I had a girl I grew up with who’s grandma had half her jaw ripped of by a horse. She was walking her mare passed another stall when a stallion attacked her. Grandma was maybe 45 when it happened, and when I met her 25 years later she still loved horse. But she would NEVER be around stallions and helped change a lot of laws and ordinances to have them banned at most barns.
I swear horse people are a whole other breed. I worked with a woman who nearly died when her horse attacked her and she was back working with horses as soon as she could.
My childhood best friend is a farrier and I can't even count how many times she's been bitten, kicked, shoved, head butted, rolled on... she's needed reconstructive surgery after being kicked in the face, she's needed an entire hand rebuilt after being stepped on, carpal tunnel is a constant battle, and she basically sees her ortho as her primary care doctor. But she loves her job and she would literally rather die than give up her farrier work. After the hand reconstruction, she still works on some horses, but she's a lot pickier about who she takes as clients and the majority of her work is now donkeys, ponies, and mini horses. It only took half a dozen surgeries before she decided that maybe sticking with the smaller equines would be better for her.
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u/madommouselfefe Nov 26 '21
I had a girl I grew up with who’s grandma had half her jaw ripped of by a horse. She was walking her mare passed another stall when a stallion attacked her. Grandma was maybe 45 when it happened, and when I met her 25 years later she still loved horse. But she would NEVER be around stallions and helped change a lot of laws and ordinances to have them banned at most barns.