Surprised nobody brought up the story of that tiger in Russia that hunted a poacher for weeks back to his house because he injured it. Animals have got that John Wick level of persistence. Also fun fact, magpies, which are related to crows, are considered sentient.
Unfortunately as strong as horses are, they're pretty fragile too. The reason broken legs are basically a death sentence is that unless you're a literal billionaire there's no way for the horse to recover and they'll never be able to exercise again. The way my mum has always described it to me is that it's like a horse has five hearts, one in their chest and one in each hoof. They can't not move. If they break their leg they can't move around the paddock, they also can't lie down because they won't be able to get up again (which they know, so they'll exaust themselves standing until they quite literally can't) and even if they do somehow manage to heal, they never be able to do any real exercise, which is super important to their health. The only time I've seen a horse recover from a serious injury was a super small miniature horse named Teddy (He's still around and I say hi every time I see him) who was so fat from not being exercised properly and eating too much rich grass, he dislocated his hoof. Everyone thought he was a goner, but nothing was broken and the owner had the kind of money to save him. If Teddy wasn't a miniature and instead something like a clydsdale of gypsie cob, he probably wouldn't of lived. I've only ever had to have one horse put down, but she was a thoroughbred that we had just bought who was underwight when we got her, had a back injury and developed stress founder (founder being when the hoof wall weakens and separates from the foot, it's pretty gnarly so don't look it up if you're squeamish). She was also 22 so at the end of the day she was just in pain and it would of been pretty cruel to keep her going. Luckily after that we got 2 quarter horses who are still super healthy, one of which, Banjo, is almost 30! Unfortunatly horses are just an animal that are pretty sturdy until they aren't. If they get a stomach ache and decide to roll, they'll get collic, if they run through a fence they screw up their legs, it's pretty unfortunate but can be avoided if you know what you're doing and feed them right.
as it turns out a lot of animals can die from fright, some die from the "flight or flight" response. For instance a deer being chased by a bear may just keel over from a heart attack mid chase.
I think it's assumed the house and funeral are at different locations, so it would be kind of wild for the Elephant to somehow track the funeral and her home, assuming the elephant has never seen her house
I'm surprised no one told him about Casualgeopraphic he literally did a whole video of animals that can hold grudges. Crows, Elephants, Chimpanzees, and a few other animals are capable of holding grudges and god damn do they get both petty and beyond violent with it.
Camels, as that one owner can attest to when he left his camel out in the hot sun for hours. Oh wait, he can’t, because once he remembered he had a camel and went outside to untie it, the camel knocked him to the ground bit his head off. It took six hours for locals to calm the camel down after that.
It’s really hard for a horse to heal from a broken leg because A) they stand most of the time and B) forcing a horse to lie down for that long causes ulcers, immense stress-they hate staying still-and a whole bunch of other problems. Plus horses have really weird anatomy. They have like 80 bones in their legs alone. And if the break is below the knee, healing is also impeded because they have no muscles below their knees and therefore not many blood vessels. And healing from a break makes them especially prone to laminitis, which is an extremely painful hoof issue. If a horse is able to make a recovery there’s a good chance it’ll live in excruciating pain for the rest of its life. It sucks but it’s sometimes the most humane thing to do. Hopefully as technology advances we can come up with some better solutions. :(
It’s exactly the same as with humans. A major injury to any athelete often won’t allow them to get to the level they once were. In this case the owners are too selfish to treat and/or give them a life after racing.
If there’s an injury to a horse’s leg, there’s no going back. There’s no healing. Horses sleep standing up, so there’s no rest. The only thing to do is euthanize them.
Horses have very different anatomy from humans. They are standing almost all of the time. Their legs have to bear a ton more weight and a ton more impact. You can’t put horses on crutches or in a wheelchair. They want to move naturally and will try to do that by any means. A hairline or partial fracture can be healed and often is healed, but they’re prone to their bones just shattering or fully fracturing because of how heavy they are and how relatively small their leg bones are. A full fracture unfortunately often means that in the unlikely event the bone is able to heal, the horse is going to be in extreme, unrelenting pain for the rest of its life. A lot of the time the owners try to heal the horses before vets recommend euthanasia. It sucks and I don’t doubt the racing industry is corrupt and cruel, but there are good reasons for it to be done in a lot of cases.
