply to pick up the new fencing and on my drive over, I just kept getting more aggrevated at what he said, so I picked up some t-posts, some electric tape and a charger and said if it is HIS fence, then HE needs to repair it. I put up the electric fence about 5 feet off of the fence line and was very proud of myself. That is until I got home from work the next afternoon. There was Paddy enjoying the grass in the neighbor's pasture (that by the way is only fenced on 3 sides). Seems he thought nothing of going through the electric fence. I added some more t-post so it is only 8 feet between posts and grounded the charger better. As of this morning, Paddy has not touched the fence again and is where he is suppose to be. Now don't think I am taking it for granted that he will stay there, I'm just saying that for right now he is.