Best Friend 🫂

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• raman_klogius@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • gnutrino@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    People domesticate dogs before they domesticate horses.

    By like 20,000 years or so too, I dont think people realize how long we’ve been domesticating dog

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    When people first encounter horses on the steppes, their hunting dogs were alongside them.

    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.

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• psycotica0@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Man’s leggiest tool.

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  • BillyClark@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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!

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    • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • Grass@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There’s a difference between generalisations and single specific examples. You can’t really compare between the two even within the same context

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    • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Do you generalize everything this way, or is it just dogs that you’re moronic about

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• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’ve not had much experiences with donkeys beyond basically state fairs, but that does track with what I’ve heard about them…

      … tend to be a fair deal more intelligent than the average horse, and yeah I have heard that they’ll actually stand and fight, more often than a horse, who will often just freak out and then run in some random direction, potentially directly into a tree.

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    • mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yep donkeys are dope.

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• randy@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve heard it said that the horse is man’s best slave.

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• sik0fewl@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• rayyy@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • elucubra@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • rayyy@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      A good horse you have a bond with is freaking awesome, but dogs are just on another level.

      Well described. That said, I love the smell of a horse. Wet dogs, not so much, but dry dogs smell pretty okay.

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• Etterra@discuss.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Horses were also domesticated thousands of years after dogs. So dogs got there first.

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• FatVegan@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You wouldn’t miatreat a friend the way humans mistreat horses

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  • hanrahan@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    you wouldn’t treat a horse the way humans treat humans.

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  • Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Send a friend to the glje factory

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      its a great tour

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• Paddzr@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Horses are solely responsible for cars being invented because they would shit everywhere.

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• sexy_animal_fucker@kbin.melroy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I'd prefer horses to dogs if they didn't me whenever I went behind them

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  • gnutrino@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think they you so hard you a whole word there

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    • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sometimes I wonder if my reading is getting worse or if English’s grammar is changing on me

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  • red_tomato@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Username checks out

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    • testaccount789@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It better not…

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    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Catherine?

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  • diffaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hopefully you will make it next time! Best of luck 🌟

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Might wanna double check that username, before wishing luck…

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• tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And they were roommates

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• LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My bestie is my horse. My dogs are my babies.

  The bond with dogs and horses is very different and it’s hard to describe.

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  • RagingRobot@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Man, I shoulda been a cow boy

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      yippie yippie yie yippie yie yo yo

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    • LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yee haw pardner

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    • Etterra@discuss.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Cowboy: wrangles herd animals from horseback

      Cow boy: abomination in the eyes of man and Azathoth

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• Battle_Masker@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Look fair horse, if I could fit you in my tiny row home, I would

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• RockBottom@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Have they tried having their tongues hang out?

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• Una@europe.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Donkey

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• alzymologist@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Also edibles

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  • poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Applies to both really.

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• horse@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ungrateful humans…

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