Sick as a Dog, Healthy as a Horse...

[JOERM]

For some reason this does not make sense to me. In fact, it kind of offends me.

My dogs take offense as well. Just how sick is a dog and just how healthy is a horse? Don't know how these phrases got started but.....

I only bring this up because my wife has been...well.. sick as a dog for 2 weeks with some Asian flu and she says I'm healthy as a horse. Which I am not.

Guess I'm bored as my wife is sleeping, sick as a dog.

As for goats, I used to raise em. They were either healthy or dead, never sick. Gave CPR to a new born once, kept it alive for almost 1/2 hour.

Joe

 

[JOERM]

For some reason this does not make sense to me. In fact, it kind of offends me.

My dogs take offense as well. Just how sick is a dog and just how healthy is a horse? Don't know how these phrases got started but.....

I only bring this up because my wife has been...well.. sick as a dog for 2 weeks with some Asian flu and she says I'm healthy as a horse. Which I am not.

Guess I'm bored as my wife is sleeping, sick as a dog.

As for goats, I used to raise em. They were either healthy or dead, never sick. Gave CPR to a new born once, kept it alive for almost 1/2 hour.

Joe

 

[Joni_Lynn]

Sick as an Asian dog?
What kind of horse?
Inquiring minds want to know.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

Originally posted by JOERM:
Gave CPR to a new born (goat)once, kept it alive for almost 1/2 hour.

Joe

Why???

 

[JOERM]

Originally posted by CAJUNLAWYER:

Originally posted by JOERM:
Gave CPR to a new born (goat)once, kept it alive for almost 1/2 hour.

Joe

Why???

Why would anyone ask such a difficult question and so sensitive. It was personal, OK?

I already had a name for him or her. Joe if male and Jo if female.

Really, I read about it in our health for farm animals and wanted to give it a shot. Heck, the poor little guy even got up and walked around for a bit. We all, kids included, who were there to watch the birth and were crying because it was born almost dead, wanted to save poor little Joe, Jo. Kids were so excited to see it get up after some CPR and thought it was alive and well. Then, well, it went south real quick, then I had to keep up the good will thing and hope for the best and keep giving CPR. You just close the jaws tight an blow into the snotty nose. Yuk. This was 25 years ago.

It is the Malayslian Flu, type B. Maybe the doc does not know what the hell he's talking about. It could be the bird flu as far as I know. Still, my wife is as sick as a...Asian bird? China is trying to knock us all off.

My horse back then was a 1/4 horse, blue mural or something like that. Miss er. And yes, she was always healthy.

joe

 

[Wheelgunner840]

I am not even going to try and figure out the whole Asian bird, closed jaw blowing into a snotty goat thing, and just send wishes that your wife is fit as a fiddle in no time!

WG840

 

[Jack Flash]

You used to hear the expression "as strong as a horse" quite often. Perhaps strength and health are closely connected enough that the words became interchangable in the expression?

If you've ever seen a dog puking up its guts, you know where the other expression comes from.

 

[gunsmith11]

ok now that we have all the answers,,I am going back too bed

 

[Forester]

Your right, of course, Joe. Dogs are much heartier than a horse. Horses easily get all kinds of health problems.

 

[sjmjax]

Might try to Google the expression. You'd be surprised how many times that question has been asked. Here's one explaination:

"Sick as a dog," which means "extremely sick" and dates back to at least the 17th century, is also not so much negative as it is simply descriptive. Anyone who knows dogs knows that while they can and often will eat absolutely anything, on those occasions when their diet disagrees with them the results can be quite dramatic. And while Americans may consider themselves "sick" when they have a bad cold, in Britain that would be called "feeling ill." "Being sick" in Britain usually means "to vomit."