Jack (the horse) is 28 years old and instead of putting him in a turnout pen during the day we just let him roam the property. He usually sticks around the barn, grazing or just standing around. But his favorite thing to do is lay down in various random spots that he feels are comfortable. Every morning after they drag the arena footing he goes and flops down in the soft dirt. Whenever we get a new shipment of shavings you better believe Jack is right there rolling in them once the truck leaves.
This was one of his ground-softness-testings. The aisle is all rubber so it’s not hard but I doubt it was very comfortable. Jack would beg to differ.
this makes the picture 100x better. what a happy old man.
This post has by far the highest amount of notes out of all my posts so I figured it would be something that I should post a follow up on. My trainer, Jack’s owner, posted this on Facebook today and I wanted to share it with you all.
it’s rly sweet ppl think I live anywhere near a target like,
i can walk into some of the shops in my town barefoot carrying my dog and nobody will tell me to leave.
target isn’t brave enough to build here.
The last bastion of hope.
yeah also it’s not illegal to ride a horse to a bar and get wrecked in lieu of a designated driver so like. we have a lot going on here.
Let’s be real though, the horse will always head back to its barn, so really this is a great idea. Get smashed, tie yourself to the horse, let the horse do whatever, and you’ll end up at home.
…..not that I’ve ever done that on a trail ride before.
Okay, so a trail horse is reliable here, because a horse that’s afraid of city noises will head for home and avoid anything “dangerous” because it’s afraid.
However, in my experience city-trained horses are much more obedient and are unafraid of roads and trust their rider a lot more fully.
So if your drunk ass says “yeah let’s steer into oncoming traffic”
the horse is gonna say “seems weird but okay man.”
Okay this is 100% a legitimate point.
The only horse you should trust as DD is a horse with a healthy fear of speeding traffic.
I would hope that that’s all horses
It is possible and common to train the good sense right out of a city horse.
Very very true.
A city horse would walk facefirst into an oncoming train if you asked it to.
This is why I prefer country horses with a degree of realization of its own mortality left to it.
What the hell kinda city has a horse
…I just love the fact that there is a distinction between country horse and city horse.
What is a city horse, what IS it
left ma and pop’s farm to make it big out there…..that horse’s gonna be a star
youd think horses were one of those animals that has horrible health due to humans breeding unhealthy animals to achieve a certain look but no they really are just naturally that fucked up
horses’ lungs bleed when they run at a certain speed
if their diet is too rich / low in selenium their hooves fall off
excuse me
The reason they have such poor health outcomes after breaking or otherwise injuring their legs is because their legs are actually hyper-specialized fingers; and as in human fingers, there is very little muscle supporting the bone, just a lot of cartilage and tendons and whatnot. You’d think an animal that literally evolved to run away to avoid being eaten would have ALSO evolved sturdier running appendages, but…
I fucking hate this post, it’s 1 AM I don’t want to know that horse legs are giant fucking fingers
what
the
FUCK
I love contributing to these kinds of posts.
I shall call this guy, Horsefingers.
The worst thing about this is its pretty well drawn so I can imagine it IRL and I hate it
I am strongly tempted to color him.
Just because you can doesn’t mean you should
Just because I shouldn’t doesn’t mean I can’t 😉
And I just noticed you said that it’s pretty well drawn so thanks 😂
I have an obligation to share a story. I lived in the country once, owned three horses. Well, we had hunters in our neighbourhood so the deer and the coyotes liked to hang out on our acreage because lots of room and we wouldn’t hunt them. One day, a deer came out and started grazing in our field. My family saw it and went ‘oh cool’ and went into our backyard to watch. What we didn’t expect was my quarter horse x pony cross going up to the deer. When she did, the deer took off running towards our fence and we thought ‘well so much for that that’s the end of it.’ But just before the fence, the deer swerves like a quarter horse in a barrel race and runs back to my horse. We thought ‘oh hey that’s cool the deer’s showing off’.
What we didn’t fucking expect was for my horse to start bounding around the field like a FUCKING. DEER. My horse was BOUNCING. They were playing, and showing each other they could do what the other could do. It was hilarious. Meanwhile, our other two horses were standing on the big hill a ways back, overlooking what was happening. The horses were eyeing mine like she was certifiably nuts.
I’ve seen that happen with horses and deer before, too! My neighbor’s horse Bill is like… friends with the local deer and they hang out and race each other regularly. It’s very strange.
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