When people are riding around on horses in real life or in movies, especially in complex crowded environments, every single time I find myself distracted and wonder, “what is the horse thinking?!”
Like imagine it from their perspective- people are riding them, there is all sorts of commotion everywhere, and they don’t really know what’s going on or what everybody is doing, but they’re pretty chill about it anyway.
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Smart way to be IRL since the horse is probably the most unpredictable variable there. In action movies I oscillate between being amazed at how well it's trained and worried that the horse is scared shitless.
Most seem quite aware of their strength and have distinct personalities. Some like being ridden, some not. Some like certain people, but not others. They’re very sensitive overall.
Not every horse is for the crowds. Nor is every rider. Horses can sense confidence in the rider and generally this correlates to confidence in receiving rider’s direction. Training for the job helps too. Desensitized to the chaos.
They’re such incredible animals!
Maybe they are intelligent enough to know what is going on and that humans, for the most part, are not a threat.
They’re pretty dumb, majestic, but dumb.
Imagine what this horse is thinking… 😂
Said the person who never had a horse.
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Some of them are probably like, “sure little buddy, Jump on!”
Some not so much.
They're only chill because they've been trained and acclimated to stimuli. Regular horses spook and freak out over literally everything.
They're kinda hardwired for a hair-trigger flight response. When I see them calmly existing amongst commotion it never fails to surprise me.
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Especially since they are prey animals…
Why would you assume this?
I can tell you from experience they aren’t always chill, and when they get spooked and you’re in the saddle it’s terrifying.
Years ago I read (in an offered mag while waiting to get some car repair done) an interview with a woman named Stacy Westfall where she described how she completely upended Horsemanship. Basically, and imperfectly remembered, she had a horse she bonded with, then had to let go of, then years later reunited with and the horse clearly remembered her.
After years of doing (whatever “show horsing” is called I can’t be bothered to look it up rn) she turned the whole pageantry on its head by demonstrating that you could master horsemanship without a saddle and without spurs….just by having a a communication with the horse between your thighs, knees, heels and hands.
I’m a jaggoff offering horsemanship lessons on Nostr…but that article has always stuck with me, because if its true it means she was communicating something important in the “domestication” of animals.
Are you saying we should all be more like horses?
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Interesting.
Though, I wonder do people that eat meat, and/or horse meat, ever have such wonders, and why not...
It’s unethical really. To make them
work for us.
Keyboard-shrooming is bad for you Lyn....
It's about trust.
