nerfherder
Active Member
When you absently start diagnosis'ing your pets in your head.
Our next door neighbors have one of their horses that's a chronic "cribber." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cribbing_(horse)
When I first noticed this behavior, I watched it for a bit and decided "That horse is autistic." And whadya know, it *is* a form of stimming behavior. The previous owners stopped by one day (horse people) and I said something about it - J, a farrier, winced and said "Yeah, that's cribbing." Obvious from their behavior they knew how to resolve it, and were really unhappy that the neighbors STILL hadn't moved the horse into more appropriate surroundings for her behavioral needs.