You know how in the movies......:-)

[clanter]

@Montanas_Girl

Because basic ground manners, starting with standing tied, are just expected of horses in the western world.

when my youngest daughter had her horse with her in college she had a vet out to check something, horse was trained to ground tie.

Daughter dropped the lead rope to go get something, as daughter was walking away horse picked up one front foot with the thought of following, daughter turned to give horse only a stern look which he responded to by firmly placing the foot back down where it was supposed to be.

Vet’s comment was He is well trained.

[2DogsFarm]

Whenever I go to an auction - Topeka or Shipshewana - or an event at the humongous MEC, there are dozens of buggies lined up at the hitch rails. Horses stand for hours with zero issues.
What impresses me most is seeing the teams of Belgians- as many as 6 - standing hitched to equipment in an open field, no driver in sight.
They’re not stupid.
Whoever was using the team can take a lunch hour & horses take this as a welcome break from work.

[Rackonteur]

@ShenanAnna

And I never noticed the same horse in Bonanza and Gunsmoke, because the horse I saw on Bonanza was a stocky dark buckskin and the one I saw on Gunsmoke was a rangy pale buckskin.

You’re right. They’re not the same horse. There are posts about this on some thread.
And I don’t imagine Lorne and Jim rode the same horses through all the years Bonanza and Gunsmoke were on. Michael Landon certainly had more than one pinto.

[pony_grandma]

@Texarkana

I grew up in Amish country and it’s amazing to see a large group gathering with dozens upon dozens of horses tied up in close quarters for hours on end. No fighting. No idiocy. Just standing their patiently until it’s time to go home.

And tied to the fence line running alongside a ditch - standing butt high, their weight on their front legs down in that ditch. Standing like that all day, during the days long auctions still hitched up in harness with NO SHADE OR WATER.

[2DogsFarm]

???
I don’t know about the Amish in your part of the country.
Hitching rails everywhere here (NE IN) are on flat ground, very often under trees.
In cold or wet weather I see them wearing quarter sheets or waterproof sheets.
Like these: