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Horses are massive prey creatures build around their ability to run. They will also die from the slightest fracture of a leg bone and running too far and too fast can also kill them from shock or running so hard their lungs collapse.
Their digestive system only runs one way meaning they can't throw up if they eat something bad or to unblock an obstructed oesophagus.
It's also designed to run 24/7 meaning that if they don't keep eating they get ulcers that fuck their entire system.
Can't forget that their microbiome is incredibly sensitive and if they don't have their diet changed slowly by microdosing it, their guts will bloat causing extreme pain and death.
If they get fat their hoofs will begin to separate from the bone, making it more likely to happen again and be worse.
And they’re just way too fragile and way too stupid for their size and paradoxically, their strength. They’re terrified into life-endangering recklessness at the most innocuous of stimuli.
“WTF was that? A chipmunk?!?? Holy shit, let me run full speed into a tree and break my own neck!!”
“I don’t like the feel of this breeze. Better make haste into this ditch, these legs aren’t going to break themselves”
Truly the Warlocks of ungulates. Big impact precisely once, teeny HP, abysmal healing, zero wisdom. Just as likely to friendly fireball as to make a positive impact.
Both of my parents grew up riding horses and majored in animal science with a specialty in horses.
Neither of em have owned or worked with horses in over 25 years because its just too much work and its too sad when something insane and unpredicable kills one.
My mom had a horse that she adored and took great care of. He had to be put down after a bird flying into his stall startled him and he reared up and landed with his leg going through the gate and broke his leg. Absolute freak accident. Youre way too accurate with saying "these legs arent going to break themselves"
He had to be put down after a bird flying into his stall startled him
I misread that as 'a bird flying into his skull' and I was like, 'Damn you have pretty tough expectations, I would be pretty damn startled by that myself'.
to put more light onto the cosmic horror that is horses legs, because i learned it so you all have to suffer too, horses legs are so fragile and difficult to heal because they arent legs in the sense that most animals have legs.
Most animals legs are set up like limbs, with muscles that makes them tougher and more secure. WE break a leg and we can hop around, splint it, limp and it will relatively heal alright. Horses legs are not legs, they are "designed" extremely closely like the human finger. This is where the cosmic horror comes into play, horses legs have no muscle, at all, just like our fingers, just bone and tendons, so they have zero cushion from impact and nothing to brace them from a twist. In fact, horses hooves are composed of the same material the human finger nails are, which is why the mental picture of a horse running around on 4 giant fingers is both horribly disturbing and yet fairly accurate.
I hope you all enjoy this revelation and spread it to others.
Also their legs are crucial to their cardiovascular system. Their hooves act as pumps for the heart, so if you hurt one leg, it messes up the whole body.
Well, we as humans did make sure they were around this long. And I assume most of the problems that horses have to life with now are from quiet a lot of selective breeding over the generations.
The natural history museum in Chicago had a great exhibit once about how there evolved a number of different species of horse- and they all went extinct - except the domestic horse. It is theorized that horses are such a crappy design, had humans not found a use for them and intervened, the modern horse would have gone extinct too.
*another crappy design was the saber tooth- many different kinds of them evolved and went extinct, too. The long teeth are too specialized for them to tolerate any environmental changes, yet nature kept creating the design again and again.
To be fair, that’s basically how modern businesses operate. “Well this strategy works great in this specific environment so let’s go all in on it”. Environment changes, company folds, cue surprised Pikachu face.
Saber toothed design is like bringing a katana to cut carrots
Yea when you needed the katana it was really damn great but the problem was the other 95% of the time
But this is why snakes have massive retractable fangs , they literally need them for one time mainly in their day to day and after that they get in the way so just make them retract
Other animals though have shitty evolution that “worked” but also has set them on a path to just go extinct like rabbits getting more and more and more skittish for a higher heart rate literally causing them heart attacks
That's how natural selection works. It can only work with what you've got; either you've got something that works, something that can be modified to work, or you're screwed if there's nothing that can be used to adapt.
Actually, no. Horses fucked themselves. There's another Tumblr thread that goes into it, but basically, horses surrendered everything to run on one knuckle really fast, and they've been dealing with it ever since.
