I’ll give you a short answer and a long answer. The short answer is that yes, in my world, animal communication is a real thing. I can’t tell you why this should be a real thing for you, but I can tell you why it’s a real thing for me.
It’s an everyday thing in my world. If you have animals, they’re attempting to communicate with you every day. The question is, can you “hear” them? Are you picking up what they’re laying down?
I get it if you question whether your horse can “talk”, I’ve been a skeptic too, so I get it and respect your reservations. However, now that I have worked with several animal communicators and also received information of my own from my horses and others, I can’t deny that it surely is a “real thing”.
I’m talking more than just knowing he’s cranky because his ears are back. And more than him moving out of your way because he feels your energy is up and pushing him away. While that is also a very important part of animal communication, here I’m talking about being able to receive information from the horse (or another animal) telepathically either in person or at a distance.
Animals can communicate many ways and the person can receive the information in many ways. Every horse and every person are going to have a strongest way of communicating. Some animal communicators receive their information best as images, some as a strong knowing, some as words and even smells. Many will pull from all of those senses to get the ideas and impressions through. Often the messages that come through are symbolic and are open to interpretation. Usually, the horse will communicate the quickest way. For example, if a horse sends me a picture of it standing with its head hanging out of a box stall looking sad and an empty box stall beside him with an overwhelming feeling of grief, I know he misses his friend. This is a quicker way to get the message across than saying “this one time when I was around 4, I was stabled at Los Alamitos and I had a best friend and he was sold and I was sad. I felt so alone and that feeling of sadness has stuck with me this whole time”. While both are true and get the same message, flashing the image is going to be quicker. It is however, more open to interpretation. Sometimes the communicator will hit the nail bang on and sometimes it’s a bit of a miss. Once I had a communicator tell me that my horse wanted me to know she was over her mud fever. She didn’t need to be treated anymore. That really didn’t make any sense as it had been half a year since she was sick (and although she did have a fever, I don’t think it was mud fever). A few weeks later it donned on me that it had more to do with mud than it did a fever (the communicators attempt at interpretation to the image of mud she received). I had been feeding my horse clay (mud) and apparently, she was either done with it now or didn’t want anymore. If I had been more on the ball at the time, we could have all sorted that out right then.
Horses are trying to talk to us all the time, but eventually, they will give up a bit because you’re not listening. If you kept trying to tell someone something and they just weren’t getting it, you’d give it up too. Sometimes you might be getting information from your horse and you didn’t even know that’s where it came from. Sometimes they might get creative. Have you ever felt thirsty and thought…hmmm…. I should I offer my horse a pail of water. Making you feel thirsty is a way they can get their message across. They sent that feeling and you received it triggering the thought.
Before I knew I could communicate with animals I used to get different feelings around different horses and I didn’t know it was a “thing”. I just thought it was a coincidence or something that I’d get a sore shoulder when I rode a particular horse. But in fact, that’s how I now receive a lot of communication, I’m just now equipped with more tools to sort things out. I will even get these feelings long distance. I’ve been feeling a lot more “sound” myself since I realized a lot of the aches and pains I was getting weren’t often mine!
The first time I heard a horse speak to me in words was at a barrel race. I was tacking up and went to put the back sport boots on my horse. She lifted her leg to kick me (which should have been my sign there as it was out of character, but I scolded her for it instead). I got the boots on, turned around and started to walk away. I heard clear as a bell in a snappy tone “if you’d leave those off I’d run faster”. I stopped in my tracks, turned around and looked at her and thought to myself, did that just happen? She stared me down with her beady eyes as if to say: You heard me. I took the back boots off and went into my trailer to get a grip on myself. I muscle tested (which can also be a way to receive yes/no answers about your horse) and asked questions every which way to see if this really did just happen. I had to honor that voice, where else would it have come from? For safety and principle, I couldn’t run her without anything so I went over to my friend’s trailer to borrow some polo wraps. She fixed us up and off we went. My mare ran 4 tenths faster than she had the first run in an indoor pen. Do I still use polo wraps on the back? I sure do, every time. She hasn’t had sport boots on the back since. Could she have run quicker anyway? Possibly but why would I doubt this information I received (even if I hadn’t run quicker)? I was not thinking about it, it just came to me out of the blue. Consider this when you get random information come in when you’re around your horses.
Animal communicators have been used to find lost animals and to determine the cause of performance and behavior problems. It has been used to explain to a horse why it was bought and sold, and to console in times of grieving and death. There are people who can communicate with animals all around you, on some level, you are one of them! People who receive information from animals don’t go around saying what they’re picking up from horses and animals here and there and anywhere for a few reasons. First, it’s an unwritten rule that we don’t communicate with horses without permission from the owner. If I have a horse reach out to me, I tell him he needs to give the idea to the owner and they need to ask me for help. I wouldn’t chat your child up without your permission and then come to you with her needs, so I’m not going to do that with your horse. That’s just weird.
Second, it would be completely overwhelming and a sensory overload to walk around horses and be open to receiving everything and anything they say. Someone who has this ability quite often deals with a bit of social anxiety because it can be so overwhelming and takes energy to shut things out too. If I’m at a barrel race, don’t ask me what your horse is saying, I’m not listening. I’m doing my own thing trying to block your vibes out, the three people down the way and the horse in the other direction that is trying to rat out his owner. That’s one of the downfalls of being super sensitive to this energy. It can be quite taxing to be “open” to it all so it’s important we set boundaries to keep it “off” unless it’s a planned consultation.
Throughout my journey and on this blog I’m sure I’ll share more stories and examples of how there is so much more to these creatures than we’ve been giving them credit for. They know what they want and they know what they need. We just need to be open to hearing from them. Right now, I’m continuing to practice and hone my skills to be more consistent at receiving this information. Sometimes I get information I don’t want to hear (bad news) and sometimes I get a bunch of beggars standing at the fence begging for grain and alfalfa. It’s not all roses in animal communication but I have happier horses because I’m listening and strengthening our relationship as a result of it.
Business wise it ties in well with the healing work I do with horses and coaching calls I do with people. The horses are often able to contribute to our calls and steer us where we need to go. It’s a beautiful thing and I hope that someday you can experience it. It will surely change the perspective you have of your horse and change your relationship for the better. If you’re not there yet, that’s okay too. I’ve been where you are and never imagined I’d be where I am now. What else is possible?
