Talking to your horse 2.0- 2021 version
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- Warwick talks about his updated view on talking to your horse.
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I prefer to communicate with my animals. Sometimes that means I'm talking to them. I think my tone communicates more than words. Mostly think it's energy.
Same. I talk to my cats all the time. They don’t know what I am saying as far as words...but they do very much respond to the tone and energy.
@@jiaswan22 Agree, but like Warwick says some people can project energy without saying a word. Most of us need to verbalise to help us project what we are thinking but either way, if it's having the desired effect, calming all concerned, then it's a good thing.
Before I got my ponies, I often visited an Amish farm and we helped with their chores, learned about their lifestyle, and actually bought some of our livestock and a good deal of organic food from them. This is a story from one day. When they were hitching their huge Belgian drafts up to a wagon, they called two horses by name from their open stalls and the horses responded, backing up and rerouting to the door, stopping on a command in Dutch, with no gestures from anyone. We hitched them up, and the whole time we rode to the field in the wagon, the eldest drove them with reins. But when we were harvesting in the field, everyone was picking vegetables and nobody was driving the horses, but they moved SOLELY on voice commands when we needed the wagon moved, and it was the most amazing thing I'd ever seen as a young child.
A lovely story. In their early training the horses would have been shown what to do along with the verbal commands. Ultimately all they would respond to the verbal commands alone. I can get my dog to sit, stay, lie down and roll over with verbal commands but she also will do the above to hand signals alone, and probably better because that's what she really understands. Training animals is a wonderful opportunity to understand the self because it's only when you start to do that that you get any good at it.
I teach my horses their names and the words "Come on". When they are all grazing together or just standing around together I can call them to me individually by name and only the horse that I call by name comes to me. The others ignore me completely.
You were talking to your horse the whole time you were talking to the camera, and your horse was enjoying your love language and responding all the time. It was so beautiful to watch. Thank you!
I LOVE the fact that you EVOLVED!! You are so cool. I bet your wife appreciate it, too. 😉
I do think our horses know their name and each others names. When I yell at one of the horses from inside the house (so they can't see me) they all look at the horse being yelled at. When I yelled at my mare to stop kicking one of our geldings she stopped and looked at me with the expression "he started it" which he did, but she was finishing it too well.
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I'm a new horse owner, and I talk to my horse for similar reasons. I probably sound dumb, but on a trail ride, I'm having a conversation with my mare. I tell her something is coming up, I tell her I'm proud of her, etc. I get the benefit of the actual words but I know she feels the emotions that go along with it. Win/win.
I do the exact same thing. They love it. ❤
Your honesty and humility about your own journey makes your videos the genuine article for all those interested in personal development and relationships with horses.Hi and thanks from another Aussie.
I showed a horse that listened to the announcer and would walk,trot and canter with no encouragement from me. He would even reverse direction. We put him in a walk trot class with a 3 year old riding. He didn’t miss a beat. He had been shown so much he knew the routine. I have worked with lots of horses and he was one of a kind in my life.
But how did he learit.
The announcer would say the word , then the rider would give physical cues to do it.
@@WarwickSchiller I truly believe he had done western pleasure for so long he knew the words. The 3 year old did nothing but hold onto the horn. I may be wrong I often am but I believe he knew the words
@@nikkilynne38555 He probably did but a bit like parrot fashion, through repetition, not connected to the rider. Probably not a good way to teach. We want the student to make connections through a two way feel.
@@sarahwagland1559 Many parrots use words, and tone of voice, as correctly as any two or three year old child. :) Just saying.
I talk to my horse all the time, he or any other one of my horses are the best listeners in the world. Yes, I know they don't understand a word, I am saying but, that's ok.
I so agree with you , when I “talk” to a horse it’s through my actions and calmness and of course my calm and kind voice but the key word is my actions !
Exactly. My horse doesn’t woah off of my seat bc I’m letting my breath out. It’s the relaxation of my body that ques him, they don’t need words
What a sweetheart your horse is on this video.
I would love for you to talk about Endo the Blind. She is amazing and her horses only listen to the voice.