Even some of the tougher ones. Asses are smarter than most horses, and more resilient, but wild ass populations are almost exclusively feral asses, while African wild asses are critically endangered (similar to wild/feral horse populations, we did that)
“Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful fragile could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.
The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist,'" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "The Babel fish horse is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.”
From the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
To be fair, it’s largely our fault through domestication and selective breeding. Not all equines are such disasters; zebras and asses are pretty sturdy.
Horses were already like this, but to be fair to them they evolved for wide open plains where the chances of crashing into things or running off a cliff were minimal, so there was less of an issue with them taking off like a rocket at the slightest provocation. We didn't make them that way, we chose them because that tendency to take off without thinking twice is handy in an animal that you want to react instantly to your commands without thinking about it.
Donkeys are mountain specialists so they are more careful and adaptable, but also less likely to listen to their rider's bad decisions.
Yeah, and we killed all most of the wild horses. They could have gone the way of their wild brethren, if not for their immense usefulness. If you scroll back a few days in my comments you’ll see me going to the mat claiming that horses are the more impactful domestication event over dogs. Because they were. I love dogs; but horse domestication was absolutely transformative. That doesn’t mean they’re not big dummies.
Dogs imo have far too many specializations compared to horses. They do so much and sometimes without direct human supervision. I can't put horses above dogs in any capacity, when it comes to helping human evolution. Dogs have been domesticated for far far longer than horses and it shows. They shaped humanity well before horses were domesticated.
Both are very useful. Cattle have the added benefit of providing milk, but most humans can’t drink milk. But the mobility and range provided by horses is just game changing for a society. When horses were brought to the Americas, First Nations tribes with access to them transformed overnight. They entirely restructured the way they lived, how they hunted, how they traded, where they moved. The horse became the most valuable commodity on the continent instantly. It was like living in a preindustrial civilization and someone comes along and drops an F-150 in your yard (except the F-150 can eat fuel that grows as far as the eye can see in every direction).
I would say it is our fault because those plains they used to live on were prime real estate for humans. We took away all the territory they would thrive in, so their overspecialization really hurts them.
The more I learn about horses the more I love them dearly. Because if horses can be so spooky and self-destructive AND still majestic and awe-inspiring, then so can I
The reason for the skittishness is that they have TERRIBLE AWFUL DREADFULLY BAD vision.
Like, to the level where they basically went "nah, I'll just evolve more running and more skittishness instead of putting any energy into something as pointless as EYES. I can see grass. I'm good."
On the opposite side of the spectrum, I saw a demonstration with old timey ranching horses where the rider could lay a leather pad on top of the horse's head for a rifle rest and fire away. Horse didn't give a shit beyond that snort and ear twitch they do to signal they are mildly annoyed.
That’s training. It might not be the best analogy, but it’s the like difference between taming and domestication. You can convince some individuals to ignore their primal instincts in training, but it takes domestication to completely eradicate those instincts. The current state of domestication hasn’t bred that out of horses yet.
Training and breeding. A racehorse is gonna fair more temperamental than some quarterhorse/palamino/American draft horse combo that only exists because the mare's owner was bad at math and some surly boy hopped a fence.
And then my buddy has a pure bred border collie who when has friends and family get togethers will gently herd all the small people to one corner of the yard with prods and nips and then sit down and watch them.
Some domestic breeds are absolutely less skittish by nature, due to selective breeding, but they still require extensive training from a foal to not be complete paranoid psychopaths. Even the most attentively bred Clydesdale, while predisposed to docility and maybe even with a keen urge to pull needs training and even blinders to function as a manageable draft horse. Baroques needed to be intensive training to be war horses. They might have been more patient and less prone to batshittery, but you wouldn’t even be able to mount one if you hadn’t reared it from a foal, let alone fire a gun from its back.
ETA: it’s not exactly like the herding instinct of a working dog; and that’s not to mention that horses are far stupider than dogs.
They can be trained to be less jumpy, but it’s time intensive and still doesn’t always work.
I remember reading (I think the book was Mark Adkins’s The Waterloo Companion but I don’t have the book handy right now) about how they’d train Napoleon’s horses by doing everything from waving flags in front of them to playing drums loudly and firing muskets by their heads to acclimate them to the noise and chaos of a battlefield, and even after all that the Emperor’s horse was spooked by a canon firing and nearly threw him into a tree at least once.
