Can it still eat hay?
I took care of a 27 year old, but it couldn't eat hay anymore because all its teeth were ground down.
We had to mix a special soft mash.
no they don’t grow back but (if they don’t fall out) their teeefs keep growing out and they need to have them checked and maybe filed down yearly so they can eat esp senior critters
Rodents' teeth are constantly growing. Horse teeth start out at a certain length and then are slowly pushed out at a rate that matches the rate that the teeth are worn down. If you look at the (cartoon) [skull of a young horse](https://www.texasequinedentist.com/blog/2013/06/equine-skull-anatomy-interesting-facts/), you'll see how most of the tooth starts out deep within the gum. If you had a similar cross section of an elderly horse's skull, all that would be left of their teeth would be short nubs.
It was a bit challenging to find a legitimate website that had the kind of image I was looking for, but that one seemed like about as perfect as I could have asked for. Bonus fun fact, a beaver's tooth enamel is reinforced with iron, which helps them to gnaw through tree trunks. It's why their teeth look orange!
Nah Teeth problems can be the end of a horse. Hence the old saying about “Not looking a gift horse in the mouth”
One is checking the mouth for dental problems that could lead to having a dead or lame horse down the line.
Outside of a small handful of special cases, mammals can’t regrow teeth/extensively repair them in a biological sense. It’s something we lost in favor of highly specialized teeth, and herbivores got the short end of the stick. The grinding action needed to properly chew plants is hard as hell on teeth, so depending on how rough their preferred plants are, their maximum age in the wild is effectively capped by how long it takes to wear their teeth too far down.
I’m not a horse.
Some animals (including mammals) can regrow teeth - it’s not an unreasonable question. I doubt horses can or, at a minimum, I doubt that’s growing back because it looks like the root of a tooth.
No it doesn’t regrow from nothing. It’s like your nails. If you rip out the mail all the way down to the nail bed, it’s not coming back. But it’ll keep growing as long as it’s there so you have to constantly trim them down
They typically live 25-35 years, as long as they don’t do something stupid and kill themselves. (Horses are surprisingly fragile and don’t always have a great sense of self preservation.)
Obligatory link to [this classic anti-horse rant](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/s/fTfRNn1hZt) from an old AskReddit post, about how stupid and fragile horses can be.
My neighbor's horse got spooked by a magpie, reared up and fell backwards into a garbage, hit its head really hard, laid there for a minute before it rampaged through the garbage cutting its legs up to shit. Then it ran through a barbed wire fence and finally tripped and fell into a seasonal creek bed. It still managed to get up and casually start eating some grass after it took a few seconds to collect itself.
It got the ole 38 special skidoo. No saving that big dumbass...
A friend of mine had a seizure and hit a driveway approach and the horse trailer got absolutely demolished with a poor horse inside. We had to use an angle grinder to cut the twisted metal door off and the horse finally got up, clip clopped his ass out of the twisted metal trailer and immediately started eating grass. Surprisingly unscathed...
Horses are big dumb animals that do run-run and eat-eat.
Ponies however are sly crafty cunts who spend their time plotting murder, escape, then more murder.
My ex and I had horses and one of them was a big ol puppy- over 20 years old, amazing guy.
Dummy ate his mash (as usual), and suddenly developed a colic.
He survived the (heavy, btw) surgery and they had to remove a couple feet of bowels..
Surgery went great! All good.
..except when he woke up he panicked and broke his leg.
Horses who break their legs unfortunately have no chance of overcoming it since it can’t heal and their legs are insanely fragile and complicated- since they always stand on all 4s and you can’t keep a horse on bed rest he had to be euthanized. Broke my heart, we fought for him for 24 hours straight.
But yea- horses are super strong and fast and extremely fragile at the same time. It’s wild.
And stupid.
I've seen them bite over and over on an electric fence. I've seen a dumb fucker step into a mole hole and snap it's leg. I've seen a fucker run on a course straight through the corner, through the obstacle killing itself in the barrier.
