Would you take a small child through them? We all go through live stock with our dogs, its unfortunately a part of where we hunt but to take a child into a scenario like that is madness. Animals can sense things a lot more than we can, horses can sense changes in the atmosphere, storms coming etc, very unpredictable. Maybe these horses were stabled all winter, who knows, maybe one of them is hurt and the rest are protecting...... word of advice when you go into a field of live stock no matter how many times you have before, just ask yourself, what if............. after all, their is many a dea