Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for December 23, 2014

Hmmm; none started by dogs, either…

Semi-valid point, but ever seen two stallions in a bad mood?

Dolphins are pretty smart. So are poodles. Orangutans. Some apes have learned sign language. None have made structures or gone to the moon. That we know of…… ;)

Fairportfan2, yeah, I don’t know exactly what cats have been up to in the last few years, but if it involved war, it woudn’t surprise me….

Horses don’t start wars.OTOH a Horse’s A$$ does.

Horse sense is something we humans could stand to learn from our equine friends.

Horses are the glue that binds everything together.

What about the Trojan Horse? ;)

Something like seven billion people in the world now. Something like fifteen times that many who have ever lived.Twelve people have gone to the moon..We’re only a little bit ahead of horses on a percentage basis.

Horses know when the Kool-Aid is safe to drink.They can smell bad water and avoid it.They will follow a decent leader, though.

I think we’re confusing “smart” and “wise”.

Horses are the foundation upon which human civilization was built.

Human advancement and war go hand in hand – the rate of application for patents skyrockets during war. I think we have selectively bred ourselves to be very clever at killing each other, mostly by killing off those who aren’t particularly clever at it.

Unfortunately for the horses, they have been involved in most of those wars that the humans started. Now if they were really smart, maybe they could figure out how to run off somewhere while the humans kill each other.

Wiley, do you have a twitter account? I tried searching & none came up. I had started to worry about you because I hadn’t seen you comment recently. I went back to Bob’s health scare and saw that you’d changed your avatar. I always look for Danae to see what you’ve said, & when I didn’t see her for so long I started to worry. Now I know to look for the doggie, but since I follow Bill Amend & Stephan Pastis over at twitter I thought I’d see if you had one too.Anyways Happy Holidays! & thank you for the laughter.

I am an old farm boy. I know horses & they are not the lovable creatures most people think. They are dangerous at both ends and mean in the middle!

She is loss for words and not even horse. But Danae does try.

I had llamas for years, and there wasn’t much I liked more than sitting outside with my morning coffee and watching them. They always came over to see what type of treat I brought them, usually bread. Not many more peaceful ways to start a day. To the best of my knowledge, they never started a war, either. Few spit-spats here and there, but that’s to be expected.

Apparently, meerkats are already closer to intelligent than raccoons,

Good grief! Based on the comments here, mankind is despicable (excepting the commenters, of course) and is incapable of doing anything smart. I’m sure glad we have this internet thingie that lets us bring self-flagellation to a new level.

None started by rocks, either, and rocks don’t poop on anyone’s food.

“Cats were not.”Don’t know if they were actually used, but they have been imagined as weapons…

BibliOdyssey

In “Arms and the Man”, Shaw has the antagonist’s heroism exposed as the the result of his horse having spooked and charged headlong into the enemy lines. The rest of the army followed, thus the horse actually won the victory.

The same can be said about dolphins. And Douglas Adams already said it.

Night-Gaunt, Jahoody, speaking of intelligence, I guess I don’t wonder why cats wouldn’t put up with being war weapons…Oh, that’s right, they’re smart…

No other animal besides humans have started war, and that includes cats.

ShadowBeast, Some ants are at war 24/7/365 and more…..http://www.wired.com/2010/08/gallery-ant-warfare/all/

But isn’t the Earth the computer the mice built to answer the question of life the universe and everything?

There was a war stated over a pig though.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_War_(1859)

I mean, when horse-riding spread to parts of the world, it often displaced balances of military power and started wars.