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?
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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