Horses Give A Lick For Wounded Pal
Your "awww" of the day comes from, of all places, Knifecrime Island: "A HORSE shot twice with a crossbow by callous yobs survived after four fellow steeds spent three hours taking turns – to LICK the wound clean. Mare Zeta came within a whisker of death after one of the bolts bounced off her rib while another lodged an inch from her lung. Evil louts blasted the 20-year-old – a competitor in show-jumping and dressage events across the UK – in the stomach as she grazed in a field. But four other competition horses in the same field 'nursed' Zeta by nuzzling her for three-and-a-half hours while taking turns to lick the wound."
The "awww" obviously comes from the part about the horses protecting their friend, not the thing with the yobs and their shooty knife. Just wanted to make that clear. Man, Jonathan Swift had it right 300 years ago: Horses are better than British people.
Where else, but in the UK, would horses know how to treat a stab wound?
In the US, horses know to never face away from the stall door if Saythatscool is around.
In the movie version, I hope Zeta learns how to use the shooty knife once she recovers and then goes after the yobbo for revenge.
British horses have better teeth than their two legged shooty owners, too.
I hate to say it, but they probably liked the salt.
What a 'mare!