Certified horse girl here to try and explain the horse debacle: Horses' legs and feet are incredibly fragile, the reason horses get put down is because it often turns into a vicious cycle of healing the same wound only for one wrong step in the pasture to start it all again. And that's assuming the leg does heal, infection will certainly cause problems if not. Even if they never race again, they can still easily reinjure their leg. You can't keep them in a sling for long, they easily form arthritis in all of their legs, and get depressed whilst cooped up in a stall for too long. Horses are very complicated, and racehorses specifically are often inbred, only making these problems worse. Usually the decision is made for the horse's sake and not the owner's wallet. But I won't deny the racing industry can be awfully corrupt, it has been for generations.
Damn man... I bet it takes a lot of expenses to recover a horse 😢 Its such a shame to think that once your leg is broken, your life-sentence is done...
@@ionruskio1717 I mean, fair, and if anything the increase in elephants attacking humans is just another reason to hate poachers (The list of reasons to hate them were already in the quintuple to six digits, but I guess they want to reach the seven digits at this point)
Animals are a lot like people. Some of them act badly because they've had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks.
I did some research and basically there is one way to save a horse after a broken leg. It’s to amputate the leg, no matter the injury, and replace it with a prosthetic. The issue is that the way a horse is, the leg itself will never heal properly again. So you can replace the leg, but you can understand why it’s not done often because surgery is somewhere between 10-25k for the prosthetic.
Elephants have the greatest smell sense out of any animal. They're so good they can identify the bones of the long dead. We don't even really know how they do it. So I'm not surprised the elephant was able to track the lady down in her home. It's happened before.
The horse thing gets me because everyone’s saying “well they HAVE to put the horse down, it will have a bad life otherwise”, but no one is criticizing the fact that we have a sport dedicated to racing these animals to begin with. If they were allowed to be normal horses, they wouldn’t get those injuries during races put on so humans can make profit off of them
Crows and ravens are pretty cool. I wonder if Charlie has heard of this girl who would give crows food and they would give her random trinkets. And there was another where these crows would find change or money they found and give it to the guy for food- and they figured out more money = better food.
Horses may be easily spooked but it can be trained out of them, one way this was done is by replicating sounds of combat in front of it to desensitize it
1:25 - Vet here. It's not that horses don't heal. They do. However they are extremely difficult to work with. The list of issues are extensive but I'll list a few: - They aren't great candidates for surgery. Unlike cows who are extremely amicable to standing surgeries, horses pretty much require an operating theatre for almost everything. - Anesthesia is hard on them. Horses tend to wake up violently from anesthesia, as opposed to slow and gradual. This can result in immediately snapping a newly-repaired bone. I've personally seen a case where a hosre had successful fracture repair surgery, and the second it awoke in surgery the horse reared up, dropped down on it's front legs, and immediately snapped them both. - They can't lay down long for long. If they lie down for too long of a period in surgery, the weight of their body is literally enough to cut off blood circulation to muscles and tissue, causing it to die (pressure necrosis). In cases like that, the animal will probably become permanently lame. - They are large, heavy and active. Ultimately, if the thing we are repairing is a limb fracture... then that means that the fracture must hold up under the tremendous strain of daily use by the horse. This isn't like a human who can get a fracture and then rest that arm/limb in a cast until healed. Orthopedic surgeries in many animals in general require the fixed, fractured limb to be usable during the entire healing process. With horses, just by their nature, these fractures are extremely prone to breaking again either from new bone injury or simply from the failure of the tools used to fix the fracture (lag screws, plates etc). - This last one might be a bit biased, but from my own experience.... horses just seem to die easily. It sometimes feels like they are actively trying to have their recovery go poorly so that they can keel over and die. I'm not an equine specialist myself, and only sometimes work with horses, but it's not a matter of me killing horses, but rather this experience comes more from my time working alongside numerous vets who are equine specialists themselves. **** When it comes to race horses specifically, there is the extra issue of money and worth. A race horse's value runs out fast.... and if it has no value for the bigwigs then it isn't worth spending on. Remember that even if the horse is young and highly likely to survive, it would still be unable to race during healing and then after healing it would have lost some of its athletic abilities and would have to train it's way back up. That lost time is lost money... meaning that spending to repair a racehorse is essentially money lost twice. Most people in the racehorse scene aren't very willing to go so far on a surgery that may ultimately fail... which is sad but is also the reality of the industry.
thankfully the opposite is also true for crows; they will remember and spread word about humans who are particularly kind to them / give them food. of course this means you will be known as the crow whisperer and have to deal with crows badgering you for food and shinies lmao
Rabbits can’t die from fright. BUT cockerels can die from seeing too many hens, saw a TikTok of a rooster that bam got 16 girlfriends and he literally died on the spot from excitement
They’re called that because they would often hang out around mass graves and battlefields giving them a reputation as omens of death because wherever bodies were crows wouldn’t be far behind. Naturally when crows showed up people started assuming someone was either dead or going to die.
