On 4/28/07, Judy Ryder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In what ways do horses try to communicate with us?
How do they try to tell us if they are OK, not OK?
Horses are always trying to communicate with us; how do we listen to them?
i am going to try to take pictures of my horses expressions. It
amazes me when people say they can't see it. I went to the biglick
walking horse show last nite. I took the old man who has been
breeding them over fifty years and used to show in the sixties at the
WGC level. He picked EVERY winner by the way. I wish it had been a
horse race I could have won a fortune... but walked to the stall
barn with him and we moseyed through the aisles and he would say that
one's built for high action there... and I would say look at that
ones eyes, he worries about things like Jaspar does and he would say
that ones a nice color but i dont like his rear end and I would say
this one is so sad or oh wow, look at this one, he is a goofball
like stonewall, he wants to start some trouble around here so he wont
be bored and he just laughed real hard and said you know not many
people can read a horse like you do, and I thought he was making fun
of me and laughed and he said no, I mean it, thats why you have a way
of calming them, not many people can calm a horse like you do which
was quite a compliment since some of his horses that have been stalled
for years will actually bite the bars all wild eyed and people will
fall back going oohhh! like he is an attack horse and I just quick
open the top gate so he can stick his head out cause I know he is
saying look at me! Look at me! Talk to me! so I do... and most
times it ends with them lowering the head and closing their eyes
passionately like they are reverently thankful to be relieved for even
a moment.
Janice
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