I do not speak much with my horses, but when I do, I am sure they listening.....may be not the words ..but the feeling of the voice
It's a persons own intent, then their intent manifests into their physical actions...SO talking to a horse is talking to yourself which then is transferred into body language the horse understands...If you say GOOD HORSE, your body language changes, although a horse may start to learn tones..Angry tone, soft tone, or a click/whistle tone they can slowly associate with a repetitive physical command experienced....MOST owners are are just talking to themselves, it's BEST to keep the horse UN desensitized by not talking TOO much... Only use tones which relate to commands and use touching/rubbing as an emotional connection....Horse Language is body language, prey animals keep quite mostly..
Horses talk a LOT and they usually talk very loudly and with incredible emotion. A Winnie is loud enough to echo from the hills and what they are saying is " I'm here is anybody out there that can hear me? Who are you and where are you. I'm lonely. If a human can't understand that, it is the human not listening and not the horse not talking.
I find that horses know a lot more human language than we think. I like teaching verbal cues too. Body language and reading energy is their forte for sure.
I think my horse knows 2 words as words without queues. One being his name! He does come when called by his name. He works mainly off my energy, body language/position.
I love how you show your horse that you love him. Wonderfull and also funny video. Thank you!
I think of voice cues as secondary aids, my primary being my seat and body language. It is not a primary aid, i do not expect my horse to react solely to my voice, but I do see that my horses see my voice cue as an confirmation of the thing i am asking. They're less insecure about teaching new things and the intention becomes clearer. If i "say" it out loud, wether that's a word or a sound, it makes my mind less foggy.
It's an extra aid, it is complimentary, it gives reassurance, my horses enjoy that
Thank you for acknowledging us carriage drivers as our horses do learn and respond to voice comands.
In fact I recently volunteered at a CDE and one thing stood out as I watched all the drivers competing in the cones course and marathon. All the drivers that were "talking" to their horses did the best.
You guys are so awesome, I love watching it
I love the way you’ve come back to this subject. Your horse looks so connected to you. It’s a pleasure to understand a little of the journey you are making. Thank you for sharing with us.
I really like this! It shows a lot of self awareness(re emotions and being shut down), and it takes a lot to say (admit?) that just because you used to do/say/practice one way, that you've grown and adapted and changed how you see things and work.
Yes, some of us can project energy without opening our mouths, some of us need to hear calm, comforting words coming out of our own mouths to truly believe in ourselves. In the end we probably produce better vibes without knowing it but we still keep talking. If it gets the desired end result it's got to be good but it's important to realise that it's more about reassuring ourselves. The horse is only feeling what we are projecting.
It’s definitely all in your energy and the connection you have with your horses energy. I had one mare and we were so in sync it felt like she listened but it wasn’t the words, it was our energy. She saved my life a few times on packing trips or trail rides where others in the line freaked out and bolted or attacked the others and she’d act like a guard dog and put herself between me and the danger but only during life and death situations. She was amazing. I still miss her. I’ve had several horses. Never had one or trained one or be around any that were like her.
Unbelievable! I can’t believe you were able to prevent him from climbing the fence 😂
I guess the key is understanding that we need to talk because that is our language, but understand we're not talking for the sake of the words, but for the emotional tone.
To be honest that's often the case even when we're talking to other people. Small talk isn't about the words, it's about making reassuring, non-threatening noises to each other.
I have kept a lot of guinea pigs and guinea pigs really enjoy the sound of human voices, though they don't understand words. The sound of humans talking is very similar to the way guinea pigs burble away to each other when they're at peace. So it's reassuring to them.
A lot of our conversation is just that, we're just burbling. The words are often unimportant, and if you ignore the words, you can still hear the emotional meaning in it. Animals can hear that too.