Yes Charlie I can first can account that horses can die from being scared or anxious, used to be a ranch hand to many horses & that’s how my favorite, the youngest horse, met her early fate 😢 separation anxiety led to heart attack after a routine visit to the vet getting some tests done 🥺
it’s heartbreaking how those horses are treated… it is mind-blowing that the awful methods utilized for horse racing are even legal at all - but of course, can’t forget how much money it generates… just disgusting.
To understand why a horse would be afraid of a mouse, all you need to do is think about that cockroach crawling up your leg right now as you're reading this comment.
Elephants were also seen to hold a vigil for a dead conservationist who helped them out and they visited his house a couple of times afterwards on the same day during their yearly migration. So it can go in the other way too.
As a teenaged stable hand, I tended to a retired thoroughbred who was benched due to her shin getting injured racing. Thankfully, the owner decided to put her out to pasture. Um, as in she got to be in the pasture with a barn. She was about 2. Like a a big gangly puppy, she just wanted love and oats. Like ya do
I've never seen a horse get scared from mice. The times I've seen horses interact with them, they had a track record of going out of their way to completely obliterate mice.
Grown up with horses all my life. Very heavy animals, and their breathing partially revolves around running with the way their rib cage contracts and expands, not to mention they are animals that traditionally have huge territories. The bone will never heal enough to fully withstand the strain, and while some horses may survive, they'll be forced into a sedentary lifestyle, which most people disapprove of. Not to mention, there isn't a realistic way to get a horse to actually rest its leg. They'll most likely deal more damage to themselves, and with an animal that big and strong, the vet trips alone are expensive and very dangerous for the horse and people involved.
I can actually answer a fair amount of the horse questions. I have an uncle who trains racing horses. One big thing to remember is that most horses are owned for a reason. Horses have jobs and sometimes its more costly to take care of an injured horse than to just buy a new one. Farmers dont know how long the horse will be injured or if the horse will fully recover. In the context of racing, most horses that are racing are very young, in their physical prime. Their racing record and pedigree determines how valuable they are as a breeding stallion. If a horse gets injured, it will likely never race seriously again. Sometimes they keep the horse around because they can get good money selling the semen. If they cant make their money back selling semen, they just euthanize it.
Horses seem big and tough, but can die extremely easily. A small leg fracture can lay them up, and without regular walking they downhill fast. They get intestinal blockage very easily, even laying down and rolling can cause their gut to twist wrong because of their size and tear them up internally. As far as fright, if it rears up and falls, their weight can cause major injury. A friend of mine was training one once, it reared and fell flat on its ass. The shock went up into its skull and killed it instantly.
Does anyone have the stream to where he was doing this because I want to see the context of why he has those symbiotic titan videos and see what they r talking about?
Crows rlly do hold grudges and they tell their friends too. I once didn’t give a crow some of my cheese it’s when he was literally asking and ever since they all hate me now and don’t let me try to feed them to rebuild the relationship we could’ve had 😥
You also gotta remember how large a horse is. Even if they aren’t race horses, many times it’s just not a good life and their health deteriorates quickly if they damage their legs.
I went to a festival called middlelands in 2017 and the bass from the festival killed some guys alpacas on a farm miles away. Apparently the stress from constant bass all night.
If horses sustain injury to their legs, since they stand for EVERYTHING and getting a horse to not panic in a lift and further hurt itself is nearly impossible. So often times it is more humane to euthanize because they'd be in constant pain otherwise. Some cases they can heal though. And some breeds it's easier for them to heal I think... I grew up on a horse ranch and so that's what I was told. We didn't have any leg injuries though. More common with race horses because... sadly they are often times more abused.
charlie i have been incredibly sick for the past week and a half or so, your videos are one of the only things i can find myself getting distracted by, thank you so much for making this shit sickness a little bit easier ❤
Where I live in pennsylvania, injured race horses usually end up getting sold to the amish. Never heard of them being euthenized, thats kinda fucked up.
It’s really expensive and takes along time for them to heal and they won’t be at we’re they ever were and the amount it costs to treat costs more than you would make selling them
From what I read Horse bones shatter and not crack like human bones. Horses need all four legs to stand or walk, unlike cats or dogs they can limp and support their weight. Its like trying to cure a terminally ill cancer patient, we are just cutting the suffering part of it for horses.
Super sad, My cousins horse little boy(he was huge) broke his leg in a goffer hole at his friends house. My gramps had to put him down it was a missirable life, like worse than torture for him. The noise they make is worse than heart breaking. Ill never forget
Horses legs dont heal well because the bloodflow to their legs isnt great, and their leg bones are like human long bones. They take a long time to heal even with good bloodflow. The issue is less from how long it takes and more that horses cannot walk on 3 legs like dogs or sheep, and they cannot lay down for the entire length of treatment without causing organ damage.
