Comment on Why do horses allow humans to ride on their backs?

disregardable@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I wish horses had the gene dogs have that makes them good boys that love people

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  • TheRealKuni@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Horses are just bigger, dumber dogs.

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    • tpyo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Bigger yes, dumber no. It’s like saying dogs are dumber than cats. They’re just different and “smart” at different things. I don’t see packs of tracking cats going out on search and rescue missions

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      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        … You also don’t see horses doing that, without being under the direct control of human riders.

        Whereas search dogs are trained to actually go looking and sniffing and finding and alerting and then returning/retreiving if no one has come to them in a sufficient amount of time…

        … all on their own.

        Most dog breeds are significantly more intelligent than most horse breeds.

        Also random fun fact: Did you know that as part of our domestication of dogs, we essentially caused them to evolve eyebrow muscles that can convey human like facial expressions?

        Wolves don’t have that. Domesticated dogs do.

        Because it makes communication and bonding between both humans and dogs just work better.

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      • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah, because cats are too smart for that shit.

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      • KuroiKaze@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Cats are scientifically less intelligent than dogs. They are not as capable of higher level reasoning.

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    • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Big, scaredy cats

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• Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Usually we teach them from the time they are 3 years old. So basically when they are teens

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• Redditmodstouchgrass@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This. The other comments have been watching too many cowboy movies.

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