Horses Are Really Fragile Animals. Is It Still A Death Sentence For A Centaur If One Of Their Equine

Horses are really fragile animals. Is it still a death sentence for a centaur if one of their equine limbs gets hurt? Or can they help it somehow?

Oh god, now I'm thinking of amputees and how those would work

Horses are SUPER fragile, or maybe more like delicately balanced.. but particularly their crazy spindle-legs which centaurs get to deal with! But a big part of why hurt legs are a death sentence for horses has less to do with "It kills them" and more to do with quality of life, which a centaur can get around! A horse with a broken leg doesn't understand it can't put ANY weight on that leg for an extended period and will attempt to go about their daily life and act normally, which basically guarantees re-injuring the bad leg and a high chance of injuring the other 3 legs as they try to cope with the change in balance and weight distribution. It all leads to a really poor quality of life with almost no chance of truly healing properly. The story of all they did trying to save Barbaro the racehorse is a long sad story that illustrates a lot of the issues even with modern veterinary medicine with trying to deal with a broken leg in horses.

Thankfully with centaurs, They understand the need for healing, are able to manage their own quality of life and have the gear to support themselves in the time it takes for the injury to heal!

Also perfectly good for long term use in the case of aging, amputation, or general disability! Which is common with the front legs and lower backs of centaurs given the unusual stresses caused by their body-plans. They were created with thicker and more robust front legs to cope with the permanent added weight of the torso instead of a horse head, but injury and disability in that area is still very common!

Injuries to the hind are less common and usually less severe, and given the hind legs bear less direct weight than the front they can usually get away with wraps and limping until it gets back to weight-bearing. Something like a rear amputation or ruptured tendon would probably require a custom harness/brace attached to a wheel like these and/or basically a peg leg!

How deep does the hole go?

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Dans “Am Stram Gram”, j'ai voulu montrer des personnages trans et non-conformes dans le genre vivant des aventures n'ayant rien à voir avec leur transitude. Très tôt dans le processus, on m'a demandé : “si ça n'a rien à voir, pourquoi le mentionner?”

Parce que les personnes trans vivent des choses qui n'ont aucun rapport avec le fait qu'elles soient trans. Parce qu'à douze ans, j'aurais voulu pouvoir me projeter dans une histoire avec des personnages qui sont comme moi, sans qu'on me rappelle constamment combien la transphobie s'insinue dans toutes les facettes de notre vie. 

C'est pour ça que j'ai écrit une histoire dont les deux protagonistes sont trans et non-binaires sans qu'il n'y ait de trace de transphobie ou que leur transitude joue un rôle dans la trame narrative. Ça met les gens mal à l'aise, et ce n'est pas le “roman trans de l'année” parce que je ne mets pas sous un microscope la transition d'un personnage pour les yeux curieux d'une audience cis, mais c'est le roman que j'aurais aimé lire à douze ans. 

En plus, c'est plein d'illustrations hilarantes.

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