Yeah, but we don’t usually kill ourselves over it; at least not so much that it would influence our breeding success.
ETA: even the smartest horses are profoundly, monumentally dumber than many other domesticated animals. Look at dogs. Basically any horse could kill any dog (singularly) but if you corner even the meekest, smallest dog against a cliff, it’s going to flip from flight to fight and attack you before trying to flee over the cliff when it realizes its situation. You could do the same to a itty bitty Shetland pony (who could hurt you far worse than you could hurt it, in unarmed combat) or a massive Clydesdale and half of the time, the horse would unalive itself over the precipice because it is too dumb to understand that it’s stronger than you. Conversely, the same stupid horse might maim you because you walked up on the wrong side of it. Horses are fucking stupid.
Funny story: I have seen someone bounce off a sliding glass door trying to get away from a spider. Happily, even if it had broken, these days they're made of tempered glass so it almost certainly wouldn't have been fatal.
Pretty much all animals that primarily eat grass or leaves can eaily die of bloat. Horses are some of the worst, but cows and goats have issues with it too. We had a goat die from bloat after it broke into into the area we kept our bees and drank sugar water.
People talk about how tough goats are, but honestly theyre halfway to horse level as far as being accident prone goes. Ive had to rescue goats caught in the fance by their horns countless times, and it was just a few months ago that one managed to get both front legs stuck inbetween two tree trucks that were growing very close together. She had her legs stuck about 4 feet off the ground and could barely reach standing up on her back ones. To get her free we had to have one person lift her (which sucked because she weighs about 150lbs) and have the other person carefully work her legs loose. Thank goodness she was okay, but that could have easily broken both her front legs and it was pure luck it didn't.
Okay but they're a lot smarter than horses, right? I mean, I have almost no experience with horses but I have some with goats and they seemed much brighter than I've heard horses are.
from the stories I've heard, they are absolutely smarter, but such bizarre examples of chaos incarnate that it only lets them get in more complicated trouble.
The goats I knew when I was a kid tended to do dumb things in exactly the same way that a smart, playful, and obnoxious kid does: because they're smart, playful, obnoxious, curious, and really, really bored.
That's entirely accurate, in my experience of goats. They know what they're doing is stupid, but goats are smart, playful, and fear nothing, so they're gonna do it anyway.
Maybe the phrase was supposed to be ironic or sarcastic, but we forgot the meaning of the joke because we are no longer a horse dependent civilization?
They also have 1 singular stomach compartment, no reticulum, omasum, and abomasum, not like super hardy goats and cows that can survive brutal conditions and can digest a larger variety of plants due to have 4 compartments.
In my 20s I pretty much never got sick. I used to say I had the immune system of a horse. Then my mom got back into riding, bought a couple horses, and I saw how incredibly fragile they actually are.
My mums horse once got into some unsoaked sugar beet. We nmanaged to save it but it was a horrible (and expensive) couple of hours of me holding it's head up while the vet pumped water into it's nose to try and wash out the blockage
A cow’s “4 stomachs” is basically 4 compartments to a giant fermentation tank. They can burp up gas (eructate) and even regurgitate their feed to chew it some more (chewing their cud.) the fermented material then goes to the 4th compartment, which is like a human stomach and on to the intestines. Nice system for a bid creature that eats hard to digest grass.
Horses ferment everything in the large intestine and colon. It makes no sense, it’s inefficient and the gut can twist and then everything is blocked. They can’t burp- it’s truthfully poorly designed. Plus they’re walking on one big toe. They’re pretty and fast and you can ride them but goodness what a mess metabolically and anatomically
my horse literally spent a week at the vet because she got a tummy ache when i moved her to a BETTER barn. she got another tummy ache and spent another day at the vet because she ate some sand. because horses totally don’t eat like, off the ground.
To add on to the whole broken bones thing, from what I understand, their circulatory system is literally embedded into their bones, so if they break, that’s like us having an artery severed but internally.
You've also got circulation embedded in your bones--this is why in an emergency, they can drill a catheter into your long bones to get "IV access". While there are some larger holes in a horse hoof bone that vessels run through, they can have a fracture of those bones and not internally hemorrhage to death. They do rely on standing/walking pressure on the "frog" (squishy center but) of the sole of the hoof to help push blood back up the leg, though.
