Re: Riding after feeding

[Lif Strand <fasterhorses@gilanet.com>]

At 09:31 AM 1/30/01, Tracey wrote:
>  I haven't had the balls to put my theory to the test yet, so I'd love to 
> hear anyone else's thoughts on this.

I always use this test:  Would it kill or hurt a horse in the wild to do 
something if a predator was about to see if that horse would like to become 
lunch?

Of course in the wild a horse wouldn't be eating just two meals a day, but 
even so, even if a horse's stomach was stuffed full of goodies it had just 
came across, if a wolf pack was about to attack that horse better be able 
to run off as far as it needs to without colicking or it'll become lunch 
anyway.

That's also how I came to decide that so much mare PMS stuff is learned 
behavior rather than physiological - I just don't see a mare acting stupid, 
refusing to save herself from the mountain lion because she's in heat, or 
about to be, or just out, or whatever.

There's Lif's Really Scientific School of Thought for you.

Lif Strand
Quemado NM  USA
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