Re: Re: The Horse/Cow Thing

["Maryanne Stroud Gabbani" <gabbani@starnet.com.eg>]

Hah! I've got you all.  Check out water buffalo and CAMELS.  Those will
scare the living daylights out of anything but a farm bred Arab....and
that's mostly because they get a chance to see them.

Maryanne Stroud Gabbani
Cairo, Egypt
gabbani@starnet.com.eg
----- Original Message -----
From: <CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com>
To: <betndez@budget.net>; <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Saturday, December 04, 1999 2:43 AM
Subject: RC: Re: The Horse/Cow Thing


> In a message dated 12/3/99 4:40:30 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> betndez@budget.net writes:
>
> << So what does a NYC police horse know of dairy cows???  I can just
imagine
>  his surprise and flight instinct kicking in.  Poor guy wasn't trained to
>  handle a mob of COWS!  And they smell so funny. . . those marble throwing
>  hoodlums in NYC didn't smell that way! >>
>
> We had a similar experience when we moved to suburbia from the ranch.  We
> were used to horses that were used to cows but terrified of motorcycles.
Our
> "city foals" grew up right next door to a family of boys with dirt
> bikes--when my dad first started his gelding raised there, he was amazed
at
> how calm this colt was about motorcycles, but got dumped a couple of times
> when he whirled and split when we encountered cows on training rides!  He
was
> just an Urban Horse...
>
> Heidi
>
>
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