Another fun bit about this is what it did for horses in warfare, and even today! Horses are notoriously skittish, and will often run from even distant loud noises. This is a problem if you want to fire a gun from horseback, or use them to draw cannon-carriages.

This eventually led to a process known as “bomb-proofing”, which is basically exposure therapy for horses. While not every horse is a good choice for it, the end results can be a horse that will rarely, if ever, break. This is still done today for police horses, and for horseback based target shooting. Some breeders even pride themselves on breeding horses that have a naturally bomb-proof temperament or ones that easily take to the training.