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Intrigued by the horse’s mind? Then this is the site for you! I provide horse behaviour information for all who are eager to seek it. You might be experiencing problems with your horse’s behaviour, need consultancy on issues affected by horse behaviour, or you may be seeking more informed horsemanship skills and accessing the horse’s mind is the missing link.
Take time to explore this site and you will discover more about my background and approach to horse behaviour and training problems, as well as how I help horse people to gain behavioural knowledge and apply it to their relationships with horses.
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Connecting with horses
When people talk about having a connection with their horse, where the communication between horse and person is invisible or once you know what they’re doing, nearly invisible I’m reminded of the Clever Hans story.
For those who don’t know Clever Hans could count and do maths, and counted out the answer by pawing the ground. But actually he couldn’t. His skills were scrutinised and it was found that if his owner didn’t know the answer, he didn’t either. What he could do well was read his person! He would watch his owner, Herr von Osten, and paw the ground when he saw a very, very slight downward movement of von Osten’s head, and then stop when von Osten very, very slightly raised it again when the ‘right answer’ was reached. Initially von Osten denied helping his horse in these puzzles, and quite possibly he was not aware that he was helping his horse. It took a very observant student to notice what was actually happening. Horses are amazing observers and I think that is part of their ability to connect with us – horses are ready to receive information.
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