>>So, I'll offer another legal "trick" to lower respiration artifically.
>>That is to push a couple handfuls of ice up the horse's anus.
>what did the horse think of this?
He was a bit startled at the first piece, but then didn't seem to mind.
It was a hot day, after all.
>I would have never thought of doing such a thing - how did you know to do
>that, and how did it have the affect of lowering respirations?
I heard of it from Matthew Mackay-Smith.
I don't really know, but I believe it has something to do with some
nerve endings in the anus, which "fools" the brain into thinking the
horse is cooler than he really is, so he stops panting. Which is why it
is temporary.
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