05-29-2018, 06:12 PM
I believe that I have an advantage on you 30-30. I have known both dogs and horses and there is a difference. Dogs are much more contact oriented than horses. Where a horse needs a buddy alert and on watch to sleep, dogs need physical contact with family members to feel secure. Dogs sleep all at the same time for up to twenty hours a day (cats are worse, they usually sleep twenty three hours per day). It's the difference between a predator that gets concentrated food and is efficient about not wasting energy between meals and an herbivore that needs to eat nearly constantly to support a large body.
I wish I had ten cents for every time that I have been awakened during the night because a thunderstorm was approaching and a dog needed my touch to feel secure (I'd buy two more farms). Horses tell me about a problem then look at me to see what I am going to do about it.