Camels will rarely act in such an insensible manner.
If a horse gets really spooked, it could bolt and run off - a dangerous situation. Situations that could panic a horse will scarcely cause any concern for a camel. Some people who are afraid of horses will be comfortable with camels. When riding a horse for more than half a day, you always have to be aware of water sources.Ĭamels are quieter and gentler than horses. In the kind of terrain I like to ride in, this is a very important factor. Which is better to ride, a horse or a camel? Here are the pros and cons of camel and horse riding as I see it:Ĭamels can travel many days without food or water. Only after I started buying camels (in spite of misguided advice that camels were “mean and nasty”) did I come to realize what truly wonderful animals they are. My longstanding attraction to camels originated from an intense lifelong interest in traveling the arid deserts of the American southwest. don’t think of riding camels just because they are not exposed to them, and there is no camel knowledge and training culture to be handed down to successive generations. In Australia, where camels were used successfully to settle the waterless outback, camels are still use extensively for trail riding, in spite of the presence of the ubiquitous horse. How many quarter horse owners are unwilling to ride an Arabian? How many Arab riders will resist trying a Tennessee walker, even though they have heard how nice the ride is? Why don’t more horse people ride camels? I think part of the reason is that horse people are often unwilling to try another breed than the one they are used to, let alone another species. Many “horse people” are comfortable training large animals, and, given a chance, horse people generally can do very well handling camels.
Training large animals like camels can be a very daunting task. Many people who have camels own them just because they like them, or because they are interested in exotic animals, and they are not really into training. Certainly there are many “only camels” around, but they just seem a little happier when with other camels. They also seem to need the company of other members of their own species more than horses. In other words, they are less predictable than horses. However, they are a little more “emotional” than horses and less consistent in their reactions. Camels, if well treated, are more inquisitive, affectionate, and attention-seeking.
In many ways, camels make better pets than horses (although there are, of course, individual variations). They want to know who is easier to train, or what camels’ personalities are like, or why more horse people don’t ride camels. People often ask me how camels compare to horses.
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