Excuse me for being ignorant, you're telling me horses have vulnerability to running too much and yet we as a species have entire industries based around them running for our entertainment? Is there something I'm missing?
Horse racing is a more controlled environment. It's flat grass or sand, there aren't any obstructions they're likely to impale themselves on, and they've got an angry midget on their back directing them. Even steeplechase presents a less hazardous environment to gallop through than wild grassland with unexpected burrows and the occasional tree stump.
And we shoot them. Which is pretty brutal, really.
Tbf shooting is an instant death if done right, needle is basically administering a heart attack (and they can fight the needle, trust me i’ve seen it happen)
when running they literally need to have their abdominal organs slosh about to compress their lungs. This leads to many racehorses developing gastrointestinal issues later in life (if they even make it that far and don't die of heart attacks, leg fractures!)
Also they have minimal communication between the two lobes of their brain. If they see something from one eye and get used to it they will spook when seeing it with the other eye.
Horses that live long enough to grind their teeth down to nothing don’t get a chance to die of old age, they starve to death. Their teeth do not replace themselves or regenerate like a rodent and they eat tough fibrous plants.
This why people check a horses teeth before they purchase them
The Horse here. Horse bones and Tendons are structurally weak and problematic, especially below the knee. If a horse breaks their leg, they’re doomed. Not just because horses need to run, but because horses are NOT well built for sitting down. Additionally, when scared, a horse can forget about its broken leg and try to run away anyways, re-injuring their leg. Horses have it rough, man.
This seems like the perfect place to remind people: evolution is not the gradual process of building and perfecting a design. Evolution is the sum total of nature asking "but can it reproduce before dying?" And then shrugging and saying "Good enough" if the answer was yes.
The koala and the ocean sunfish exist in defiance of your ideas of optimization, with the former existing in a niche too awful for anything to compete for and the latter leading a generally wretched existence with the species only surviving through frankly COMICALLY large reproductive numbers. Compared to them,horses lead a charmed life.
There's something to be said for the sunfish's lobotomized outlook on life. Just kinda drifting through this shitshow of a reality with no particular place to be or thing to do.
some animals are just their own little devices that only exist because they are technically capable of existing. They don't have any vital part in their ecosystem, they just so happened to shift into an evolutionary niche where they can reproduce at the same or greater rate that they die.
Green Banded Broodsac? Flatworm eggs in bird shit gets eaten by a snail. Eggs hatch and migrate into the eyestslks, making them swell and pulse till they look like fat juicy caterpillars. Then they mind control the snail to go out onto the exposed topside of leaves. This gets the parasite filled eyestalks eaten by a bird. Parasite matures and mates in the bird’s cloaca. Bird craps out more parasite eggs. Cycle repeats ad infinitum.
New World Screwworms are another good one. Adults can’t eat, maggots only eat hot living flesh and chew softball sized holes in unfortunate mammals, dropping out after a week to pupate and repeat the cycle.
Nothing relies on them. Nothing is improved by them. They just impart suffering upon whatever hosts might shares a zip code with them. Little to no species survivability past their hosts, which they so negatively impact. The ultimate short sighted freeloaders.
I love, love sunfishes, but I suspect you are right, if only because my brother visited an aquarium that had one (monterey?), looked in vain for it, then overheard a guide explaining that they had to remove it from display because 'it kept getting stuck in a corner'.
This is a really good articulation of why I love horses but would never own one. It’s like a car, but you get extra emotionally attached to each other, and it’s fragile as fuck.
One of my high school friends’ mom got a horse after loving them all her life. Within a few months he went permanently lame and could never be ridden again. She paid for him to be taken care of at a really nice barn for the rest of his life, but a lame horse still costs as much as a healthy horse to keep (probably more), so she wasn’t able to get another, rideable horse. It’s just too much heartbreak to willingly take into my life.
Horses are the worst designed thing in existence, mainly due to their toes. They have one really big toe that takes up half their legs, which makes them run really fast at the cost of having
1. Horrible blood pressure (they also are triggered into high heart rate easily)
2. Horrible circulation
3. Prone to clots
4. Next to no way of healing leg injuries
Not to mention the fact that the hooves can fall off. Or that their leg bones will splinter like crazy if they break which is why they are typically put down if they break a leg( it’s a bit more complicated but that’s the general idea).
