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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Cuddly horse? Mayhap? Is horse asking for cuddle time? Can I pet the dog?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Approach Sugar with a brush and some sugar cubes and yes, yes you can

[–] [email protected] 37 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Sugar has it all figured out!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 12 hours ago

She's a genius!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

Just lay down to sleep with em

[–] [email protected] 121 points 16 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

the lion does not comcern himself with employment

[–] [email protected] 2 points 54 minutes ago
[–] [email protected] 30 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

That's a nice lion. Let her sleep.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago

Thats all I'm really asking for.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

They should change her name to Diabeetus

[–] [email protected] 28 points 14 hours ago

Good horse.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I think horse sleep standing up?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Only sometimes; they still need to lie down for REM sleep.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

10 REM

20 sleep

30 GOTO 10

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 hours ago

That was a basic joke.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah this is probably unhealthy.

Also humans care for horses. Same with any animal that has been domesticated over the last 10,000 years. It sucks, but without us they might have a difficult time.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Its perfectly healthy.

Aside from a deeper sleep, horses will lay down for a lot of reasons. The important part to note is horses are prey animals, so they have evolved to do a lot while upright. Laying down is actually a big sign of feeling safe, and something they may do in fields with other horses they get along with, in a stall if the bedding feels good to them and there is enough room, etc.

The problems are when they are unwilling or unable to get up, that can be a sign of anything from an injury to sickness or a neurological issue.

My wife is the knowledgeable one, this is just s bit of what ive picked up.l

Edit: wife says if the description is accurate, just a silly horse being silly, and since Sugar looks well cared for..... yeah just a silly horse doing silly horse things.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Just to point out, but we have a word for "silly horse doing silly things", it's "horse".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

All too true....

Just really big dogs who like to play

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

and from what I hear will keel over and die any chance they get. I'm no expert though. but not being able to throw unwanted ingested items seems like a pretty big design flaw

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

In a wild area untouched by humans, there is not much "unwanted" you could get from grazing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

They are... oddly sensitive in some ways, and incredibly resilient in others.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

kinda wish I had a horse. I hear they're expensive to maintain though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Can confirm.

Expensive every month, expensive to treat, expensive to shoe, expensive to house/feed/etc.

We are actually looking at property to do some farming, and a chunk of it will be for retired horses.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

love the enthusiasm! wish I could afford a farm.. and if I did have one I wouldn't bet on it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Well my wife is the one who knows her way around a farm, she'll be running it, and I'll be doing random manual labor as required.

Its been ridiculous finding the right property though... What used to be $300-400k only 3 years ago is now selling for over a million. Its nuts. So most likely going empty land and building cheap to start....

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Horses do really well without humans.

BLM estimates there are around 33338 wild horses in Nevada alone.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

There is also the Chincoteague pony herd, which is a wild herd on the Assateague island off the coast of MD & VA. The herd has been established for almost 300 years since they swam off the wrecked Spanish galleon La Galga in 1750.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

that's a pretty accurate number for an estimate

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

that's the one! could be accurate too

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

TIL: the Jim Rose circus is still around. 👍

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

Lesbian horse girls+gambling, what could go wrong?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago

But first to the sausage factory!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 16 hours ago

Stable owners hate this one simple trick.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago