Should I introduce myself to the new neighbor?

The farmer had to go to town so he hitched up the wagon and called for the dog to go along. The farmer cracked the whip on the horses back and yelled ‘Giddyup!’. The horse looked back over his shoulder and exclaimed ‘Hey, don't crack that whip so hard!’ The farrmer, astonished, says to himself ‘I didn’t know that horse could talk!’ The dog says ‘Me neither!’