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Hey! It’s Drew & Natalie Dee, back again with another Garbage Brain University for you. This week, we’re talking horses, donkeys, zebras, and zonkeys. We’ve got a panoply of horse facts and weird horse stories for you. As always, there’s a play-along quiz, and Natalie sings a tiny, weird horse song.
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Are you a horse rider? Do you own a horse? Or lease one? Or have you ever seen a horse, or seen a picture of one? Have you seen a book at the library with a horse on the cover, and it might have been about horses, but who knows? Because you didn’t look inside? Well, this is the internet, so your comment will be placed on equal footing as those of horse scientists. Embrace your horse un-knowledge, and share it with others in our comment section.
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Token Horse Girl here weighing in. My dad remarried a horse trainer, so I've been around horses since I was 12. I was gifted a horse when I was 16, which was great at the time when I didn't have to pay for it. Now I have a 18 year old horse that can't be ridden who costs more than my car payment and student loan payment combined. And you can't just sell a horse who can't be ridden because they immediately just get sent to slaughter, sadly. So I'll just be paying for a manure maker for the next 12 years.
Some more horse facts, there are not only ponies but 'mini' horses which are only like 2 feet tall at their shoulders. These were originally bred to work in mine shafts but now people just keep them as pets, a lot of times in their houses with them. Also, on a related note, in the same way that size of dog is often associated with temperament, small horses are often nippier and meaner than large horses. They're the chihuahua of the horse world.
I've only broken one bone in my 18 years of riding (thumb) but my worst horse injury was falling off and landing on my neck - I get vertigo now as a result.
If you were to pick up a horse's foot, you'd see a v-shaped part in the middle. This is called a 'frog'.
And, last of all, next time you see a horse's 'muzzle', look at the nostrils as if they were the horse's eyes. It makes them look like weird angry aliens. Example https://www.petmd.com/sites/default/files/nose-bleed-horses.jpg
Drew is right, horses need shoes only because we put more weight on them and make them walk on different surfaces than they would encounter naturally.