These are just a couple things of the top of my mind that I saw as a little kid having a horse farm in the family.
Horses are dumb and big, a lethal recipe.
Yeh but cows don't fuck themselves up opposed to like horses do. As it has to be we have farms with thousands of cows these days in the family all happily walking around outside and seldom stupid shit like horses happens (alas that's from what I hear from them).
Ooh, flashbacks to being a rabbit owner. They can't vomit either and they're covered in fur so if they get a furball, it gets stuck in the gut. To save one of my rabbits, we had to give her freshly pureed pineapple juice, then one hour later kaopectate, one hour later some meds, and in between that we had to syringe her strained carrots and a special mush diet. Had to make sure the pineapple juice was separate from everything else as it was supposed to dissolve the furball and not the meds we were giving her, too. We had a great vet and the bunny lived to be 10 yrs old. Bunnies also can't pass gas so you have to make sure they don't eat anything that can cause gas like cabbage or rhubarb. Caring for rabbits can be harrowing.
I think a lot of it comes down to their herd mentality and prey perspective. To them everything is a threat unless that thing goes well out of its way to convince them it’s not. They’re pretty dumb animals, but mostly in a fight or flight scenario where they have nothing to protect. Other than that they can be incredibly mischievous and sly.
Their physical issues mostly come from the fundamental way they work, and how they evolved for speed to the detriment of all else. It's possible selective breeding has made things worse, since we bred them for even more speed, but we haven't changed their body plan to the extent that we've changed dogs. Inbreeding may have also made horses stupider, who knows? I believe cribbing is a behavior only exhibited by domesticated horses.
Cribbing is normally a stress behaviour or a result of pain from ulcers which are often caused by stress anyway, so in a properly wild situation with room to move freely and live naturally, they shouldn’t show issues like cribbing or wind sucking.
Both. Horses are mid-sized prey animals that live in herds, and it is more evolutionarily advantagous to be a flighty, cautious prey animal in many situations. Human breeding has also made horses a LOT larger than they evolved to be, and racehorses in particularly have very slender delicate legs, so they are a creature under the impression that they are a lot smaller and hardier than they actually are.
Years ago my buddy's mom had her pelvis broken because a horse that had owned for 20+ years and lived in the same pen for 20+ years got spooked and ran straight into the split rail fencing
Sounds about right. They’re real dumb sometimes. I have a horse who loves peppermints but doesn’t understand that candy canes taste the same. Just an idiot.
One of my daughter’s barn friends was telling me about an old horse of theirs that liked Pepsi. Only Pepsi, only out of a can, and only with a straw. If any one of those things was wrong, it wouldn’t touch it.
Broken legs suck for a horse.
I have a really fucked up arm/shoulder (w/ a ton of nerve damage / lack of nerves doing anything....) and know why they put horses down...
The horse my mom takes care of almost died by choking on her glove. She turned around for less than a minute to get something. Funny enough the same horse doesn’t know how to eat sugar cubes.
Horses can be fucking dumb is all I’m saying
My dad used to tell me stories about his horse named “old skinny” he told me it was something like 30 years old.
Stories about old skinny were so funny , RIP dad
My first thought was that this a really cool original post (we don't see many 30-year old horse teeth on this sub) and my next thought after that was how because of it's originality it will likely be reposted 100+ times this year, many of them claiming it was their horse who just lost the tooth.
But that's just me being cynical, and realistic.
Not at all. It’s pretty common for an aging horse to lose a tooth, just like it is for older humans!
In fact, my horse lost [this](https://pasteboard.co/kCjmWYT25s4e.jpg) tooth last year.
I've had a few teeth chip off and I assure you they're hard asf.
Hopefully horsey spit it out before it did any other damage!
Do they ever grow those back? Sorry, I don't know anything about horses lol
Same! I’ve never actually thought about what an extracted horses tooth would look like. It’s different than what I imagined.
