Horses were also domesticated thousands of years after dogs. So dogs got there first.
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Etterra@discuss.online 6 hours ago
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
Horses are very often dumb idiot assholes.
Much more so than dogs.
Yes, they’re very, incredibly useful.
Not really great ‘friend’ material though, more like you cajole them into helping you, and they maybe kind of trust you, sort of.
Wolves that we domesticated into dogs literally evolved into having eyebrow and other facial muscles that allow them to convey emotion much more analgously to how humans do.
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
I would trust a donkey to be my best friend before a horse. Donkeys are fucking rad and protect live stock really well. And will fuck up predators.
Paddzr@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Horses are solely responsible for cars being invented because they would shit everywhere.
psycotica0@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
Man’s leggiest tool.
BillyClark@piefed.social 12 hours ago
Yeah, it sounds like dogs are man’s best friend, and horses are that other one who thinks they’re good friends with man, but it turns out that man was just using horses like a tool and telling horses that a friend would carry all of man’s stuff and would fight for man, and man is always sending horses out to buy stuff without ever paying horses back. Man is actually a bullying horses!
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
Cities had big problems dealing with all the horse corpses. They were consumable tools before motorized transportation allowed them to be saved only for leisure and a few specialized tasks.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Dogs have been both domesticated, and domesticating us for over 150,000 years. Horses are one of the “Johnny come Lately” species that we domesticated in the last 12,000-15,000 years. Then there are cats, who never domesticated, they just tamed us.
Dogs are man’s best friend, not only because we MADE THEM, but because they made us better right back, and have been there for the longest of hauls.
Grass@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
made us better:
neighbour’s dog bites girl delivering newspaper and they just drag the dog in, lock the door, and don’t respond. police say they can’t do anything.
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
There’s a difference between generalisations and single specific examples. You can’t really compare between the two even within the same context
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
Do you generalize everything this way, or is it just dogs that you’re moronic about
randy@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
I’ve heard it said that the horse is man’s best slave.
FatVegan@leminal.space 12 hours ago
You wouldn’t miatreat a friend the way humans mistreat horses
hanrahan@slrpnk.net 11 hours ago
you wouldn’t treat a horse the way humans treat humans.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Send a friend to the glje factory
rayyy@piefed.social 15 hours ago
Well, I don’t let horses in the house or on the bed and dogs will literally die protecting you. Also, I like horses too - a lot.
elucubra@sopuli.xyz 9 hours ago
I’ve ridden horses for much of my life, and always shared my life with dogs.
A good horse you have a bond with is freaking awesome, but dogs are just on another level.
We don’t deserve dogs.
sik0fewl@piefed.ca 17 hours ago
Who did they take on their hunting trips and who did they take to die in battle?
And if you’ve read this far, take some time to think about where you would fall on the scale.
Battle_Masker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
Look fair horse, if I could fit you in my tiny row home, I would
tetris11@feddit.uk 12 hours ago
And they were roommates
RockBottom@feddit.org 11 hours ago
Have they tried having their tongues hang out?
sexy_animal_fucker@kbin.melroy.org 17 hours ago
I'd prefer horses to dogs if they didn't me whenever I went behind them
gnutrino@programming.dev 16 hours ago
I think they you so hard you a whole word there
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
Sometimes I wonder if my reading is getting worse or if English’s grammar is changing on me
red_tomato@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Username checks out
testaccount789@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
It better not…
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Catherine?
diffaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
Hopefully you will make it next time! Best of luck 🌟
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Might wanna double check that username, before wishing luck…
Una@europe.pub 12 hours ago
Donkey
alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 16 hours ago
Also edibles
poVoq@slrpnk.net 16 hours ago
Applies to both really.
horse@feddit.org 10 hours ago
Ungrateful humans…
raman_klogius@ani.social 17 hours ago
People domesticate dogs before they domesticate horses.
When people come to settle all corners of Earth – the remote Pacific islands, the tundra, across the Bering Strait and the entire Americas – they brought dogs with them, not horses.
When people of the steppes first encounter horses, their hunting dogs were alongside them.
gnutrino@programming.dev 16 hours ago
By like 20,000 years or so too, I dont think people realize how long we’ve been domesticating dog
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
More like 130,000 years. We have found dog burials alongside their humans that are 150,000 years old. Makes sense that the only species that has a hope of keeping up with us on long distance treks was the one we immediately domesticated.
Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
Depends on what you mean by people, homo erectus left africa and probably encountered and hunted horses long before we domesticated dogs. Same with neanderthals and other close relatives of humans. They definitely would’ve been by our side when we first started domesticating them though.