9 thoughts on “Calming Signals: Linda and Julietta 2”
Great example of patient and responsive listening:-) Thank you, Linda. Anna, these voiceovers are so educational. I learned a lot watching this lovely conversation.
-Linda, is Julietta a rescue? Have you had her long?
This is my 21 year old Rocky Mountain Horse mare, La Roca/Rocky. I had talked about Julietta when I sent this video to Anna and I probably (certainly) wasn’t clear. Rocky was given to me when she was 16 when her owner could no longer ride. She had been passed around quite a bit. I’m at least her fifth owner and I plan to be her forever owner. So in a sense she’s a rescue.
Also, people do confuse La Roca and Julietta with some frequency. Their color, size and perhaps even temperament are similar. It must have been different for Rocky to have me go into the round pen with her and listen instead of chase her around with the whip, which, yes, I have done in the past. I think those days are well behind us! I’m looking forward to more conversations like this one with my little mare, because some of the past conversations we’ve have haven’t been quite so…uh….peaceful! Long live mares!!
Thank you, Diane! She’s a much appreciated gift horse.
Revisiting this video today. Yes, the quiet calming signals of a stoic horse. I nearly sold her because I wasn’t listening well enough to her, mistook her shut down-ness for bomb-proofness, (though, honestly, I had an inking, something just didn’t seem right….) and as we got to know each other better, she raised the volume of what she was trying to say to me. When I moved her to a new boarding facility, that was more than she could take. We were at cross-purposes for a while, but fortunately, between moving her to a facility she likes much better and me reading and growing in understanding of calming signals, we’ve salvaged our relationship. The past three years have been great…but still…I find that I frequently don’t listen to her and when I remind myself to tune in, she almost seems surprised. She so does not expect to be a part of the interaction and still has some anxiety about just getting her job done. We’re still learning together and it’s just wonderful. She’ll be 22 this year.
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Great example of patient and responsive listening:-) Thank you, Linda. Anna, these voiceovers are so educational. I learned a lot watching this lovely conversation.
-Linda, is Julietta a rescue? Have you had her long?
This is my 21 year old Rocky Mountain Horse mare, La Roca/Rocky. I had talked about Julietta when I sent this video to Anna and I probably (certainly) wasn’t clear. Rocky was given to me when she was 16 when her owner could no longer ride. She had been passed around quite a bit. I’m at least her fifth owner and I plan to be her forever owner. So in a sense she’s a rescue.
Sorry, Linda. It did sound like this was Julietta, I’ll try to get back and redo it.
???, it just feel so good to her to have a human who is thoroughly listening ?. What a wonderful rescue for her ?
Sorry for my lack of clarity, Anna. Working on that on both human and equine levels.
Welcome to my world…
Also, people do confuse La Roca and Julietta with some frequency. Their color, size and perhaps even temperament are similar. It must have been different for Rocky to have me go into the round pen with her and listen instead of chase her around with the whip, which, yes, I have done in the past. I think those days are well behind us! I’m looking forward to more conversations like this one with my little mare, because some of the past conversations we’ve have haven’t been quite so…uh….peaceful! Long live mares!!
Thank you, Diane! She’s a much appreciated gift horse.
Revisiting this video today. Yes, the quiet calming signals of a stoic horse. I nearly sold her because I wasn’t listening well enough to her, mistook her shut down-ness for bomb-proofness, (though, honestly, I had an inking, something just didn’t seem right….) and as we got to know each other better, she raised the volume of what she was trying to say to me. When I moved her to a new boarding facility, that was more than she could take. We were at cross-purposes for a while, but fortunately, between moving her to a facility she likes much better and me reading and growing in understanding of calming signals, we’ve salvaged our relationship. The past three years have been great…but still…I find that I frequently don’t listen to her and when I remind myself to tune in, she almost seems surprised. She so does not expect to be a part of the interaction and still has some anxiety about just getting her job done. We’re still learning together and it’s just wonderful. She’ll be 22 this year.
Big toothy grin. Yes, yes, yes.