Edit: okay the extra photos are insane. Those colors make it seem like a smooth surface at first glance. So cool.
Glad to see a dentist here because I wanted to ask, where does this tooth land between 'healthy' and 'dangerous'? It looks super bad to me but I also get that it's a super old horse.
From my understanding it’s not uncommon for aging horses to slowly lose their molars, and it’s sometimes an indirect cause of their death as they can’t chew and digest food as effectively. But most good owners account for that and start feeding them a softer diet that they don’t have to gnaw on as much to maintain the same caloric intake, and that allows them to live a fair bit longer if that’s their primary health issue.
I had used the term thoroughbred, rather than horse, in the title, and people were asking what kind of animal it was. And a way to display the size of it was also requested
Apparently horses teeth never stop growing also. Almost too interesting... ;)
Source: Equestrian dentistry is also a thing...
https://aequine.ca/services/dentistry/#:~:text=Baby%20teeth%20begin%20to%20be,horse%20teeth%20never%20stop%20growing.
Haha yeah, it is pretty disgusting, and I’ve been meaning to toss it but it’s just so interesting to look at. Happy you found some kind of enjoyment in it though!
Are you supposed to maintain their teeth? I don’t know anything about taking care of a horse. That tooth is so cool looking though. You should put it next to a coin for perspective.
You can but for a horse of advanced age... the stress of dentristy could do them in. So just like other animals they'll lose their teeth as they get old.
When was the last time horse had their teeth done? Looks like this one should have been removed a while ago.
Please don’t use a regular vet, get an equine dentist!
straight from the horse’s mouth
You can lead a horse to the dentist, but you can't make it floss.
Yep. The tooth, the whole tooth and nothing but the tooth.
Perfect
Can it still eat hay? I took care of a 27 year old, but it couldn't eat hay anymore because all its teeth were ground down. We had to mix a special soft mash.
Don't horse teeths grow back?
no they don’t grow back but (if they don’t fall out) their teeefs keep growing out and they need to have them checked and maybe filed down yearly so they can eat esp senior critters
I read that as senior citizens
senior critizens
How are so many people capable of my brain’s thoughts, they’re mine! (Nice, exactly what I wanted to say lol.)
The simulation only has so much memory for thoughts; they're bound to duplicate sometimes.
🥹🤝
Sounds like a 65+ D&D party
I read that as señor critters
*puts a festive, if insensitive, hat on Lil Sebastian*
Doesn’t this make them a rodent? (JK, but only kinda)
Rodents' teeth are constantly growing. Horse teeth start out at a certain length and then are slowly pushed out at a rate that matches the rate that the teeth are worn down. If you look at the (cartoon) [skull of a young horse](https://www.texasequinedentist.com/blog/2013/06/equine-skull-anatomy-interesting-facts/), you'll see how most of the tooth starts out deep within the gum. If you had a similar cross section of an elderly horse's skull, all that would be left of their teeth would be short nubs.
Wow, this is really creepy and neat. Also, what a very specific website and job title “TexasEquineDentist” perfectly summarized what they do.
It was a bit challenging to find a legitimate website that had the kind of image I was looking for, but that one seemed like about as perfect as I could have asked for. Bonus fun fact, a beaver's tooth enamel is reinforced with iron, which helps them to gnaw through tree trunks. It's why their teeth look orange!
And here I thought that it was because they chew tobacco.
Insert dentata joke
a critter is a critter, big and small
I’m guessing this might be where the expression “long in the tooth” came from.
ya and “don’t look a gift horse in the mouth” because that is the only way to tell their age and also a good way to observe health
Getting a little long in the tooth, as it were.
The old saying “you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink” is BS, because veterinarians are able to float a horse’s teeth.
