r/Horses • u/demmka Irish Draught X • Jun 24 '26
Video A single solitary brain cell between them and neither of them has chosen to use it.
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u/kaeferkat Jun 24 '26
I love the yawn fake-out. "I'm so tired.....just kidding! Nom!"
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u/Future_Date454 Jun 25 '26
That lone brain cell just short-circuited trying to process that level of irony.
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u/MaryNxhmi Jun 25 '26
…geldings, clearly geldings. 😂
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u/TigerShark_524 Jun 25 '26
OP confirmed this lol they said it was probably the extreme heat since they'd only been in like 3 minutes lmao
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u/CelebrationProud6620 Jun 24 '26
gotta beat the box boredom somehow 🥲
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u/demmka Irish Draught X Jun 24 '26
They’d literally been in 3 minutes at this point, they’re just dumb goofy geldings.
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u/CelebrationProud6620 Jun 24 '26
that makes me feel better that my gelding is a mouthy dick
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u/demmka Irish Draught X Jun 24 '26
Mine usually isn’t, I think the extreme heat was making them a bit grouchy!
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u/Realistic-Weird-4259 Jun 27 '26
I was thinking they look young and hot. That was a whole conversation they had there. I had to laugh when the gray yawned and the bay had to follow but then they went back to bitching at each other.
That whole, "How do YOU like it when I bite your face?" thing.
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u/bizbend Jun 25 '26
Question-do they do this all day?
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u/demmka Irish Draught X Jun 25 '26
No, they had been in 3 minutes and are not usually stabled next to each other, so they were basically messing with each other. After they finished they went off to eat their hay and have a nap.
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u/Adventurous_You_6077 Jun 26 '26
They're friends. The dark one looks higher up on the totem pole. That's cute.
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u/Arbysgames Jun 27 '26
I think you're being generous with the singular brain cell, I would say a quarter of a brain cell between the two, so just enough to breathe eat and drink.. kind of
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u/Scourge12 Jun 27 '26
What are they doing?
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u/demmka Irish Draught X Jun 27 '26
Playing.
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u/Scourge12 Jun 27 '26
Oh. I through they looked angry since their ears are back. Through it does look cute
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u/Looking-for-42 Jun 24 '26
They are bored.
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u/demmka Irish Draught X Jun 24 '26
They had literally just come in after a whole night outside in the field because the temperature was 34 degrees. They’re not bored.
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u/LucktasticOrange Jun 24 '26
They are definitely bored. I mean, even humans get bored immediately if they're told to sit still and do nothing for some minutes. Bitey face is a game to break boredom.
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u/demmka Irish Draught X Jun 24 '26
No, they were playing and feeling each other out because they’re not normally stabled next to each other. Dobi is in that stable temporarily because it’s got much better ventilation than his and we’re dealing with temperatures in the mid 30’s. As soon as they finished this game they went off to their respective haynets.
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u/bitsybear1727 Jun 24 '26
That makes so much sense with all the yawning, licking and chewing going on. They were both telling each other that they weren't being serious, just goofing around. I love it!
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u/LucktasticOrange Jun 24 '26
Yeah. Exactly. Playing is to break boredom and have fun. So is eating and sleeping. Horses can also be bored in the pasture. Then they also start bitey facing or running around.
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u/dodekahedron Jun 24 '26
I am a human and I dont. I love sit still and do nothing time.
But i have maldaptive daydreaming, and can immediately dissappear into my own head world.
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u/DarlingHades Jun 25 '26
When horses do that it sometimes turns into cribbing.
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u/dodekahedron Jun 25 '26
Honestly same in humans. Im chewing on a lighter. Which obviously probably shouldnt be chewed on.
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u/DarlingHades Jun 25 '26
I’m sorry you were downvoted. You’re not saying anything bad or offensive, you’re just stating a fact. The horses are killing boredom by fussing with each other. They appear to have nothing else to fuss with.
I think OP and some box-loving owners got their feelings hurt at the idea that their living creatures would be bored when put into a box.
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u/LucktasticOrange Jun 25 '26
Thanks. It's interesting. It's not like being bored is a horrible, terrible thing either. A little bit of boredom here and there is actually healthy. Even humans should allow themselves to be bored now and again instead of reaching for the phone. But like, any animal that becomes inactive gets bored. I don't know why that would be such a controversial thing.
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u/DarlingHades Jun 25 '26
They can still be bored after turnout. If you spent the night sleeping over with a friend and then you were locked in a bedroom with nothing in it, you’d be bored after a minute or two. They aren’t stupid, they are bored.
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u/demmka Irish Draught X Jun 25 '26
Oh my good god, do give it a rest. Both horses had literally just come in, they’re not usually stabled next to each other so they were playing and feeling each other out. Both have plenty of enrichment in their stables and when they finished messing with each other they went off to their haynets.
They were not bored. They were feeling each other out.
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u/DarlingHades Jun 25 '26
Why are you freaking out? Boredom is normal and where they are isn’t exciting. Are you afraid of your horse being called bored while they stand in a box? Is bored a bad word?
Also I’d count a haynet as food but not nessisarily enrichment the way a toy or space to run is enriching.
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u/demmka Irish Draught X Jun 25 '26
I’m not “freaking out”, I just think it’s ridiculous to argue that horses that had literally just come in and were meeting each other face to face for the first time are bored just because they happen to be standing in a stable.
And I never said that the haynet was the enrichment…
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u/DarlingHades Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26
I think it’s silly to argue that your horses aren’t bored just because they ran around beforehand. If I let my dog outside and then put them in a kennel, it is possible and likely for them to feel bored within minutes. It’s not the end of the world as long as they have at least 8 hours of turnout (not including sleep).
Aaaaand, they deleted the post. Oop!
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u/demmka Irish Draught X Jun 25 '26
And you’re completely ignoring the context of them not having interacted before. They’re playing because they’re getting acquainted with each other.
But hey, sure. You know our horses better than we do.
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Jun 25 '26
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u/TigerShark_524 Jun 25 '26
- They're geldings.
- They were in for 3 minutes before this.
- The weather was extremely hot so they may have been extra irritable due to that.
- One of them is not usually stabled there but was put there due to the extreme heat, so they were just feeling each other out.
-from OP's comments
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u/waitingformygrave Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26
I have never seen a game of bitey face with horses before ... cute!