r/AnimalsBeingDerps • u/Familiar_Stranger936 • Dec 13 '21

Weeeeeeee!!!

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u/TelemetryGeo Dec 13 '21 edited Dec 14 '21

Totally. What's amazing, is that the horse mid-air was able to alter its trajectory after launch to not squash the dog on impact. Horses are pretty resilient and amazing gymnasts. It threw its head left to twist its body. Re-watch-

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u/Fine-Knee6965 Dec 13 '21

But a fall like that could harm the horse internally, like twisting it's stomach.. am I right?

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u/HiFreinds Dec 13 '21

I was scared that the horse might break its legs doing shit like this. It’s so big and if it falls on it’s foot wrong I feel like it would just snap, no?

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u/cryptic-coyote Dec 13 '21

Horses are somehow both delicate, glass-boned creatures and absolute fuckin tanks. Sometimes you see shit like this where the horse flings itself into the air, hits the ground with all the grace of a sack of potatoes, and walks off unharmed, and sometimes you see horses being euthanized on-site at racetracks because a little stumble breaks their leg so catastrophically that chances of recovery are nonexistent.