What a nice coincidence, Fable is home with the flu and I am home at sick leave for OHSS (ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome, a condition caused because I was egg donour to infertile couples recently. It's not legal to pay people for egg donating in Sweden, so nobody wants to do it. Now I understand why
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To the point, first the light ones then the heavier:
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Originally Posted by Athena Any person can't just jump up on any horse and go for a freaking joyride. |
No? Maybe not any horse, but most people who can ride seems to be able to ride most horses, providing the horses are trained to carry people (I don't know the English word for this, what is it called when you train the young horse to carry people? And is there an adjective form of this word, when a horse is trained to carry people it is...?)
To train horses to carry people is obvioiusly not something anyone can do, and it's even more difficult with camels. You need people with a special knowledge, skill and personality to do this. However, just riding already trained horses is a completely different matter.
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Horses are big and we are small. A horse could squash me. Humans master horses. It takes a ton of dilligent patient consistentcy experience and understanding to make them look nice under saddle. Concidering those facts, I know that being an adreneline junkie is right up the alley of a horse trainer. Putting myself at risk and such. I do understand the behavior, to the point where I can master an animal ten times my size and that's the risk. But that wouldn't give me any sort of adreneline; dodging away from the hooves of a 1,500lb rearing equine, knowing it's just me and him, he could crack my skull like summersquash, and I must recollect the animal so it doesn't cause havoc to the point where work can't continue. The show must go on. I generally try to treat the horses like I would myself, does that classify me as a furry? I mean, I don't pin on fake tails, but still, we are one in the same...
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We all have different needs for adrenaline release, and it varies widely what triggers our adrenaline release. Sure working with horses can be dangerous, a lot of things can be dangerous...living is sort of dangerous when you think about it. If you focus on it, it is very dangerous to drive a car, too. Lots of people are disabled or killed in traffic. A collision can easily make minced meat of your body. As a pedestrian, getting hit by a car or even a motorbike can crack your skill, tear off your limbs, make you paralysed, kill you etc in a second. It's a question of what we choose focus on. You are obviously thrilled by horses and get adrenaline rushes whn you focus on the possible danger of the situation. Personally I am quite bored with horses, riding is nice sometimes but not more than nice to me, and working with horses have never attracted me. As a kid I had a friend who was a race horse jockey. She trained and kept her horses in the same stable as some of the internationally most successful Swedish trottlers. She was not at all an adrenline junkie - perhaps she ought to have been because later she died in an accident when she was training a young horse to get used to the starting box.
I would absolutely not say your profession as an equestrian and your interest and knowledge about horses makes you a "furry" in any way. "Furries" is a term that denotes a specific fandom and fan-fiction based subculture. Are the camel men in the Sahara or the horsemen in Central Asia Furries? Of course not. They are just people who live closer to, and socialise and work with, certain other species than other people do. It would be such an overinclusive use of the term Furries so it would be meaningless if we apply a fandom culture like furries in this context. If you call yourself a Furry, fine, it's not a problem to me how you define yourself, but the lexiographic use of the term does not imply that everybody who has a relationship to other species is a Furry. More about that later when I reply to Hill and our new poster Inter.