I can't say I hate cats, but holy cow, dogs are a horse of another color.

In some ways, you?re putting the cart before the horse.

We're not going to put the cart before the horse. We'll nominate him to a lot of things between now and the end of the year, but our focus is getting him back into a routine and then a work schedule.

I think you are putting the cart before the horse.

Landscape with Horse and Cart, Figures, and Ruins

It is the good horse that draws its own cart.