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I don’t know horses get pretty screwed when they break a leg even with the best medical technology at the owners disposal.
To be fair to horses, their legs are fingers, which doesn't help the problem.
I’m imagining sports would be a lot more brutal if once a player got injured, they send out “the vet” onto the field to destroy them if they got any broken fingers or toes.
I’m fine with that
On the internet, nobody knows you are a horse
Is that like non-functional doomed, or like we can't use them for sport any more so we opt to kill them doomed? I've heard the spiel about horses breaking a leg before, but I'm not actually sure what it's supposed to imply.
It's doomed as in they'll die with most bad leg injuries. Horses cant support themselves on 3 legs. They're just too big. There was a foal with 3 legs that lived for a couple years and made its round on social media, but it was eventually put down because it just grew too large. Poor thing should have been put down immediately because the life it lived was of terrible quality despite getting specialized care.
I've seen a few horses get put down for a bad leg injury. Almost had to put down my childhood mare after she fucked up her leg in a fence. She made a full recovery, but it took almost a year for it to heal. Her leg got caught in the wire fence and it got shredded to the bone. It was awful, but she was able to stand on it enough to keep herself upright and all that, so we decided to try to get it healed and were miraculously successful
That's actually weirdly comforting. I always thought it was a comment on how quick humans are to just dispose of our companions once they start needing care.
And on that note, excellent work for NOT doing that and taking care of your hooved friend! ^_^
I mean there are pretty ruthless horse people, but not many are like that. Everyone I know goes above and beyond for their horses. My mare was considered a lost cause by many when I met her two years ago. I spent those two years rehabbing her and becoming her bestie and now she's in incredible shape physically and mentally. 10/10 worth the effort. I'll probably only get a couple more years with her because she's very old, but she living an exceptionally wonderful life now and that's all that matters to me. I want her to have the best old age she can. She's had a hard life and deserves to live out the rest of her days in comfort and happiness
Fair.