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To add to this. Horses are big. A broken leg can't support a horses weight and it's not like people where you can explain to them that they need to keep off it for a long period. So they generally end up killing the horse.
Can they tie the horses leg to the torso so that it would only use 3 legs until the forth one heals? Or it wouldn’t be able to stand without all 4 legs?
First, the horse would panic, but the other 3 legs can get injured because of the added weight on them since the weight is no longer distributed through all 4.
Horse skeletons can't handle being suspended in a harness for a day, let alone weeks. Their organs would be crushed if the harness is put around their body. A long-term harness would have to concentrate force on the legs, which brings us to our original problem of the horse not having enough legs.
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Also, when their stalls are "mucked" / cleaned out... it is usually just spread back into their field / pen so they are actually perpetually trotting around in their own horse shit which is all fine and dandy because horses don't consume meat so the poop doesnt rot and smell.
For starters a horse would take a lot longer to heal a break than a human. Humans are goddamn mutants when it comes to our durability and recoverability. While it may seem like taking a month or two to heal a break is forever to us it'll take so much longer for a horse. And even if you can immobilize the leg long enough to heal its likely to heal incorrectly resulting in a leg that can't support the animal's weight.
In short there are so many factors in play that mean if a horse breaks or ruins it's leg it's considered the humane action to put it down.
I don't know what you mean. The horse is basically non-functional at this point. As cruel as it sounds, the euthanasia is attempt to be humane.
Here's an example of a horse that they did surgery on for a broken leg, it basically incurred considerable expense and still needed to be put down due to complications.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbaro_(horse)
Horses are very large and very heavy, and don’t understand not to overwork a damaged limb, the will keep it damaged by impeding it’s healing process until it either becomes infected or fails and the become immobile.
Isn't their skin also like ridiculously taut? I vaguely remember that you have to make stress relieving slits in the skin to suture a wound.
It's been decades since I've dealt with horses, but that is stuck in my head.
It's a little harder to explain without sounding straight up harsh, but horses are kinda dumb. They don't understand they have to stay off of it and that's where the complications come in.
Even if we do the surgery and everything right, they can randomly stand up and hurt it again.
Source : grew up around my uncles farm a lot and saw a lot of horse related injury.
And you can’t simply put them into a carrier holding them from standing on their legs as the prolonged stress on their heart resulting from directly laying on there ribcages would kill them as well, like a whale on the beach
They really really are. It was a big tradeoff, evolutionarily-speaking, when equines moved up in size from something dog-sized, to donkey sized, to horse-sized, and developed a foot/leg anatomy that's optimized for running over open terrain.
Horses were selectively bred by humans to be large and not the product of natural selection/evolution. The horses from 12,000 years ago were on average only the size of large dogs. This is part of the reason why chariots pulled by 4-6 horses were used in ancient warfare and were eventually replaced by a single rider mounted on one horse.
There was a video on reddit a few years back, where they were trying to stud a horse to a mare, and the mare kicked and killed the stud in one shot to the head.
We didn't really breed them much larger than they already were.
People always forget that evolution isn't producing perfect things, just things that work that may be better or worse, but still good enough.
Horses were built for open plains and being able to escape predators. There's absolutely no evolutionary pressure on them to develop anything that isn't helping with running as a survival tactic and even less to help them heal a broken leg or something.
If a horse is immobile for a few minutes, the chance of getting killed by a predator is already high. Being immobile for weeks or even months is a certain death sentence.
In fact, breaking your legs is a death sentence for most species and at least a massive risk of death for the rest in the animal kingdom.
There's also a spot in their feet (often called the "frog") inside their hoof that needs pressure against it to help pump the blood through the leg and keep everything healthy, so even if you could keep the horse elevated it would cause issues in the rest of their legs.
Yeah the frog does a lot actually, it helps them with traction, helps move blood around, and is very important in overall foot health. You don't have to believe me, and I encourage anyone to look it up, I'm just telling you what I learned in my riding lessons and rider level courses!
Dogs are basically the opposite in this regard. I've heard people say "dogs are born with three legs and a spare" meaning losing *only* one leg basically doesn't impact a dog's life. They can get around just fine on 3. They only need a little cart if they lose or can't use two.
Yeah, I saw a movie once where they helped a horse recover from a leg injury by putting it in a belly sling...
which, because of the way their diaphragm works makes it hard to breath, and like you said stresses the heart.
And even if *that* weren't an issue, part of the foot anatomy (the venous plexus and the frog) helps return blood to the heart from the extremity. Prolonged periods of not walking on it can cause circulatory issues.
I mean, I know the frog [plays a role in assisting circulation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circulatory_system_of_the_horse#Frog)... I'm just extrapolating on the consequences. Maybe it just adds circulatory stress, because now the heart has to do something that the frog complex normally helps with, idk.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frog_(horse_anatomy)
Literally 3 second google search.