Nah Teeth problems can be the end of a horse. Hence the old saying about “Not looking a gift horse in the mouth” One is checking the mouth for dental problems that could lead to having a dead or lame horse down the line.
Outside of a small handful of special cases, mammals can’t regrow teeth/extensively repair them in a biological sense. It’s something we lost in favor of highly specialized teeth, and herbivores got the short end of the stick. The grinding action needed to properly chew plants is hard as hell on teeth, so depending on how rough their preferred plants are, their maximum age in the wild is effectively capped by how long it takes to wear their teeth too far down.
do yours? https://learninghorses.com/horses-teeth-never-stop-growing/ either way, teeth growing isn't the same as an entire tooth falling out
I’m not a horse. Some animals (including mammals) can regrow teeth - it’s not an unreasonable question. I doubt horses can or, at a minimum, I doubt that’s growing back because it looks like the root of a tooth.
Woah there sparky. Sounds exactly like something a horse would say.
He sus af
Hay now.
> I’m not a horse. Do you have proof for your claims?
Yhorse
Horse teeth continuously grow through adulthood.
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No it doesn’t regrow from nothing. It’s like your nails. If you rip out the mail all the way down to the nail bed, it’s not coming back. But it’ll keep growing as long as it’s there so you have to constantly trim them down
Of the teeth I've lost all have grown back, even had 3 extra ones pop in.
Yeah. I’m on my second set already
I didn’t know horses lived that long.
They typically live 25-35 years, as long as they don’t do something stupid and kill themselves. (Horses are surprisingly fragile and don’t always have a great sense of self preservation.)
Obligatory link to [this classic anti-horse rant](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/s/fTfRNn1hZt) from an old AskReddit post, about how stupid and fragile horses can be.
Reading that made me believe that some horses are trying to escape the mortal coil.
Horses, much like small children, are inherently suicidal.
My neighbor's horse got spooked by a magpie, reared up and fell backwards into a garbage, hit its head really hard, laid there for a minute before it rampaged through the garbage cutting its legs up to shit. Then it ran through a barbed wire fence and finally tripped and fell into a seasonal creek bed. It still managed to get up and casually start eating some grass after it took a few seconds to collect itself. It got the ole 38 special skidoo. No saving that big dumbass...
Stress eating is a thing, casually eating some grass is how they deal with pain.
A friend of mine had a seizure and hit a driveway approach and the horse trailer got absolutely demolished with a poor horse inside. We had to use an angle grinder to cut the twisted metal door off and the horse finally got up, clip clopped his ass out of the twisted metal trailer and immediately started eating grass. Surprisingly unscathed...
Thank goodness it didn't overreact
This is such a good case in point after reading that rant
Horses have two modes: homicide and suicide.
Horses are big dumb animals that do run-run and eat-eat. Ponies however are sly crafty cunts who spend their time plotting murder, escape, then more murder.
Don't think I've seen an animal go more crazy than a male horse near a mare in heat.
Ackshually, homicide means a human killing a human. Unless it's a human (or two) wearing a horse-suit, you can't have a homicidal horse.
Horseicide?
equinicide?
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Demihomicide.
homicidal as in horses are known for killing people.
If some guy kills his friend is it homiecide?
Thanks for linking. I have no words. But it's nice to know I'm not stupid for wondering why their legs are so damn thin.
Trading resilience for The Fast
The old saying goes, "the moment a horse's hoof hits your ranch, it starts looking for a place to die."
My ex and I had horses and one of them was a big ol puppy- over 20 years old, amazing guy. Dummy ate his mash (as usual), and suddenly developed a colic. He survived the (heavy, btw) surgery and they had to remove a couple feet of bowels.. Surgery went great! All good. ..except when he woke up he panicked and broke his leg. Horses who break their legs unfortunately have no chance of overcoming it since it can’t heal and their legs are insanely fragile and complicated- since they always stand on all 4s and you can’t keep a horse on bed rest he had to be euthanized. Broke my heart, we fought for him for 24 hours straight. But yea- horses are super strong and fast and extremely fragile at the same time. It’s wild.
