Large Plush Horse

Next to dogs, it would be no surprise to learn that horses are the most requested 'pet' by children

. There is something about this majestic creature which is simply too hard to resist. A much better, and cheaper alternative, however, is a large plush horse. Some of these amazing soft toys are big enough that they can actually be ridden. With a whole lot of a imagination, a large plush horse will take a child places they only ever dreamed of.

The number one instinct of a horse is survival and to do it, all they need is food, water, and safety nothing else. Their drive for survival comes from their instinct to be safe and in order to do that, they have to be part of a herd. That means understanding the language of their herd as well as understanding what social order everyone falls into in the herd. Just like wolf packs or prides of lions, even the smallest of horse herds has a pecking order. With horses, it is dependent on who moves who (when danger is near) and therefore who respects who. All that to say, in the horses language, who feels safe with the who as the leader.

For millions of years horses were free to roam wild compared to today where there are so few that have that same freedom. Amazingly, wild horses can still be found in Australia, New Zealand, Mongolia, France, Africa, Abaco in the Bahamas, the Greek Island of Cephalonia, Sable Island in Nova Scotia, the Canadian West, some states in the American West, Virginia, and North Carolina. Humans make a lot of assumptions about horses because they think that whatever suits them, will suit the horse as well. Have you ever stopped to wonder what might be going on in a horses head? Believe it or not, horses are not cave-dwellers; they do not like small, dark rooms, iron shoes, clothing, or heat and air-conditioning.

Have you ever seen a horse that has been locked away in a stall, pacing and pawing and maybe even gnawing? Being alone in a stall means stress. It does not matter if it is lined in gold in a heated barn. All that pawing and pacing is the horse trying to say I hate it in here, let me out, I need to move and circulate my blood. I need to be with my herd. A wild horse will move [with its herd] from ten to twenty miles per day so it can keep its hooves flexed and circulating blood. It will fee feed its small stomach a little bit at a time and as a result can self-regulate its systems thereby keeping themselves in tip top shape. Horses are flight animals. The few remaining wild horses in the world have managed to survive as long as they have because at the slightest thing, they flip out, race off and never look back.

Horses are also herd animals because being in one means safety safety in numbers found in a herd.

For all that they are, horses are really misunderstood creatures, the product of human intervention time and again from putting metal shoes on them and nailing them to their feet to locking them alone in a stall. A large plush horse doesn't have to suffer the same fate as long as it's treated with respect and love. Like the real thing, that large push horse can teach you a lot about care and kindness and you will be all the better for it.

by: Angeline Hope

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