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Poor Mr. Ed - he gets no respect -
Must have been a bad couple of days to be around horses - it's
something though -
Ouch! Right in the throat! That is horrible.
I'm glad my husband watches Discovery Channel. He'd have performed a trachyotomy.
There are 5 different links about people getting kicked. What gives? The horses must be upset lately!
As one who has been kicked several times, I can tell you that it hurts like hell and can be life threatening. Almost always, though, horses kick out not from malice but fear. Sometimes they kick out of exuberance such as when they are turned out. Sometimes they kick at other horses and people get in between.
Horses are magnificent animals but they have the brains of a duck, are creatures of habit and above all are herd animals. I always try to keep these truths in mind when around them.
Ambrose
I had not relealized you had posted all these horse kick articles when I posted. As someone who spent weeks in a hospital from a kick, I have learned to take it series.
If the media can make a wave of reality out of Iraq, you can do it with horse kicks, right? Or probably vice versa.
hmm..I still say look at the husband.
LOL
Any knowlegable horseperson will tell you they are three things..
Big
Dirty
Dangerous..
Our romantic notions and the fact that horses are not part of our day to day life, as they once were, has divorced us from some of the reality of dealing with them.
The more you know, the more you know what happens, before what happens, happens...