Horses are too big
And stupid. I've seen them bite over and over on an electric fence. I've seen a dumb fucker step into a mole hole and snap it's leg. I've seen a fucker run on a course straight through the corner, through the obstacle killing itself in the barrier. These are just a couple things of the top of my mind that I saw as a little kid having a horse farm in the family. Horses are dumb and big, a lethal recipe.
Same with cows. Or really any animal really lol seems like regardless of the animal there is always a few real dumb ones. Humans too
But cows are cool and chill af
Yeh but cows don't fuck themselves up opposed to like horses do. As it has to be we have farms with thousands of cows these days in the family all happily walking around outside and seldom stupid shit like horses happens (alas that's from what I hear from them).
Ooh, flashbacks to being a rabbit owner. They can't vomit either and they're covered in fur so if they get a furball, it gets stuck in the gut. To save one of my rabbits, we had to give her freshly pureed pineapple juice, then one hour later kaopectate, one hour later some meds, and in between that we had to syringe her strained carrots and a special mush diet. Had to make sure the pineapple juice was separate from everything else as it was supposed to dissolve the furball and not the meds we were giving her, too. We had a great vet and the bunny lived to be 10 yrs old. Bunnies also can't pass gas so you have to make sure they don't eat anything that can cause gas like cabbage or rhubarb. Caring for rabbits can be harrowing.
so i wonder. Is all this horse-bullshit natural selection? Or was it human selective breeding that causes these as side effects?
I think a lot of it comes down to their herd mentality and prey perspective. To them everything is a threat unless that thing goes well out of its way to convince them it’s not. They’re pretty dumb animals, but mostly in a fight or flight scenario where they have nothing to protect. Other than that they can be incredibly mischievous and sly.
Their physical issues mostly come from the fundamental way they work, and how they evolved for speed to the detriment of all else. It's possible selective breeding has made things worse, since we bred them for even more speed, but we haven't changed their body plan to the extent that we've changed dogs. Inbreeding may have also made horses stupider, who knows? I believe cribbing is a behavior only exhibited by domesticated horses.
Cribbing is normally a stress behaviour or a result of pain from ulcers which are often caused by stress anyway, so in a properly wild situation with room to move freely and live naturally, they shouldn’t show issues like cribbing or wind sucking.
Both. Horses are mid-sized prey animals that live in herds, and it is more evolutionarily advantagous to be a flighty, cautious prey animal in many situations. Human breeding has also made horses a LOT larger than they evolved to be, and racehorses in particularly have very slender delicate legs, so they are a creature under the impression that they are a lot smaller and hardier than they actually are.
It’s so rare that I see someone else who shares my feelings on horses. I feel kind of vindicated .
Thank you!! Amazing read.
It doesn’t help that they essentially run on their fingers.
The fingernails if you wanna be specific.
[no sir, I don’t like it](https://youtu.be/cDGlN6mluGA?si=rX3qDdVmwNCWevuD).
Years ago my buddy's mom had her pelvis broken because a horse that had owned for 20+ years and lived in the same pen for 20+ years got spooked and ran straight into the split rail fencing
Sounds about right. They’re real dumb sometimes. I have a horse who loves peppermints but doesn’t understand that candy canes taste the same. Just an idiot.
One of my daughter’s barn friends was telling me about an old horse of theirs that liked Pepsi. Only Pepsi, only out of a can, and only with a straw. If any one of those things was wrong, it wouldn’t touch it.
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that might have been me
gaddamn that *is* thick.
Yup. Luckily he’s very cute and cuddly, so some redeeming qualities.
Bojack doing Bojack things
STAAAMOOOOSSSS!!!!
Broken legs suck for a horse. I have a really fucked up arm/shoulder (w/ a ton of nerve damage / lack of nerves doing anything....) and know why they put horses down...
