#24 My favourite non-human animal, and why

[kaberett]

I am afraid that there is nothing terribly exciting about this; I was a horsey child and I still fundamentally really like horses. I have learned an enormous amount about body language and power dynamics and inferring intent from spending time around them; I've got stronger and more confident and more sure of myself; they're big enough to hug properly and enormously soothing to feed and to groom and to take care of. They're a set of interactions I am just uncomplicatedly good at, and it is such a relief, and they're a means by which I can still (though I haven't, and should maybe fix that) go out in hills and woodland and not exhaust myself.

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[vass]

Also they smell really great, as does their tack, and the physical motion of their different gaits is soothing.

(I was a horsey child too. I haven't ridden since I was about twelve, but I used to go once a week. I miss it. But I'm definitely too heavy for it right now, alas.)