oh no, i've jumped on the 'humanising my horse' bandwagon...

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Bowen4Horses

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last night, i asked my horse if he loved me.

i think i might just put myself in the bin. i'm so embarrassed. he is an ANIMAL. an ANIMAL.

why do i try to convince myself he is anything other than AN ANIMAL...

e.g. i've been known to tell people how gentle he is with me because he 'knows' i'm pregnant. yet the 'evil' horse on the yard is 'targetting me because he knows i'm pregnant'... and how much he's looking forward to living at home with us (as if he even knows it's happening, despite me whispering it lovingly in his ear regularly). why am i presuming he has human emotions?

i bet other people do this?!?! please don't tell me i'm the only one...

i am officially a total twit.
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your so not the only one, i tell my horse i love him all the time! and when my 3 yr old son is around him he is so kind and goes in to dobbin mode around him
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the horse i had to sell once i was pregnat was a loon, but when i was pregnant he was so dobbin like too, but when i used to visit him with my son he used to try and bite him and pull faces like he was jelous...
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Is asking your horse, ' are you ok poppet, woz you having a little snoozy and the nasty man woke you up den?' and telling OH that said horse's feelings have been hurt by me shouting at him so he is now sulking humanising your horse?

If so, guilty as charged, m'lud. I'll get my jacket, the one with the nice, long sleeves
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My horse loves me...... I know he does, he told me so
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He is practically human anyway......

Once , when on the mobile to OH, I dropped a load of pan lids on the tiled kitchen floor.
OH's immediate response was to ask if the horse was in the kitchen making a cup of tea....
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Na not the only one!Think everyones dones it at sometime or other.I do it all time to horse but thats more my need than theirs
I don't truly believe they understand what i'm saying more the tone/body language and i won't humanise how they behave /care they need
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Know someone who thought a kiss to a horse was the same as to a human
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Well I don't see it but someone may prove me wrong
 
I always talked to my old horse! I used to be the only person he did NOT bite which obv was a statement of his love for me! (in my opinion anyway!)
now he is no longer with us, I am riding a cob, and he only seems to "show off" according to my teacher when we ride together, obv another show of love

damn it im just loved by all my horses!
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Don't worry, you have officially lost it when you get home and push open the letter box to peer inside and start saying 'have you missed your mummy?' to the cats....

Oh yeah thats me
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oh god.. you should hear my dad talking to my horse! its so so so funny/embarassing... but i think B kinda pretends he knows what hes on about...
last time i told barney i loved him he whickered to me.. he obviously understands me
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...or maybe he had seen his girlfriend LOL
my other horse which bites EVERYONE actually no anything! including dogs,children etc. etc. she has never bitten meee
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coz she lurrves me and she gets that im ginger like her
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ooo actualy my horse totally understands when to be good..i put my 10 year old friend on him once (shes no 12) but anyway and said to her to go and jump a 4ft fence..off she canters and he goes into a loverly rythm and hops over.. bless him
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Yup, guilty as charged guvnor!

Also a bit of one-upmanship with my dad over training animals, he taught his black lab to give him a kiss... so I taught my horse the same...

Why does it feel like a guilty confession???
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My old mare and I used to play tig, it all started when I called her a rude name and she chased me
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haha they are not only ANIMALS......they have huge emotions. I talk all the time to my mare - if i dont she knows I am being a grump and so pesters me til I talk. If shes in a grump she stands behind me and sighs...waiting for me to ask "whats up"......I always say "nite nite" always tell her what we are doing.....the animal communicator told me to do that to build her confidance - oh dear i just admitted to using an animal communicator.....ahhhh
 
I was thinking about this this morning, I am a little concerned people at the yard may think I'm odd - I chatter constantly to pony - ask him if he's had a nice day in the field, what he's been up to, why he's rubbed more of his tail! I'm sure he spends the whole time I'm there thinking "shut up woman!"!!
 
*sticks hand up slowly* Guilty!!!

Big mare knocked something over the other day, I actually turned round and asked her "What did you do that for?"
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I think that says it all!!!!
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What do you mean they don't talk back?? Mine does - farts at me when I try to brush his tail, nipped me whe I said something about him being old and screams at me across the yard when I'm not packing the trailer fast enough......

And its not just the horse........

Pottering around in the kitchen one day, cat at my feet, I did something silly and turned round to said feline saying "Your mother's an idiot, isn't she Tabitha?" Wretched mutinous animal looked me straight in the eye and gave one short, sharp "Meow"!!!
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Please move over and make room in the nuthouse wagon
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I tell people about the conversations my horse (and other people's horses) and I have had...a lot...

I also chatter to her (even when she doesn't reply) pretty much constantly. Earlier this evening I was telling her why I was pulling her mane and asking her if it hurt. She stamped on my foot and stared at me as if to ask..."did THAT hurt?!?"

Gosh darn it! I just did it again...
 
I talk to my horse all the time. I once was talking to my oldie in the trailer after a hunt and the masters son came up and told me 'He can't talk you know!!'
It was embarassing at the time
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, but I told Frank afterwards(my horse) that it was ok, I understand him and nobody else does.
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My farrier announced to my boy last shoeing " Your mummy loves you".

I hung my head in shame. I didn't think it was that obvious!!!

Jane
 
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