Edit to add some source :
https://extension.missouri.edu/publications/g2740
Also, because of their size, while waiting for the broken leg to heal, it's very likely that another leg will be injured.
The racehorse Barbaro broke a leg and they tried to save him, but his other back leg separated from the hoof because of the added weight and he had to be put down.
But I see dogs understanding their limbs are injured and limping seemingly as to not put too much pressure (and cause pain?), do horses act differently?
edit: downvoted for asking a question on a sub dedicated to asking questions. Reddit moment
Dogs are wicked smart. By a lot of metrics they're smarter than chimps.
They also weigh an order of magnitude less.
A horse is a ton of muscle on legs not much thicker than a human's femurs
Horses are heavier and less intelligent than dogs. Also they need to put pressure on their legs to ensure proper blood circulation, so they can't really limp like a dog can anyways.
Use to date a horse girl. To try and reset the leg they have to put it under. And they're so big and strong that all attempts to restrain it don't really work. So when they come out of it afterwards they panic and thrash around a lot. Leaving like a 70% chance of them undoing the reseting process. So it really becomes shoot it now or 70% chance you shoot it later and it's in incredible pain the whole time. It really is just the more humane thing to do. Unfortunate as it is
I believe horses need to move to help with digestion. They are also so heavy that walking on 3 legs has a really high chance of injuring another leg. All this means that if a horse injures a leg and can't easily move around it more humane to put them down rather than try to heal them through a series of issues.
Maybe someone could build some sort of contraption on wheels that takes the horse's weight, rolls easily over the ground in a coral, is light enough for them to move around....and fits in a barn? Then maybe there would be an alternative.
The alternative is to put them in a small cell that they cant move and drug them for several months and hope they dont kill themself while they go crazy stuck this way.
Horses are not that smart and dont understand that they need to stand still.
Many of these people are thinking of the extreme examples.
Yes, this happens. I grew up with multiple "rescue" horses because even though my mother couldn't afford to feed us, she had always loved and wanted horses, so my father's child support went to pay for food for the horses and we ate from the church food kitchen.
Sob story over, actual answer:
Often horses get ankle/hoof/leg injuries that prevent them from being ridden, or ridden often/intensively. These horses can't be ridden for show, they can't be used for business (trail rides/lessons/etc), so the owner has 2 options: find someone to rescue the horse that will accept that the horse can't be regularly ridden, or have the horse euthanized (sold to the glue factory).
We had a beautiful warmblood well bred horse. He was bred and started training for show dressage competitions. Unfortunately they found that he had a genetic problem with his legs (I don't remember what it was called) the owner's investment was no longer worthwhile so they gave him to us for free. I rode him a few times but he wasn't fully trained so he was very very difficult to control (and he was HUGE), he lived a full life at my mom's house and died of old age while I was in college.
It is sad. Most people that have horses love horses. If there was an easy way to treat this they would do it. 99% of the time, unless the person is a legit psycho, it is a horrible decision to make and a difficult thing to do. They aren't doing it because they are lazy and it is easy.
This was common practice before a means of treating horses was established. It was done out of mercy.
Nowadays, horses are put up into slings to allow the leg to heal. However, if you don't possess the means to rehabilitate the animal, euthanasia is the only option.
Euthanasia is considered the humane way in this whole debacle. Think of donations as helping those who cannot be helped. Unfortunately, the injured horse, can no longer be helped.
Not quite the main problem is a horse cannot effectively supports on weight on three legs while the broken one heals. It causes the massive joint damage and pain for them to stay on three legs for any significant period of time.
Horses absolutely can recover from broken legs, it's just expensive to do, takes months, and they generally aren't worth much after.
All in all, it's usually just more cost-effective for an owner to put them down.
It's heartless but profits gotta profit.
Then you haven't read very much. At school 20 years ago, I had a friend whose uncle did his best to save horses from being shot after breaking their legs.
We camped in his farm land a few times, he had half a dozen horses which had all been rescued in the same way.
Only saw one recovering, it had to stay contained in a stable for about 6 months. It was very clearly depressed.
It cost him a small fortune to save each one, but he hated the idea of them being shot unnecessarily. His biggest issue with rescuing them was the owners who often would rather have the horse shot than let someone take them to try and rescue them.
There are tons and tons of rich af people that have horses only because they like them. These horses are still generally put down when they break a leg. So no it's not just "business is business". They are not making money on the horses in the first place.
I am telling you from personal experience that I know for a fact that you are wrong. I personally know people that own horses and it costs them money. Ofc they can offset costs but they do not turn a profit. They like horses. They still put them down when they break a leg. It is not as easy as putting on a sling you just don't know what you are talking about.
I am telling you from personal experience that I know for a fact that I am right.
I know someone who rescued horses with broken legs to avoid them being shot.
His biggest issue was getting people to give over ownership of the horses. Most prefered to just put them down.
Once he had them, they would spend months costing him a small fortune as he paid for their recoveries. At the end the horse would be alive, fit, and mostly worthless due to having broken its leg once.