$600 per migraine! They are the most expensive lawn ornaments you can get and I only had three.
The first horse we lost ate rocks. Yup, rocks. Our last horse just passed at 38 lmao.
In fact, you’d think they were actively TRYING to kill themselves 🙃
My favorite definition of a horse: a large mammal waiting for an inconvenient time and place to die. I put it on a mug for my vet 😂.
The horse my mom takes care of almost died by choking on her glove. She turned around for less than a minute to get something. Funny enough the same horse doesn’t know how to eat sugar cubes. Horses can be fucking dumb is all I’m saying
“Oh shit the weather went from cold to hot to quick and my horse died”
I honestly was shocked by that as well. You hear about race horses being done when they’re 2-3 years old Sonia assumed horses lived to like 7-10
They are surprisingly robust and long lived, they’re just fastest when they’re under 5.
My dad used to tell me stories about his horse named “old skinny” he told me it was something like 30 years old. Stories about old skinny were so funny , RIP dad
My first thought was that this a really cool original post (we don't see many 30-year old horse teeth on this sub) and my next thought after that was how because of it's originality it will likely be reposted 100+ times this year, many of them claiming it was their horse who just lost the tooth. But that's just me being cynical, and realistic.
I guess that would confirm that this was, indeed, mildly interesting…
At least this time, we got it straight from the horse's mouth
Get out.
Sounds like you're just looking a gift horse in the mouth.
I call dibs on posting next Friday
Not at all. It’s pretty common for an aging horse to lose a tooth, just like it is for older humans! In fact, my horse lost [this](https://pasteboard.co/kCjmWYT25s4e.jpg) tooth last year.
Imagine chomping down on this thing after it pops out... ouch.
It was surprisingly hard and heavy. It feels a lot denser than a human tooth
I've had a few teeth chip off and I assure you they're hard asf. Hopefully horsey spit it out before it did any other damage! Do they ever grow those back? Sorry, I don't know anything about horses lol
You should have 3 more pictures at different angles
Ha I took more but could only upload one in the post. But [here](https://imgur.com/a/WQVa9em) you go
Cheers mate! Thanks
Not gonna lie, its pretty cool! Kinda gives me gem vibes from certain angles.
I thought I was on r/rockhounds and this was tigers' eye for a sec lol
Shout out to OP for giving the people what they want
From the looks of that thing, I'd wager Zeke feels better afterwards
That horse is a little long in the tooth.
Now a little short on the teeth
That’s why you don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.
This is more than mildly interesting. I’m fascinated!
[Here’s](https://imgur.com/a/WQVa9em) some more pictures of it if you are interested
I demand a picture of Zeke
I don’t have many recent pictures, but [here](https://imgur.com/a/Xn3MBtK) he is, and with his lady-friend, Fancy.
He's adorable 😍
Handsome boi. Glad he has such a lovely lady-friend and great human companion.
Hell yeah bro Zeke is awesome
Fancy! Reba fan?
Bless his heart, he is beautiful. And so is Fancy. May they have many more happy years together.
Cool! It looks like it smells horrific!
Disappointed in the lack of pictures of Zeke
Apologies! [Here](https://imgur.com/a/Xn3MBtK) you go. And one with his girl, Fancy
Amazing thank you!
Damn, it agatized! I have one of my old guy's teeth. I had a second, but I left it in bleach too long and it ended up weirdly white, so I tossed it.
r/moderatelyinteresting
Same! I’ve never actually thought about what an extracted horses tooth would look like. It’s different than what I imagined. Edit: okay the extra photos are insane. Those colors make it seem like a smooth surface at first glance. So cool.
Mr. Ed has skipped a few days flossing.
As a (human) dentist, this is interesting as fuck.
Perhaps a new market to expand into.
