Have you asked any of the people why they thought those were your horses? I am curious as to what they would reply.
The number of people who park directly beneath my âNO PARKING: Please do not park next to the rampâ sign at work attest to this. They then come inside and mention the sign but donât move the car. 
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Nope. If I had to guess, I have a âtraditionalâ looking horse barn and set up, but during the day my horses arenât visible from the road because they are on the other side of the arena and a natural crown in the land.
I wouldnât tell them not to contact you, in case the horses were yours (laypeople are terrible at identifying equines). But I would do the note and say it hasnât been yours, but feel free to call in the future so you can check.
FWIW, yesterday two neighborhood people texted me about a loose horse they thought was mine near my place. It wasnât, but we caught it, stashed it in my barn and called the other local horse person pics of it to see if I should call animal control or if it was hers. It was. Of course, she is nice and not an animal abuser, but I still would want to actually lay eyes on the loose horse to make sure it wasnât mine! Even though I have excellent fencing. And I would want to get it out of the road to preserve its and human life. The ONLY reason I would still ask the neighbors to reach out is in case mine somehow got free, but that would be in my mind.
As for the dog sign, I bet the dogs were chasing horses or otherwise scary. SSS will happen when people donât listen to animal control/complaints. My beagle can follow her nose, and I have a GPS collar she listens to 99% of the time, but I know and accept the risk. Would be awful but she would hate life on a leash so there it is. I wish my neighbors WOULD ignore her. Last time she did it, I got a call and asked where she was. ASLEEP ON HER BED. If you bring the dog in your house and ply it with treats, then snuggle it, it might come back. 
. I adjusted her collar settings higher and kept her close a few days to break the cycle, and she has been good since.
I should also so that was the first time this lady met her, but she is instant friends with all humanity.
Last week it appears someone entered our lower field (not visible from my house) likely to pet the horses. The way we chain the gate is a dead giveaway if itâs been opened. Anyway we set up a game camera ans saw our neighbors out doing their lawn. I asked her if sheâd seen anyoneâŠno, she says, but the horses were out earlier this weekâŠ"
Me: what??? The horses were Out??
Her: Yeah, i didnât see them in the field.
Me: waitâŠyou didnât see them in the field and you assumed they were out?
Her: yes. They werenât in the field
Me: ahhhh, ok. See that back corner? Itâs in deep shade and draws a good breeze. Thatâs where they were.
Her: oh ok I just assumed they were outâŠ
Me driving away, thinking "you thought 3 horses and a donkey were loose on a public road and the owner lives 1000 feet away from your front door but MEH, WHATEVER. "
SMH.
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This is why I want about 40 acres, with buffers around me, and only use about 5-10 at the very center.
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That sounds great, doesnât it? I want that just to live in, let alone have animals on.
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We have 32.;but most is woods and water. Who knew that I was asking too much. If their twins were in the road Iâd trot up their drivewayz itâs just the Decent thing to do.
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My old neighbors once watched two of my horses get through the fence and took off down the road and didnât bother to tell us or call us. Come home from work and two horses are missing and neighbor said âyeah, I saw them run off down the road.â He actually thought it was funny and was laughing while he said it. Luckily a horse savvy person found them before they got hit by a car and put them in her front paddock knowing whoever they belonged to would be along sooner or later.
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Wow. Malicious or clueless or ?? Glad no one was hurt!
I canât wait for you to buy that place next door and raze it. It will be fulfilling a hoarders-esque fantasy for me, after watching all this drama.
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Ugh for real. Just hauling off half the junk and tearing down that poor barn and the âcarports,â kicking those horses out and putting it back in hay will alleviate so much of my distaste. Let the FD do training burns on the houses to finish the rest of it and be done.
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Just clueless and didnât care. I didnât notice at first but when my third horse wouldnât stop looking over the fence toward where the others went I realized they were gone and found the hole in the fence. Jerk neighbor.
Man, this sounds like a daily nuisance for you and a shame for neglected animals. Have you tried calling the community police line (not 911) and asking if they have any advice about how to handle the situation? Consistently loose horses are a fairly significant public safety risk along roads.
Another thing Iâd consider, if you have the ability, is find a rescue who may be willing to take the horses and then offer to take them off the owners hands. Maybe the owner would be happy to be rid of them and then your problem is solved. Iâve done this in the past with a local neglected dog.
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There is some irony here 
Yes, lets just say Iâm intimately familiar with how it works, and while they are indeed a public safety risk, the only recourse is to cite the owner for Animals at Large, which the judicial system is not terribly concerned about. Iâd have better luck finding out if the property owner has insurance (doubt it) and finding out the company and dropping an anonymous letter.
In short, no recourse. In fact, I asked the deputy responding if he was going to forward this to ACO because it was like the 3rd time, and he said no. I texted ACO today tho, on the off chance she might do something, but I also think that will be a no. I told her about the fence falling over/getting pushed over and me getting the note about the horses in the fence over the phone during a different conversation, and she said they will get out soon and he (owner) doesnât care.
Iâd rather offer to take them and PTS, but he wonât accept that. He was out two days ago, fence looks the same but looks like he fixed the leaking spigot and moved the water trough to a different spot for whatever reason. I need to stroll over and look. I see our warmer weather has brought out whatever skin issue the older horse has and the whole top of his tail is already bald.
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I have a friend that lives next to a cow pasture with loose cows being a frequent thing these days. Originally the road both properties are on was a small country road but now it is bumper to bumper with cars and trucks going 55mph. Apparently the owner just leases this property and runs his cows on it. The âfencingâ is a laugh. Large stretches of the fence are that orange plastic snow fence loosely draped over some t posts and step in posts. For cows! I donât get it - those Angus cows are pretty valuable to get hit by a car. Not to mention liability.
He doesnât care and will not get off his arse to go get the loose cows. I cannot believe he gets away with this.
My neighbors are about as bad but my road is not very busy. I have really sturdy fencing - not just to keep my horses in but also to keep their horses and cows out. We have not had any loose ones for a few years but I did get a knock on the door one time by another neighbor. I panicked, ran down to the barn. Not mine guys!
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I found a fellow boarderâs horse loose one morning when I went out to do chores. When I mentioned it to her she said she had watched her horse half crawl through the electric fence to reach the grass outside the paddock a few days earlier. I asked what the BO had said when she told them and she admitted she hadnât said anything!
Of course that was the one difficult to catch horse on the property. I was tempted to say Iâd just leave her horse to wander next time since she didnât seem to care about her horse staying in the paddock. 
You guys this is what this horse looks like today. I definitely do not want people thinking this is my horse 
Poor horsey
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The OP has communicated with animal control.
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