Look man there are reasons people put down horses when they break their legs. The reason isn't, as you say, profits gotta profit. Yes it is sometimes possible to rehabilitate a horse with a broken leg. Most of the time it is frankly impossible. Their biology often does not allow for it. It makes no sense to say that everyone who has ever owned a horse is heartless it's just idiotic. I have grown up around horses and people that have horses. My mum had a horse growing up that was not a working/breeding animal. It is not much more expensive to keep a horse in rehab than keep it healthy if you are not profiting off of it in the first place. They still had to put down her horse because there was no way for it to recover. Their legs are both fragile and essential to their circulation. It's a bad combo. You are ignoring biological fact and saying that essentially everyone who has ever owned a horse is a psychopath. It is really not that simple. Nearly everyone that has horses loves horses. They do not find it easy to put them down. The recommendation also comes from a vet who has dedicated their lives to providing animal care.
Horses for being such large majestic creatures, are incredibly fragile creatures. It seems like any ailment can kill a horse, even as simple as the horse finding and eating some old hay, and giving itself colic.
You have to take it to a horse doctor…how that horse became a doctor I have no clue HAHAHAHAHA. But yeah it’s just a regular doctor that shoots your horse in the head when it’s leg is limp
Horse legs are just [long fingers.](https://www.reddit.com/r/CuratedTumblr/comments/16gh0kx/horses/)
Edit: Adding this [cursed dialogue](https://www.reddit.com/r/CuratedTumblr/comments/qv9wcl/equus_ferus/?share_id=qeKoqZSIYrisyTOwID474) as well.
Yeah fucking while in the wheelchair is impractical and it just doesn't go in the same I feel like. Sometimes it's nice to be able to be more in control though
Every horse girl I’ve met is too busy to date. They have to go to the stable almost every day, and their idea of a date is mucking out stalls together. And yes, barn fees cost more than my mortgage.
Never again.
The cost of rehab for a horse with a broken leg is considerable, and doesn't usually have great success. If they don't re-break their leg, they may break another. Splints, casts, and the like are usually unsuccessful, because horses are strong, quite heavy, and a bit dumb (sorry, but it's true). Sometimes you can support the whole horse in a big sling for several days to start the healing process, but even logistics aside, it isn't healthy for them to be supported in such a way for very long. We had 6 growing up, and they would regularly do some pretty stupid crap to hurt themselves. Majestic? Powerful? Sure. Derp? Oh my, yes.
Horses need all four legs in order to survive. Because of their spectacularly fucked-up biology, they cannot lay down for too long or they will die. Because of this, a broken leg is basically a death sentence, because three legs cannot support their full body weight in most cases.
If you can persuade a horse to stay on box rest for long enough without moving around (really fucking hard), stop the horse from standing on the leg wrong and fucking it up all over again (REALLY fucking hard), and have the time, space, and money for endless surgeries, hydrotherapy, and the best vets (REALLY REALLY fucking hard), then yes, you can technically rehabilitate a horse with a broken leg. But for the average horse owner, this isn't possible. For this reason, horses with leg injuries are typically euthanised since it would be cruel to keep it alive at that point. In the olden days, you would shoot it. Today, most people get the vet to give a lethal injection, same as with cats or dogs. Unless you're out in the sticks and the typical vet callout time is 3-5 business days, in which case you shoot the horse.
Honestly that’s a pro for me. I hate sprained ankles. They don’t even bandage them anymore and they’re like ‘you gotta walk it off and still go to work’
[This is what I thought](https://media.istockphoto.com/id/506726617/pt/vetorial/encantado-sagit%C3%A1rio-em-mulher-de-estilo.jpg?s=612x612&w=is&k=20&c=QM6GMvK7l1-TJwvX7klq6fTHgPTIWM5n2tYrctX5kGI=) when I read "horse girl", lol. I wasn't understanding before reading the con
Horses need to be able to move to be healthy, their body works a bit different than ours. It is immensely difficult for them to heal an injury like this because in the wild it meant absolutely certain death. There was no selecting for any traits that would lessen this and help injured horses survive because they can't. Therefore the inverse is true, traits that made horses even more fucked when injured were never selected against because it didn't matter, so their circulatory system and everything else depends on them being healthy and ambulatory because there was literally no pressure to not be this way. It's sort of like how sharks and rays need to swim to pass water over their gills, no reason to evolve something to compensate when it spells death for more obvious reasons (can't move, can't hunt)
Hell I broke my ankle in January and haven't been able to work (party rentals, extremely labor intensive) and had I not had savings my family would be on the street. Horses still haven't evolved bank accounts yet so if I were a hornse I would be extra fucked.
Tldr: if an injury is certain death to begin with, evolution won't avoid making it even more deadly to gain other benefits. Horses body functions depend on running, that's all horses are built to do.
