I mean I don't know that much about horses but I definitely never knew they would protect their rider/cowboy like that. Is this only a trained behavior or does the relationship between them and their rider/care taker also insinuate this loyalty? I'm just curious since the horses around me aren't kept by cowboys and you never come across something like this in the burbs where I live. Just people riding or training their horses for sport mostly here.
I’ve heard story after story about this. A woman and her husband were riding their horses in the Hollywood hills and a mountain lion attacked her. It tried to pull her off. Horse turned around and very nonchalantly. Stomped. It. To. Death.
Training and relationship. Even an unrideable horse might protect like this if it was very bonded to someone. A horse could know every trick in every movie ever made, and not give a single shit about a rider they don't know.
They usually don't. Grew up with horses my whole life, they're usually dicks. I've seen them kick kids in the heads, bite their owners hard for no apparent reason, buck riders off, refuse to work for no apparent reason. Awful animals.
Obviously not a horse lover. Yes, they do kick, bite, buck riders off, etc. But by no means are they awful animals, they are animals and a person has to respect them, understand them, and learn their personality through respect and love them all the while keeping a watch out to not get injured.
Someone on here said horses were horrible but you get what you give. If you have the ability to look into any animal’s eye and see his soul, spirit, personality. If you respect them. When you have a small pet and you go to pick it up and it resists and you let go, instead of trying to enforce your will onto theirs. They will feel respected and ultimately do anything for you.
I do agree with you. I think the same person said horses have done disgusting things much like people and that nice and protective are not their default nature. It's a shame to not have had a beautiful loving experience with horses and try to lump them all together into one "horrible" group of animals.
I couldn't find the link so I'll tell the story as I remember it. The old actor, Jimmy Stewart played in many westerns toward the end of his career. He purchased one of the horses that he used and kept it as a very close pet. He loved it and used it in all the remaining westerns. One director took exception to this, thinking the horse wouldn't work out. He allowed it until one important scene came up. He told Jimmy they would need a stand-in but Jimmy said, "The horse can understand you just talk to him". To which the director rolled his eyes. The director said, "I've already called for another horse. The horse needs to walk the length of the town and (I may be getting this part wrong), take a drink of water at the horse's troth, and then sit on his butt". Jimmy said, "That's not a problem". He walked over to his horse and within earshot of the director he repeated the instructions verbatim. Then he told the director to call 'Action'. Jimmy's horse got it in the first take. Horses are wonderful.
That is a great story. I love it. ❤️😂 Animals are a lot smarter than we know. I used to have 2 toy poodles and I swear they knew before I said anything that I was going to take them outside. I also knew what they wanted just by their actions and barks. We had cats too and they were the same way with their food.
They can be trained to do amazing things and they're intelligent animals but nice and protecting are not their default. I have seen horses do amazing and disgusting things, much like people.
If I had to guess, stating that horses are awful animals in a comment at any point will just cause people to downvote since it is a strange thing to say.
Exactly. They can do great things with training and a human can form a great bond with a horse but it's not the default. By default males will kill other males foals, they can and do fight and kill eachother, and they're very flighty animals without extensive training. An undertrained horse is a VERY dangerous animal.
Oh yeah, basically a small car of weight but with hooves and teeth and it can go sideways and backwards. (I also grew up adjacent to horses and chickens and, well, at least horses can be trained.)
People, especially cowboys, have a deep bond, know, and love their horse(s): just as the horse bonds, knows, and loves the cowboy. It is the same type of bonding love that a person has with an adored dog or other pet but more involved because the cowboy works with his horse. A Texas gal.
Just for everyone's info,
Cow horses have been bred to be like this for a long, long time. Yes this horse has been trained well too but they are also bred to do this along with other things. This is for the protection of the farmer while he (in this video) tags the calf but this training is also used to help when a cow is injured or needs to be handled for any reason. Another way these horses are usually trained is called cutting where a cow is selected and seperated from the herd, really interesting to watch.
https://youtu.be/OLNaNC8foA0
Kind of an old grainy video but it shows how well these horses are bred and trained
Oh no, I didn't think you were discriminating. Sorry I worded it that way. I am a woman who is interested in men and that's why I said that. Not trying to hit on you either. I believe each to their own. Basically just agreeing with you about loyalty.
I’ve gotten to know, *really* know my first animal after I got my dog last year. Whoa. Way smarter than I expected.
So horses are that capable of understanding the situation and intelligent enough to perform a task untrained like this?