I so wish that I had it on video to show you but here is what happened. My gelding Mischief and his sire Spud had been great friends since Mischief was born and lived together both on pasture and shared the same stall for many years,their whole lives. There was never any dangerous aggression from Spud ever but every once in a while Spud would for no reason just reach over and lightly bite Mischief on the neck like Spud was maintaining his dominance over his son. One day as I stood next to them and they were both staring out of their stall standing next to each other Spud just pinned his ears and lightly bit Mischief on the neck . Mischief got a sad look on his face and I said to him " Spud is mean to you for no reason isn't he" . Mischief looked at me with a look of surprise that he was amazed that I sympathized with him. Spud was back at just staring out into the distance and not paying any attention to what me and Mischief were talking about. I said to Mischief in a quiet voice like it was just between him and me that "Spud is mean to you isn't he ?" " you should just bite Spud back". Mischief looked at me with a look of shock that I would say such a thing! I repeated that "You should just bite him". Mischief then looked at me with a look of worry on his face-eyes that said to me " Oh, I would never do that, Spud would bite me back !" I said to Mischief that "Spud won't bite you back, he is just a bully and I will protect you". Mischief's eyes looked worried again but a second later his eyes definitely got a mischievous look in them and then a look of bravery mixed with happiness and then he just pinned his ears and reached over and bit Spud on the neck for the first time in his life. Mischief immediately looked terrified like " oh no what have I done" and Spud was amazed and blown away by what Mischief had just done but didn't retaliate but just stood there looking shocked and amazed. Mischief was scared and looking at me like " Oh no he is going to bite me ! But Spud didn't ! I said to Mischief " I told you that he wouldn't do anything". Then I whispered to Mischief " You should bite him again". Mischief looked terrified again but quickly got that happy-determined "Yea I'm going to bite him again" look in his eyes and pinned his ears again and bit Spud again! Spud was totally flabbergasted and couldn't believe that Mischief had done it AGAIN ! But he didn't bite Mischief back !. Mischief was amazed at his own bravery and had a look of self satisfaction in his eyes because he had for the first time in his life had stood up to his dad and nothing bad happened. I could see in his eyes a feeling of pride and self assuredness that I had never seen before and I told him again " I knew that he wouldn't bite you back". "Spud is just a wimp and a bully and he is mean to you". I don't think that Spud ever bit Mischief again from that day on. That is an interesting story about a power struggle of sorts between a stallion and his gelding son but what is really amazing is that Mischief completely understood what I was saying to him !. I used no hand gestures and just stood there with my hands in my pockets and simply said the exact words I describe here and Mischief completely understood exactly what I was saying in sentences. That was a HUGE lesson to me about how much horses actually listen and understand what their human says to them. That blew MY mind!. It changed my mind totally about a horses ability to understand what I am saying and meaning. I had always talked to my horses but never with the expectation that they were really understanding me. But after this episode I changed my expectations of my horses and I began to expect that they are listening to me and understanding me and it changed my relationships with them dramatically. Since then there are so many times where I simply asked my horses to do something for me with complete sentences and they did it ! Now one of my main training goals is to give my horses a simple vocabulary starting with simple things that they care about and can understand easily. Like the names of all of their body parts. And what food is called, "corn" etc. Then I teach them "Kiss" and "Kiss nose" in exchange for "corn" etc. Then I teach them "Gentle" when they get aggressive about their Kisses for "corn" by very gently stroking their eyelids and softly saying "gentle". When a horse gets to understand that a "kiss nose" will get them corn they get forceful and start banging you in the face thinking that harder kissing will get them more corn faster. At that point I start teaching them "Gentle" and it takes only ONE TIME, one feeding, I feed mouthful by mouthful by hand, for them to understand and you wouldn't believe the look of understanding and immediately how extremely gentle the kisses become! You would be amazed how quickly they learn words when "corn" is their motivation. What is more amazing than that though is the look in their eyes as they look directly in your eyes and pay attention to your FACE when you speak to them. They start TRYING to learn your words. They sometimes need to learn that there is meaning to the funny sounds that come from your mouth and that changes everything when they do. They actually start LISTENING to you and paying attention to your words. Once you get to that point a whole new world opens up for them and you and amazing things start to happen. Once this point is reached almost anything becomes possible. I could go on and on about the amazing things, words, I have taught my horses. I have asked them to do complicated things that involve totally new ideas that require fairly complicated sentences and they do them. THE FIRST TIME ! I have been in tears and or laughing hysterically at what they have done for me just by simply asking them in words to do it ! I will NEVER AGAIN underestimate what a horse is capable of understanding in words. Warwick Shiller, I know that you are skeptical of what I am saying but just try teaching a horse as I have described above and it will change your beliefs about horses for the rest of your life. A horse can easily learn many dozens of words and once they get a large vocabulary there becomes a closeness between you and your horses that you would not previously have imagined and "LOVE" is one of those words that a horse can understand. Start with feeding them by hand and talk about how "good" "corn" is and how much they "love" it and then teach them the names of their body parts by touching them there and the word "Gentle and "Kiss nose" in exchange for food and then go from there and you will be amazed I promise you. Feed them by hand and don't let them have the next bite until they do as you ask them. If they are kissing you to hard don't give them the next bite until they give you a "gentle kiss nose". Keep the sentences simple at first. Touch their nose and say "nose" Kiss them on the nose and say "kiss nose" then give them a treat or corn. When they start hitting you in the face to get more corn faster say "no" "gentle kiss nose" and say "gentle" and very softly stroke their sensitive eyes to teach them "Gentle". Horses love gentle. They will get the gentle dreamy eyes look and you will know that they understand. After they understand they will always give gentle kisses for corn.