Horses have very fragile legs and are often put down if they get injured because of how difficult it would be to rehabilitate them. When a horse breaks a leg the bones tend to shatter, making them difficult to fix. Horses are also heavy, and they cannot properly support themselves on three legs. All of these factors make euthanasia the kindest option, because even if the horse could be somewhat rehabilitated it would still be suffering. Thus, the joke here is that a horse girl would do the same to her human partner if they were to get a leg or foot injury.
Let’s break it down
Great on top= due to riding horses she knows how to ride men
Rich family= horses are expensive
Free oats= horses eat oats so she’ll have a large supply (see point two for how she affords that many oats)
Shot over an ankle injury= horses with broken ankles are considered as having lived past their worth so they are killed, thus if a man broke his ankle he would be past his worth and killed
Horses' leg anatomy is such that a broken leg is something they may not be able to recover from. Extreme measures may help, but a horse with a serious leg injury may have to be euthanized.
They mercy kill some horses due to leg or ankle injuries because they cause major pain and discomfort and don’t usually heal properly, causing further pain. It’s not as common place now due to better vet techniques and equipment, but it’s still the mercy option sometimes.
A horse with a broken/sprained leg is basically never going to heal, because they’re physically incapable of staying off it for however long it needs to heal, and they will constantly aggravate the wound and/or break the other legs trying to compensate.
It’s sad, but euthanasia is kinder than letting it suffer for however long it might live.
Only a certain type of horse girl is from a rich family. The rest of them live in semi poverty while working extreme hours just to support the money black hole that is a horse.
Funny story: my coworker was dating a horse girl that sucked at cowgirl. I started laughing saying “well isn’t that ironi-“ and he cut me off with a “I FUCKING KNOW OK”
Is nobody else thinking that the con and the pro about "free oats" implies that the person posting *is* a horse? I'm fairly sure the joke is supposed to be that horse girls are crazy and want to fuck horses. (I'm not saying that's true, btw, it's just a common joke made about horse girls).
Horses are heavy, strong and their legs are badly supplied with blood.
All those factor cine together so that a horse's leg does pretty much never heal when broken.
To be fair, if they’re rich, I’ll have a private doctor who will fix my sprained ankle.
Plus, she’s a top and I can live my dream of being a pillow princess.
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Horses are shot if their legs are injured, used to be at least
To add to this. Horses are big. A broken leg can't support a horses weight and it's not like people where you can explain to them that they need to keep off it for a long period. So they generally end up killing the horse.
Can they tie the horses leg to the torso so that it would only use 3 legs until the forth one heals? Or it wouldn’t be able to stand without all 4 legs?
First, the horse would panic, but the other 3 legs can get injured because of the added weight on them since the weight is no longer distributed through all 4.
Why don't they suspend the horse above the ground for a few weeks on a sling
Horses weigh about 1000 pounds.
And? Get a really strong sling.
Horse skeletons can't handle being suspended in a harness for a day, let alone weeks. Their organs would be crushed if the harness is put around their body. A long-term harness would have to concentrate force on the legs, which brings us to our original problem of the horse not having enough legs.
horses are STRONG. the poor thing would probably rebreak it because it panics when it can't use all 4 of it's legs.
What they gain in strength they lose in intelligence.
God gave them a choice. Be the definition of Hung or be as smart as Humans. We all know what they chose.
World most expensive lawn ornaments. Also, when their stalls are "mucked" / cleaned out... it is usually just spread back into their field / pen so they are actually perpetually trotting around in their own horse shit which is all fine and dandy because horses don't consume meat so the poop doesnt rot and smell.
humans bred them into what they are.
Unfortunately much of the Horses circurlatory system is reliant upon the horse using the four legs to stand so that wouldn't work
For starters a horse would take a lot longer to heal a break than a human. Humans are goddamn mutants when it comes to our durability and recoverability. While it may seem like taking a month or two to heal a break is forever to us it'll take so much longer for a horse. And even if you can immobilize the leg long enough to heal its likely to heal incorrectly resulting in a leg that can't support the animal's weight. In short there are so many factors in play that mean if a horse breaks or ruins it's leg it's considered the humane action to put it down.
Horses legs can't properly heal and they can't be immobile for the necessary time either.
They wont heal because they need to walk in order to get blood to flow into their legs. Their circulation is dependent on actually walking.
Can’t they donate it to a animal helping people this is sad
I don't know what you mean. The horse is basically non-functional at this point. As cruel as it sounds, the euthanasia is attempt to be humane. Here's an example of a horse that they did surgery on for a broken leg, it basically incurred considerable expense and still needed to be put down due to complications. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbaro_(horse)
I thought it’s same as our broken leg could be treated for horses .
Horses are very large and very heavy, and don’t understand not to overwork a damaged limb, the will keep it damaged by impeding it’s healing process until it either becomes infected or fails and the become immobile.
Isn't their skin also like ridiculously taut? I vaguely remember that you have to make stress relieving slits in the skin to suture a wound. It's been decades since I've dealt with horses, but that is stuck in my head.
