Some horses can pick up on some of your most suttle body language and so can you pick up on there's with practice. Your horse is in tune with you. I have a couple that are not quite that good but do pick up on some things. Me on the other hand needs much more practice. The horse has bonded to you and it is a good feeling when they do that. Very satisfying after a long day of work.

I swear my horse read my mind one day.  It was freezing cold, and a sleet storm blew up.  I went outside to batton down the hatches.  The doors on our old barn tend to blow off the hinges if theyr'e not well secured.  In my haste I forgot my hat.  I ran around the side of the barn to struggle with the largest billowing door.  As the sleet blew sideways against my head, I wished I had remembered my hat.  After a long struggle I had the door secured, and my ear was painful, red, and numb all the way to the inside of my brain.  I ran into the stall area (like a big run in) and began to sorta hop and wiggle around to get the feeling back in my extremities.  Daisy was outside (yes, in that horrible weather, the slush piling up on her furry back) and she peeked in the door to see her owner hopping around like an idiot.  I said to her "OOOhhh Daisy, my ear hurts!!"  I had my hands in my pockets trying to get feeling back into them.  Then Daisy walked into the stall, and went right for my ear...the ear that was frozen and painful.  I have long hair.  She nuzzled my hair away and genly held my ear in her lips and blew her warm breath on me.  Horses don't just go for ears.   That's not normal.  She must have understood what I said, or maybe I sent some telepathic distress message to her.  I'll never forget it.  It gave me goosebumps.  Think that horses understand more than we give them credit for.

Amanda