I totally agree. I grew up in the BHS system, so stiff upper lip🤐 Howver voice commands with audio sequence after was also foundation. Response to wh I a has been a lifesaver several times.You are wonderful and I love your work! You and Buck!
My horse definitely listens when he's being praised. He loves to be told what a magnificent stallion he is in a warm loving voice. What a good horse he is. That sort of thing. He knows some words but mostly I only use words to help enhance my body language and facial expressions. I don't use word commands.
I really love this video and how you admit to not being terrifically emotional and trying to open up to your horse and showing them your emotion. I just think that's so cool!
they are reading energy at all times no matter the words coming from our pie holes
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I was howling at the "back up" story. Best laugh in a long time.
Your videos are the best- most logical and best horse training I have come across.
How you communicate with horses is superb.
Thank you for sharing your emotional vulnerability. Human communication consists MORE of body language and tone of voice than mere words. So why should it be different with horses? The equus language is mostly body language with occasional sounds. So what if they learn to associate a human word with a gesture? As many others here have said, it conveys emotion and energy which they DO understand, and they are so smart! (Maybe they're just pretending not to know!) 😉 I'll continue talking casually to my horse as well as reinforcing the commands that I've been using with him. Good topic and great discussion!
Horses are very intelligent so I'd argue that they feel something when talked to.
I suspect when we use voice cues, it sets the intention into our body and that’s what they read. Our energy and intention speak to them, yes? Loving your 2.0 versions!
I just bought a 22 year old papered QH mare. She was standing in the doorway in about 2 feet and I wanted to get in. I stuck my head around the corner and said Bella, I need to get back in here please. She slightly turns her head and looks behind her and moves right around until shes out of my way and facing me. Pretty good as I had only had her for a week
My horses know their names but I talk to them all the time even though I know they don't understand most of it. When we are out on long rides I sing to them, it seems to help both of us stave off boredom and it lets bears know we are coming so they can vacate before we get there. I even wave to my horses and say hello when they notice me from their pasture when I am out doing stuff so that they know I am aware they are noticing me and giving me their time and attention. Just simple stuff like that seems to go a long way with the horses liking and trusting me.
I think giving verbal commands to our animals is sometimes more helpful for us than them, it helps us consciously get that energy and body position they understand.
And I completely agree talking and chatting helps us convey our emotions to them when just giving them some love, which I think is why people react so quickly to defend talking to their horse because they see that as the only way to form a bond when it's not.
You are so finne zadddy u ate this up purr
I used to never talk to my horses, which worked well for me. Then I worked for a trainer who wanted me to always verbally praise the horses. That seemed to help me relax so I still do it. I mostly talk to my horses now to reinforce my body language, either while praising or making a correction. I don't constantly chatter at them.
Once when I was so very ill, I couldn't barely swallow and couldn't speak. I was caring for 30 plus at the time. I'd turn out 2 or 3 at a time and on this day I learned they understood my mumble and grunts as words were impossible. Grunting and pointing worked just fine .
My horses willingly follow me to a mounting block, but one keeps offering his right side rather than left. To get him to turn so I could mount from his left side, I placed my hand in front of his face and, when he looked at my hand, I praised him to let him know that's what I wanted him to do. He proceeded to focus on my hand as I spun him around -- I didn't even have to touch him to turn him around. Not using your voice eliminates half of your available communication tools with your horse. I would imagine that the well-known trainers out there don't use their voice because it really doesn't look cool.
It now just takes my hand cue to turn him around without the voice but the voice is what taught him to follow my hand. We don't tap into all that horses are capable of understanding.