Also if the horse healed money was spent and everything went perfectly. It simply will never be as strong as it once was or could've been. Now the lesson here is what doesn't kill you, doesn't in fact make you stronger....
Even if it wasn't about money, I've been around horses and they get depressed, almost angry at the injury and not being able to compete or do the same things. They even get themselves high, sometimes so much they have to be stopped almost any means . Just do not let them get sauced. They od 💀. They literally pass out and fall down and sometimes they get hurt which is also bad. Its fucked man 😂 horses are people in a way.
I had 33 horses at one point in my field behind my house, my crazy ex step mom was super into horses. I will say that we never had to put any down because of injuries. But also no one needs 30+ horses that lady was insane and couldn't even feed her own kids yet alone the horses 💀
There is a trail I walk on frequently. Lots of crows I say hi to. One day I wore my leather jacket and the crows went ape shit. Sure enough no leather jacket we are friends, put that jacket on and I'm target # 1. So I try to remember a different jacket, or I can just take it off and carry it past the crows hood. Man I love crows. I hope they find the true leather jacket wearer and carry out their justice.
Lived on a farm for my entire childhood 90% of the horses I’ve seen break a leg needed to be put down. People who haven’t lived with horses have no clue how detrimental that is to a horse
I'm waiting to find out cockroaches hold grudges and that's why they keep attempting to take Charlie out
they’re almost as dangerous as Jack Idema.
bruh there’s literally humanoid cockroaches on the moon
They try to avenge their fallen Brothers
@@lildannyboi13 you uh... you good bro? 🍄 😵💫
@@TheBlubberWhale 🍃🍃
“They used horses in war Charlie“😂😂😂😂 that made me laugh so hard
Surprised nobody brought up the story of that tiger in Russia that hunted a poacher for weeks back to his house because he injured it. Animals have got that John Wick level of persistence.
Also fun fact, magpies, which are related to crows, are considered sentient.
On the flip side, if you're nice to a crow, they'll remember you and be nice to you. They even been known to bring people presents.
There's a few animals that can die from fright.
Rabbits in particular. Such sensitive little hearts.
And me
Rabbits can be incredibly cruel
Unfortunately as strong as horses are, they're pretty fragile too. The reason broken legs are basically a death sentence is that unless you're a literal billionaire there's no way for the horse to recover and they'll never be able to exercise again. The way my mum has always described it to me is that it's like a horse has five hearts, one in their chest and one in each hoof. They can't not move. If they break their leg they can't move around the paddock, they also can't lie down because they won't be able to get up again (which they know, so they'll exaust themselves standing until they quite literally can't) and even if they do somehow manage to heal, they never be able to do any real exercise, which is super important to their health.
The only time I've seen a horse recover from a serious injury was a super small miniature horse named Teddy (He's still around and I say hi every time I see him) who was so fat from not being exercised properly and eating too much rich grass, he dislocated his hoof. Everyone thought he was a goner, but nothing was broken and the owner had the kind of money to save him. If Teddy wasn't a miniature and instead something like a clydsdale of gypsie cob, he probably wouldn't of lived.
I've only ever had to have one horse put down, but she was a thoroughbred that we had just bought who was underwight when we got her, had a back injury and developed stress founder (founder being when the hoof wall weakens and separates from the foot, it's pretty gnarly so don't look it up if you're squeamish). She was also 22 so at the end of the day she was just in pain and it would of been pretty cruel to keep her going. Luckily after that we got 2 quarter horses who are still super healthy, one of which, Banjo, is almost 30!
Unfortunatly horses are just an animal that are pretty sturdy until they aren't. If they get a stomach ache and decide to roll, they'll get collic, if they run through a fence they screw up their legs, it's pretty unfortunate but can be avoided if you know what you're doing and feed them right.
They evolved in such a way that god must be real and he must really fucking hate horses
Amazingly informative reply!
I read this in a southern accent
So maybe we shouldn’t be racing animals that will literally DIE if they twist their ankle
@@obindulue9519 jokes on you, i'm AUSTRALIAN!
as it turns out a lot of animals can die from fright, some die from the "flight or flight" response. For instance a deer being chased by a bear may just keel over from a heart attack mid chase.
