Why it’s important to close gates behind you

It’s important to always close gates behind you (unless the cowboss says not to). Otherwise animals could get overlooked and left unnoticed, could get onto roads and get hit, or could get into a neighbor’s pasture, forest service / BLM allotments, etc.

Even if your planning on coming right back through. You never know when a 10 min thing turns into hours. It’s just good etiquette.

Sadly bull didn’t end up making it, but I don’t work at that particular outfit anymore.