Totally with you on this subject of talking to your horse! Thanks for supporting my view...which matches your views on talking to your horse. I'm in my mid 70's and have had horses since age 11 and honestly, I talked to my horses, but didn't really use it to train (except for a few helpful vocabulary: Walk, cluck for "speed it up", kiss sound for lope, or I say "can ter" with a rise in my voice at the end...and, of course WHOA short/sharp (but not loud) and like it's a command (use my "drill sergeant" voice. I do very much the same as you explained about just conversing when I'm around my horse and not in the thick of training. Thanks for a great video. I love watching and learning from all of your training suggestions.
I am a chatty person with no one to talk to so my horse gets an earful. I do use verbal cues with him and am learning to include aids that convey what I am asking so he learns to work from my aids and not just my voice. My horse is an Arab who is very smart. We have developed a relationship that includes both physical and verbal modes of communicating which works well for us especially since he is Arab with a potential of overreacting to new things. The most important thing I have learned about him is that he is very curious about everything so I always let him investigate new things by showing him or letting him smell any item I am introducing to him consequently he is a very level headed boy who I trust when on him and he responds by showing me he trusts me by his calmness.....I love my horse!
Voice is vibration, energy, power. The Word- it brings things into this plane. In the Beginning was The Word. It vibrates consciousness into being, the material plane. I love my horse and so I talk to him. I don't exactly train him to understand English but do sometimes use cues and operant conditioning. And true confessions - sometimes I sing to him...Poor Yuma the horse. LOL I told him not to drive my car and go buy beer for him and his horse buddies and he never has.
do you not think we are all conscious beings who learn from each other? I think you're brilliant and your knowledge and experience is invaluable to us all. I talk to my horse all the time, with love, understanding and respect. I agree with everything you say, please come to the UK when you can (somewhere in the middle) so we can come and meet x
I talk to my horse and pretend to answer back for him. Yes, I am one of these people, lol. I am voice training him because you never know when you need these cues. I also talk to him because it keeps my anxiety down. My horse sometimes gives me looks of "are you drunk?"
Thank you for sharing your brilliant ideas and knowledge, I am from Germany and a big fan of your work. What my mare taught me is that she can understand very well if I have a certain Intention and say something to support that, it never works if my thoughts wander off. I have to realize and „visualize“ what I want. If a command is still „in the air“ for example when my mare is very lazy and does not want to trot , I will just wait and keep the expectation in my head, waiting without creating more pressure, she knows exactly that I am set on the decision and it usually takes her only a few strides to follow up. She doesn’t do that if I have not decided yet. A decision is not an idea only, it feels more like letting go of the need, you have decided and now you can relax, that is the moment when your horse can follow. You can have an idea of what you expect your horse to do but have second thoughts about it or you feel needy because you do not trust that your horse will react, this usually doesn‘t work. Making a decision is a peaceful feeling. Talking to horses has more to it, not only can we tell them something that they might or might not understand, we can also create a rythm, they do understand rythm very well. We can calm a horse down by counting down or creating a rythm that gets slower. By the voice and the sound of the steps they can identify a person. But I think presence and thoughts are a very powerful language with horses and this is something that I have to work on in my daily life because I tend to speak before I think.
I use American Sign Language in life and when training. I find it interesting that you do not distinguish between oral speech and communication in other forms. Each request you reinforced with gesture/sign (pick up your left foot) suggesting the horse is linguustically fluent, but in sign, just not in a spoken modality. The dogs I train DO comprehend sign and prefer it to blah blah spoken English. Have you pondered equine sign linguistics as a primary mode of inter-species communication?
Recently found your channel and promptly subscribed. Thanks for your wonderful tutorials. They make a lot of sense
Same - I show/remind/tell myself my own intentions of each interaction with my horse by talking to him. Saying out loud what I am going for inside helps me stay in the moment, too, and remain present for my horse - otherwise my mind takes over and everything else I am currently worried about fills it... not a good combo. ;)
I drive a chariot a lot, and mine are trained to listen to certain cues, as you said, but it's probably more the energy you radiate as you utter those cues. I could probably get them to trot by excitedly shouting "Pudding!" and bringing my energy up, or get them to slow down by exhaling the word "Caterpillar" xD
Under the saddle my mare will listen to the cue "Listen up!" followed by a short pause and then a voice command. I agree with you they are susceptible to the energy instead of the words. And for good reason, because I do a lot of talking with my spouse on the chariot, imagine them executing everything I said :p
There's so much nonverbal communication going on, it's a good thing to be aware of this. Horses are experts in reading our non verbal cues. So when our verbal cue contradicts with our nonverbal ones, we tend to say the horse is being disobedient, but all they are doing is following up on your nonverbal communication (for instance trailer loading: how many people do you see tense up before loading, and then getting upset the horse won't load)
I love your videos!
