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People domesticate dogs before they domesticate horses.
When people come to settle all corners of Earth β the remote Pacific islands, the tundra, across the Bering Strait and the entire Americas β they brought dogs with them, not horses.
When people first encounter horses on the steppes, their hunting dogs were alongside them.
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 dogs
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.
Do you have a source for this as the only sources I can find (e.g.) suggest that's an order of magnitude out
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.
Man's leggiest tool.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yep donkeys are dope.
Who did they take on their hunting trips and who did they take to die in battle?
And if youβve read this far, take some time to think about where you would fall on the scale.
I've heard it said that the horse is man's best slave.
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.
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.
EDIT: As many have mentioned here, there are a lot of asshole horses, but some are really noble. You just have to treat them nicely, not as things.
We don't deserve dogs.
Horses were also domesticated thousands of years after dogs. So dogs got there first.
You wouldn't miatreat a friend the way humans mistreat horses
you wouldn't treat a horse the way humans treat humans.
Horses are solely responsible for cars being invented because they would shit everywhere.
And they were roommates
I'd prefer horses to dogs if they didn't me whenever I went behind them
I think they you so hard you accidentally a whole word there
Sometimes I wonder if my reading is getting worse or if Englishβs grammar is changing on me
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It better not...
Catherine?
Hopefully you will make it next time! Best of luck π
Might wanna double check that username, before wishing luck.....
There are people whose entire job it is, is to be a horse fluffer, to masturbate them prior to attempting to breed two of them, or to just get the stallions to splooge into essentially a gigantic fleshlight.
Donkey
Look fair horse, if I could fit you in my tiny row home, I would
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.
Man, I shoulda been a cow boy
yippie yippie yie yippie yie yo yo
Yee haw pardner
Cowboy: wrangles herd animals from horseback
Cow boy: abomination in the eyes of man and Azathoth
Have they tried having their tongues hang out?
Also edibles
Applies to both really.
Ungrateful humans...