Occupational hazard.
Some horses will spontaneously become “nippers”, and that can be very dangerous. Horses can actually become addicted to meat and be downright dangerous.
Usually it begins with someone who for some reason puts some hamburger in the horses food. In short order, unless it is given a regular ration of meat, the horse can become belligerent and aggressive. Some take to killing and eating cats that stray into their pen, and will most definitely bite people with the intent to bite off part of them.
Why did she have her hand in the horse’s mouth?That’s just stupid.
Why did she have her hand in the horse’s mouth?That’s just stupid.
My great grandmother had a crooked pinky that was the result of a horsebite when she was a kid.
When you feed a carrot,or a piece of sugar to a horse, you must give it to that horse in the flat of your hand. Otherwise you may get bitten.
I was at a friends house and her horse was trying to get her kids head in it’s mouth.
Get off my back
- Chet99
People today are just stupid and uneducated when it comes to handling horses. Our collective knowledge of large animal basics have been reduced to a few and the most of the people think large animals are little pets to be petted and fondled. Horses and cattle can maim or kill you in an instant.
I remember years ago reading in George Master’s book how he was visiting I think, Elizabeth Arden, and her horse bit the tip of her finger off.
He said she characteristically just brushed it off and kept on going. It’s an interesting book, called The Master’s Way to Beauty. If you like ready about old Hollywood he’s got some interesting stories in it.
I learned how to feed a horse when I was a kid. Keep the hand flat. They don’t mean to do it, usually, but if you get your finger mixed up with the carrot, goodbye finger.
The horse had bitten off her right index finger down to the first knuckle, said O’Leary. . . .
Maybe the horse was still mad about Mrs. O'Leary's cow.
My cousin, who raised horses all her life, said “Expect a horse to try to bite you, kick you, or step on your foot.”
I wear steel toed boots and have a pillow tied to my butt.
Digital photos, no doubt.
I’d rather be bit on the ass by a snaggled tooth mule.
What we have here is a horse being a horse and a person being an ass.
Carrot.
My sister once bit a moose, but it didn’t sue.
Occupational hazard.