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In general, exercise in horses is the same thing as in humans - we can carry weights, even uncomfortably large weights, and as long as we're not doing that all the time our bodies will not suffer unduely. Some of us flat shouldn't do that, some of us absolutely live for that (hikers, runners, gym nerds, Belgians)…
Who hurt this person, besides the entire populace of Belgium, apparently?
"Belgian" the breed of draught horses, I suppose that was a bit unclear. They're the only genre of horse I nominally get along with - in temperament they are extremely large, on the whole they are quite calmly amiable and they just enjoy doing their job in a way that I always found very reassuring as a child.
Also made the very wise decision, as a group, to not mind the cold - which is good, because if the damn things decide they don't want to do something (like go outside for walkies) there is no power in heaven or earth that can convince them to do it. "Obstinate" does not even begin to describe them.
... the counterpoint to that is, if they do decide to do something (like, say, go into the next meadow because it looks softer or they heard a rumor there might be girls or they got the vaguest notion that you don't want them to go over there) you cannot prevent it. Growing up we had electric fences to keep the coyotes out of various places (wouldn't kill, but it would ruin several hours of your day if you leaned on one ask me how I know) and a Belgain will casually stroll through them legitimately without noticing.
Tethers? snapped. Fences? Get fucked, find me a post that can withstand two tons of casual and completely innocent leaning for more than a minute. Ditch? All Terrain Legs. Property lines? Extremely conveniently they are Too Stupid To Understand. This gets doubly frustrating when you are the one to have to go out and splice the fences back together because Daisy saw some hitherto unmolested patch of dirt that sung out to them to be defiled with horse poop and stomping.
Do you know all this about horses in a know thy enemy sort of way or did you come to hate horses after learning about them?
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Belgians live for excercise? That sounds more like a compliment to me.
Due to a scheduling issue, I had to take equine science in high school. I learned about how fragile horses are when it comes to colic. I wouldn't say that I hate horses, only that I'd hate to own one. They've gone from a necessity to a very large, expensive pet in the past 100 years.
A modern horse is a mechanism through which time and money is converted into poop and exasperation.
Sandy is cool though. We stan Sandy.
I love our lemmy animal mascots. Sandy and the owls especially :)
The owls? From whence and from whither? Oh, I simply must know! I must! Please sirorma'am, please! Where do I find these hooters of which you speak?
Superbowl on lemmy.world every morning :) 💜
I don't think I've missed a day in years!
Im sure I speak for many of us when I say thank you :) my feed is full of stress for most of the day, but every morning I get to see some cool birbs and I look forward to it :)
I am glad it makes so many people happy!
Like water before dry mouths; these owls do appease. May the heavens (or the hells or some other less poetically symbolic concept of your preference) rain blessings upon thee. Thank you, kind stranger. Thank you!
So poetic and such enthusiasm!
Enjoy the owls to thine heart's content!
Haha youre very welcome :)
And also I hate horses.
Me three
He doesn't know you well enough to tell you that.
Based take for the pure boldness of it's posture, but horses are also based and their opinion is wrong
The horse's opinion is wrong?