Talk:Centaur/@comment-2606:A000:1305:C4CB:F571:EB52:48D7:FEC1-20191005194824

So I work on a farm and I can’t see the appeal to ordinary horses much less to Centaurs once you consider their characteristics. Horses are stupid animals, admittedly sweet, but stupid. You can leave a horse with oats and water and he’ll eat and drink himself to death! What I mean by that is he –the horse- will continue to eat the oats until he dies if you just leave him to his own self. The frog of a horse’s hoof –the underside of the hoof, slightly triangular in shape- is a hotbed for rocks and sticks to puncture it and can lead to life threatening infections. Which is why we have to shoe most of them.

A horse bears about 60% of its body weight on its legs and out of the 205 bones in a horse 80 of them are just in the legs. Because they have to bear all that weight and they’re very physically active this leads to bone deterioration. And a horse spends most of its life on its legs they even sleep standing up. So if a horse breaks a leg it almost never heals right what with all that pressure constantly on the broken, and healing bone. That’s why we shoot most horses with a bad leg; it’s kinder in the long run.

Last, have you ever seen a horse relieve itself standing up? It isn’t pretty, and more often than not bits get left behind in the coarse tail hairs. We have to hose our horses down every night cause of that. Otherwise they get worms, and other infections.

So why in god’s name would I want to deal with a horse-human hybrid that has all the issues a horse would have with the added issue of gastrointestinal problems from the human internals mixing up with the horses? Add to that the Centaurs nasty asinine disposition and she wouldn’t survive a week let alone to have foals.