Kangaroos notoriously die from being frightened too
I know this is morbid, but the idea of a deer just randomly dropping dead mid chase gave me a chuckle
It’s fright, flight, freeze, or fawn
Charlie is hilarious, how is a elephant finding someone’s house any crazier than finding someone’s funeral??? lol
I think it's assumed the house and funeral are at different locations, so it would be kind of wild for the Elephant to somehow track the funeral and her home, assuming the elephant has never seen her house
they burn people in india after death they dont have casket or typical funerals, and the funerals are held in the house of the dead itself
I'm surprised no one told him about Casualgeopraphic he literally did a whole video of animals that can hold grudges. Crows, Elephants, Chimpanzees, and a few other animals are capable of holding grudges and god damn do they get both petty and beyond violent with it.
Was just thinking this 😂
Tigers, baboons
Australian Magpies hold grudges too
That time a town of monkeys was literally throwing dogs off roofs in india. Nature is horrifying.
Camels, as that one owner can attest to when he left his camel out in the hot sun for hours. Oh wait, he can’t, because once he remembered he had a camel and went outside to untie it, the camel knocked him to the ground bit his head off.
It took six hours for locals to calm the camel down after that.
I love how it starts on horses then evolves into animals holding grudges😂
It’s really hard for a horse to heal from a broken leg because A) they stand most of the time and B) forcing a horse to lie down for that long causes ulcers, immense stress-they hate staying still-and a whole bunch of other problems. Plus horses have really weird anatomy. They have like 80 bones in their legs alone. And if the break is below the knee, healing is also impeded because they have no muscles below their knees and therefore not many blood vessels. And healing from a break makes them especially prone to laminitis, which is an extremely painful hoof issue. If a horse is able to make a recovery there’s a good chance it’ll live in excruciating pain for the rest of its life. It sucks but it’s sometimes the most humane thing to do. Hopefully as technology advances we can come up with some better solutions. :(
It’s exactly the same as with humans. A major injury to any athelete often won’t allow them to get to the level they once were. In this case the owners are too selfish to treat and/or give them a life after racing.
exactly this. it’s cheaper to put them down :(
If there’s an injury to a horse’s leg, there’s no going back. There’s no healing. Horses sleep standing up, so there’s no rest. The only thing to do is euthanize them.
Yeah but sometimes Horses can get very depressed if they won’t be able to run or walk good and can die from depression
@@jackleg6143 same can be said for humans chief
Horses have very different anatomy from humans. They are standing almost all of the time. Their legs have to bear a ton more weight and a ton more impact. You can’t put horses on crutches or in a wheelchair. They want to move naturally and will try to do that by any means. A hairline or partial fracture can be healed and often is healed, but they’re prone to their bones just shattering or fully fracturing because of how heavy they are and how relatively small their leg bones are. A full fracture unfortunately often means that in the unlikely event the bone is able to heal, the horse is going to be in extreme, unrelenting pain for the rest of its life. A lot of the time the owners try to heal the horses before vets recommend euthanasia. It sucks and I don’t doubt the racing industry is corrupt and cruel, but there are good reasons for it to be done in a lot of cases.
Whenever I make a wild, speculative claim about anything, I'm going to end it with, "or am I just really confusing them with gerbils?"
"was it base huggers that impregnate people in alien or am I just really confusing them with gerbils?" XD
Certified horse girl here to try and explain the horse debacle: Horses' legs and feet are incredibly fragile, the reason horses get put down is because it often turns into a vicious cycle of healing the same wound only for one wrong step in the pasture to start it all again. And that's assuming the leg does heal, infection will certainly cause problems if not. Even if they never race again, they can still easily reinjure their leg. You can't keep them in a sling for long, they easily form arthritis in all of their legs, and get depressed whilst cooped up in a stall for too long. Horses are very complicated, and racehorses specifically are often inbred, only making these problems worse. Usually the decision is made for the horse's sake and not the owner's wallet. But I won't deny the racing industry can be awfully corrupt, it has been for generations.
Damn man... I bet it takes a lot of expenses to recover a horse 😢 Its such a shame to think that once your leg is broken, your life-sentence is done...
Elephants will mourn their dead. They're pretty damn smart.
they're sometimes hostile to people due to poachers
@@ionruskio1717 I mean, fair, and if anything the increase in elephants attacking humans is just another reason to hate poachers (The list of reasons to hate them were already in the quintuple to six digits, but I guess they want to reach the seven digits at this point)
@@user-kq5ci7ol8o if I had to put my money on it,elephants probably killed us first before we invented spears,so I don't feel that bad.
@@amogus1415 retard moment elephants are herbivores you subhuman
Crows are actually incredible. Had one that would come up to the house everyday when I was a kid and it would play with us. Fascinating creatures.
