Anybody ever been around camels? Are they more docile than horses?

[raccoon]

Inquiring minds want to know.

[Botany]

1. True Camel Story

U.S. Horse Cavalry Troops in the late 1800s were given some camels
for their work in the desert south west ..... everytime the troops would
go out on patrol they would come back w/ a few less cmaels.

[rasputin5]

5. They were trading them to the Anasazi for peyote

:D

[OnionPatch]

2. I've been around a few camels

and lots of horses. Camels seem less flighty and a little more docile, but they are also stubborn and grumpy. Now my inquiring mind is wondering why you have such a question.

[morningglory]

3. Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh....Agent Mike trying to find out if we are muslin... nt

[deaniac21]

13. I have several muslin sheets.

[raccoon]

16. Let me hasten to explain. When I was a teenager, me and my friends had horses.

I liked riding, but I never was horse-crazy as many young girls are. Horses are unpredictable and flighty.

[morningglory]

4. Only to carry my bomb materials. Just kidding Agent Mike... nt

[Billy Burnett]

6. Yes. Tastes like dark meat chicken.

;)

[LWolf]

7. Camels spit.

I haven't personally handled them, although I've frequently been in places where others were handling them.

I've spent my whole life with horses.

Horses? Their temperaments differ. For the horse, it's bloodlines, the horses they grow up with, and the interactions they have with humans from birth on that determine temperament.

Many horses are easy to get along with and willing to please. They are not aggressive. That doesn't automatically make them "docile."

Anyone who wants to handle horses needs to educate themselves about the animal, about how horses think and react. About how, as the human, to behave in order to get the best from them.

Probably true for camels, too. ;)

Why?

[peekaloo]

11. Yes they do.

Way, way back in elementary school we went on a field trip to Busch Gardens to see the "animals of the world". Bad enough the monkeys were flinging poo at us but the camels were just plain nasty. Spittin' and breakin' wind....couldn't decide which end smelled worse.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

15. Hmmm...sounds a lot like some repukes I know.

[ieoeja]

17. I went to the desert, a moose for to find.

I only found camels, I near lost my mind.
Now camels remind me of moose just a bit,
But while moose always swallow,
Camels just spit.

[stray cat]

8. They bite

[MineralMan]

9. There was a camel

on the Air Force base I was at in Turkey. It was inside a security enclosure, but ran free in there. About half the time you'd go to work at the building inside the enclosure, the stupid camel would run up and try to bite you. Very annoying.

I finally bopped it on the head with a briefcase and it left me alone from then on, but still chased other people.

Not good pets, I'd think.

[NV Whino]

10. No personal experience

but from what I've heard they have nasty temperaments and they spit. 'Course, I've known a few horses with nasty temperaments who bite.

[Karenina]

12. They're grouchy, they spit, they bite

and they STINK! x(

[paparush]

14. I was around camels in Morocco. They can be pretty tempermental and cranky.