Scrape on my horse

[catjac1975]

I do not know what to think about this on my horse. Her fur is scraped off in 3 even lines-no scratch on the skin. It is about 2" by 1 1/2." I can only guess she scraped it on something in the woods. But it is so even-it looks like someone carefully shaved a design into her fur. I know that is not possible. Could this be from an animal? It is high on her back- maybe 4 feet off the ground. Again no scrape on the skin.

 

[thistlebloom]

Strange. Could it be teeth marks from your other horse?

 

[catjac1975]

Did not even think of that. I'll check his over bite. Great idea! Thanks!

 

[NwMtGardener]

That's what i thought of first too - horse teeth marks!

 

[Nyboy]

I think if claw marks the skin would be broken

 

[Ridgerunner]

Claw marks or predator's teeth are not that wide. I guess it's possible she scraped against some metal somewhere but I think Thistle got it, another horse.

 

[Just-Moxie]

 

[bobm]

I don't think that it is from another horse bite since a horse' s front teeth are just as close together as a human's are except for the side of the mouth wolf ( canine ) teeth , and there is a space of a couple inches between the incisors and molars. Since there are even spaces with hair still in place ( horses do not have fur ) between the scrapes, so it could be from a piece of mechanical equipment, broken overhead branch that the horse went under or it took a roll and managed to scrape itself on some rock.

 

[Smart Red]

Dare we ask @marshallsmyth about his latest Neanderthal or Big Foot encounters? Those teeth marks might look familiar.

 

[897tgigvib]

Red, the last time I heard tell of one of the Big Foot family biting a horse Numoomalug was the Maestro of the post glacial western Neanderthals.

Now this is only hear tell because I was just a kid vacationing at south Atlantis when it 'posably happened, but, supposably some early modern person was trying to actually ride a horse, which was of course most tabboo because horses are sacred totem animals. Almost as sacred as cats!

So, a buncha big foot wimin chased him down, and while tryna bite the early modern human, there was an accidental bite that got the sacred horse.

Supposably the big foot who did that was so sorrowful that she sacrificed her own self to the firey earth spirit at one of the volcanoes.

No big foot would ever bite a horse! Nuh uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, not nohow, not noway!