Horses

Dear readers,

To be honest I have no idea what this post is going to be about at all. I could make a post about nothing however there is a problem with that. The problem is that to make a post about nothing would be making a post about something. You know what, let's talk about how we change the meaning of words and one other thing that has been on my mind which is how everyone can understand horse talk.

Seriously it does not take a whisperer. For example if two horses are always together then that is their herd like structure. If a horse tries to bite you then you've either done something wrong or the horse is a big meanie. If a horse cribs (term for when horses place their mouth on wood, arcs their neck and sucks in air) then they are bored, being detrimental to their health (can cause colic which is abdominal pain which is one of the leading causes of premature death in domesticated horses when related to the gastrointestinal tract), a sign of OCD and a sign of addiction (it can get them naturally high). There is also no magic cure all for the behavior and horses quickly learn it from one another.

Now what does that have to do with a post about how we change words? Absolutely everything because when you think of a druggie most people think of a person hiding under stairs in a condemned house shooting heroin. How ever I have just connected it to horses. Think about it, there really isn't much of a difference. I have only seen one place of hundreds even tolerant of cribbing so we have their a behavior that is frowned upon. It's bad for their health like many illegal drugs are for the health of people. And there is no way to instantly cure all people of addiction.

Really that is just one example but I'm going to stop there about atrocious behaviors that occur in horses because if I went with that it would take a while to finish.

Hoping you enjoyed,

Mike Hand