Well, those were properly horrifying, weren't they?
Alright, so the horse wasn't entirely terrible, but also not even remotely close to something he would give... well, anyone. He wouldn't even have inflicted it on Newt during that whole period where they weren't talking.
(Newt would've inflicted it on him, though.)
"I think those are all slightly too... loud," Hermann said, as diplomatically as he could manage. Which admittedly wasn't very.