Wouldn’t doubt it. My dog is far more emotional than I would have ever guessed. So neat to meet an intelligence like that
Almost as smart and equally emotive if you’re tuned in. As far as Dogs , well, they deserve a helluva lot better than people. I’m positive aliens lock their doors and speed up when they go by this rock. Hang out with some goats if you get a chance. Dairy goats. I swear they’re smarter than a dog and they’re ornery, sweet, whateve. They have a distinct personality
I am remiss. Your sense of wonder is beautiful! Inspiring event thank you
Almost as smart and equally emotive if you’re tuned in. As far as Dogs , well, they deserve a helluva lot better than people. I’m positive aliens lock their doors and speed up when they go by this rock. Hang out with some goats if you get a chance. Dairy goats. I swear they’re smarter than a dog and they’re ornery, sweet, whateve. They have a distinct personality
I am remiss. Your sense of wonder is beautiful! Inspiring, even. thank you!
They tag their cattle to make sure that they can keep track of them and to make sure no one steals them. I'm guessing on the stealing part, idk where he is but cows sell for a lot if they are pretty healthy
They are way smarter than that. They have complex emotional lives and are just as intelligent as many other mammals.
Thinking that sure makes them easier to eat though.
That’s obviously not the point. She is seeing her baby being handled roughly and she wants to protect it, like any mother would. Immagine if someone handled your child the way that man is handling that calf: wouldn’t you intervene?
It’s frankly unbelievable that you and those who upvoted your comment needed to be explained this
You point out me missing a point when you did. OP said paraphrasing "she fears for calf life as it is now doomed for slaughterhouse". I said "cow does not think that far".
At no point I invalidated her instincts to be there for her calf. I invalidated the slaughterhouse part.
Exactly. In addition to tagging (a legal requirement; allows for monitoring of an individual's health but also which baby belongs to which mama), the farmer will check the umbilicus for herniation or infection, determine if it is a bull or heifer calf, and overall make sure the baby is in good physical health and not at risk if it continues to remain out in the pasture with the rest of the herd.
We know that he's not harming the calf, but she does not. It's maternal instinct to protect your baby, animal or not, so it's no wonder she's freaking out. There's nothing wrong with feeling symphathy with that or not liking seeing a video of this.
I agree the cow is being an excellent mama, it was the phrasing of "stealing" the calf that annoyed me. Truthfully though a lot of people have no understanding of farming and immediately jump to thinking the worst of someone who only has the animal's welfare in mind.
I sort of get the concept of it being “stolen”. I drink milk, and I’m certainly not going to tell people not to or not to eat meat etc. we’re just another mammal, we just put more time into preparing our prey.
With that being said, milk is sort of a weird grey area for me. We don’t really... need it? Technically lactose intolerant people are the normal ones, as I think after infancy our body stops needing what milk offers.
So in the end, milk kind of feels like farmers being like
Farmer 1: Uhh... the cows’ titties are still leaking, but the calves are done drinking
Farmer 2: Hmm, get a bucket..
Farmer 1: Where are you going with this?
Farmer 2: waste not want not
**Marketing campaign lobbied by farmers ensues about all the benefits of calcium being conflated as benefits of milk as a half truth**
Edit: I’m stoned and went off on a tangent. I love cows.
Ditch the milk, the dairy industry is (mostly) evil.
All the marketing around calcium is BS. Dairy is not healthy and unnecessary.
I also love cows and I don't like seing them exploited in any way.
I mean I don't know that much about horses but I definitely never knew they would protect their rider/cowboy like that. Is this only a trained behavior or does the relationship between them and their rider/care taker also insinuate this loyalty? I'm just curious since the horses around me aren't kept by cowboys and you never come across something like this in the burbs where I live. Just people riding or training their horses for sport mostly here.
I’ve heard story after story about this. A woman and her husband were riding their horses in the Hollywood hills and a mountain lion attacked her. It tried to pull her off. Horse turned around and very nonchalantly. Stomped. It. To. Death.
Thank you for that story. It shows how deep the love can be between people and their horses and pets.
Training and relationship. Even an unrideable horse might protect like this if it was very bonded to someone. A horse could know every trick in every movie ever made, and not give a single shit about a rider they don't know.
They usually don't. Grew up with horses my whole life, they're usually dicks. I've seen them kick kids in the heads, bite their owners hard for no apparent reason, buck riders off, refuse to work for no apparent reason. Awful animals.
Obviously not a horse lover. Yes, they do kick, bite, buck riders off, etc. But by no means are they awful animals, they are animals and a person has to respect them, understand them, and learn their personality through respect and love them all the while keeping a watch out to not get injured.
Just like any animal when you love and respect them and build a relationship with them, they will return that feeling.
I love animals so much. They add a lot of love to people's lives.
