Oh God, this is going to sound mental...

Years ago a friend was riding my pony and we were standing chatting when she finished, still mounted. Arena was in the field, no fences just markers. You know how you can 'feel' when someone's looking at you? Its the pony. I meet his eyes and its in my head, the question/knowledge, he wants to go back to the gate (where we tie up and feed). I'm completely shocked and speechless for a few seconds. We're just staring at each other. Pony obviously takes my lack of 'no' as 'yes', spins round and marches off to the gate, (not like him to randomly do something like that at all). My friend nearly fell off. I called to her, its ok I said he could! Because I didn't want him to get told off. She probably thought I was nuts :D
 
The hard part is keeping your mind empty and ready to hear......Most of us are busy busy busy in the mind department!! I managed it once, and yes, got communication with my little mare.....but it does sound silly when I try and tell anyone!!
 
Maybe, may not! If you have a sensitivity to it, you can improve it with practice. Listening. That's what I do. I trim feet by listening...to the hoof and the horse. It's his foot and he's gotta wear it and he's the boss.
When you've got a horse with a body scale of 3 from pain and barely can make it to the barn from the trailer, believe me, you get sensitive really fast. His pain was so intense that at first, I was afraid to do anything except cry at his dilemma, so I got him talking to me instead. He never stopped talking and I never stopped listening. Six months later when he left whole and sound that horse had taught me to understand full sentences and we had bonafide 2-way conversations going on. I was emotionally charged, sensitive and listening and got feedback from the horse and now can get feedback from any horse, no matter how mundane, even sometimes from pictures. These are just current conversations, though, not visuals on a horse's memories, but why not? Maybe some day I will be privileged enough to experience this. Am I crazy? I don't think so. I listened and heard and got better at it with practice, just like you mentioned. The bad part is that I don't go to watch local horse shows anymore. The things the horses say due to stress on show day depresses me. Sometimes it comes screaming in at me like a slap to the side of the head without warning. I prefer to be in a position where I can listen and do something about it.
I say carry on! New adventures are always filled with amazement!
 
I often wondered how you can explain things though.... the pull of needing to go to the yard NOW.... not in an hour when you would normally go, or at half 4 in a morning - and i just know i need to be on the yard. Everytime i have had this feeling and gone - it has been needed - one of mine has been in trouble, or one of the horses in the same barn has been in trouble.

Big lad - one day i just knew something was wrong - i opened his door and as i said - whats up lad he lifted his poorly leg to me and kept pushing his hoof into me - it turned out it was a stone bruise.

One night i had a feeling that something was wrong - and i jumped up and went to the yard - nothing but Ginger came galloping over with the rest of her friends - she was very very un settled so i took the 3 of them into the stables..... just as the last one was in a huge storm blew in - i have never seen rain like it - i had to strip off in the garage as hubby would not let me in the house.

I have many many experiances like this, and yes i do think the horses watch you and weigh you up - and you always know when they have accepted you - you just do !
So how do you explain all this ??
 
I can't remember the website now, it was a link I clicked when I googled equine communicator. I think it was one where you had to sign up and do a course but it gave you an introduction for free.

I think there are many things we can't explain, I just try to go along with them as best I can :)
 
That is brilliant!

I don't think you are mental. If compassion is mental then I want to be in the mental camp :D
 
I ran the search and couldn't find this website. If Foxtrot remembers it or anyone else finds it, they should post the URL. I'd be well curious to try it.
 
