A few years back, I did some “acting” work for the Cornell Vet School — they’d give me scenarios to improvise, so the grad students could get some practice dealing with human clients. The horse scenes were always the most intense. Part of that was that my characters were almost always supposed to be assholes (or at least, had high stakes riding on their horse), and also because the students KNEW that horse people are scary and intense, and that horses are medically fragile, and were anticipating it being the most stressful scenario.
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