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To: refreshed

Fair comment about withholding judgement. I’m ignorant about the subject entirely.

However, WTF is a “feral” horse? Is this what we used to call a “wild horse”? Feral sounds BAD like feral cats are bad. Is there a difference between a wild horse and a feral horse?

(I do know that horses were not native to North America 500 years ago. But neither was the “jumping mouse” as far as we know.)


30 posted on 03/18/2022 9:42:52 AM PDT by Tenacious 1
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To: Tenacious 1

Yes. I think they are the same in common usage. Feral technically refers to animals that used to be domesticated and have become wild. I think wild technically refers to never having been domesticated.


37 posted on 03/18/2022 9:47:10 AM PDT by refreshed (But we preach Christ crucified... 1 Corinthians 1:23)
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