Man’s leggiest tool.
Best Friend 🫂
Submitted 2 months ago by diffaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com to memes@sopuli.xyz
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psycotica0@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
BillyClark@piefed.social 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
Do you generalize everything this way, or is it just dogs that you’re moronic about
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months 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 2 months 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.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months 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.
mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Yep donkeys are dope.
randy@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I’ve heard it said that the horse is man’s best slave.
sik0fewl@piefed.ca 2 months 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.
rayyy@piefed.social 2 months 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 2 months 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.
rayyy@piefed.social 2 months 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.
Etterra@discuss.online 2 months ago
Horses were also domesticated thousands of years after dogs. So dogs got there first.
FatVegan@leminal.space 2 months ago
You wouldn’t miatreat a friend the way humans mistreat horses
hanrahan@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
you wouldn’t treat a horse the way humans treat humans.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Send a friend to the glje factory
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
its a great tour
Paddzr@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Horses are solely responsible for cars being invented because they would shit everywhere.
sexy_animal_fucker@kbin.melroy.org 2 months ago
I'd prefer horses to dogs if they didn't me whenever I went behind them
gnutrino@programming.dev 2 months ago
I think they you so hard you a whole word there
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Sometimes I wonder if my reading is getting worse or if English’s grammar is changing on me
red_tomato@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Username checks out
testaccount789@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It better not…
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Catherine?
diffaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Hopefully you will make it next time! Best of luck 🌟
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Might wanna double check that username, before wishing luck…
tetris11@feddit.uk 2 months ago
And they were roommates
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Man, I shoulda been a cow boy
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
yippie yippie yie yippie yie yo yo
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yee haw pardner
Etterra@discuss.online 2 months ago
Cowboy: wrangles herd animals from horseback
Cow boy: abomination in the eyes of man and Azathoth
Battle_Masker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Look fair horse, if I could fit you in my tiny row home, I would
RockBottom@feddit.org 2 months ago
Have they tried having their tongues hang out?
Una@europe.pub 2 months ago
Donkey
alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Also edibles
poVoq@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Applies to both really.
horse@feddit.org 2 months ago
Ungrateful humans…
raman_klogius@ani.social 2 months 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 2 months ago
By like 20,000 years or so too, I dont think people realize how long we’ve been domesticating dog
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months 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.