Attack of the Domesticated Horse

Now that I have worked really hard finding examples of zebra attacks (although I didn't find too many which makes me a little upset) I will find examples of horse attacks.

Horse Bully

A man bullies a horse until the horse attacks him.

Biting a Cyclist

This guy gets bit by a horse that is grazing.

Finger Bite

When a man turns his head away as he is petting a horse, the horse bites his finger.

Arm Bite

This may or may not be a horse trained to bite, but this video shows a horse biting a man as he narrates the bite and get a little scared or flustered at the end. tindaisy1 commented that a his or her friend had her arm broken by a horse biting it.

Unwieldy Horse

This video shows a horse being led by a woman. The horse starts getting fussy and the woman punches the horse in the face. I want to share this video to give you a taste of what it takes to keep a domesticated and well-trained horse in line. I was president of the Equestrian club at my school and I regularly saw horses getting handled very roughly. In fact, my trainer used to break horses and said that, in order to so do, she would almost always have to get a big heavy stick and hit them with it.

The point of this post was to show that domesticated horses, supposedly non-vicious, can get pretty terrible themselves and require a lot of skill and force to keep them from biting or not minding in general. Think of a puppy or dog, obviously domesticated, but you still need to train it not to bite. Horses are also trained not to bite but have developed a compromise known as the nip. The nip is a biting gesture that doesn't involve actually hurting a person. Dogs trained not to bite may do this as well, they do pretend bites that don't hurt, but get the point across. What makes zebra viciousness so special and different? I can't tell yet.