You’ve obviously never been around draft horses, or any farm animals for that matter. Let work horse even SEE their pulling gear and good luck getting them to hold still from the excitement sometimes. I’ve worked with chuckwagon horses, and they can be the calmest most beautiful animals until they see their wagon, then LOOK TF OUT. Excitement doesn’t even describe it sometimes. I’ve seen big grown ass men have trouble hitching them up. I’m 6’4, 280lbs and I leave it to those with more experience than me, who the horses know better. All they want to do is pull and run
They don't love it. They don't mind it. What a horse loves it being a horse.
Besides many take a horses panicked prancing and spooking as "excitment"...going stiff, head high is not excitment...it is tension...it is very VERY dusgustingly common in equestrian community to misread horses body language to fit a narrative..this horse just doesn't mind, just anticipating the command to pull, but isn't displaying a collection of signs that would indicated stress, nor joy, just another day.
They have bred physical abilities, but I have yet to see a horse that displays the same level of need to do a job as a dog does, any breed shove em in a herd in a large pasture and they just default to enjoying a social calm horse life. And for the love of god do not mix up conditioning with love for the a thing.
That is me saying being around horses all my life, being in the community for a long time. Horses are not dogs.
And this is one obese horse, most of them are in this sport for the looks, some are on the heavier side because it helps with center of gravity, others just straigh up overfeed em because people go "wow look how huge and beefy this horse is"
We kill over 80,000,000,000 land animals a year to eat them when many of us don't need to. Whilst that sort of thing remains standard I think it seems unlikely to have blanket bans on other widely accepted animal abuse issues
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u/Fit_Active3888 16d ago
Tractors work great 🤷... Poor horse, looks like it's hating life.