Homophobic Horses

They know.

Aren't you not supposed to drive over those? Maybe they are doing what the rest of the police don't and abiding by the laws that they enforce on others. I could respect that.

That's really funny though.

I was really hoping to see a massive road apple get planted on that cross(dresser)walk.

This helps further elucidate the curious case of Mr. Hands.

That's not actually due to the horse's feelings about gay people. They seriously don't care about any humans so long as the humans are nice and either keep their distance or feed them food.

Four-legged, hoofed animals, such as horses, cows, oxen, goats, and even sheep, are terrified of both bright colors and quick movements. They are prey animals, and their minds are hard-wired to avoid predators, and since predators in the wild are fast-moving, they are wary of such things. This is true, even among domesticated hoofed mammals.

Most hoofed mammals don't have the ability to see all 7 colors of the rainbow. They are dichromatic, lacking one of the three types of cone cells in their eyes that humans and certain primates have, so the colors in their world are much more muted. In fact, they are incapable of seeing the color red. But colors such as white or yellow really bother them, because it often looks so stark against the landscape. If you read the book "Animals in Translation," by Temple Grandin, she touches on this subject extensively, including an incident involving a flapping yellow raincoat on a fence upsetting some cows, or someone accidentally dropping a white, Styrofoam cup on the ground in a barn and it scaring the cows. Horses are similar in that regard.

I even experienced something like this myself. When I was 12, I owned a tye-dye shirt that I liked to wear in the summer. Often mom and I would walk our dog around this man-made lake near our house, and I liked to go pet the two horses who lived on a small ranch on one side of the lake. Often they weren't there, so the few times they were available, I'd rush at the chance to go pet them, and they were both very friendly. One day, I ran up to the paddock when I saw them, but they were running away from me. I then looked down and realized I was wearing my brightly-colored tye-dye shirt, and my running in that scared them. They didn't know I was harmless to them. I eventually calmed them down by standing still and speaking softly, but it took a while to get them to come over for a petting.

the horse is like, "ew, I stepped on it!" lol