In this video I think it's demonstrated incredibly powerfully what importance needs to be placed upon anti-horse tools.
The horses do the bulk of the work in creating space that allows the police line to tighten the noose here. Without them they never would have controlled these crowds with people on multiple sides of them. They could not have maintained control.
There must be simply and effective methods to spook these horses without causing a danger to them. Something that could be deployed that would make the riders tell their superiors "we can't deploy because the horses would be spooked by x".
Anyway. What are other people's thoughts here? Obviously this protest was unprepared for a fight (although several police have been hospitalised). What could small groups of 1-5 have done in the wider engagement to make things go differently?
Yes, put seriously; you could take the piss/musk/pheromones from animals that scare horses (or even other horses like another user mentioned) to spook them. Getting a horse to spook is more effective (as far as nullifying force-multiplication) than killing/maiming it imo.
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Thnx for doing the homework for me, I'll have to read up on this later tonight.
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Hopefully this quarter we'll get a favorable review and steal some of the funding from the Pig Poop Balls Dissemination Department.
What the hell do they need that big of a budget for anyway?
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Just read that (it's only 10 pages, for the curious). Interesting and useful stuff!
Does bobcat urine work? It's commercially available as a rodent repellant, and very stinky.
Woah, since when did I become the animal piss expert around here!?!
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To be honest I really don't know with certainty.
I assume the bobcat piss is 50% effective (vs. rodents) because it's a natural predator's scent but also 50% effective because it's very stinky and rodents have sensitive noses. I dunno how reliant horses are on their sense of smell, or what kind of "relationship" horses have with bobcats in the wild. If I was a horse, I think I'd be pretty indifferent about them tbh.
Edit: You knowwwww, there's a way you could find out...
Tiger or other large predator urine might be more effective. First, you gotta get the tiger urine though...and I'm pretty sure Joe Exotic's place, who I assume did a brisk business in tiger urine if anywhere did, is fully closed now I believe.
Although a quick Google says bear urine is commercially available, and I blame all of you for my next month of ad results.
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