• GreenShimada@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    It’s clear none of you all have dealt with horses IRL.

    If you shake a plastic bag at a car, it doesn’t spook and run over 4 kids and then crash into a wall. A car doesn’t randomly decide to eject you into the street. A car doesn’t stop to poop. I love horses, but c’mon.

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      A car doesn’t stop to poop

      Because a car doesn’t have a sphincter, so they just fart and dribble a little, all of the time.

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      A car doesn’t stop to poop.

      This gave me weird mental imagery.

      And it’s probably a fetish on the Internet somewhere.

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      2 days ago

      Horses get their drunk riders home all the time here, I have seen them about to pass out, practically sleeping on the horse.

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        Not saying there’s no benefits, I’m saying that it’s not all benefits. I’ve just seen horses do idiot things and almost kill themselves and spook and be the generally panicky prey animals that they are.

        Plus, how the hell am I supposed to tie a free couch I found on the side of the road to the top of a horse and get that home?

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            23 hours ago

            You can have them pull a little carriage if you spend about 3 months training them to deal with the sound behind them and harness.

            I have family that tried this because they “gOt a gUd dEaL!” on a wagon with car tires (part of their apocalypse prepping stuff) and ended up getting a mule because none of their 3 horses could stand the wagon.

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      I’ve never dealt with horses but i don’t know why people to expect horses to be like this when you realise that any animal is not going to act the same even within the same species

      Horses are animals