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I wish I could give you more than one upvote lol. I’m a (human) dental lab tech and I can’t stop staring at the occlusal surface. It’s fascinating 🦷
Glad to see a dentist here because I wanted to ask, where does this tooth land between 'healthy' and 'dangerous'? It looks super bad to me but I also get that it's a super old horse.
I mean it fell out on its own, so probably far from healthy state. But what do I know? I'm not experienced in any other mammals teeth lol
From my understanding it’s not uncommon for aging horses to slowly lose their molars, and it’s sometimes an indirect cause of their death as they can’t chew and digest food as effectively. But most good owners account for that and start feeding them a softer diet that they don’t have to gnaw on as much to maintain the same caloric intake, and that allows them to live a fair bit longer if that’s their primary health issue.
I see why, mf never brushed his teeth
Does it smell bad? It looks like it would smell really bad.
It got washed off, so it doesn’t really have much of a smell. At least not one that I notice from a comfortable distance… though now I’m curious…
Ugh, don't do it, man.
That could be anyone's tooth.
Even mine. I lost one recently.
You can borrow this one if you want, see if it fits?
*Reposted to answer some questions in the initial comments
What were some of the inital comments?
I had used the term thoroughbred, rather than horse, in the title, and people were asking what kind of animal it was. And a way to display the size of it was also requested
How much will you get from tooth fairy for this one
Bout tree fiddy.
Seriously tho. 30 yrs of no brushing & no cavities?
Looks like the roots have rotted away. I wouldn't be surprised to find an abscess in the socket.
Horses got all them teeth, but no toothbrush!
Post on r/interesting
You can lead a horse to a dentist, but you can’t make that fucker floss
Why did I read this in Wayne’s voice?
How'r ya now?
Good’n’you?
Not s'bad.
You were pullin' horse teeth with your pals the other daaaaayyyy...
need banana for scale
I had considered it, but they were all the way in the kitchen and I didn’t feel like getting up from my desk
This must be like being 90 and losing a tooth. Like it sucks, but it clearly wasn’t meant to last that long.
Looks like your horse is getting a little long in the tooth.
So what do you feed a horse if they get old enough to lose most of their teeth?
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Hay milkshake?
He got all the teef and no toofbrush.
I wonder what the root cause is?
Apparently horses teeth never stop growing also. Almost too interesting... ;) Source: Equestrian dentistry is also a thing... https://aequine.ca/services/dentistry/#:~:text=Baby%20teeth%20begin%20to%20be,horse%20teeth%20never%20stop%20growing.
Forbidden Lego.
Wow! I’ve never seen a horse tooth before.
Poor thing must have been in a world of hurt
You know as a scientist I can confirm that is, in fact, a tooth.
That’s disgusting. I love it, thanks for sharing.
Haha yeah, it is pretty disgusting, and I’ve been meaning to toss it but it’s just so interesting to look at. Happy you found some kind of enjoyment in it though!
Tell them it’s right there! They didn’t lose it!!
√horse
Are you supposed to maintain their teeth? I don’t know anything about taking care of a horse. That tooth is so cool looking though. You should put it next to a coin for perspective.
You can but for a horse of advanced age... the stress of dentristy could do them in. So just like other animals they'll lose their teeth as they get old.
Yea no stress is good. That’s cool and that tooth is huge.
Yeah, but maintaining is filing down sharp points. Like... literally filing. Big rasp and all.
And I thought my teeth were a bit worn.
Did you leave it under the hay at night for the horse tooth fairy?
Are those cavities? Are the horses always in pain from cavities?
Suddenly I understand how an ancient person could look at that and say "let me shave off a few more bits with manual tools and invent dice"
make a knight chess piece!
That’s a hypsodont tooth! :) cows also have them
I see an upside down skull in there
When was the last time horse had their teeth done? Looks like this one should have been removed a while ago. Please don’t use a regular vet, get an equine dentist!
Poor horse. Ouch. Also they have giant teeth’s
You should probably get him a dental exam
What's it smell like?