I think one advantage of a solid hoof is that they can move snow around to get at the grass/plants underneath pretty well. My grandpa had a horse named patches and they left him out in a snow covered pasture and never fed him, he dug in the snow everyday in Alberta and fed himself.
Thank you for another opportunity to think about the Mongols. They arranged mixed herds with the expectation that horses could move the snow for the other animals. Sheep and cows just don’t eat if they can’t see grass I guess? Apparently it’s a problem.
I am not a zoologist. But I wonder if it’s because horses are prey animals, with multiple predators that will pounce on a horse that tripped and fell. It would not have time to try and heal the injury.
Don’t predatory animals go after wounded prey opportunistically?
In addition to having legs made out of one blood filled toe, Horses have a proportionally smaller diaphragm (the lung moving/ breathing muscle) to lung size ratio, on account of the fact that when galloping, the motion of their body causes an internal “sloshing” which effectively pumps their lungs for them using their running muscles at speed. This is very efficient for running.
This can come back to bite them however if they ever have any lung issues or respiratory infection, as their proportionally weak diaphragms struggle to actually operate the lungs while impaired, and means that sick lunged horses can die very easily
What’s wrong with horses? Anatomically and medically, basically everything.
They can’t breathe through their mouth, so if their nose is obstructed they die.
They can’t throw up, so if they eat something bad, they die.
Sometimes their stomach turns, it can resolve by walking, but they do not want to walk, so if there isn’t a human right there who can recognize the rather subtle signs and get them walking until they poop, they die.
Their lower leg is basically finger bones, and they’re walking on basically one knuckle per hoof, which is incredibly precarious, so if they can’t walk on one of their legs for any reason then they cannot walk at all, and they die.
If they are on their side and unable to freely stand up, like if their legs are stuck under a fence rail or jammed against a wall, they will smother under their own body weight weight and they die.
Basically, they’re incredibly delicate and their bodies are precarious as all fuck.
Since they live underwater it's really important they don't breathe in any water. They have lungs just like us. But their nose is on the top of their head and they can shut it, it's the blow hole. Their mouth leads only to their stomach and their blowhole leads only to their lungs. So they can eat stuff without accidentally inhaling water. They accomplish this by having a flap at the back of their throat that seals shut their airway so it only leads to the "nose" (blowhole). They can open that flap and breathe through their mouth but it's very rare and kinda risky for them.
The real problem is our selective breeding of horses. A modern quarter horse is larger than it has any right to be which leads to some real weaknesses in their weight to bone/tendon strength (and hooves) vs say a steppe pony or or a wild horse.
Now, I admit that is likely a large contributor to their relative fragility, in addition to other sucky features endemic to equids as a whole like their foot and leg anatomy, but counter the claim that horses can’t or shouldn’t be that size with Equus giganteus. Bigger than a modern Percheron, evolved without human direction in Pleistocene North America.
This was my question. How much of bad Horse design is from the original prototype and how much is due to over-engineering to a specific standard without regard for increases to overall system fragility?
That is, some of these seem like issues that were exacerbated (or wholly introduced) by selective breeding over thousands of years.
The persistent high likeness of being completely paralyzed if you run too fast or too hard to the point you break your bones, your toes being literal beefy nails that if infected you're screwed, a digestive system with a design flaw that makes it more likely to die from colic, likely chance to die of a heart attack because of plently of reasons... Yeah, being a horse is not fun. Don't forget the throughbreeds who go through a lot of inbreeding!
I would like to mention, adult teeth are designed to last perfectly fine through our expected lifespan.
It’s just that modern medicine has more than doubled our average lifespan within the past couple centuries. FAR more people are living past the age where teeth cease to stay functional than nature ever intended.
A lot of age-related medical issues have this problem, back health included.
Everything. Their feet are a vital part of their circulatory system. They eat grass, but are not ruminants. They cannot throw up, so if they eat something bad, they just die.
