ferris209 said:and DO NOT put it in a pasture with anything it could trip over. Believe me, if there is one thing in a pasture that a horse could trip over, it will find it and trip!
Yeah! Isn't that the truth! I grew up around horses, so I know exactly what you are talking about.
It isn't so much buying the horse that is the expensive part, but feeding it constantly and the occasional vet bill. Not to mention I live in the city, so it would be pretty useless here. I do know how to ride though, and that is a conforting thought.
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In my imagination, in the event of a nuclear war when everything is knocked out by an EMP, I will be wandering around and scavenging when suddenly I stumble upon an old farm house. I go inside and discover an old man and an old woman. They have died in each others arms. I gently close their eyes and ponder how lucky they were to have died in peace rather than lived on witness this post-apocalyptic world we now live in. I leave their house and discover a horse in their back pasture. I approach him, we stare at each other for a bit, then I hoist myself up onto his back, and from then on we are the best of friends. Galloping about the wastelands together. Blowing the heads off supermutants. Rescuing women and small children from raiders. Saving the world from self aware computers, etc. Everyday I will think of the old man and woman and the wonderful gift they unwittingly gave me after their deaths.
If I didn't know how to ride a horse, none of this could ever happen, and I'd be forced to travel about on foot in this grizzly future that I am pretty certain we will see in our lifetimes (sans the mutants and the computer thing).