I'm not sure where I stand on this. As far as sixth sense goes, its pretty much accepted that most mothers 'just know' stuff when its their child. Eg I sleep like the dead, nothing disturbs me. Yet I always woke to my daughters newborn cries. Even now I wake up if I hear her getting up to the loo. Yet boyfriend can put the bedroom light on, the tv, have a shower & I don't wake up. So on the one hand I believe it can happen. Certainly I've just known plenty of things with horses I shouldn't have, & had horses respond to my own thoughts.
However imo I think it is very subtle body language, rather than psychic. I once caught a very scared pony, & on the surface didn't physically do anything different to the owners. But, really I did. Whilst they had been kind of using the same body language, little things like darting their eyes round, the fact they were slightly stressed etc made it fail. Pony didn't pick up on my thoughts that I wouldn't hurt him & I'd help him, but the fact I was thinking that, rather than 'omg, please let me catch you, are you close enough' etc was reflected in my body language. Someone experienced could have spotted the difference looking closely, but to the average onlookers there I appeared to use telepathy. And 99% of the time I don't physically communicate instructions to my mare. But most are habit from years together. Others are subtle body language. If I stick up a course of jumps, I can shout out the colours of the next fence to her, or just think them. But its actually the fact my eyes (& therefore my body to a tiny degree) are following my desired direction. And being well schooled & very intune with each other, she follows my apparently psychic instructions. And same with hundreds of other things.
I'm not saying there aren't some things that are unexplainable, but the majority of the time I think its just body language, even if its so subtle we can't pick up on it. Just like a horse senses fear or confidence in a rider or handler.
 
I am open minded. Certainly anyone who has been around horses can learn to read them quite quickly and I would be hard pushed to say sometimes why I have picked up on something ( as in a physical sign) but put it down to knowing my horses and other favourites at the yard and picking up differences in behaviour somehow. Might try your trick though!
 
I don't believe in telepathy as such... but horses are extremely in tune with our body language and emotions.

My horse is very good at communicating, both in his range of vocal sounds ( he's quite "chatty" ) and his body language, they are good at telling us things if we pay attention.
 
I wouldn't say you have gone completely crazy! Wy don't you jump her over an over and see if she enjoys it lots!? If Se does then yu are not insane! Sometimes it's only certain people that can do it-with certain horses!
If it is true and she jumps the over like a dream then you are special!!:D:D
 
I had Nikki McKay out to see my horse over 10 years ago. Am not really into that stuff but it was amazing what she told me and she actually showed pain in my horses stomach area and she died a few months after from perforated bowel which wasn't apparent at the time of her visit. She came out with many comments about her behaviour that you would never know unless you'd dealt with her daily. Was very impressed.
 
The_angel_littlelegs said:
I'm not sure where I stand on this. As far as sixth sense goes, its pretty much accepted that most mothers 'just know' stuff when its their child. Eg I sleep like the dead, nothing disturbs me. Yet I always woke to my daughters newborn cries. Even now I wake up if I hear her getting up to the loo. Yet boyfriend can put the bedroom light on, the tv, have a shower & I don't wake up. So on the one hand I believe it can happen. Certainly I've just known plenty of things with horses I shouldn't have, & had horses respond to my own thoughts.
However imo I think it is very subtle body language, rather than psychic. I once caught a very scared pony, & on the surface didn't physically do anything different to the owners. But, really I did. Whilst they had been kind of using the same body language, little things like darting their eyes round, the fact they were slightly stressed etc made it fail. Pony didn't pick up on my thoughts that I wouldn't hurt him & I'd help him, but the fact I was thinking that, rather than 'omg, please let me catch you, are you close enough' etc was reflected in my body language. Someone experienced could have spotted the difference looking closely, but to the average onlookers there I appeared to use telepathy. And 99% of the time I don't physically communicate instructions to my mare. But most are habit from years together. Others are subtle body language. If I stick up a course of jumps, I can shout out the colours of the next fence to her, or just think them. But its actually the fact my eyes (& therefore my body to a tiny degree) are following my desired direction. And being well schooled & very intune with each other, she follows my apparently psychic instructions. And same with hundreds of other things.
I'm not saying there aren't some things that are unexplainable, but the majority of the time I think its just body language, even if its so subtle we can't pick up on it. Just like a horse senses fear or confidence in a rider or handler.
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Completely agree with you.
 
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