Post by Annie on Dec 16, 2004 18:04:08 GMT -5
Horses sound like cats. They see you as a source of food and intertainment, so they alow you to pester them a bit for your trouble. Many of my friends own horses, and they get to run around in huge pastures with lots of other horses most of the time. They are very well taken care of and very much loved. I can see how race horses may be an issue, but not the horses that live around here. They seem to like people.
About that 'being broken' thing, doesn't it make sense that a horse may just not be used to having something on it's back? Instinctively they will buck the person off because they are not used to it and it is a bad place for an enemy to be because it is mostly in the horses blind spot. I'm sure that horses prefer not to have a sadle on their backs and a bit in their mouths. I suppose it depends on how the person treats their horse, how the horse feels about being riden, and how you look at the situation. It seems like an individual thing to me. Each individual case needs to be looked at, not the entire practice.
OK, we are way off topic. Mayhaps we create a thread about horses?
About that 'being broken' thing, doesn't it make sense that a horse may just not be used to having something on it's back? Instinctively they will buck the person off because they are not used to it and it is a bad place for an enemy to be because it is mostly in the horses blind spot. I'm sure that horses prefer not to have a sadle on their backs and a bit in their mouths. I suppose it depends on how the person treats their horse, how the horse feels about being riden, and how you look at the situation. It seems like an individual thing to me. Each individual case needs to be looked at, not the entire practice.
OK, we are way off topic. Mayhaps we create a thread about horses?