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[recollecters]

Hello! You know, when I was a kid I always wanted to get horseback lessons? I never got those, but I did learn to code, so that's pretty cool. Anyway! We've been working on horses a little, although mostly it seems like we'll be pouring hours into taste, which seems to be a result of the outside destabilization? Balancing spinning tops is always kind of a headache. I hope some of you found those loopholes! There's some of those bats in here, too, and I've been carrying things around to fend them off all week. Some people keep herding them into heavily populated areas in the building, though. What a pain! Joanne Wiseman Technician 2nd class Retrspec Incorporated As of this post taste tier 1 has been icly regained; it includes grains. Also as of this post, horses are now recognized in fictional books, games and movies. This is extended to merchandise as well such as the world-equivalent of My Little Pony. Please feel free to use this post as a network mingle. Every toplevel can be considered a new post, and threadjacking is permitted. No NPC response will be given. Usernames are the character's full real AU names, not aliases or chosen nicknames or usernames, and seemed to have filled themselves in; nothing characters do can change or obscure their names currently.

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[headpatmenace]

I imagine you have to handle them differently...and they probably eat different things. And I'm not a biology major but I don't think they'd be nearly as good as pack animals, cause of having two legs instead of four, and I think birds have different bones..

[fiddlestick]

So in other words...they're completely different? Oh.

Why do legs number matter for pack animals?

[headpatmenace]

I mean, you could carry someone sitting on your back easier than you could give them a piggy back ride, right?

There's more support.

I don't think ostrich farmers use them as pack animals ever...

[He may be full of it. Or right, but still full of it.]

[fiddlestick]

Uh...

Oh! Do you mean "pack" as in carry stuff? I thought you meant pack as in a group pack. I guess there's some logic to that.

[headpatmenace]

Yeah, carrying things

Stuff like horses and

I guess chocobos, probably?

Are herd animals. Pack animals have a linear hierarchy with an alpha male, Herd animals don't, beyond sometimes having a single leader. They just travel and live in groups.

[The farm boy is coming out]

[fiddlestick]

Ohhh, I get it now!

[This has been very enlightening!!]

So are most domesticated animals herd animals?

[headpatmenace]

Yeah.

If they were pack animals you'd have a leader that'd be making things difficult.

I think sled runners and stuff, the kind that have teams of dogs? they have to establish themselves as the alpha to get anywhere.

[fiddlestick]

[Aw yeah he got something right without having to text a country cousin. Go city boy!]

Oh yeah!
That'd make sense for sled dogs if they have get moving.

I hope it doesn't get so cold here that we need sled dogs.
The dogs are cute, but that seems really cold.

[headpatmenace]

That's 'lose your toes' weather, yeah.

Also 'slip and fall on the pavement outside your dorm' weather.

[fiddlestick]

Haha...that last one sounds awfully specific.

[headpatmenace]

As long as no one saw it, it's forever a theoretical.

[fiddlestick]

Haha, fair enough. 😅

Be careful though, okay?