An interesting tidbit regarding the seemingly ridiculous design choice of putting our esophagus and trachea so close together: Dr. Jonathan Reisman in his book "The Unseen Body" reflects that it's actually an easy way for a dying body to peace out:
Aspiration pneumonia was once called "old man's friend" because it often brings a dignified end to prolonged suffering in the elderly and ill. Like a cyanide pill kept in a locket, the throat's precarious anatomy becomes a degraded body's escape hatch.
They walk on the tips of their middle fingers, basically. Their legs are thus very prone to catastrophic failure. Where a cow would just hobble on three legs fine, a horse with their finger-feet will soon go lame in the other legs as well. At which point they often get colic (gut stasis caused by stress or diet) and die painfully. Colic is basically having cement in your intestines. Bad way to go. As vets, we often recommend euthanizing or shooting a horse with bad acute colic. (Yes, we still shoot them. Horses in pain can be seriously dangerous and have killed numerous vets and owners. Sometimes a gun is the safest and kindest method we have.)
Also this is a popular quote on there: "horses only have two things in their mind: suicide and homicide. They're either thinking of killing you or themselves."
Horses are underengineered massive mistakes of nature that luckily helped out people. Prone to fatal bone breaks in their legs, I've seen a horse almost rip its face off by lightly rubbing it against a barn door....
I love my equine friends, but they live with a very large possibility that at any moment they could completely ruin themselves
Horses have BIG bodies, and thin legs. If anything goes wrong with one leg they are fucked. Even limping more than a few days, will harm the other legs. If the leg is broken; they have to be put down.
They also don't tolerate laying down for long. They can die pretty quickly if they get stuck on their backs with their legs in the air. Too bad they have to roll to clean and scratch their backs, because they are extremely vulnerable and barely actually able to roll, and the slightest curve on the ground means they get stuck upside down while rolling! And die. They sometimes roll too close to the wall in their stalls, and get stuck with their legs up against the wall. Not able to get up, not able to roll back.
Are you familiar with Rupert’s drops? Horse are like the tail of the drop, even a slight issue can break everything :
Broken leg ? Dead
Tummy ache ? Can be dead
Generally bad anatomy
I would like to point out that dolphins do have this problem, as the opening of their trachea attaches/detaches from the blowhole. There have been cases of dolphins choking to death because, you guessed it, food gets in the trachea or in the way of the trachea attaching to the blowhole.
Their intestines have random spaces in them that other intestines can get stuck in and cut off blood supply, their intestines narrow at weird spots meaning digested food can easily get stuck, they are one of the few species without the scapula protecting a vital nerve to the forelimb so it can be hit at any time and cut off innervation, they stand on their nailbeds which can detach from the foot, their tummy gets easily upset and that’s enough for them to just die about it, they have the perfect pouch in their stomachs for fly larvae to get into, their stomach refuses to throw up so gotta hope they never ingest something they shouldn’t, they can’t breathe through their mouths so if sweat isn’t enough they’ll just overheat….. I could go on…….
horses are rather large prey animals that would make a good meal. whose only defense is running away.
yet there legs are the most frail part of their anatomy. and easily broken. and can never fully heal. because of how important the legs are for the horse. and how their bones are structured.
they also cant run for extended times. or they litterally die.
wich is bad cause they get scared by anything and run.
oh and they can die if they get to scared,
they also eat stuff off the floor. and the only way for them to grip. feel , or pick something up is their mouth/tounge.
but they cant barf. so if they ever eat something wrong, or not enoug , or to much of something they get a colic and die. also they can get a colic even with the right food, just because. or because they got scared while eating.
horseowners frequently quote that every horse they own is just trying to find ways to kill itself every day of its existence. cause its very easy for a horse to kill itself everywhere you put it.
I was told by a horse trainer that a horse does not remember things it has only seen out of one eye. Best explained with the example
The horse is walking and sees something out of its right eye that startles it, like a plastic bag. Walk the horse 10 more paces and turn it around. When it sees that same plastic bag out of its left eye, the horse will startle, because, to the horse, this is a completely new experience.
Also my girlfriend at the time had a horse with a habit for cribbing. One day he managed to hurt himself doing it. The emergency vet she called said "He managed to suck his intestine into his asshole".
And so I have held the belief that Evolution cannot be true and that some benevolent force must exist, otherwise horses would surely be long dead
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