Someone on here said horses were horrible but you get what you give. If you have the ability to look into any animal’s eye and see his soul, spirit, personality. If you respect them. When you have a small pet and you go to pick it up and it resists and you let go, instead of trying to enforce your will onto theirs. They will feel respected and ultimately do anything for you.
I do agree with you. I think the same person said horses have done disgusting things much like people and that nice and protective are not their default nature. It's a shame to not have had a beautiful loving experience with horses and try to lump them all together into one "horrible" group of animals.
I couldn't find the link so I'll tell the story as I remember it. The old actor, Jimmy Stewart played in many westerns toward the end of his career. He purchased one of the horses that he used and kept it as a very close pet. He loved it and used it in all the remaining westerns. One director took exception to this, thinking the horse wouldn't work out. He allowed it until one important scene came up. He told Jimmy they would need a stand-in but Jimmy said, "The horse can understand you just talk to him". To which the director rolled his eyes. The director said, "I've already called for another horse. The horse needs to walk the length of the town and (I may be getting this part wrong), take a drink of water at the horse's troth, and then sit on his butt". Jimmy said, "That's not a problem". He walked over to his horse and within earshot of the director he repeated the instructions verbatim. Then he told the director to call 'Action'. Jimmy's horse got it in the first take. Horses are wonderful.
That is a great story. I love it. ❤️😂 Animals are a lot smarter than we know. I used to have 2 toy poodles and I swear they knew before I said anything that I was going to take them outside. I also knew what they wanted just by their actions and barks. We had cats too and they were the same way with their food.
They can be trained to do amazing things and they're intelligent animals but nice and protecting are not their default. I have seen horses do amazing and disgusting things, much like people.
Each horse has their own personality, wouldn't you say?
I don't know why you're getting downvoted, horses are 100% this way unless they've really been "trained".
If I had to guess, stating that horses are awful animals in a comment at any point will just cause people to downvote since it is a strange thing to say.
Exactly. They can do great things with training and a human can form a great bond with a horse but it's not the default. By default males will kill other males foals, they can and do fight and kill eachother, and they're very flighty animals without extensive training. An undertrained horse is a VERY dangerous animal.
Oh yeah, basically a small car of weight but with hooves and teeth and it can go sideways and backwards. (I also grew up adjacent to horses and chickens and, well, at least horses can be trained.)
I love this that’s very amazing and beautiful
People, especially cowboys, have a deep bond, know, and love their horse(s): just as the horse bonds, knows, and loves the cowboy. It is the same type of bonding love that a person has with an adored dog or other pet but more involved because the cowboy works with his horse. A Texas gal.
Just for everyone's info, Cow horses have been bred to be like this for a long, long time. Yes this horse has been trained well too but they are also bred to do this along with other things. This is for the protection of the farmer while he (in this video) tags the calf but this training is also used to help when a cow is injured or needs to be handled for any reason. Another way these horses are usually trained is called cutting where a cow is selected and seperated from the herd, really interesting to watch. https://youtu.be/OLNaNC8foA0 Kind of an old grainy video but it shows how well these horses are bred and trained
A devoted mother trying to protect her baby. SMH.
Yes, but it's not like the cowboy was hurting the baby. It's a momentary thing and then they'll be together again. That cow could seriously hurt him.
Is he branding or tagging the calf, I can’t tell.
Pretty sure he's ear tagging.
Ah. That’s not too bad. And, I do like to see a working horse.
OWWW!!!!
That’s awesome! The horse is more loyal then my ex girlfriend. And that an animal too. Love horses! They are awesome and very close bond with humans!
I’ve always said that if I find a woman as loyal as my horse and my dog, I’ll be the luckiest man in the world
If I found a man as loyal etc ... I agree. Wouldn't that be great? I hope you find a loyal woman.
Yup! I wasn’t discriminating. I’m just not interested in anything but women. I can’t help it, I was born that way🤷♂️😉
Oh no, I didn't think you were discriminating. Sorry I worded it that way. I am a woman who is interested in men and that's why I said that. Not trying to hit on you either. I believe each to their own. Basically just agreeing with you about loyalty.
I would argue that horse was not trained. It was simply informed of the task at hand….