Nice doses of humor. Great food for thought.
I completely agree with you, and understand what you mean.I talk to the dogs, cats and horses, the Labrador has a wider knowledge of words for sure. I volunteer for Riding for the Disabled RDA in Scotland, the majority of our ponies have to know voice commands, some purposefully taught, others accidentally. With positive reinforcement, we taught our Highland how to kick a yoga ball, he responds to "ball" he looks for the ball, and "kick" and he'll kick it - off lead rope etc. Different situations, and different way of training, I find the way you train horses fascinating, I'd love to train a horse the way you do, with the potential to become an RDA horse. Maybe one day, it would help so many kids, and adults with all sorts of disabilities.
Love this evolution in your life and understanding of your self and your work with horses, Warwick.
I talk to my horses a lot, but as you do not to tell them to do something, but to convey an emotional state. However I used to do a lot of carriage driving and the horses had to learn specific verbal commands. One of the most impressive was when driving a pair...the horses had to know their own names (so I could tell one to step up a bit more briskly or another to ease up) as well as "Boys." Not sure they understood their names as we do, but they certainly understood that a name meant "The next command is for you alone" or "You can ignore the next command, it's not for you." Or, in the case of "Boys," "You both have to listen to what's coming next." In that way, I used their names as a command of preparation, followed by what the horse was supposed to do as in "Boys, trot!" or "Joe, step up" if he wasn't pulling his own weight. I had to laugh once when my instructor and I were driving a single horse. We were having a conversation about training and I happened to say the word "trot" in the middle of a sentence and sure enough the horse picked up the trot. (After he learned his name as a command of preparation he realized he didn't have to trot unless I said his name first.)
Your awesome Warwick! Love your videos. ! Take care mate!
I just finished watching the video you did on this topic many years ago. I'm certainly learning but sadly I'm one who is extremely emotional in every area of life, I do tend to speak to my horse friends more than is necessary.
Thank you so much for all the advice Sir..💜🐎💜
Talk to my horses all the time but never when it matters
There is a difference between using your voice to communicate / convey energy and actually expecting that you are having a dialogue. I think what you are getting it is that communication does happen vocally, but there is not a dialogue as humans would interpret it...
What he's getting at is that you can teach verbal cues into a horse, but it's usually via physical cues they already know.
There is no effective verbal communication (by using words, tone is another thing) with horses without it primarily being taught unlike energy pressure and physical cues which horses can respond to instinctually.
It's not their communication style.
@@ina7084 Yes, we are saying the same thing. As humans, most of us, need to vocalize our thoughts, energy, intentions...the horse can pick up on the energy and perhaps intent, but we are not teaching them sit, stay, fetch, roll over - well at least I am not... :-)
I talk to my animals mostly for my own sake. I enjoy it, it is easier for me to know what I am asking for when combining it with my energy/movement and then a said command.
I appreciate your straight forward information and you sharing about your journey and what you have learned about yourself.
So true. I use several short words to let my mare do the things i want. But at first she had to combine theme with my body language. And indeed to feel the reel connection i have to speak to here.
Very informative and interesting to listen to. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for the insight about using your expressed thoughts (words) to queue the body into evoking the emotion. That was very helpful! I talk to all my animals, but not because I even remotely believe they actually understand the words but because using the language helps ME to clarify what I'm asking for. My body language and energy then follows-through (usually). Which is why if I say something and don't really mean it (now there's no energetic follow-through), I get ignored. I also try to use the same words for the same desire, again training me to be consistent and it that helps the animal (dog, horse, cat, heck goats) to realize "pay attention - something's coming" then bonus.
I call my horse from the pasture "Cookie!!". Her name isn't cookie but the word travels further than my pathetic whistle. And she gets a cookie when she comes. Sometimes, she doesn't come. Grass is way more delicious than a cookie. She does, however, pay particular attention to my breathing and I can get her to drop her head and relax by taking deep breaths. She pays attention to my body language and to the weight and tension on the reins or lead shank. We have such agendas that we bring to our horses and it all shows up in our body. And I talk to her because I'm a human, and that's what humans do. I imagine she likes that I sing "You Are My Sunshine" to her but really, I think she likely appreciates that when I am singing, I am breathing well and not a bundle of stressed out human sitting on top of her.
