• @[email protected]
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      81 month ago

      Yeah there’s a reason “cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war” is a Shakespeare line (from Caesar)

    • @[email protected]
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      21 month ago

      I remember a horse that would play with one of those big inflatable exercise balls. Still wouldn’t fetch though.

  • @whotookkarl
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    281 month ago

    “Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” -Groucho Marx

  • Flying Squid
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    241 month ago

    Yeah well they should have learned how not to shit in the house.

    • @Shard
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      It’s a mainly with predators that we have an easier time toilet training them. Evolution has killed off those that shat in their own caves because of diseases and bringing food back to a contaminated den will in turn contaminate the food. Whereas horses and most other herbivores live out in the open, move around more and travel long distances to graze.

    • @Anticorp
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      21 month ago

      Horse reaction: “neigh”

  • @JDTIV
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    121 month ago

    I could be wrong about this but I’m fairly sure dogs have been with man for A LOT longer. Like 40,000 years ago, and I think, just from a quick Google, horses are like 4000 years…

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    81 month ago

    Jazira: What does this mean?

    Frank T. Hopkins: Shunka Wakan? Big dog. There’s no word in Sioux for horse. When the Indians saw the first one the Spanish brought over, they didn’t know what the hell it was. When they saw how it could run, carry a man through battle, become his friend for life, well, they figured it had to be a sacred animal.

    Jazira: Indeed.

  • @RizzRustbolt
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    71 month ago

    Horses are more like our bedridden English children.

  • @[email protected]
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    51 month ago

    One side of the war loves them, but I’m sure the other side doesn’t have nearly as high of an opinion.