My contribution to the woo woo stories.
I met an Icelandic horse with an abusive past and with an introvert and grumpy attitude to both horses and people. He was ok with ET but was always a tiny bit suspicious when I did the inch worm on the right side of the withers. The fourth time I met him and came to the right side and started to do the inch worm, suddenly I felt totally overwhelmed with emotions and thought I was going to faint (and I am not a fainting kind of person). The world was spinning and I had to sit down. The horse came up to me with his head and we just was there in the moment for a while, together, waiting it out. When I came back to the reality and remembered that I also have a horse owner and looked up at her and thought I had to explain this in some way, she commented “oh my, what you are crying and I feel so sad”. It wasn't until then I noticed that my tears was pouring down my face. The day after I received a phone call “He seems so happy!!” And when I met the horse he really was different, more open and interested in the surroundings, interacting.
I know the owner, which was a good thing, I don't think it is so good to let yourself react that way with a owner you not know. :) Warm regards, Therese in Sweden

Yesterday I worked on a new horse for the first time. He is a huge Friesian gelding named Marlon who has had emotional problems and panic attacks his whole life. The owner has had Animal communication, Chiro, Acupuncture, you name it with no success. She asked me if I would look at him. - As you know Friesians have this incredibly upright head carriage and Marlon kept looking down at me from about 2 metres as if to say 'Who the hell are you' while I was doing the Branding. I went extra slow as I had been told about his panic reactions but he soon calmed right down and I told the owner that I was now going to start the ET.

I did the lower blocks and Butt Shots on the left side and when I was working the Butt Shots on the right I felt something happen. Not physical but emotional. I thought 'that's great' to myself and carried on concentrating on the horse. The next minute the owner collapsed in a heap on the floor shaking uncontrollably and sobbing her eyes out!

I tell you Jock - if I hadn't heard you talk about this I think I would have had a heart attack. I had to stop what I was doing and try and get the owner on her feet but it ended up that Marlon and I had to stand with her for 15 minutes until she had processed whatever issue Marlon had released. It was quite something. Marlon kept nibbling at her cheek as if to comfort her. I then just explained to her that this can happen and it is wonderful that it did happen for Marlon, and for her. Through the whole session Marlon released issues and she would start crying again. It happened 5 times. I then had to spend some time with the owner afterwards eventually packing her up in her car with instructions to go home, drink lots of water and have a rest! Marlon was asleep in his paddock. I was exhausted at the end and I still had 5 horses scheduled!

You know Jock I spent 5 years at University becoming a Human Psychologist. I never practiced because I couldn't deal with all the pain coming from the people all day and I went into Business Psychology. Yesterday I found out that ET not only helps the horses - I should have had a Psychology practice with horses in the room! Wendy in Germany

We had a couple of hay box feeders built last week and popped one in to the Jenny Craig paddock and one at the far end of our tracking pasture. They are just so good. Jo, our Quarter Horse, will go through a slice of hay in a few minutes when we just toss it in the paddock for her, however with these feeders she will work away for ages and of course can only get the hay at the correct ground level encouraging natural movement of the neck and jaw. It keeps the hay dry, and they have to walk from box to box to see if anything is there, then with water at the opposite ends of the grazing strip, they have to keep in motion - Jo has never looked better and what is more - there is no wastage, they eat it piece by piece. This is something I would recommend to everyone, and they are quite easy to make - we used the plans that were published in the Natural Horse Magazine a few issues ago.

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Leah Astrup: eastrup@family.net 734-677-1770

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Having lived a rather full international life as a sardonic, sarcastic Scot, nothing really shocks me, Rawanda, 911, Rolkur, these things depress me, sadden me, anger me, but shock me, no way. Then I saw this headline in the International Daily Express which I buy each week to keep up with what is happening in the UK. £1000 FINE FOR SELLING A GOLDFISH ! That's right, a great grandmother who runs a pet shop was fined £1000 and ankle tagged for selling a goldfish to a boy, 15 years of age, nearly 6 ft tall. The 66 year old was also put under curfew 7am - 7pm for seven weeks. Are the inmates at long last really running the asylum? In the same paper it mentioned a released convicted murderer had robbed a frail 81 year old and was given community service because it would upset him too much to go back to prison. I know its got nothing to do with horses, yet!

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