Psychic Horses

Something amazing occurred between Baby Doll and I today. I wish I could have videtaped what happened, because I still can't believe it myself.

My horse read my mind and did exactly what I wanted her to do, without any physical prompting from me.

I've read, seen, and heard from people who've said that horses possess psychic abilities, but I just though it was a bunch of hooey, until today.

I spent almost the entire day with my horse, Baby Doll, giving her a bath, working with her in the round pen, and riding her bareback, in her Bitless Bridle and in a halter, in the round pen and around our land.

I had hung my camera bag on a peg attached to the round pen, so it wouldn't fall down. But I was admiring my view above Baby Doll, especially her clean, shiny neck and mane. I wanted to take some photos.

I walked Baby Doll up to the side of the round pen towards my camera, but we were about 18" too far away. So, we circled around again, and I got her about 5" closer, but I still didn't feel comfortable reaching for my camera bag because I was bareback and didn't want to lose my balance.

So, I walked her around once more and we got about another inch closer. Close enough that I was able to snag the peg and pull it up, but my camera bag got stuck at the top of the peg. And, yet again, I felt too far away to lean in towards it to free it from the peg.

So, I sat there for about a minute, debating if I should just get off my horse and grab the bag and climb back on my pretty painted girl afterwards, or try again to get much closer.
As I was pondering the choices, my horse took a few steps in a circle. And I waited to see what her plan was going to be. Maybe it was better than my own.
Baby Doll circled back around, and moved up right against the pipe fencing, and then she did the most amazing thing.

As soon as my camera was directly beside me, she came to a stop!

Now remember, I didn't tell her a thing. I didn't move my legs or touch my Bitless Bridle reins. I was just resting and balancing on my horse's bare back. And my reins were resting on her withers.

She waited patiently until I had freed my camera and I told her to move forward.
Unfortunately, and also ironically, my camera's batteries were dead, so I was not able to take any photos of my bareback ride.

But I will say that I was blown away by my experience communicating telepathically with my horse. I was so thrilled with the experience, I decided to replace the Bitless with her halter and take Baby Doll out of the round pen and let her munch on the grass in our front yard. After a while of walking her around, I decided to turn her leadrope into rope reins, and move up to the high and comfy horse seat, and discovered a fabulous mounting block set up permanently beside the round pen: One of those grey-green electric maintenance boxes. It's sized perfectly at 2 feet tall and is easy to climb on and mount my big and beautiful 15.3 hh mare. I have no idea why I never noticed it before as a mount for my my horse, but I'm really glad I did.

I spent another hour riding my girl bareback around our side and front yards, as she happily munched grass. The weather was warm, yet breezy, about 75 degrees, the sun was starting to set and it was a wonderful way to end such a special day.


(ps: I replaced the original photo with this one above. My friend Linda, over at the 7MSN played around with it on Photoshop and I just love it. If you haven't been by yet, check out Linda's gorgeous photos of her wonderful critters)