“An elephant NEVER forgets” is the most truthful statement ever made
As a Zoologist, everytime I see someone I follow talk about animals I really want to scream the answers at them.
Animals are a lot like people. Some of them act badly because they've had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks.
4:48 I’ve seen a horse eat a mouse with no hesitation so that’s not true
I did some research and basically there is one way to save a horse after a broken leg. It’s to amputate the leg, no matter the injury, and replace it with a prosthetic. The issue is that the way a horse is, the leg itself will never heal properly again. So you can replace the leg, but you can understand why it’s not done often because surgery is somewhere between 10-25k for the prosthetic.
Elephants have the greatest smell sense out of any animal. They're so good they can identify the bones of the long dead. We don't even really know how they do it. So I'm not surprised the elephant was able to track the lady down in her home. It's happened before.
I remember reading how a poacher shot a tiger but it survived, followed him back to his house, then killed him.
The horse thing gets me because everyone’s saying “well they HAVE to put the horse down, it will have a bad life otherwise”, but no one is criticizing the fact that we have a sport dedicated to racing these animals to begin with. If they were allowed to be normal horses, they wouldn’t get those injuries during races put on so humans can make profit off of them
Crows and ravens are pretty cool. I wonder if Charlie has heard of this girl who would give crows food and they would give her random trinkets. And there was another where these crows would find change or money they found and give it to the guy for food- and they figured out more money = better food.
Horses may be easily spooked but it can be trained out of them, one way this was done is by replicating sounds of combat in front of it to desensitize it
If it was mating season for the Elephant that would explain the aggression, Elephants get fucking ANGRY during mating season.
1:25 - Vet here. It's not that horses don't heal. They do. However they are extremely difficult to work with. The list of issues are extensive but I'll list a few:
- They aren't great candidates for surgery. Unlike cows who are extremely amicable to standing surgeries, horses pretty much require an operating theatre for almost everything.
- Anesthesia is hard on them. Horses tend to wake up violently from anesthesia, as opposed to slow and gradual. This can result in immediately snapping a newly-repaired bone. I've personally seen a case where a hosre had successful fracture repair surgery, and the second it awoke in surgery the horse reared up, dropped down on it's front legs, and immediately snapped them both.
- They can't lay down long for long. If they lie down for too long of a period in surgery, the weight of their body is literally enough to cut off blood circulation to muscles and tissue, causing it to die (pressure necrosis). In cases like that, the animal will probably become permanently lame.
- They are large, heavy and active. Ultimately, if the thing we are repairing is a limb fracture... then that means that the fracture must hold up under the tremendous strain of daily use by the horse. This isn't like a human who can get a fracture and then rest that arm/limb in a cast until healed. Orthopedic surgeries in many animals in general require the fixed, fractured limb to be usable during the entire healing process. With horses, just by their nature, these fractures are extremely prone to breaking again either from new bone injury or simply from the failure of the tools used to fix the fracture (lag screws, plates etc).
- This last one might be a bit biased, but from my own experience.... horses just seem to die easily. It sometimes feels like they are actively trying to have their recovery go poorly so that they can keel over and die. I'm not an equine specialist myself, and only sometimes work with horses, but it's not a matter of me killing horses, but rather this experience comes more from my time working alongside numerous vets who are equine specialists themselves.
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When it comes to race horses specifically, there is the extra issue of money and worth. A race horse's value runs out fast.... and if it has no value for the bigwigs then it isn't worth spending on. Remember that even if the horse is young and highly likely to survive, it would still be unable to race during healing and then after healing it would have lost some of its athletic abilities and would have to train it's way back up. That lost time is lost money... meaning that spending to repair a racehorse is essentially money lost twice. Most people in the racehorse scene aren't very willing to go so far on a surgery that may ultimately fail... which is sad but is also the reality of the industry.
Hearing Charlie talk about spiteful animals is a video I didn't know I needed
thankfully the opposite is also true for crows; they will remember and spread word about humans who are particularly kind to them / give them food. of course this means you will be known as the crow whisperer and have to deal with crows badgering you for food and shinies lmao
Horses have a weird reaction to stress and fear that can cause them to essentially give themselves heart attacks
“They used horses in war Charlie” AHAHAHAAAAA BRO IM DEAD
I really like what you're doing with this channel. I love the extra content
Rabbits can’t die from fright. BUT cockerels can die from seeing too many hens, saw a TikTok of a rooster that bam got 16 girlfriends and he literally died on the spot from excitement
rabbits can die from fright
He doesn't want to pay for the child support with that amount of hens
Now you know why they call a group of crows a "Murder of Crows"
They’re called that because they would often hang out around mass graves and battlefields giving them a reputation as omens of death because wherever bodies were crows wouldn’t be far behind. Naturally when crows showed up people started assuming someone was either dead or going to die.
