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[Muslimwoman]

Originally Posted by Tao_Equus

As you can see i'm already using the 2nd image. And I love it, not sure it needs any doctoring. I always thought horses such noble creatures that have a quiet air of wisdom. Well until someone climbs on them and spoils the effect.

Tao

My family have an equestrian centre, so believe me they are very noble until you have to get up in the morning and muck out 11 stables or they try to squish you against a wall.

That said, when you first let them out in the morning and they gallop across the fields to stretch their legs, wow what a site. They also have the most amazing form of communication, if you just take the time to 'listen' to them.

[Tao_Equus]

Originally Posted by Muslimwoman

My family have an equestrian centre, so believe me they are very noble until you have to get up in the morning and muck out 11 stables or they try to squish you against a wall.

That said, when you first let them out in the morning and they gallop across the fields to stretch their legs, wow what a site. They also have the most amazing form of communication, if you just take the time to 'listen' to them.

Intrigued ! Please expand.

[Muslimwoman]

Originally Posted by Tao_Equus

Intrigued ! Please expand.

I call it communicating but is really a behavioural science.

My brother is what you would call a 'horse whisperer', so we get horses here that are named 'satan' and 'dog meat if you don't behave'. In every case the horse is trying to tell the owner what they are doing wrong but the stupid people just don't 'listen'.

A couple of examples.

My brother spent 3 months working with a woman whose horse would kick and then bite her, the moment she went near it. It turned out the previous owner had taught the horse to 'shake hands' to get a polo mint. So the horse was simply trying to say here is my foot, now where is my polo. Because the horse wasn't getting what it wanted or expected, it began to exaggerate the bahaviour, to make the owner 'listen'.

My family moved here form the North East about 3 years ago and my old horse (who we lost a couple of months back) simply started behaving in a wierd way. He would hardly drink in the night and would literally drag my mother to the stream every morning and drink gallons. He was 17 hands and a big boy, so this began to frighten my mother, he was getting very bolshy. Eventually he began to tip his water buckets on the floor during the night. Long story short, we had the water tested here and from our previous farm, lo and behold the water here has a heavy concentration of a certain metal that sits in a horses gut and gives it stomach ache. He was simply trying to tell my mother that the water here was bad for him.

So many people see their horses bad behaviour as naughtiness and go for stronger bits or start to use a whip. 98% of the time it is just our failure to listen to them. So many people just want to throw a saddle on and go riding but horses are not cars, they tell you when there is a problem and it is up to us to take time to listen.

Animals are so amazing.

[17th Angel]

Tao... Purple and blue?? What like this....



(Sorry I kinda dissapear over the weekend, but here I am....... I think.)

Originally Posted by Muslimwoman

Oh yes, 17th will have it sorted in a flash (he's such a smarty pants LOL).

It is humbling to see such confidence shown in me lol.... Don't get your hopes up too, much though... lol.

[17th Angel]

Bored..... Work can sometimes drag... So I was just sitting here drooling and being idle listening to an angel sing to me... "If you are going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your haaaaair..." And so on... I made this....

[Tao_Equus]

Very funny 17th, but you forgot the ribbons. I was thinking more of an ethereal gas flame than barbies new horsey.

New Pic is "Faithful Armagedon"?

[17th Angel]

Ether gas?? You've lost me... What would that look like? The stuff you drench on a cloth and inhale?

[Tao_Equus]

Originally Posted by 17th Angel

Ether gas?? You've lost me... What would that look like? The stuff you drench on a cloth and inhale?

lol, blue gas flame, as in typical flame colours from a natural gas flame. I just had a quick spy at google images and see this would be no easy task to apply to the avatar image. I am happy with this avatar as it is anyway, so dont worry about it.

Tao

e·the·re·al /ɪˈθɪəriəl/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[i-theer-ee-uhl] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation –adjective 1.light, airy, or tenuous:

[17th Angel]

Yea, I got no idea what that looks like lol.... So I couldn't get you that look...

[Tao_Equus]

Hi Sally,

I used to love to watch a small herd of Appaloosa horses from my bedroom window when I was living in the west highlands. They are extremely playful and fun loving horses and I saw they clearly had a sign language they used amongst themselves. I have seen them act like a pride of lions in the way they surround a couple of crows sat in the field, all taking up surrounding positions. And with some cue all galloping at the crows in unison. Really funny to watch.
If you ever fancy a riding weekend break I thoroughly recommend you do so on these horses. Its a magical part of the world where every few meters you get a fantastic new view of breathtaking scale and beauty.

Scotland Western Horse Riding Natural Horsemanship Appaloosa Holidays

Tao

[17th Angel]

[Muslimwoman]

Originally Posted by Tao_Equus

If you ever fancy a riding weekend break I thoroughly recommend you do so on these horses. Its a magical part of the world where every few meters you get a fantastic new view of breathtaking scale and beauty.

Scotland Western Horse Riding Natural Horsemanship Appaloosa Holidays

Tao

Hi Tao

Aren't the horses beautiful. Would be a bit of a busmans holiday though, as I have a stable block full of horses and and the sea about 2 miles away LOL.

I love to watch horses 'on guard'. It was my mother that first noticed it. I used to have a thoroghbred retired racehorse and she was a couch potato. Everyday the herd would graze and pay no attention to anything. Two of the horses would not graze and effectively 'stand guard'. Each day it would be two different horses on guard. Of course my lazy sod, every few days, would decide she was too sick to go out of her stable. Mother recorded the days and it seemed that she was always 'sick' when it was her day to stand guard. Hmmm, and people say horses are stupid!!!


17th sorry don't like the warmonger picture but the angel is beautiful (if a little scantily clad).

Salaam
Sally

[17th Angel]

It's not war monger :/ It's what you see... I see good.

[Tao_Equus]

Originally Posted by 17th Angel

It's not war monger :/ It's what you see... I see good.

What? Good pyrotechnics?

[Tao_Equus]

Originally Posted by Muslimwoman

Hi Tao

Aren't the horses beautiful. Would be a bit of a busmans holiday though, as I have a stable block full of horses and and the sea about 2 miles away LOL.

I love to watch horses 'on guard'. It was my mother that first noticed it. I used to have a thoroghbred retired racehorse and she was a couch potato. Everyday the herd would graze and pay no attention to anything. Two of the horses would not graze and effectively 'stand guard'. Each day it would be two different horses on guard. Of course my lazy sod, every few days, would decide she was too sick to go out of her stable. Mother recorded the days and it seemed that she was always 'sick' when it was her day to stand guard. Hmmm, and people say horses are stupid!!!


17th sorry don't like the warmonger picture but the angel is beautiful (if a little scantily clad).

Salaam
Sally

It's not just horses. It seems to be right across the animal kingdom. They may have no need for mathematics or pondering universal mysteries but animals, social animals, show love and protection toward each other.

To digress a little, did anybody catch the article in last Saturday's Guardian on the lion hunting chimps of the Congo?

Found: the giant lion-eating chimps of the magic forest | Conservation | Guardian Unlimited Environment