it can be REALLY difficult to lead a horse that doesn’t want to be led anywhere, whereas a horse standing still within reach of water tends to start drinking with no prompting needed eventually if not immediately 🤷🏻
Yeah… Same thing happens when you want to claim something is biggest, fastest, or whatever. Usually, you can’t say something as short as “this is the the longest bridge”. Instead, you have to add all sorts of extra details, like “longest composite girder road bridge in [insert_country]” If you compare it with suspension bridges, rail bridges or check what neighboring countries have built, suddenly it’s not that impressive any more. Keeping it snappy tends to be at at odds with the facts.
Wild or unbroken horses are pretty easily coerced in to going whatever direction you want if you know what you’re doing. If you try to tie a rope around their head and pull they’ll fight you, and you’ll lose. If you walk behind them and shake a grocery bag at them, they’ll walk the easiest path away from the sound they can find.
Comfirmed horse experience. Though, saying they would walk… Eh. Maybe you should have said “sprint headlong into the most dangerous thing they can find” for real confirmation.
I’ve seen them to that, I guess maybe there’s some finesse to it, but for the most part in my experience they’ve just kinda trotted away from the sound of the bag. Maybe a scamper, but the full gallop I’ve only seen them do when they were really spooked.
And yeah, they tend to run directly at an obstacle when it happens.
It’s actually the other way around:
it can be REALLY difficult to lead a horse that doesn’t want to be led anywhere, whereas a horse standing still within reach of water tends to start drinking with no prompting needed eventually if not immediately 🤷🏻
You might not bd able to lead a horse to water, but if it already happens to be near water, you won’t need to make it drink.
Admittedly not quite as snappy as the factually inaccurate original 😁
Yeah… Same thing happens when you want to claim something is biggest, fastest, or whatever. Usually, you can’t say something as short as “this is the the longest bridge”. Instead, you have to add all sorts of extra details, like “longest composite girder road bridge in [insert_country]” If you compare it with suspension bridges, rail bridges or check what neighboring countries have built, suddenly it’s not that impressive any more. Keeping it snappy tends to be at at odds with the facts.
Wild or unbroken horses are pretty easily coerced in to going whatever direction you want if you know what you’re doing. If you try to tie a rope around their head and pull they’ll fight you, and you’ll lose. If you walk behind them and shake a grocery bag at them, they’ll walk the easiest path away from the sound they can find.
Comfirmed horse experience. Though, saying they would walk… Eh. Maybe you should have said “sprint headlong into the most dangerous thing they can find” for real confirmation.
I’ve seen them to that, I guess maybe there’s some finesse to it, but for the most part in my experience they’ve just kinda trotted away from the sound of the bag. Maybe a scamper, but the full gallop I’ve only seen them do when they were really spooked.
And yeah, they tend to run directly at an obstacle when it happens.