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The Animals That Aren't Dogs or Cats Thread

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KimMH said:
I would guess that donations are allowed to go to utilities and food and such if it’s registered as a charity. It seems like a thin living but it might be enough for the truly devoted.
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I don't know, they usually say that every dollar you donate goes back to the caring for the animals.
 
JD said:
I don't know, they usually say that every dollar you donate goes back to the caring for the animals.
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That might be so, seems like people who are willing to devote their lives to caring for others deserve to eat too. Perhaps they are rich and just want to share the love.
 
I pet some more of the horses at the stables on my bike, and I found some of their behavior really interesting to see.
It was a group of three, but there just one that came over by itself first, so that one must have been the braver leader of the group. The same thing happened the last time too, but that was a different group of horses.
When I first come up the fence, they have their heads kind of down, and I hold my hand out to let them smell it, but what's funny is as I reach towards the top of the fence, they actually lift their heads up over the fence, so I can reach them. They actually seem to understand that I can't reach through the fence, and that they need to lift their heads up over it for me to be able to pet them.
After I had been petting the first for a little bit, the second of the three came up the fence, and stuck their head right over it so fast they almost hit me in the shoulder with their nose. I just find it kind of interesting how one always comes up first, and the others seem to just kind of hang back a little bit, until they see how things go for their buddy, and when they see that I'm being nice to them, they come right up and say hi.
The third one apparently didn't want to be pet though, because after I let them sniff my hand and started to reach up to pet them, they pulled their head away and stepped back from the fence. So I left them alone after that.
After I pet them a little, they started just kind of nosing around in the dirt, and I started talking to them, and the friendlier ones lifted their heads up over fence again, and let me pet them a little more before I left.
It really amazes me how smart they seem to be, before all of this, I thought of horses as these big dumb things that you just kind of jumped on and told them where to go.
This reminded me of something that I had heard on a nature show a while back, the smartest animals are almost always ones that live in big groups, like horses, and elephants in herds, or dogs in packs. They have to be smart in order to keep track of all of the different social dynamics within the group.
 
Stopped and pet another horse at the stables today, this one was a palomino mare. I'm pretty sure she was a mare, I took a quick look, but with the fence and the way she was standing it was hard to tell for sure. There was some guy on the street a little ahead of where I stopped who was apparently have issues with his pickup, he stopped and opened up the hood, and was kind of banging around some. The only problem was that he was making her nervous, while I was petting she kept taking off and going up by where he was stopped, then coming back. It was kind funny, every time she'd take off, I'd start to get back on my bike, and then just as I got my leg over it, she'd come back and stick her head back over the fence. By the time I decided to leave, the guy took off, went back over and pet her one last time, she didn't take off, so I'm pretty it was the guy and not me. I see her out there a lot, so I'll probably stop and pet her whenever I see her.
 
On Monday, the Salt River Wild Horse Management Group is doing a nationwide Panda Express Fundraiser, if you're interested DM me and I'll send you the link with more info.
 
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