Yeah but are horses as loyal as a dog? I’m not a dog person myself I like cats more but I can see that dogs are extremely loyal. Purely hypothetically I think the chances the enemy could re-use your horse are much higher than the dog helping them.
Top-Candle-5481 on
Horses, cats, dogs, and many others have hard-earned their spots in human history. They’re all loved and should be remembered, it’s not a competition.
It bugs me when people bring up a despot or autocrat loving animals, to me it only serves to normalize them.
Old_Possibility_9730 on
I mean didn’t dogs served in wars also?
Douglesfield_ on
A horse isn’t handing out brandy to the wounded in no man’s land.
(I may have made this up)
master-o-stall on
They were going to be the best friend if not for the evil and intimidating horse that attacks lesbians.
Ironchloong on
Horse: Comrade in arms, mode of transportation, argricultural equipment, emergency source of food, dick so big there’s an idiom about it, strong as fuck, absolutely majestic, were literally Ferraris.
Dog: a fucking pet that can bow wow and beg for food. Tiny dick.
TheCourtSimpleton on
Dogs have been our best friends since cavemen times. What’s mr. horse’s excuse!?
Brothersunset on
Plot twist: you are rewarded with horse girls
dsatu568 on
I don’t know if I’m getting this correct but a lot of horses was bred for their speed and strength and this in turn lots of time make them have every bad temperament not saying that there’s no breed of dog similar to that but horse is bigger than the average human (not counting pony) and could easily heavily injure someone or straight up kill em even a docile horse could kill a person if startled which happens a lot to the horse caretaker(being kicked by horse but not die)
Pumpkinfactory on
Horses were so involved in wars, in ancient China one of the oldest recorded titles for top generals who served directly under the emperor to manage the strategic level of warfare was 司馬 （sī mǎ ）, meaning ” *in charge of horses* ” which in turn also became a surname for several noble families.
Charles12_13 on
Dogs have been by our side for significantly longer than. Sorry, horse, you just had to come just a few tens of thousands of years earlier
San-T-74 on
Hey, thanks to Uma Musume horse stonks are going up
heattreatedpipe on
When you and most of your human friends die in those wars it’s kinda harder to promote yourself
Angel_OfSolitude on
Well you see, the horse is used to carry a warrior into battle and to haul heavy loads. A dog however is what we leave inside our home to watch over our families, as wellnas hunt, herd, and sometimes fight. While horses are arguably more important historically, they definitely aren’t our best friends.
The_New_Replacement on
Dogs have been integrated into our social groups since prehistoric times. Know your fucking place preyanimal
Rex_Africae on
Horses, and by extension logistics were the reason Napoleon failed in his invasion of Russia.
Bonaparte’s Grand Armee usually employed the maxim of “march divided, fight concentrated”, which meant each corps could live off the land, advance on multiple roads and quickly concentrate for battle.
Now, this worked wonders in rich and fertile areas of Europe like Germany and Northern Italy, but tackling Russia’s poor and underdeveloped lands was a different beast. So, Napoleon brought back the ancient strategy of relying on slow moving wagons with horses to feed his army during the advance.
But the thing is, most of the horses who were supposed to do the heavy lifting of supplies perished even before winter came, mainly during the summer advance of the French, alongside a good chunk of the troops dying from illnesses like malaria, typhus and dysentery, making a bad situation worse.
iSoinic on
Dogs might be our best friends. But horses are our strongest allies
stmfunk on
Dogs have been around so long, we have coevolved, we essentially had a symbiotic relationship for hundreds of thousands of years and they had a not insignificant impact on human success as a species. Meanwhile entire civilizations existed without horses and they were domesticated much later in history
Dear_Ad_3860 on
To be fair dogs took part in many more wars but we just have no record for them.
ElA1to on
Dog: I can explain
Horse: you get to be “people’s best friend”? I’m just a regular friend.
Pigeon: humans still consider you their friends?
TassadarForXelNaga on
That’s because You are brothers in arms nor friends web are much more thank that
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Yeah but are horses as loyal as a dog? I’m not a dog person myself I like cats more but I can see that dogs are extremely loyal. Purely hypothetically I think the chances the enemy could re-use your horse are much higher than the dog helping them.
Horses, cats, dogs, and many others have hard-earned their spots in human history. They’re all loved and should be remembered, it’s not a competition.
It bugs me when people bring up a despot or autocrat loving animals, to me it only serves to normalize them.
I mean didn’t dogs served in wars also?
A horse isn’t handing out brandy to the wounded in no man’s land.
(I may have made this up)
They were going to be the best friend if not for the evil and intimidating horse that attacks lesbians.
Horse: Comrade in arms, mode of transportation, argricultural equipment, emergency source of food, dick so big there’s an idiom about it, strong as fuck, absolutely majestic, were literally Ferraris.
Dog: a fucking pet that can bow wow and beg for food. Tiny dick.
Dogs have been our best friends since cavemen times. What’s mr. horse’s excuse!?
Plot twist: you are rewarded with horse girls
I don’t know if I’m getting this correct but a lot of horses was bred for their speed and strength and this in turn lots of time make them have every bad temperament not saying that there’s no breed of dog similar to that but horse is bigger than the average human (not counting pony) and could easily heavily injure someone or straight up kill em even a docile horse could kill a person if startled which happens a lot to the horse caretaker(being kicked by horse but not die)
Horses were so involved in wars, in ancient China one of the oldest recorded titles for top generals who served directly under the emperor to manage the strategic level of warfare was 司馬 （sī mǎ ）, meaning ” *in charge of horses* ” which in turn also became a surname for several noble families.
Dogs have been by our side for significantly longer than. Sorry, horse, you just had to come just a few tens of thousands of years earlier
Hey, thanks to Uma Musume horse stonks are going up
When you and most of your human friends die in those wars it’s kinda harder to promote yourself
Well you see, the horse is used to carry a warrior into battle and to haul heavy loads. A dog however is what we leave inside our home to watch over our families, as wellnas hunt, herd, and sometimes fight. While horses are arguably more important historically, they definitely aren’t our best friends.
Dogs have been integrated into our social groups since prehistoric times. Know your fucking place preyanimal
Horses, and by extension logistics were the reason Napoleon failed in his invasion of Russia.
Bonaparte’s Grand Armee usually employed the maxim of “march divided, fight concentrated”, which meant each corps could live off the land, advance on multiple roads and quickly concentrate for battle.
Now, this worked wonders in rich and fertile areas of Europe like Germany and Northern Italy, but tackling Russia’s poor and underdeveloped lands was a different beast. So, Napoleon brought back the ancient strategy of relying on slow moving wagons with horses to feed his army during the advance.
But the thing is, most of the horses who were supposed to do the heavy lifting of supplies perished even before winter came, mainly during the summer advance of the French, alongside a good chunk of the troops dying from illnesses like malaria, typhus and dysentery, making a bad situation worse.
Dogs might be our best friends. But horses are our strongest allies
Dogs have been around so long, we have coevolved, we essentially had a symbiotic relationship for hundreds of thousands of years and they had a not insignificant impact on human success as a species. Meanwhile entire civilizations existed without horses and they were domesticated much later in history
To be fair dogs took part in many more wars but we just have no record for them.
Dog: I can explain
Horse: you get to be “people’s best friend”? I’m just a regular friend.
Pigeon: humans still consider you their friends?
That’s because You are brothers in arms nor friends web are much more thank that