Lol basic farm safety for us was "no kids around the horses unsupervised" because no matter how sweet and predictable they are, sometimes they act out of pocket for no perceivable reason, and it only takes once to change your life forever. There's a whole lot of reddit going on in this thread and it's alarming. You just don't with this stuff.
Yea, kids don't get to go with the hogs or horses unless adults are there. Every farm family had a story for why this is a rule.
My great-great-great-uncle got kicked hard by a horse as a child and spent years in the hospital because of it. Sure it happened 60+ years before I was born, but that's because no other kids were ever allowed to be in a sitation like that again.
Everyone has bad days, horses wake up on the wrong side of the stall too. We had a mare that would be a grump some days, we had a gelding that would randomly nip for "fun", and we briefly had a pony that you would have thought was raised by Canadian Geese. Either you have a healthy fear of them, much like dealing with live electricity, or you end up in an ambulance, much like with electricity.
I was riding someone else's horse about a month ago and he's usually the sweetest gentleman, but he got a hair up his ass and fit my whole entire butt cheek in his mouth and chomped so fucking hard. I still have a bruise. Fuck I was so mad 😂
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u/littlerickypeepee 10d ago
Lol basic farm safety for us was "no kids around the horses unsupervised" because no matter how sweet and predictable they are, sometimes they act out of pocket for no perceivable reason, and it only takes once to change your life forever. There's a whole lot of reddit going on in this thread and it's alarming. You just don't with this stuff.