Yes Charlie I can first can account that horses can die from being scared or anxious, used to be a ranch hand to many horses & that’s how my favorite, the youngest horse, met her early fate 😢 separation anxiety led to heart attack after a routine visit to the vet getting some tests done 🥺
I think Elephants and horses are afraid of mice the same way people get scared or startled of bugs
it’s heartbreaking how those horses are treated… it is mind-blowing that the awful methods utilized for horse racing are even legal at all - but of course, can’t forget how much money it generates… just disgusting.
Still less horses than PETA probably kills.
Still, there are ways to rehabilitate horses but they are too expensive and that sucks.
Boo Hoo
that elephant woke up and chose violence
Most horses have a surprisingly small chance of recovery from broken legs, so it's not as easy as you might think.
To understand why a horse would be afraid of a mouse, all you need to do is think about that cockroach crawling up your leg right now as you're reading this comment.
As a vet tech I saw a dog die of fright while in the waiting room. Very high strung dog
Elephants are either on the disney time or demon time. There's no in-between.
the horses will usually want to lay down rather than put pressure on a injured hoof, gravity is hard on their organs so they usually die anyways.
Horses are spooked by snake like things. And elephants are crazy, like every other big brained thing.
Elephants were also seen to hold a vigil for a dead conservationist who helped them out and they visited his house a couple of times afterwards on the same day during their yearly migration. So it can go in the other way too.
As a teenaged stable hand, I tended to a retired thoroughbred who was benched due to her shin getting injured racing. Thankfully, the owner decided to put her out to pasture. Um, as in she got to be in the pasture with a barn. She was about 2. Like a a big gangly puppy, she just wanted love and oats. Like ya do
I've never seen a horse get scared from mice. The times I've seen horses interact with them, they had a track record of going out of their way to completely obliterate mice.
I was hoping this was a "Casual Geographic" reaction
horses are the animals that can die from a stomach ache because they can not puke
It is really difficult to heal a horse with a leg injury. They can’t lay down for too long because their organs will be crushed.
charlies chat is so fried🤣
I thought he meant like a horse lyft to get around small towns 🤣
I make great efforts to establish a good relationship with any local crow population, those guys are the smartest animals I've ever come across
Crows in Japan will rob and bully the same person for generations lol
That’s wild that he didn’t know about that elephant grudge story 😅😂😂 that shit was blowing up on every social media
I bet horses and elephants have a phobia of mice for the same reason humans have a phobia of spiders
Narwhals die when you scare them, kinda weird cause they’re only really afraid of humans so we don’t get a lot of interaction
Elephant's have a great memory.
Grown up with horses all my life. Very heavy animals, and their breathing partially revolves around running with the way their rib cage contracts and expands, not to mention they are animals that traditionally have huge territories. The bone will never heal enough to fully withstand the strain, and while some horses may survive, they'll be forced into a sedentary lifestyle, which most people disapprove of. Not to mention, there isn't a realistic way to get a horse to actually rest its leg. They'll most likely deal more damage to themselves, and with an animal that big and strong, the vet trips alone are expensive and very dangerous for the horse and people involved.
The music at the end caught me completely off guard, was not expecting an outro to a Charlie video
I can actually answer a fair amount of the horse questions. I have an uncle who trains racing horses. One big thing to remember is that most horses are owned for a reason. Horses have jobs and sometimes its more costly to take care of an injured horse than to just buy a new one. Farmers dont know how long the horse will be injured or if the horse will fully recover.
In the context of racing, most horses that are racing are very young, in their physical prime. Their racing record and pedigree determines how valuable they are as a breeding stallion. If a horse gets injured, it will likely never race seriously again. Sometimes they keep the horse around because they can get good money selling the semen. If they cant make their money back selling semen, they just euthanize it.
You can also make friends with crows. If you feed them, they may decide they like you and bring you gifts like shiny things
Horses seem big and tough, but can die extremely easily. A small leg fracture can lay them up, and without regular walking they downhill fast. They get intestinal blockage very easily, even laying down and rolling can cause their gut to twist wrong because of their size and tear them up internally. As far as fright, if it rears up and falls, their weight can cause major injury. A friend of mine was training one once, it reared and fell flat on its ass. The shock went up into its skull and killed it instantly.
Birds like crows live quite a while as well so your life with crows is over after that.
Does anyone have the stream to where he was doing this because I want to see the context of why he has those symbiotic titan videos and see what they r talking about?
