Horse communicator

I'm another 'non-believer' I'm afraid - one reason behind this is I've never heard a 'communicator' say i'm sorry 'your horse doesnt like you' - amazingly they always love/like/care for their owner - any chance this is the communicator hoping for a regular customer? (or am i just being synical?) i refuse to believe that if horses can communicate in this way, that they always like their owner!

I think they can have an amazing placebo affect for nervous owners/riders, but i'm afraid anything more than that is no different from what Derren Brown et al. do - very clever, very impressive but nothing more than very clever tuned skills reading people.
 
I've heard stories from other people about communicators who are uncannily accurate, but I've had two do readings on my horses, out of curiosity, and was fairly unimpressed. I asked them questions I knew the answers to but they would have no way of knowing by simply looking at the horse. It was either vague and general, the sort of thing you could say for any horse, and when it drifted to specifics, it was flat-out wrong. For instance, one said that the horse was sore in her chest from being behind the bit when in fact, the horse's issue at the time was that she was stubbornly above the bit at all times. Never once had she sucked back behind it. The other time, I asked a pretty leading question about how my horse feels about other horses, and the communicator answered vaguely that she likes some, not others, and has some friends, the sort of thing that could be applied to just about any horse. Except for mine. My horse lives on individual turnout due to her hobby of chasing fieldmates into corners and then kicking the crap out of them.

As I said, I have heard stories about other communicators who were scarily accurate so I don't disbelieve it entirely. Just mostly. I would like to experiment more, but it costs money.
 
Like most people I was a non believer. To cut along story short I had the opportunity to have a communicator talk to my horse for free. I gave him no information nor did he ask me any questions. he gave me clear precise, very specific facts that he cannot possibly have known. Embaressingly one of these things was the song I used to sing when out hacking on my own.
I got this guy out again to a different horse over a year later. My youngster has developed lameness problems that could not be diagnosed, and when trotted up sound I was told to just get on with it. I knew she wasn't right and was curious to see what this guy would say. I did not tell him why I wanted him out nor that my mare had any problems. Within 10 minutes he told me that my mare had a ligament injury in her front left fore due to a microscopic tilt in her pedal bone that was pulling on her lateral collateral ligament. He said this problem also existed in her right fore but to a lesser degree. He said she would not do well with any shoes becasue of how her feet were built.
2 months later my mare went obviously lame and she went off for all extensive tests. the vets struggles to find anything.. Until they MRI'd her and found a microscopic tilt in her pedal bone of her left fore causeing damage to her lateral colateral ligament.

I DONT CARE WHAT PEOPLE SAY. Explain that away. This guy diagnosed her before a vet even knew what was wrong.

Interesting I did the wole 6 months box rest, remedial farriery, 2 further yeras of an un sound horse. I finally made the decision to bare foot rehab her (remember he said she would not cope with any type of shoe) she has now been sound for a year and in full work. She was written off by the vets as never to come sound.

Yes most of these communicators are con artists but there are some genuine one's out there they are just very very hard to find
 
monstermunch said:
Explain that away.
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It would seem more likely that he noticed an unbalanced foot with his eyes, than he communicated with the horse in some magical way.

If we (hypothetically) accept the premise of "communication", then what did the horse say to him? "Hello Mr Whisperer-man, I have a tilted pedal bone, and the LCL of my DIPJ is just tweaking a little." It implies that your horse has quite a striking knowledge of its own anatomy.
 
Wow. You really do need to possibly stop being so narrow minded. You cannot possibly say that this guy diagnosed my horse EXACTLY unless he was communicating with my horse. Her injury was extremely complex and he nailed it on the head.
There was absolutely nothing to indicate anything wrong. The balance of her feet was completely fine. Her problem was internal and he did not see her move.
Clearly my horse did not use the term LCL. It was put across as the ligament on the outside of her leg. She also talked about the bone in her foot (pedal). So no my horse does not haev an amazing knowlwdge on terminology.

there was way to much other stuff that I have not talked about, which undoubtedly confirmed this guy was genuine.

I get tired of responding to people who are so narrow minded they cannot see what is staring them in the face. Sometimes in life some people have a gift that cannot be proved or disproved and this scares a lot of people. YES as I said before most of these people are con artists but there are also genuine people out there.
You seem very open to expressing your own opinion but not willing to take other peoples opinions on board.

Do not tell me that my horse did not talk to this man. He clearly did and you cannot "explain it away", without sounding totally narrow minded.
 
It's not 'narrow minded' to want evidence for things working, in fact I would say it is common sense to question things. It is narrow minded to be convinced you are right and therefore everyone else must be wrong, and think that because you feel something is 'staring you in the face' everyone else must agree :confused:
 
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Another non-believer, but I do believe that there are people who have an eye or skill to pick up on the smallest things and know how to interpret it rightly; something which an owner or vet might not yet see.

Our yard manager can spot lameness/issues before anyone else can pick up on it or notice it, because she has an incredible eye for a horse’s movement – very annoying at times :mad:. I know from my own horse that it communicates in its own way with me, for example dropping its ear if a bandage is a tiny bit loose, picking up on my mood etc., so yes, if you are willing to listen and look a horse can speak to you in its own way; for the part of spotting an old injury I would be suspicious if the communicator wanted to be alone with the horse. My massage therapist could feel an old injury in my horse’s hind, which neither I nor my vet knew about, it sits very deep but if your hands are trained you can feel it (quote of my therapist). I believe there are always a few gifted people (not necessarily communicators but very good and genuine observers) and the rest I put into the category of charlatans
 
monstermunch said:
Clearly my horse did not use the term LCL.
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So the premise of a horse knowing the term lateral collateral ligament is ridiculous to you, yet the premise of a horse knowing what a ligament is and being able to communicate this to a gifted Dr. Doolittle character is totally plausible?

One must always keep an open mind, but not so open that one's brain falls out.
 
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