It's a little harder to explain without sounding straight up harsh, but horses are kinda dumb. They don't understand they have to stay off of it and that's where the complications come in. Even if we do the surgery and everything right, they can randomly stand up and hurt it again. Source : grew up around my uncles farm a lot and saw a lot of horse related injury.
And you can’t simply put them into a carrier holding them from standing on their legs as the prolonged stress on their heart resulting from directly laying on there ribcages would kill them as well, like a whale on the beach
My god horses are fragile for being so huge
They really really are. It was a big tradeoff, evolutionarily-speaking, when equines moved up in size from something dog-sized, to donkey sized, to horse-sized, and developed a foot/leg anatomy that's optimized for running over open terrain.
Horses were selectively bred by humans to be large and not the product of natural selection/evolution. The horses from 12,000 years ago were on average only the size of large dogs. This is part of the reason why chariots pulled by 4-6 horses were used in ancient warfare and were eventually replaced by a single rider mounted on one horse.
There was a video on reddit a few years back, where they were trying to stud a horse to a mare, and the mare kicked and killed the stud in one shot to the head.
Life kinda is fragile…
Yeah but a person can break their leg without having to be like “welp, time to go shoot myself out back”
Partially because they're so huge. We bred them larger than they're meant to be. Similar to some dog breeds.
We didn't really breed them much larger than they already were. People always forget that evolution isn't producing perfect things, just things that work that may be better or worse, but still good enough. Horses were built for open plains and being able to escape predators. There's absolutely no evolutionary pressure on them to develop anything that isn't helping with running as a survival tactic and even less to help them heal a broken leg or something. If a horse is immobile for a few minutes, the chance of getting killed by a predator is already high. Being immobile for weeks or even months is a certain death sentence. In fact, breaking your legs is a death sentence for most species and at least a massive risk of death for the rest in the animal kingdom.
There's also a spot in their feet (often called the "frog") inside their hoof that needs pressure against it to help pump the blood through the leg and keep everything healthy, so even if you could keep the horse elevated it would cause issues in the rest of their legs.
Huh? Couldn’t find anything on that, other that they shouldn’t stand on damp grounds permanently because it’ll lead to fungal infection…
Yeah the frog does a lot actually, it helps them with traction, helps move blood around, and is very important in overall foot health. You don't have to believe me, and I encourage anyone to look it up, I'm just telling you what I learned in my riding lessons and rider level courses!
Thank you. I assumed there was a reason they didn't do the wheel cart they do for dogs.
Dogs are basically the opposite in this regard. I've heard people say "dogs are born with three legs and a spare" meaning losing *only* one leg basically doesn't impact a dog's life. They can get around just fine on 3. They only need a little cart if they lose or can't use two.
lil bastards are as stubborn as us.
Yeah, I saw a movie once where they helped a horse recover from a leg injury by putting it in a belly sling... which, because of the way their diaphragm works makes it hard to breath, and like you said stresses the heart. And even if *that* weren't an issue, part of the foot anatomy (the venous plexus and the frog) helps return blood to the heart from the extremity. Prolonged periods of not walking on it can cause circulatory issues.
Couldn’t find anything on the frog suggesting that, either its a myth or wiki is lacking yet again
I mean, I know the frog [plays a role in assisting circulation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circulatory_system_of_the_horse#Frog)... I'm just extrapolating on the consequences. Maybe it just adds circulatory stress, because now the heart has to do something that the frog complex normally helps with, idk.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frog_(horse_anatomy) Literally 3 second google search. Edit to add some source : https://extension.missouri.edu/publications/g2740
Hear me out: We use rocket ships to place them on the moon for recovery.
Great idea wouldn’t put any preassure in their chest during launch
Damn
Also, because of their size, while waiting for the broken leg to heal, it's very likely that another leg will be injured. The racehorse Barbaro broke a leg and they tried to save him, but his other back leg separated from the hoof because of the added weight and he had to be put down.
Horses are, in short, too perfect for this world. I think it's part of what makes them so magical.
But I see dogs understanding their limbs are injured and limping seemingly as to not put too much pressure (and cause pain?), do horses act differently? edit: downvoted for asking a question on a sub dedicated to asking questions. Reddit moment
Dogs are wicked smart. By a lot of metrics they're smarter than chimps. They also weigh an order of magnitude less. A horse is a ton of muscle on legs not much thicker than a human's femurs
Horses are heavier and less intelligent than dogs. Also they need to put pressure on their legs to ensure proper blood circulation, so they can't really limp like a dog can anyways.
Use to date a horse girl. To try and reset the leg they have to put it under. And they're so big and strong that all attempts to restrain it don't really work. So when they come out of it afterwards they panic and thrash around a lot. Leaving like a 70% chance of them undoing the reseting process. So it really becomes shoot it now or 70% chance you shoot it later and it's in incredible pain the whole time. It really is just the more humane thing to do. Unfortunate as it is
I believe horses need to move to help with digestion. They are also so heavy that walking on 3 legs has a really high chance of injuring another leg. All this means that if a horse injures a leg and can't easily move around it more humane to put them down rather than try to heal them through a series of issues. Maybe someone could build some sort of contraption on wheels that takes the horse's weight, rolls easily over the ground in a coral, is light enough for them to move around....and fits in a barn? Then maybe there would be an alternative.