This update didn't surprise me at all. :) The words don't matter as much as the emotions behind the words.
Not a shrink but I sense a lot of people get into horses because they can't handle their emotions or feelings. If they are lacking in feeling in control they want to control. If they are shy they want something big to help them be stronger etc.. The horses being themselves, expressing their true natures, seem to naturally help humans. Just an observation.
Yep, probably %80 + are just trying to self induce something they lack or look at me I have a big animal..Not many train and work with horses that builds self worth and becomes a win win scenario...
I'm amazed how many horsey people seem to assume horses have learned English.
I know right??😂😂 I had boarder friends, and the guy was Vietnamese, horrible English. He would yell and yell at his horse, like he thought the horse knew what he was talking about!! I said Do you have a bilingual horse?😂 Meaning-they don't know WTF anyone is saying, let alone knowing two freaking languages!!! This guy was an engineer with NASA- so he is smart. But, he didn't get that I was trying to point out that the horse is confused. Obviously, based on the level and constant yelling, he wasn't getting it. How do you expect him to KNOW the words!? Show him another way!!
I've heard that animal communication is done by 'sending ' visuals to a horse.
So when I verbalize a story during a trail ride, I think in pictures and send it to my horse.
For some reason I tell her about geography/history. She seems to love it, so I search for new material for her constantly.
At least we're both entertained. Lol
Excellent video , thank you.
Maybe this is one good thing that we, humans, need to learn from horses, talk less and listen more. Actually, I'm curious how horses and other animals managed to live for millions of years without talking, and we, humans, after a mere 200000 odd years bring the world on the brink of extinction, just by talking ... Is it really the speech a sign of intelligence or superiority?
When I watch someone having a lesson I can't believe the amount of chatter that goes on between rider and teacher. The horse, for the most part, needn't be there! The rider should be listening to the teacher and listening to the horse like a go between and say nothing at all!
It's not the verbiage. It's the body language. Mostly. A fellow named Allie Reynolds taught me that one quite a few years ago.
Hi, it seems like I've been watching Warwick for the last 10 years or so, he has taught me a lot of what I know. If you watched this video 10 years ago you would have been commenting on how mouthy Chancy is, try fast forwarding it. I understand talking to the horse, you even made one bad attempt at backing him off you but he was straight back to nuzzling. Do you think the change in your perspective was greatly influenced by the kind of clients that you now seek? Saying this, thanks, I've always enjoyed your videos, it's been a journey.
I agree with you on that for sure I think I have watched all of Warwicks videos. I really enjoyed them and have learned a lot from them. But Warwick along with other trainers seem to change their selves and their training method to what will make them the most money.
I’m a novice when it comes to horses but we got a rescued horse and I’m trying to learn everything I can but I’m having a hard time. My mare doesn’t listen to me, including with using the halter and lead rope. She will turn when I swing the rope on either side of her, but she will not back up, she won’t stop trying to eat grass when walking from her pen to her round pen, she doesn’t know personal space, and she refuses to pick her feet up for me to clean them out. All she does is slams her feet back down. When we had her hooves trimmed, the guy who was doing it even had a hard time and was kicked in his hand really good to where he gave up and didn’t charge me. Her original owners only used her for breeding where they put her back feed into a device which is why I’m sure that’s why she doesn’t like her hooves touched and they underfed her which is why I’m sure she just wants to eat. We live in AZ so we don’t have a grass field for her to constantly graze in but I feed her at least 20lbs of hay a day. We’re in monsoon season right now though so we have plenty of grass for her to eat in her round pen now. It’s just the process of trying to get her in there without her wanting to graze the whole way there. If you have any advice, or past videos you’ve posted, id appreciate it
The reason I try not to talk with my horse while training ist, that I tend to get emotional, when she is not understanding me. I tend to get loud and agitated with my voice. But this doesn't help (surprise!) und therefore I tend to not talk at all to not be tempted to get loud. On the other hand, she really needs the voice as a sign she did something right and I tend to do that not enough. I know she does not understand the words, but she does understand the "sound" of praise.
