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SupraMario@lemmy.world 1 day agoNope %100 makes sense. And horses are definitely the second dumbest creature on the planet. They will try and kill themselves daily. Our vet always said that if a horse wants to kill itself, it’ll find a way even in circular padded room. And we have a few that on a daily will try to do shit that makes you think how they’re still alive.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I never properly like lived on a farm or ranch, but I have had a few girlfriends and friends that essentially coaxed me into being an unpaid stablehand, lol.
I enjoyed the learning experiences, genuienly, and just being able to be around animals, as disgusting and stupid as they can be haha.
But yeah, more than once, the gf that foxhunted, she’d come back with a story about how one horse in the group did something immensely bone headed.
That particular puddle? Its evil, fuck you, I’m not going within eyeshot of it.
Oh you want me to slow down around this tree, ok, here, imma take a shortcut real slow, that clothes the rider on a different tree.
etc etc…
SupraMario@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Yep sounds about right. It’s a rewarding work but it does make you wonder how they lived before humans domesticated them.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
I feel like you could describe the psyche of horses with the sentiment in the phrase:
“But for the grace of God, go I.”
Just a bunch of beautiful dumb bastards who are uncommonly good at ‘run away really fast’.
SupraMario@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Yep, one my horses sister drown herself in 3 foot of water(shallow pond)…we couldn’t figure out how since we didn’t know her sister and was told the story by the previous owner. That was until we brought her to one of the deeper creeks on the farm…the second the water got to her chest, she would plung her entire face in and try to swim underwater. Come up and be half water logged get some air and do it again. Needless to say that’s how we figured out her sister probably was rolling around in the pond, and literally asphyxiated herself via breathing in water enough that she probably passed out and drown.
I love that horse, but she’s working with two braincells at best.