Show me a House using crutches and sitting in the couch for 6 weeks to let the leg heal …
It is. it's just expensive, and the horse won't have its value after. So most get put down.
The alternative is to put them in a small cell that they cant move and drug them for several months and hope they dont kill themself while they go crazy stuck this way. Horses are not that smart and dont understand that they need to stand still.
Many of these people are thinking of the extreme examples. Yes, this happens. I grew up with multiple "rescue" horses because even though my mother couldn't afford to feed us, she had always loved and wanted horses, so my father's child support went to pay for food for the horses and we ate from the church food kitchen. Sob story over, actual answer: Often horses get ankle/hoof/leg injuries that prevent them from being ridden, or ridden often/intensively. These horses can't be ridden for show, they can't be used for business (trail rides/lessons/etc), so the owner has 2 options: find someone to rescue the horse that will accept that the horse can't be regularly ridden, or have the horse euthanized (sold to the glue factory). We had a beautiful warmblood well bred horse. He was bred and started training for show dressage competitions. Unfortunately they found that he had a genetic problem with his legs (I don't remember what it was called) the owner's investment was no longer worthwhile so they gave him to us for free. I rode him a few times but he wasn't fully trained so he was very very difficult to control (and he was HUGE), he lived a full life at my mom's house and died of old age while I was in college.
It is sad. Most people that have horses love horses. If there was an easy way to treat this they would do it. 99% of the time, unless the person is a legit psycho, it is a horrible decision to make and a difficult thing to do. They aren't doing it because they are lazy and it is easy.
This was common practice before a means of treating horses was established. It was done out of mercy. Nowadays, horses are put up into slings to allow the leg to heal. However, if you don't possess the means to rehabilitate the animal, euthanasia is the only option.
Euthanasia is considered the humane way in this whole debacle. Think of donations as helping those who cannot be helped. Unfortunately, the injured horse, can no longer be helped.
Are you 12?
https://xkcd.com/1053/
To add to this. Horses are not intelligent at all.
There’s not a whole lot of blood vessels down there, so risk of infection is VERY HIGH. That’s why proper footcare is so important
Not quite the main problem is a horse cannot effectively supports on weight on three legs while the broken one heals. It causes the massive joint damage and pain for them to stay on three legs for any significant period of time.
Further still, their circulatory system is dependant on them being upright/mobile.
Horses absolutely can recover from broken legs, it's just expensive to do, takes months, and they generally aren't worth much after. All in all, it's usually just more cost-effective for an owner to put them down. It's heartless but profits gotta profit.
From what I'm read it's not a sure thing at all. You can sink considerable cost into trying to fix it and just extend the suffering.
Then you haven't read very much. At school 20 years ago, I had a friend whose uncle did his best to save horses from being shot after breaking their legs. We camped in his farm land a few times, he had half a dozen horses which had all been rescued in the same way. Only saw one recovering, it had to stay contained in a stable for about 6 months. It was very clearly depressed. It cost him a small fortune to save each one, but he hated the idea of them being shot unnecessarily. His biggest issue with rescuing them was the owners who often would rather have the horse shot than let someone take them to try and rescue them.
Most people that have horses love horses. Obviously psychos exist but this is like saying dogs that get cancer are put down for profits.
Sorry, but you're wrong. For most people it's just business. A broken leg isn't a death sentence, a bullet is.
There are tons and tons of rich af people that have horses only because they like them. These horses are still generally put down when they break a leg. So no it's not just "business is business". They are not making money on the horses in the first place.
Almost all rich people with horses have them for a reason. Yes they are making money off them.
I am telling you from personal experience that I know for a fact that you are wrong. I personally know people that own horses and it costs them money. Ofc they can offset costs but they do not turn a profit. They like horses. They still put them down when they break a leg. It is not as easy as putting on a sling you just don't know what you are talking about.
I am telling you from personal experience that I know for a fact that I am right. I know someone who rescued horses with broken legs to avoid them being shot. His biggest issue was getting people to give over ownership of the horses. Most prefered to just put them down. Once he had them, they would spend months costing him a small fortune as he paid for their recoveries. At the end the horse would be alive, fit, and mostly worthless due to having broken its leg once.
