Tuesday, 01 November 2005

The language of horses

This is a page out of Monty Roberts's new book. Monty Roberts is an American guy who forms of the basis of the horse whisperer. I'm half way through his first book 'The man who listens to horses' (which is very good by the way, even if you're not really into horses). He studied the wild mustangs in America a bit, and has been a professional horse person since he was four years old. He believes that horses communicate using body position (mostly), and that humans should mimic the way horses naturally interact in order to train them, etc. His methods are totally non-violent, which is kinda cool :0)