Adults today only know about what horses are because of western films.
Although, some people still ride horses for work or fun, but the vast majority has not even touched a horse. Oh, and it really depends on location too. Rich countries switched to machines about a hundred years ago, whereas poor countries still use various animals in normal everyday life.
I grew up in the 90s, and before I was out of college I think I’d ridden 3 different horses maybe 20 or 30ish times combined (never faster than a cantor), and learned the basics of being a stable hand and horse grooming.
Seattle and environs. Had both a friend and a girlfriend that each owned horses.
Ex GF actually lived on a small ranch, had 3 horses.
Former friend had a horse in a managed stable about 3 miles from her house.
She sctually paid me and another friend once to clear out a bunch of pigeons in said stable with a pellet gun.
… I wish we had had a .22. We had to break their necks… the pellet gun was only strong enough to concuss them. I felt sick, evil for a month afterward, couldn’t sleep… vowed to myseld to never intentionally harm another living being ever again.
Went on to work in the tech sector as a data analyst, software dev, db admin for MSFT, Intl Import Export Firm, Non Profit…
Now I think I’d rather be a stable hand.
Less arrogant, full of shit, incompetent at their jobs idiots…who commit far, far more evil acts, orders of magnitude more evil things, in the name of profit than I had thought even possible.
Horses can often be assholes, but they are far easier to deal with than malicious people.
Work horses are a lot closer than I expected. I saw them about 15 minutes from the downtown of a top 20 Mexican city. Hitched up like a western, pulling carts, or carrying a person and sack of produce.
Adults today only know about what horses are because of western films.
Although, some people still ride horses for work or fun, but the vast majority has not even touched a horse. Oh, and it really depends on location too. Rich countries switched to machines about a hundred years ago, whereas poor countries still use various animals in normal everyday life.
I grew up in the 90s, and before I was out of college I think I’d ridden 3 different horses maybe 20 or 30ish times combined (never faster than a cantor), and learned the basics of being a stable hand and horse grooming.
Seattle and environs. Had both a friend and a girlfriend that each owned horses.
Ex GF actually lived on a small ranch, had 3 horses.
Former friend had a horse in a managed stable about 3 miles from her house.
She sctually paid me and another friend once to clear out a bunch of pigeons in said stable with a pellet gun.
… I wish we had had a .22. We had to break their necks… the pellet gun was only strong enough to concuss them. I felt sick, evil for a month afterward, couldn’t sleep… vowed to myseld to never intentionally harm another living being ever again.
Went on to work in the tech sector as a data analyst, software dev, db admin for MSFT, Intl Import Export Firm, Non Profit…
Now I think I’d rather be a stable hand.
Less arrogant, full of shit, incompetent at their jobs idiots…who commit far, far more evil acts, orders of magnitude more evil things, in the name of profit than I had thought even possible.
Horses can often be assholes, but they are far easier to deal with than malicious people.
Oh, I’ve touched a horse.
Can confirm, I’m the horse.
Work horses are a lot closer than I expected. I saw them about 15 minutes from the downtown of a top 20 Mexican city. Hitched up like a western, pulling carts, or carrying a person and sack of produce.