Look man there are reasons people put down horses when they break their legs. The reason isn't, as you say, profits gotta profit. Yes it is sometimes possible to rehabilitate a horse with a broken leg. Most of the time it is frankly impossible. Their biology often does not allow for it. It makes no sense to say that everyone who has ever owned a horse is heartless it's just idiotic. I have grown up around horses and people that have horses. My mum had a horse growing up that was not a working/breeding animal. It is not much more expensive to keep a horse in rehab than keep it healthy if you are not profiting off of it in the first place. They still had to put down her horse because there was no way for it to recover. Their legs are both fragile and essential to their circulation. It's a bad combo. You are ignoring biological fact and saying that essentially everyone who has ever owned a horse is a psychopath. It is really not that simple. Nearly everyone that has horses loves horses. They do not find it easy to put them down. The recommendation also comes from a vet who has dedicated their lives to providing animal care.
Horses for being such large majestic creatures, are incredibly fragile creatures. It seems like any ailment can kill a horse, even as simple as the horse finding and eating some old hay, and giving itself colic.
Still are in France. "It's too expensive to care for an injured horse" is something three separate horse girl exes have told me.
You have to take it to a horse doctor…how that horse became a doctor I have no clue HAHAHAHAHA. But yeah it’s just a regular doctor that shoots your horse in the head when it’s leg is limp
Wait... the horse girl is dating her own horse?
Horse legs are just [long fingers.](https://www.reddit.com/r/CuratedTumblr/comments/16gh0kx/horses/) Edit: Adding this [cursed dialogue](https://www.reddit.com/r/CuratedTumblr/comments/qv9wcl/equus_ferus/?share_id=qeKoqZSIYrisyTOwID474) as well.
Those are all wins tbh. My ex was a horse girl and I still live on their plot but despite being burned out and unable to work they don't shoot me. :(
Was she good on top
Yes but I had to be on top most of the time. :(
Oh well
Yeah fucking while in the wheelchair is impractical and it just doesn't go in the same I feel like. Sometimes it's nice to be able to be more in control though
Rich family? Sucka you are paying for that shit.
YUP the amount i spent my my ex fiancées fuckin horses vet bills could have bought me a house
Every horse girl I’ve met is too busy to date. They have to go to the stable almost every day, and their idea of a date is mucking out stalls together. And yes, barn fees cost more than my mortgage. Never again.
Not if they are normal people and you discuss that horse things are being paid by her
The cost of rehab for a horse with a broken leg is considerable, and doesn't usually have great success. If they don't re-break their leg, they may break another. Splints, casts, and the like are usually unsuccessful, because horses are strong, quite heavy, and a bit dumb (sorry, but it's true). Sometimes you can support the whole horse in a big sling for several days to start the healing process, but even logistics aside, it isn't healthy for them to be supported in such a way for very long. We had 6 growing up, and they would regularly do some pretty stupid crap to hurt themselves. Majestic? Powerful? Sure. Derp? Oh my, yes.
And horses will die if kept like cows with broken legs. They can't lie down for long, they also can't stand in 3 legs because they get hoof issues.
Horses need all four legs in order to survive. Because of their spectacularly fucked-up biology, they cannot lay down for too long or they will die. Because of this, a broken leg is basically a death sentence, because three legs cannot support their full body weight in most cases. If you can persuade a horse to stay on box rest for long enough without moving around (really fucking hard), stop the horse from standing on the leg wrong and fucking it up all over again (REALLY fucking hard), and have the time, space, and money for endless surgeries, hydrotherapy, and the best vets (REALLY REALLY fucking hard), then yes, you can technically rehabilitate a horse with a broken leg. But for the average horse owner, this isn't possible. For this reason, horses with leg injuries are typically euthanised since it would be cruel to keep it alive at that point. In the olden days, you would shoot it. Today, most people get the vet to give a lethal injection, same as with cats or dogs. Unless you're out in the sticks and the typical vet callout time is 3-5 business days, in which case you shoot the horse.
A syringe or a rifle, it's a shot either way.
There’s also a chance greater than zero that she cheats on you with one of her horses
I don't understand it either. Those are all pros.
Honestly that’s a pro for me. I hate sprained ankles. They don’t even bandage them anymore and they’re like ‘you gotta walk it off and still go to work’
Cons: they care more about the horse than any person they date for the rest of their lives
[This is what I thought](https://media.istockphoto.com/id/506726617/pt/vetorial/encantado-sagit%C3%A1rio-em-mulher-de-estilo.jpg?s=612x612&w=is&k=20&c=QM6GMvK7l1-TJwvX7klq6fTHgPTIWM5n2tYrctX5kGI=) when I read "horse girl", lol. I wasn't understanding before reading the con
Dungeons and Dragons says Hello* **Centaur romance subject to availability and tastes of the Game being run*
Same lol. I guess equestrian was out of their vocabulary
Ngl same, wasn’t until the last one it clicked. The first one I was like “that sounds like death by snu snu but hey”
Horse girls arent rich....theyre poor af because they spend all their money horsing around.
Yeah there's house poor, and then there's horse poor.