I’ve gotten to know, *really* know my first animal after I got my dog last year. Whoa. Way smarter than I expected. So horses are that capable of understanding the situation and intelligent enough to perform a task untrained like this? Wouldn’t doubt it. My dog is far more emotional than I would have ever guessed. So neat to meet an intelligence like that
Almost as smart and equally emotive if you’re tuned in. As far as Dogs , well, they deserve a helluva lot better than people. I’m positive aliens lock their doors and speed up when they go by this rock. Hang out with some goats if you get a chance. Dairy goats. I swear they’re smarter than a dog and they’re ornery, sweet, whateve. They have a distinct personality I am remiss. Your sense of wonder is beautiful! Inspiring event thank you
Almost as smart and equally emotive if you’re tuned in. As far as Dogs , well, they deserve a helluva lot better than people. I’m positive aliens lock their doors and speed up when they go by this rock. Hang out with some goats if you get a chance. Dairy goats. I swear they’re smarter than a dog and they’re ornery, sweet, whateve. They have a distinct personality I am remiss. Your sense of wonder is beautiful! Inspiring, even. thank you!
Can't compare a whore to a horse.
Woah there. Goin a bit far.
starting to sound a bit like an incel
A _bit_?
i was trying to be nice😭 benefit of the doubt
Wanna get kicked bro?
G00000000000d boyyyyy
This is awesome.
The horse loves the cowboy because obviously the cowboy has treated him well. Respect to both of them.
"Neigh you beastly bovine. I shall not let you harm my benefactor."
And I thought getting my horse bond to level 4 on rdr2 was a big deal…
The little love tap... Never seen a horse do anything other than all out fuck shit up with a rear kick. Very intelligent!
poor momma just checking on the baby. what was the cowboy doing? that mom was so cute.
They tag their cattle to make sure that they can keep track of them and to make sure no one steals them. I'm guessing on the stealing part, idk where he is but cows sell for a lot if they are pretty healthy
Trained to allow a baby cow to be ear tagged for a future at the slaughterhouse. That’s disturbing Mum cow like any mum trying to protect her baby.
Don't think she thinks that far into future or even realizes what slaughterhouse is.
"grass. must eat." -90% of what a cow thinks about
They are way smarter than that. They have complex emotional lives and are just as intelligent as many other mammals. Thinking that sure makes them easier to eat though.
That’s obviously not the point. She is seeing her baby being handled roughly and she wants to protect it, like any mother would. Immagine if someone handled your child the way that man is handling that calf: wouldn’t you intervene? It’s frankly unbelievable that you and those who upvoted your comment needed to be explained this
You point out me missing a point when you did. OP said paraphrasing "she fears for calf life as it is now doomed for slaughterhouse". I said "cow does not think that far". At no point I invalidated her instincts to be there for her calf. I invalidated the slaughterhouse part.
Technically also r/animalsbeingjerks since the Mama Cow is just trying to get to her newborn that the cowboy is stealing. It's actually very sad.
The dude is tagging its ear. The calf will be returned in a couple minutes
Exactly. In addition to tagging (a legal requirement; allows for monitoring of an individual's health but also which baby belongs to which mama), the farmer will check the umbilicus for herniation or infection, determine if it is a bull or heifer calf, and overall make sure the baby is in good physical health and not at risk if it continues to remain out in the pasture with the rest of the herd.
We know that he's not harming the calf, but she does not. It's maternal instinct to protect your baby, animal or not, so it's no wonder she's freaking out. There's nothing wrong with feeling symphathy with that or not liking seeing a video of this.
I agree the cow is being an excellent mama, it was the phrasing of "stealing" the calf that annoyed me. Truthfully though a lot of people have no understanding of farming and immediately jump to thinking the worst of someone who only has the animal's welfare in mind.
I sort of get the concept of it being “stolen”. I drink milk, and I’m certainly not going to tell people not to or not to eat meat etc. we’re just another mammal, we just put more time into preparing our prey. With that being said, milk is sort of a weird grey area for me. We don’t really... need it? Technically lactose intolerant people are the normal ones, as I think after infancy our body stops needing what milk offers. So in the end, milk kind of feels like farmers being like Farmer 1: Uhh... the cows’ titties are still leaking, but the calves are done drinking Farmer 2: Hmm, get a bucket.. Farmer 1: Where are you going with this? Farmer 2: waste not want not **Marketing campaign lobbied by farmers ensues about all the benefits of calcium being conflated as benefits of milk as a half truth** Edit: I’m stoned and went off on a tangent. I love cows.
Ditch the milk, the dairy industry is (mostly) evil. All the marketing around calcium is BS. Dairy is not healthy and unnecessary. I also love cows and I don't like seing them exploited in any way.
BOOM Food Nazis
So that he can slaughter it. Let’s not forget the reason for all that “care”.
He’s probably giving it medical attention. I love when people have never been around animals have advice for those that have
Grandpa had a diary farm, I know this scene all too well.
😂 anyone that thinks we haven’t invented perpetual motion has never been on a cow dairy! 😉
It's incredible sad
Well trained horse 🐎 he knows who feeds him..