Horses are prey animals and also fucking idiots, so that combines into being scared of practically everything; plastic bags, ducks, the wind, water, a field that didn't have sheep in it last week having sheep in now, anything. The story of how alexander the great got his horse relies on it being scared of its own fucking shadow, and thats the most believable part of it. Theres a section in some horse trials where you have to lead/ride your horse over a flat plastic tarp on the ground, and honestly, at a lot of them, its regarded as the hardest part.
Horses assume there's a 50/50 chance that anything they can't immediately identify as another horse, a person, or some grass is absolutely going to eat them. Of course, some horses/breeds are way more chill and laidback, but those aren't exactly the types of animal that a cop is gonna want.
Horses are prey animals and also fucking idiots, so that combines into being scared of practically everything; plastic bags, ducks, the wind, water, a field that didn't have sheep in it last week having sheep in now, anything. The story of how alexander the great got his horse relies on it being scared of its own fucking shadow, and thats the most believable part of it. Theres a section in some horse trials where you have to lead/ride your horse over a flat plastic tarp on the ground, and honestly, at a lot of them, its regarded as the hardest part.
Horses assume there's a 50/50 chance that anything they can't immediately identify as another horse, a person, or some grass is absolutely going to eat them. Of course, some horses/breeds are way more chill and laidback, but those aren't exactly the types of animal that a cop is gonna want.