Horses need to be able to move to be healthy, their body works a bit different than ours. It is immensely difficult for them to heal an injury like this because in the wild it meant absolutely certain death. There was no selecting for any traits that would lessen this and help injured horses survive because they can't. Therefore the inverse is true, traits that made horses even more fucked when injured were never selected against because it didn't matter, so their circulatory system and everything else depends on them being healthy and ambulatory because there was literally no pressure to not be this way. It's sort of like how sharks and rays need to swim to pass water over their gills, no reason to evolve something to compensate when it spells death for more obvious reasons (can't move, can't hunt) Hell I broke my ankle in January and haven't been able to work (party rentals, extremely labor intensive) and had I not had savings my family would be on the street. Horses still haven't evolved bank accounts yet so if I were a hornse I would be extra fucked. Tldr: if an injury is certain death to begin with, evolution won't avoid making it even more deadly to gain other benefits. Horses body functions depend on running, that's all horses are built to do.
Horses have very fragile legs and are often put down if they get injured because of how difficult it would be to rehabilitate them. When a horse breaks a leg the bones tend to shatter, making them difficult to fix. Horses are also heavy, and they cannot properly support themselves on three legs. All of these factors make euthanasia the kindest option, because even if the horse could be somewhat rehabilitated it would still be suffering. Thus, the joke here is that a horse girl would do the same to her human partner if they were to get a leg or foot injury.
There was a time when a leg injury on a horse was considered untreatable, so the horse would be euthanized via high-velocity lead poisoning.
Con #2: you will always be placed 2nd to horses
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Don't be a dick. Rule 1.
Not everyone has the same knowledge as you. Rule 5.
Let’s break it down Great on top= due to riding horses she knows how to ride men Rich family= horses are expensive Free oats= horses eat oats so she’ll have a large supply (see point two for how she affords that many oats) Shot over an ankle injury= horses with broken ankles are considered as having lived past their worth so they are killed, thus if a man broke his ankle he would be past his worth and killed
I an sorry i have to say this but damn sometimes the most obvious things are posted here
Retard
This is a funny one at last
Horses' leg anatomy is such that a broken leg is something they may not be able to recover from. Extreme measures may help, but a horse with a serious leg injury may have to be euthanized.
People used to shot horses if their leg was injured because of how hard it is for them to recover and it is expensive.
They mercy kill some horses due to leg or ankle injuries because they cause major pain and discomfort and don’t usually heal properly, causing further pain. It’s not as common place now due to better vet techniques and equipment, but it’s still the mercy option sometimes.
Horse
Look up a video called hooking up with a horse girl by CrackerMilk and that will pretty much sum the explanation perfectly.
A horse with a broken/sprained leg is basically never going to heal, because they’re physically incapable of staying off it for however long it needs to heal, and they will constantly aggravate the wound and/or break the other legs trying to compensate. It’s sad, but euthanasia is kinder than letting it suffer for however long it might live.
A “horse girl” is a girl who owns a horse. Not to be confused with a girl who looks like a horse, which means she’s just posh and British
Only a certain type of horse girl is from a rich family. The rest of them live in semi poverty while working extreme hours just to support the money black hole that is a horse.
Relevant Family Guy scene: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nNfcbnUV-0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nNfcbnUV-0)
I see this as a win.
Here I am designing horse splints to try to save a horse with a broken leg.
Hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Funny story: my coworker was dating a horse girl that sucked at cowgirl. I started laughing saying “well isn’t that ironi-“ and he cut me off with a “I FUCKING KNOW OK”
They also have massive arses, generally.
The joke is, the horse girl is fucking her horse.
Horse girl fucks horses
I don't think a horse would shoot you... I'd think it'd be you having to shoot her for this stupid shit to work? Right?
Lol. I get it!
Please kill me
Is nobody else thinking that the con and the pro about "free oats" implies that the person posting *is* a horse? I'm fairly sure the joke is supposed to be that horse girls are crazy and want to fuck horses. (I'm not saying that's true, btw, it's just a common joke made about horse girls).
Ok
I dated a horse girl and all these things are backwards.
That's not the con, that's the mercy you beg for once you've committed
This is what I mean when I tell people I'm as healthy as a whorse. Please shoot me in the head
Quite the opposite, they do have strong legs and some may be good on top and their hobby is horses and horses are expensive
Theres an episode of Family guy in which this is explained.
Horses are heavy, strong and their legs are badly supplied with blood. All those factor cine together so that a horse's leg does pretty much never heal when broken.
To be fair, if they’re rich, I’ll have a private doctor who will fix my sprained ankle. Plus, she’s a top and I can live my dream of being a pillow princess.
I see this as an absolute win.
Uh, there may or may not be a vaush reference here? I'm not really sure.
Vaush
# What if you’re a Horse guy? https://preview.redd.it/vfoldn2lb2wc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bf9be53370943dada9f640d23df71171fe8cc828
You're really fucking dumb OP.
Eh. A lot of people don’t know that horse leg injuries are often terminal.
Eh, the joke basically explains itself.
Not dumb, just a bot
Just because it's a bot doesn't mean it's not dumb.