I’ve never known any other animal apart from horses to need to be fitted with shoes. Why is this? And is this phenomenon strictly exclusive to domesticated horses? What about wild horses, then? If wild horses cope without them, why can’t domesticated horses?
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Horses don’t need shoes just like kids don’t need shoes. Walking around in the grass and enjoying lunch can be quite fun. A little risky if you get attacked, but you can run away from. That without shoes.
We put shoes on horses for the same reasons we put shoes on. To protect our feet. And especially if we are working or playing hard on our feet.
If wild horses could understand what the shoe did. They would be lining up for them.
It’s not that domestication has weakened the horse’s hoof or leg, but that humans expect more out of them so we protect them from the labors of domestication..
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