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Horses are food.  YOU may not think so but THEY do.  A horse's best 
defense against a hungry predator is to run away.  Therefore it follows 
that when they are lying down, they are at their most vulnerable... and 
they know it.  When a horse lies down himself, he does so in a 
controlled situation.  He scopes out the surroundings and is almost 
certain that lying down is safe, ie, he won't pay the ultimate price.

However, for most horses, most of the time, when they are forced to the 
ground, they have NO control.  If upon trying to rise, they cannot, the 
panic will be so intense the horse will often go into shock.  You might 
see their eyes roll back in their heads.  Shock is their last resort.  
It shuts down the pain centers so they won't feel the ripping and 
slashing of predatory teeth as intensely.  Certain that death is 
imminent, should a human "rescue" them, it is small wonder that they 
believe the human to be their saviour.  At the very least, their "near 
death experience" will have a profoundly sobering effect on them... a 
fact that several Ridecampers have already attested to.



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