Warwick, I love horses, how do I not be so intimidated by them. I would love to work with them. Maybe then I wouldn't be so afraid. When I was a little girl my uncle would sit me on the draft horse no saddle it was a blast.
However it is I communicate with them, it's always with a bit of glorious mystery about it.
I find you much more interesting, now that you have decided to admit to being a human, like the rest of us. 😃
Rick Gore did a video like this funny
Chancey is just gorgeous, and so well behaved.
Awwwww... one of my horses name is Chancey!
Its possible that the people who don't talk to horses are naturally introverted, quiet people, and those that do are more extroverted. Maybe horses appreciate introverts more, and feel more at peace with them. I remember someone saying that the ideal temperament for a horseman was that of a sack of potatoes. I always try and channel that when I'm around them :)
Always talk to my horses, matter of fact I talk to all my animals ❤️
Even talk to myself at grocery store......😉
Love this man, he’s so genuine 🙏👍💯💕
Horse people are the most opinionated people when it comes to their passion: being with a horse; it's like arguing about strongly held but differing religious beliefs. I don't have a horse but if I did, I'm sure I would talk to it.
Animals speak to us in their language they have ...horses paw with feet, make nay sounds etc
We communicate to them in the ways we know how horses understand words from action like whoa, or clicking sounds to make them go
Horses read our body language and emotions as well
I tell my horse that if she jumps a clear round she'll get a bag of carrots. It works - sometimes! ;)
My horse knows one word he listen too . The word No. Like when he tries to bite or brother dogs and chickens. I tell him rRusty nooooo,from across the yard and he stops lol. But thats all he listens to. Lol
but then how does this work in regards to miniature horses that are used as guide animals for people who are blind?
When are you coming to Poway, CA to give a clinic? Would love to have you here.
I'll be in Rolling Hills Estates July 31, Aug 1-2
@@WarwickSchillerYEAH! How may I sign up for your clinic?
@@victoriaoneal2169 just go to clinics on the website
THANK YOU!
My husband refuses to believe my horse talks back to me. The man's unreasonable.
My horses come to individual whistles, but completely ignore me when I call them by name.
Cats dogs horses and so many others work off body language and energy. Humans are the voice obsessed ones.
I've tried to teach verbal ques to dogs and had to break down the essentially subconscious ques I was giving for commands they knew. It was a good lesson for just how much communication I don't think about.
Same goes for my horse. He picks up on pre-ques before my ask and is ready to go - teaching him verbal ques would require a lot of practice. Really not needed though in his case.
Try it with a German Shepherd! I would be sitting on the sofa staring at the tv, mumble that I needed to do the laundry, and he'd jump up and stand by laundry basket. Life with him was like that... he completely understood common phrases accompanied by zero body language cues.
@@Kelly_Ben smart boy ;)
My mare have separation anxiety in the barn when she’s away from her herd. I Can’t get to her, Do you have any tips for me?
Chance is gorgeous ❤️
I have also thought that horses know your intent regardless of the words or language.
I can't not talk to my horse who is a very good friend 💗🐴💗
Can a horse recognise her name? When I call my horse, in the paddock, she comes. Or is she just hearing my voice and not the actual word?
I've always talked to the horses, but tell people not to inanely chatter, I never understood why a trainer would say not to use one of the horse's sharpest senses to communicate with him. My 22 year old can be called to in the field to stop, or back or come, with a finger added you can get 'over' in either direction. 'Assume the position' will cause him to side up to whatever is there, mounting block, rock, tree, ditch. A friend once stopped her App stud from a fight with a loose stud by hollering WHOA and he did. TALK TO YOUR HORSE, just be sure you have something to say and mean it.
It seems to me that horses are AT LEAST as smart as dogs and dog training is mostly verbal.
What about vocalizing what you want your horse to do in order to be more clear about it in your mind?
Great idea
Biggest pet peeve: baby talk to animals
I love baby talking, hugging and kissing my horses but I don’t do it all the time, only when I’m in a very loving and playful mood. It’s really fun for me and they can tolerate it, maybe even like it once and awhile. I’m sure it looks ridiculous to anyone watching.
54 and I realize why I didn’t trust the ones who talked too much, and I didn’t feel the sensation of the sincerity. Lol I Mirror the horse...🧐🤭🤔😉😂