Faking Lame
BY Herschel Smith
1 year, 4 months ago
But it doesn’t hold a candle to the excessive display of drama with this dog, apparently all for the purpose of getting attention.
We were going to do some horse riding one morning years ago (work riding), and when trying to catch and saddle one gelding, he played lame. Or at least we thought he “played” lame. More and more time went into trying to figure out what was going on, including hoof inspections, talking about getting a Ferrier out to look at him, and so on.
Finally, we consulted the more experienced, most seasoned horseman I knew, and he felt the horse was really lame, or at least had some bruising, and we shouldn’t ride him that day. There were other horses to choose from.
We let him go, at which point to galloped off at full speed without so much as a limp. We’d been had by a better actor than the two dogs above.
On June 20, 2023 at 12:09 pm, Papa said:
Sounds like some humans who claim they are “disabled”.