Why do horses get put down when they are injured or break a leg? ?
Because it’s often much more humane to destroy the animal than it is to subject the horse to further agony, that’s why. Horses are not like people, pal- you can’t confine a horse in a stall for long periods of time while a fracture heals and keep the horse sane. Horses evolved as grazing animals on the steppes of Asia, which means that their bodies are designed to allow for constant movement. Their digestive systems are set up that way too-” little and often” is what is typical for most horses in the wild. If a horse breaks a leg, the animal must be kept confined, and weight has to be kept off the broken bone to allow the area to heal. This runs completely against the way horses evolved and were intended to live- and most horses can’t tolerate it for long without serious consequences, as we all saw with Barbaro. Barbaro DIED because his system just couldn’t handle the constant confinement- the unnatural pressures on his 3 remaining legs caused a disease called laminitis, which is an in
