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Wait... How much does a horse cost?
You can get one for free if you want. Theres still wild horse populations.
But if you want, you can spend hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions on a horse. You could also probably get one for a few hundred but that one is already on its way to a glue factory.
There are very, very few wild horses, and they're pretty much untamable. But there are TONS of feral horses with populations growing out of control and governments at a loss for what to do about it
Call McDonald's
Time to bring the McRib back
What's the difference between a wild and a feral horse? Isn't going feral just kinda like going back to being a wild animal?
Yes, but it comes from a domesticated genetic line. Imagine if a Pug or Chihuahua went feral. It wouldn't exactly be the same as the original wolf-like starting point.
It's the same with horses. After generations of being bred by humans for specific traits, they're very different than the original wild population. They're probably also easier to re-domesticate than wild horses.
The idea of vicious packs of feral pugs is fantastic
See that one? That's the alpha pug
But... there were no horses in the Americas until colonization (sort of) -- Is there still a difference between feral and wild in the new world?
They are all feral by definition in the new world (although I've never read about your link before!)
Legislative BS that requires public opinion often refers to them as wild (because it plays to romanticizing) or they are sometimes labeled wild just to categorize how they will be treated by land and animal controllers (so they are considered "natural" in some areas). Before like the 70s, they were treated as pests and killed, but people thought they were cool and pretty, so it had to stop.
Arizona had always had a shitty time because the horse populations destroy the environment, but when parks people tried to thin or remove them, people complained because horses are pretty.
There are no wild horses; all horses are either tamed or their ancestors were.
https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/przewalskis-horse
The Przewalski's horse is not the wild form of our horse. It’s a other sub species (a little bit like the zebra or the donkey) with (for example) another chromosome count. Another problem is that there are evidences that the modern Przewalski's horse feraled from a domesticate form of the primal Przewalski's horse (that was tamed by the Botai culture). A further problem is that the Przewalski's horse was extincted in the wild for decades and only survived because of human breeding (so it was kind of tamed again).
What? Off of BLM land or something? No one is going to let you steal wild horses off their land I suspect.
Surely I can't just go grab a bunch of wild animals anymore -- it's not 1850
I wasnt completely serious
Ah, she opted for the cash equivalent.
Boarding, farrier, vet, plus the mental and emotional toll of owning a 1000lb toddler that exhibits an inverse correlation of majestic beauty and intelligence. God, I love horses lol.
Owning a horse is more expensive monthly than having a drug addiction tbh.
I dated a girl who had two horses and she was shaving every expense to keep her horses well where she was selling plasma. After noping out that relationship after a month, my friends explained to me the whole "Horse Girl" stereotype and every single one matched.