horse "relations"

Originally Posted by boldruler

They do get pleasure though from eating and being out of a stall more than 1hr a day. I don't know if anyone can say horses or any animals don't get pleasure. There is no real way of knowing. I suspect all animals do though simply because you have to ask yourself why they would do it at all if there wasn't some enjoyment.

Actually there is a way to conjecture. There are clearly parts of the mammalian brain that are pain, pleasure centers. And neurotransmitters associated with them. You could lite em up in an imager just like they do with humans when asking them to write or listen to the spoken word to find which part of the brains respond most heavily.