Tumblr Thread: Horses Don't Have Enough Toes

Sometimes, you find yourself discovering some amazing things about the animal world. Like when we discovered that people used to make tiny hammocks for naval ship kittens throughout history, or when we read about a study that found that octopuses sometimes punch fish for no reason other than pure spite, or when we found out that peacocks can be total jerks sometimes.

There is an endless number of things to discover, and today, we have found yet another one. Horses don't have enough toes. We repeat - horses… don't have enough toes. And you may think we're joking, but na-ah, and tumblrhas a whole explanation for why that is the case. You're about to laugh and learn at the same time, ladies and gentlemen.

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It's amazing that even we, as people who haven't grown up around horses and perhaps don't know as much as we could, even we laughed at that last line. Only tumblr could come up with something as ridiculous as 'horses keel over and die if mercury is in retrograde or a dog barked in Kazakhstan', and that's why we love it so much.
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We would like to emphasize the fact that ask-a-vetblr is an account run by an actual veterinarian. This is an actual veterinarian writing these explanations, and that just makes everything so much heckin' better.
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