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[–] [email protected] 150 points 2 days ago (2 children)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

the lion does not comcern himself with employment

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

Herself*

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's a nice lion. Let her sleep.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Can I pet that kitty?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Once.

[–] outhouseperilous 14 points 2 days ago

Thats all I'm really asking for.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sugar has it all figured out!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago

She's a genius!

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago

Good horse.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

YAAAYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I think horse sleep standing up?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago (1 children)

10 REM

20 sleep

30 GOTO 10

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago

That was a basic joke.

[+] [email protected] -20 points 2 days 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.

[–] curbstickle 40 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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] 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] curbstickle 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

All too true....

Just really big dogs who like to play

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days 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

[–] curbstickle 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

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

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

[–] curbstickle 3 points 2 days 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 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] curbstickle 2 points 2 days 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] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There is lots and lots of "unwanted" food that will kill a horse in most natural habitats through the world.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Which they'll instinctively not eat

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

I really don't know where you are going with this. They don't go out eating plastics and whatever either. They get sick because they've eaten something contaminated (what happens way more often on the wild) or because they failed to distinguish the food (what also happens way more often on the wild).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Not glue?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Horses do really well without humans.

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

that's a pretty accurate number for an estimate

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

*precise

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

that's the one! could be accurate too

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

Stable owners hate this one simple trick.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Off to the glue factory.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

But first to the sausage factory!

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

Just lay down to sleep with em

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

Easy way to get dead

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Umamusume inclusion when?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Lesbian horse girls+gambling, what could go wrong?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

reminds me of Nate Bargatze's story

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

goals

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

TIL: the Jim Rose circus is still around. 👍

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

They should change her name to Diabeetus