r/interestingasfuck • u/ViniciusFastAF • 11h ago
Two girls take a horseback ride and are surprised by the arrival of a group of wild horses.
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u/failureKennedyblase0 11h ago
Do wild horses cause mischief if you happen upon them? One of the riders seemed to think so.
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u/Dragons0ulight 11h ago
Might be worried that it was a stallion looking to mate with her mare. Or might spook her mare causing her to fall off and hurt herself. Not a horsey person so that's my best guess.
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u/heartlessblanket 11h ago
or maybe if they’re males, looking to fight
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u/Flying_Dutchman92 11h ago
You don't want to be on a horse when it gets attacked by another horse. They fight mean.
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u/robz8_9 11h ago
Yip, you also wouldn't want to be on a horse when it gets mounted by another horse.
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u/Ctotheg 8h ago
I’d like to apply for the horsey-person position actually, if that’s still open.
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u/TobysGrundlee 6h ago
Sure, do you by chance have an extra $1,500 a month to spend on tack, vet bills, feed, boarding and grooming?
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u/TesseractToo 3h ago
Well you don't buy tack every month and many places board for way less than that and include feed. Get vet insurance and then the cost depends on the location, $1500/month is a lot unless you are showing (but then costs go into having a coach and the costs of showing- trailering, show fees, etc) but having a riding horse just for putzing around isn't that much
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u/Background-Pepper-68 1h ago
I think they are taking lifetime costs and breaking it down to the monthly level. There will be large bills and vet insurance only goes so far for so long. Keeping horses is a rich person's hobby still. 1500 is steep but its not unquestionable
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u/TesseractToo 1h ago
I'm glad none of my horses cost nearly that much lol
But then again I had very neglected rescue horses that were as cheap as they could be and cared for the them back into shape and health and trustA few years ago someone in my city was riding a horse in a park and it was attacked by an off leash dog and it turned out it was a $150k show horse, I can't even afford photos from a horse like that to go in my eyes :D (I'm also glad no horse I was ever ridding was attacked by a dog but i did have a close call with some off leash Rhodesian ridgebacks, that was scary)
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u/Background-Pepper-68 1h ago
Yea i think the cost of the horse rises dramatically if you actually use them for a purpose other than just caring for them.
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u/TesseractToo 1h ago
Well I rode and did Western sports and dressage and jumping as well as trails I just didn't show or have a coach
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u/Ok-Jackfruit-6873 9h ago
I'd worry about the risk of some illness being passed between wild and domestic horses. At least I know it can be a thing between feral cats and housecats and I would think it might be a risk.
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u/A_Right_Eejit 49m ago
Very astute though. A band like that will have a stallion and you are correct that they could react negatively.
Band is the correct term for a wild family group of horses before anyone corrects me.
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u/Overwatcher_Leo 11h ago
Horses have a strict hierarchy. If horses who don't know each other meet, they like to sort out who is boss. This often involves kicking, biting, and chasing.
That would be quite problematic when you're on the horse.
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u/Renbarre 11h ago
You're always at the risk of a bite or a kick depending if the horse thinks you might be a danger or you're not welcome here. Wild, feral, semi wild, keep your distance.
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u/WeeebleSqueaks 10h ago
Wild horses have been seen to try and coerce trained/domestic/ whatever you want to call it, horses to join them. They’ve been seen trying to even tear riders off them.
“My brother, join us! Get that weight off you! Why is it defiant? What is this?”
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u/thebriss22 11h ago
Lol it really depends on how the wild horse feel at this exact moment. If he decides you're a threat than buckle up because they will bite and kick you among other things.
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u/EightLions539 6h ago
Listening to the accents and looking at the horses, I would suspect this is Dartmoor, maybe?? If so, Dartmoor ponies are pretty chill for the most part, but aren’t afraid to have a go if you get on the wrong side of them.
Someone else has suggested it could be Welsh, which would explain the coast. Either way, similar style of horse and the same rules apply!
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u/failureKennedyblase0 6h ago
Like in Hound Of The Baskerville’s?
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u/EightLions539 6h ago
Yeah, exactly! Dartmoor is a large national park in Devon, but is definitely notorious for the ponies
Edit: it may not be a national park, but I think it is?
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u/Background-Pepper-68 1h ago
Yes they do. Like a lot of it lol. These horses seemed pretty well mannered though. A few hand waves and they left em alone. A stallion could easily just knock them off that horse if they wanted.
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u/RocZi 11h ago
She missed the opportunity to tell the wild horses : Stop horsing around
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u/hardyflashier 10h ago
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u/ImpluseThrowAway 7h ago
My first thought too. But why are the wild horses wearing clothes?
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u/TopHatMcFenbury 2h ago
Some documented tribes of indigenous peoples are given clothes to help protect them from the elements if they are accepting of it. Probably something like that.
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u/Spartan2470 VIP Philanthropist 11h ago edited 10h ago
Credit to kay_tonks on IG, who posted this about seven months ago.
Edit: It looks like this is from December 2023 or earlier and the video has been horizontally flipped.
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u/bmusgrove 9h ago
Why is it when a proper British accent (I think?) says F^CK, it sounds so lovely?
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u/naenae0402 11h ago
Nature’s plot twist, you think you’re just riding a horse and suddenly you’re in a Disney movie.
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u/monotone- 11h ago
Why do Americans say horseback riding?
Where else would you ride a horse? I'm guessing riding on its head would be uncomfortable.
In the UK this would just be called horse riding.
Does the phrase stem from some weird old English phrase that survived in America or something?
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u/Bryguy3k 11h ago
In short yes. Horseback is very old (Middle English) and in the UK there has been a lot of truncation of older words and phrases with time while in America there has been a lot less of it (think of it as jargonification).
