Telepathic genius horse.

[Emilieu]

Betty lost her grazing muzzle yesterday. Normally when she does this I ride her to the field and she will walk over to where it is - guilty conscience! However, I was late up last night so it was dark and the other horses were turned out in the field. So I stomped off in the dark and the mud to hunt- fruitlessly I suspected- for the missing mask. As I went into the field one of Betty’s field mates came up to say hi and I gave her a pat and asked if she had seen Betty’s mask? Immediately, she put her nose in my back and started herding me forward. I figured I might as well go with it and see what happened. Then she used her teeth to pull very gently on the right shoulder of my jacket to turn me a bit. I looked up and she looked straight ahead, ears pricked. I walked over just to see AND IT WAS RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME. I squealed with surprise and joy and texted her owner to say she is some kind of telepathic genius horse and we need to phone the press.
I’m blown away by it. Is she a global phenomenon or have I just been underestimating horses’ ability to speak English for all these years?

 

[Rumtytum]

That is absolutely brilliant!
I believe animals can communicate if you are on the right wavelength (and you obviously were!), and just because what occurred can’t be scientifically weighed, measured or quantified does not mean it does not exist and cannot happen. I would be equally over the moon ?

 

[Birker2020]

I believe they can communicate too.

There was no way that the animal communicator knew Bailey had a fractured tooth yet she said Bailey was insistently telling her and pleading with her to tell me to get it looked at. I was equally insistent I wouldn't as she'd only had the dentist a few weeks before, but as the AC was so good at her job I got my EDT out who confirmed immediately she had a large slab fracture right at the top back of her mouth, no way could the AC have known.

 

[Emilieu]

I’m a total skeptic but I suddenly feel a real desire to get in touch with a physic! The field is huge and the previous times she had gotten out of it where in completely different areas of the field. I am just completely convinced that she understood and helped me.

 

[Barton Bounty]

Im not a skeptic at all.. My horse understands everything I say! He had bruised his hoof the other day snd lifted and nosed round as if to say’there mum’

 

[Equi]

They’re a lot more in tune than people realise. I remember once not too long after I got my little mare I was sitting on a stool grooming her and she moved over close to me knocking me off the stool. I said ouch that hurt that or something and she came over and stuck her head in my chest and licked me on my face/neck and just stood for a snuggle looking very guilty. She’s never done anything like that before or since and I truly believe she felt guilt for her actions and was apologising to me.

 

[JackFrost]

I had two young geldings, great friends and the younger one a recent feral so certainly didn;t know much english.
I went in the field one day to find the older horse had a patch of fur missing from his bottom. I said to the young one 'Did you bite 'Dobbin'?' He walked over to 'Dobbin' and stood beside him with his mouth open and his teeth in his fur, and looked straight at me with fun in his eyes. I have no doubt he understood what I had said.

 

[HashRouge]

That is brilliant!

I do wonder about one of my horses sometimes! During the drought, she was going into her own paddock over night to have a load of hay and a massive feed (my other horse is a fatty!). One evening she only took a mouthful of her feed then went over to her hay. I left her to it while I was poo picking, then as I was leaving said something like "babe, please go and eat your feed, there's loads left"...and she instantly left her hay and went back to her bucket! Possibly a coincidence, but I like to imagine that she understood me

 

[View]

Turning out a gelding at the riding school, I slipped in the mud and went down. Unfortunately, my bad ankle was under me and I couldn’t get up. Nor could I shout for help as there was a lesson in progress in the indoor next to this field. So, I was resigned to lying in the mud for 30 minutes.

This gelding, disliked by many (but not me, I felt he just didn’t enjoy riding school life), took a step forward and kept looking round at his rug. I took hold of his rug, he took a step back and pulled me up.

He then stuck his face in my hands, pretty much telling me to take his head collar off and then walked politely into the field (unusual for him), turned round and waited until he was sure I had shut the gate and was safely on solid ground. He then nodded, before turning round and walking away.

Horses aren’t given enough credit for the help they give us.

 

[Birker2020]

I once rode in the menage at the yard I'm at now. One of the dressage markers had come loose and was leaning into the outside track.

So I leant down to tap it back with my schooling whip but it wasn't strong enough. Determined not to get off I turned my whip so the handle end was pushing against the marker in my efforts to push it back. It still wasn't enough so Bailey leant her head down and shoved it back with her nose.

She knew exactly what I wanted and managed to not only understand but perform what I needed. Clever girl!

 

[TinseLeneHorse]

Maybe Betty's fieldmate was worried that Betty might scoff all the grass and that's why she guided you to the missing muzzle ??

 

[Peglo]

Im not a skeptic at all.. My horse understands everything I say! He had bruised his hoof the other day snd lifted and nosed round as if to say’there mum’

mine definitely don’t! But I blame the fact ones German and the others Italian ? I’ve had Peggy for over 18 years and she still won’t lift her head when I shout ?

Peggy has always been a super pony, great manners and very respectful. She went to kick the little white gelding but hit me instead and when she realised she’d kicked me she ran off into the corner of the field and looked so sad. I’m sorry to say I didn’t go to her to tell her it was ok, I was too sore. I can see her from my sitting room window and she stood there for 30 mins making my guilt worse and worse.
I did try to justify myself that she should not be fighting with him when I was close by but we had just lost my TB who was her only friend so I let her off. But she definitely knew that it was unacceptable or she didn’t want to kick me or however they think.

 

[mini_b]

Turning out a gelding at the riding school, I slipped in the mud and went down. Unfortunately, my bad ankle was under me and I couldn’t get up. Nor could I shout for help as there was a lesson in progress in the indoor next to this field. So, I was resigned to lying in the mud for 30 minutes.

This gelding, disliked by many (but not me, I felt he just didn’t enjoy riding school life), took a step forward and kept looking round at his rug. I took hold of his rug, he took a step back and pulled me up.

He then stuck his face in my hands, pretty much telling me to take his head collar off and then walked politely into the field (unusual for him), turned round and waited until he was sure I had shut the gate and was safely on solid ground. He then nodded, before turning round and walking away.

Horses aren’t given enough credit for the help they give us.

that actually made me fill up a bit. Must be feeling tired and emotional this morning!

 

[Barton Bounty]

Turning out a gelding at the riding school, I slipped in the mud and went down. Unfortunately, my bad ankle was under me and I couldn’t get up. Nor could I shout for help as there was a lesson in progress in the indoor next to this field. So, I was resigned to lying in the mud for 30 minutes.

This gelding, disliked by many (but not me, I felt he just didn’t enjoy riding school life), took a step forward and kept looking round at his rug. I took hold of his rug, he took a step back and pulled me up.

He then stuck his face in my hands, pretty much telling me to take his head collar off and then walked politely into the field (unusual for him), turned round and waited until he was sure I had shut the gate and was safely on solid ground. He then nodded, before turning round and walking away.

Horses aren’t given enough credit for the help they give us.

??? welling up here