Great day at the sanctuary #farrierday #spaday #MOAS #MountainOasisAnimalSanctuary #horselife #sanctuarylife #horserescue #horselove
Bonnie and Clyde got the star treatment grooming sessions with our wonderful volunteer Di 💕🐎🍀🌟🧲
Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone!!! Here's something funny from Clyde and Sox for your enjoyment 🤣💝🦄🍀
Dinnertime roll call 💞🦄🥗🌄
So I tried my hand at becoming a content creator today lol. Please forgive the weird, ASMR style voice over and all my fumbling and stumbling lol. We're hoping to start doing more of these, and they can only get better from here 🤣🦄💖
Sunny is soooooo helpful at feeding time 🤣🥰🐴🍀
#horsesofinstagram #rescuehorsesrock #fridaynight #lettingloose #sanctuarylife #horselife
It's Friday night! Get a little crazy on! #fridaynightfun #getcrazy #horserescue #horselife #horsepower #horsesofinstagram #sanctuary #sanctuarylife
Cool evening breeze got everyone feeling the frolic!
Just horsing around!
(We do not own the rights to the music, we did get permission so check at @joepeters_music )
#moas #nonprofit #501c3 #horsingaround #arenttheycute #horserescue #horses #saveahorse #savinglivesonehorseatatime
Sunny and Sox grooming massage train
Horse and human neurology, cognition, and behavior modification post - Day 2
Sorry I didn't post yesterday everyone! I'm trying to figure out what the best days are going to be for my schedule. I might switch it up to T-Th instead of Monday and Friday, but we'll see, so bare with me while I figure it out lol.
My tax for Day 2 is Sunny and Sox enjoying a massage train when I went out to do some de-shedding on everyone. They crack me up lol. Anyway, on to the good stuff.
So, on Tuesday we talked about horse vision, and how their ability to see is so different from ours. They can see all the way around them, but everything is fuzzy and flat. Today we're going to expand on that and talk about night/dark vision.
Horses can see in the dark, but not nearly as well as you might think. Their night vision isn't really any better than ours. They can see the ground they're walking on well enough to walk from their water to their hay, and wander around looking for whatever destruction they think it'll be funny for us to wake up to. But, overall, it's pretty similar to our night vision.
What's different is the horse's ability to adjust their eyesight between light and dark. We humans can pretty quickly walk from the sunny summer day outside to the relative darkenss of the inside of a barn, indoor arena, or horse trailer without much adjustment time. A few seconds and we're good to go.
Horses, on the other hand, take a minimum of 45 minutes to adjust their pupils from being totally shuttered against the full outside light, to open enough to see anything at all inside an indoor arena, barn, or the inside of a horse trailer. 45 minutes! Imagine having to wear your dark sunglasses inside an indoor arena or shed with little light. It would become very difficult to comfortably navigate.
We see this issue in horses that seem scared to enter the indoor arena roll up door, who shy at entering an unfamiliar barn or stall, or who refuse to load into a trailer. In the trailer exampl
✨Wild child update ✨
Miss Destiny is making great progress by trying her best to eat snacks out of our hands. This is a big mile stone for her as she is still so scared and untrusting of humans. As it goes, slow and steady wins the race.