Crows rlly do hold grudges and they tell their friends too. I once didn’t give a crow some of my cheese it’s when he was literally asking and ever since they all hate me now and don’t let me try to feed them to rebuild the relationship we could’ve had 😥
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You also gotta remember how large a horse is. Even if they aren’t race horses, many times it’s just not a good life and their health deteriorates quickly if they damage their legs.
Kangaroo’s can die of fright/stress
Elephants never forget
Elephants never forgive
I went to a festival called middlelands in 2017 and the bass from the festival killed some guys alpacas on a farm miles away. Apparently the stress from constant bass all night.
If horses sustain injury to their legs, since they stand for EVERYTHING and getting a horse to not panic in a lift and further hurt itself is nearly impossible.
So often times it is more humane to euthanize because they'd be in constant pain otherwise.
Some cases they can heal though. And some breeds it's easier for them to heal I think...
I grew up on a horse ranch and so that's what I was told. We didn't have any leg injuries though. More common with race horses because... sadly they are often times more abused.
Whos the artist for the end card those are amazing
Gotta love the 0 context backgrounds on this channels videos
horses are expensive hobbies so if theres no economic incentive to keep them alive they dont.
charlie i have been incredibly sick for the past week and a half or so, your videos are one of the only things i can find myself getting distracted by, thank you so much for making this shit sickness a little bit easier ❤
i hope you can get well soon
Where I live in pennsylvania, injured race horses usually end up getting sold to the amish. Never heard of them being euthenized, thats kinda fucked up.
This man said "Horse Lift" and I thought of Attack On Titan
It’s really expensive and takes along time for them to heal and they won’t be at we’re they ever were and the amount it costs to treat costs more than you would make selling them
From what I read Horse bones shatter and not crack like human bones. Horses need all four legs to stand or walk, unlike cats or dogs they can limp and support their weight. Its like trying to cure a terminally ill cancer patient, we are just cutting the suffering part of it for horses.
its crazy how war horses would be like so used to gun fire or load noises and not startle vs a non war horse would hear thunder and freak out.
Horses will eat a mouse if it moves slow enough
Was this from 5/7 stream?
Horse story reminds me of that one scene in family guy
Super sad, My cousins horse little boy(he was huge) broke his leg in a goffer hole at his friends house. My gramps had to put him down it was a missirable life, like worse than torture for him. The noise they make is worse than heart breaking. Ill never forget
Elephants have funerals, that elephant knew EXACTLY wtf was was going on 💀💀💀
harlie covered all sorts of ground in this one.
Horses legs dont heal well because the bloodflow to their legs isnt great, and their leg bones are like human long bones. They take a long time to heal even with good bloodflow.
The issue is less from how long it takes and more that horses cannot walk on 3 legs like dogs or sheep, and they cannot lay down for the entire length of treatment without causing organ damage.
There was a horse racing show that got cancelled because horses kept dying on set
afaik, a scared horse can run itself to death.
I love how someone in chat recommended for Charlie to react to Police Ten 7 (NZ's version of COPS) as a Kiwi, that'd be a good laugh
I deadass cried the first time I put down my horse in RDR2 😭
Also if the horse healed money was spent and everything went perfectly. It simply will never be as strong as it once was or could've been. Now the lesson here is what doesn't kill you, doesn't in fact make you stronger....
Even if it wasn't about money, I've been around horses and they get depressed, almost angry at the injury and not being able to compete or do the same things. They even get themselves high, sometimes so much they have to be stopped almost any means . Just do not let them get sauced. They od 💀. They literally pass out and fall down and sometimes they get hurt which is also bad. Its fucked man 😂 horses are people in a way.
What web browser does Charlie use?
I had 33 horses at one point in my field behind my house, my crazy ex step mom was super into horses. I will say that we never had to put any down because of injuries. But also no one needs 30+ horses that lady was insane and couldn't even feed her own kids yet alone the horses 💀
There is a trail I walk on frequently. Lots of crows I say hi to. One day I wore my leather jacket and the crows went ape shit. Sure enough no leather jacket we are friends, put that jacket on and I'm target # 1. So I try to remember a different jacket, or I can just take it off and carry it past the crows hood. Man I love crows. I hope they find the true leather jacket wearer and carry out their justice.
One word: Magpies. I wont say anymore because i think one is secretly behind me. SHHH They can hear your thoughts.
Lived on a farm for my entire childhood 90% of the horses I’ve seen break a leg needed to be put down. People who haven’t lived with horses have no clue how detrimental that is to a horse
I wouldn’t mind this content on the main channel
Ngl I wonder what kind of place that wildlife sanctuary was from which the elephant escaped. That’s bizarre behavior. (edited for typo)