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Category Artwork (Digital) / Animal related (non-anthro)
Species Horse
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Basically, what this American Paint is doing is expressing her fondness or love to the brown stallion. It might look like it hurt, but they let go immediately and it doesn't hurt much. Can't say the same for humans though. I get some love bites at times and have the hickeys to prove it.
If it was more of insistent nipping, the horse is basically telling the other to move. This little quote I picked up on Google will explain more below.
"Yes, horses do bite; some more than others. Usually, it's a natural part of horse behavior. Horses have various ways of communicating, and biting each other is a big part of that – from friendly “nips” to show love, to more insistent bites to get another horse to move, to actual biting in an aggressive way."
Biting is one of the horses' many ways of communicating.
If it was more of insistent nipping, the horse is basically telling the other to move. This little quote I picked up on Google will explain more below.
"Yes, horses do bite; some more than others. Usually, it's a natural part of horse behavior. Horses have various ways of communicating, and biting each other is a big part of that – from friendly “nips” to show love, to more insistent bites to get another horse to move, to actual biting in an aggressive way."
Biting is one of the horses' many ways of communicating.
People tend to project their own feelings and experiences onto animals and act as if they are injurying each other in the same way humans would by biting when it's compareable to a kiss or a light push to say move it depending on the situation. I agree though they don't realise how fraglie humans are when they nip.
One needs must understand the rough and tumble nature of a horse.
To us, this bite could require surgery.
To a horse in good health, "Full of piss and vinegar" as grandma use to say, this is a love tap.
Horses are quite easy to gentle though. They seem to understand that humans are different, not as robust as horses very quickly. "Grooming" a human, they must be gentle, rather like caring for a newborn horse, and not like saying hello to another full size horse.
It's not hard to gentle a horse and you won't get kicked or bit- if you know what you are doing. If you want to know how, it's recorded and available, just note me. Easy to learn, horses have a clear, simple language- and it does not involve anger and fighting.
But if you are the old fashioned movie cowboy, the tie 'em to a post, bronco rider type- expect to get bit, kicked, stomped and rolled. You can NEVER out physical a horse. You can certainly wear them down, break their spirit and cause them to backbite you though!
To us, this bite could require surgery.
To a horse in good health, "Full of piss and vinegar" as grandma use to say, this is a love tap.
Horses are quite easy to gentle though. They seem to understand that humans are different, not as robust as horses very quickly. "Grooming" a human, they must be gentle, rather like caring for a newborn horse, and not like saying hello to another full size horse.
It's not hard to gentle a horse and you won't get kicked or bit- if you know what you are doing. If you want to know how, it's recorded and available, just note me. Easy to learn, horses have a clear, simple language- and it does not involve anger and fighting.
But if you are the old fashioned movie cowboy, the tie 'em to a post, bronco rider type- expect to get bit, kicked, stomped and rolled. You can NEVER out physical a horse. You can certainly wear them down, break their spirit and cause them to backbite you though!
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