Pulling a horse's mane - maybe it's not supposed to hurt, the lack of nerve endings and all that, but it can certainly be annoying.
A horse doesn't always distinguish the difference.
We all know cutting hair doesn't hurt, a horse thinks we should stick to that.
Horses aren't faking when they spook.
They don't think along those lines.
If they spook, it's because something spooked them.
Nothing in a horse's psyche can lead him or her to spook - just to get their way.
Fly bites.
Some horses are tougher skinned than others, but all of them are in agreement, fly bites hurt.
Thank heaven for skin that can be moved at will to dislodge a fly and tails to swat them with.
Flies around their eyes are particularly troublesome to horses, not to mention harmful.
Do their eyes tear because of all the flies descending upon them, or are the flies congregating because of the tears and moisture in the eyes? A horse doesn't care about this who came first, the chicken or the egg, scenario.
Flies "bug" them, period.
Do horses' have emotional feelings? Of course they do.
Separate a pair that are "fond" of one another and find out.
Look what happens when you wean a foal and mare.
Get a horse angry and watch their reaction.
Pet a happy horse and notice the look in their eyes.
When their owner arrives at the barn and they nicker or whinny, if that's not all about feelings, then I don't know what is.
Are you listening?