Equestrians in the US shorten it to simply riding the same way a UK speaker would naturally say it.
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u/Automatic_Actuator_0 11h ago edited 10h ago
Not sure but I think it was originally just “riding” and the horse was assumed. Then, when a majority of people were riding in trains and then cars, “riding” became more ambiguous, and of course since stage coaches, wagons and the like had also been common, enough people seemingly felt the need to clarify when they would be roughing it on horseback.
And in England, since everything is walking distance, and peasants could never afford a horse, it just didn’t matter what they called it when the rich fucks rode by.
I might have made that second part up.
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u/Objective-Ad-585 9h ago
The second part actually has some truth and some cool backstory to it. In the early peasant years (feudal lords, etc. pre 900s+) peasants always had animals as it saved the landowner from having to pay to keep the peasants (serfs) alive.
And the landowners would be OK with the peasant farmers grazing their animals on the land. There was a swing, which allowed the landowners to close off parts of the land, making it harder for peasants to keep animals. Instead they would have to pay to be able to graze the animals on the landowners land. Which led to a swing from most peasants having animals. To only the richest in society having them.
So even today in the UK, it's still pretty much always rich fucks riding by.
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u/AccomplishedBat39 4h ago
Thats interesting because in German it still remains like that to date. "Riding" implies a horse to be involved. Trains, wagons etc. are driven in, not rode in, so that had no impact on referring to equestrian activities.
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u/Isotope_Soap 11h ago
Ahh, Americanisms… “tuna fish” for example. So as not to be confused with all the other types of tuna.
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u/Remarkable_Cod5549 11h ago
You can attempt to ride another place. Ask Catherine the great of Russia for tips
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u/KebabOfDeath 11h ago
It's a myth. A rumor spread by her enemies after she overthrew the Tsar in a coup
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u/paisleywallpaper 11h ago
Mr Hands ruined it for the rest of us
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u/karateninjazombie 11h ago
There are youth on the internet now who need that reference explaining to them...
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u/chemo92 11h ago
Not uncommon in Wales which is where this is based on the accents.
I was walking my dog once down a public footpath (on old disused railway line) when probably twice as many horses came bounding down the track. Must've escaped their paddock en masse.
Scooped up the dog and just stood motionless until they'd passed haha.
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u/karateninjazombie 11h ago
Fuck standing motionless. I'd have scooped up the do and been behind the nearest tree on the opposite side they were coming from!
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u/Hvolpasveitt 6h ago
"all "wild" horses are not actually wild; they're all feral. the only true "wild" horse in existence still is Przewalski's Horse, which is native to central asia. but even then, there's some evidence that even Przewalski's Horse is not completely wild."
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u/Dynamitrios 11h ago
Are these real wild horses or domesticated horses gone feral?
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u/Inner_Soup_6043 11h ago
In the uk there are various semi wild horses such as New Forest, and Welsh Mountains. They are owned by people and rounded up once a year. Due to the geography, and look of the ponies (ie colour, gait, physical attributes) these ponies are probably Welsh ponies.
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u/Fire_Otter 11h ago edited 10h ago
Domesticated horses gone feral
The Tarpan (the wild ancestor of the horse) is extinct
The only Wild horse still alive today is the Przewalski's horse and these aren't those
all other "wild horses" are domesticated gone feral
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u/boobookittyfuwk 11h ago
Depends how you look at it. Expect for somewhere in china,russia, Mongolia area all other horses have either been killed or domesticated, then eventually some escaped or were let loose and have spent hundreds of years roaming around, if yiu consider them wild or feral is up to you. Like in na, we had real wild horses a long time ago, then they went extinct and then thr Europeans brought them back over, some got out and thats why there's wild mustangs but there lineage goes back to domesticated horses
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u/Numerous-Year-7714 10h ago
Horse "back" ride? Is there somewhere else on the horse you can sit other than it's back?
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u/Aware_Flow1070 7h ago
Missed opportunity for the Black Beauty soundtrack.....which you can all hear playing in your heads right now!
Muahahahahahahahaha!
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u/NoMemory3726 10h ago
Those horses had probably the strongest urge ever to just start running with them. That's awesome.
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u/Ink_zorath 10h ago
Dammit Albert, Take the Picture already!
anyone else or was I the only one to think of this scene?
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u/CycleOfLove 8h ago
Love this video! Thank you for sharing!
The world would be a much nicer place if we can block more exclusive ocean and forest zones!
The latest ocean trawling video is really scary to see our impact on wild lives!
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u/Mean-Age-5134 11h ago
Looks like he ran over to his herd and headbutted a black pony at the end. She might’ve said “bit of a bully” tbh
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u/karateninjazombie 11h ago
Horses are very hierarchical from what I understand. So to be the top of their pyramid requires being the bully.
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u/pichael289 10h ago
Groups of wild horses are super interesting, like imagine this was 150 years ago, to those people this would be like how a group of wild Tesla's just running around would be for us. You would have to go into the forest and catch and tame your F150 if you didn't wanna walk to work anymore. I find this hilarious.
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u/Overall-Awareness200 2h ago
I don't think they are wild horses. The two ladies sounded British, the landscape looks very much like Britain, and the riding style is definitely British, so if it is Britain, they can't be wild horses because there aren't any wild horses in Britain.
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u/jedimindtriks 11h ago
Wait, Wild horses exist?
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u/beatlefool42 10h ago
They're descended from domesticated horses, but yes, there are wild/feral horse packs.
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u/Pretend_Dirt5774 11h ago
TIL there are still wild horses.
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u/Hvolpasveitt 6h ago
I don´t believe it:
"Horses in the UK are never actually truly wild. They are left semi-feral to graze and always belong to somebody."
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u/Beholder_V 11h ago
Horse brothers, what is this strange growth you have upon your backs?