Annie The Horse Whisperer

24/03/2024

This is legal in dressage World Championship?
Excuse me?

Sound out!
This is not Okay!
This is Animal abuse!

Dressage star Patrik Kittel's horse lost oxygen in its tongue during two World Cup competitions. A series of pictures that Sportbladet has accessed reveal that

22/03/2024

An important step in the right direction.
Spurs are abusive.

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The FEI has made a rule change to allow spurs fo be optional in the upper levels of dressage as of January 1.

This has been a long time coming, so finally! Yay!

But, the work has only just begun.

It’s time that the competition world does away with mandating use of equipment that is unnecessary and at its core, is a step up in harshness in comparison to use without them.

Before people collect their pitchforks and torches, yes, people with stable legs can use spurs in a way that doesn’t need to be super harsh.

But the fact that they create a more localized pressure point in the first place means they are a step up in harshness compared to a blunt boot heel, meaning that they shouldn’t have ever been compulsory because it’s not the best move for welfare to make tools with more potential to be misused mandatory.

The same applies to double bridles, another rule that should be changed to be optional.

People can go on about how both spurs and double bridles help to fine tune aids until they’re blue in the face but I fail to see why that serves as an argument for making them mandatory.

Why do we care if riders opt to “lack” refinement in not using such pieces of equipment if those who believe these aids are refining can still continue to use them if they so choose?

Making these rules optional means riders can select the equipment that is best for the horse.

I fail to see how anyone loses in that scenario and, yet, there are still people inexplicably upset by spurs being made optional, people who fought the discussion that led to this eventual ruling…

Why?

It is wild to me that there are so many arbitrary rules in the horse world mandating a certain level of harshness of equipment but then an equally prevalent number of rules outright banning use of softer equipment.

Bitless is still illegal in dressage, even at the low low levels where horses are still learning balance, are oftentimes quite young (and thereby losing baby teeth) and have a number of reasons as to why bitless may be a better choice for some…

But their riders still have to choose between making the best choice for their horse and being able to show.

Anyways, this ruling is proof that traditions can and will change with public pressure.

The fact that a rule exists, or existed, doesn’t mean it’s the most just or best way of doing things.

It just means that for however long, we had yet to change it.

So, here’s to continuing to make changes to allow ALL levels of horse sport to be accessible to people who would prefer to not use spurs, or a double bridle, or bit…

Here’s to developing an industry where the risk factor of misuse of equipment is taken more seriously than the risk factors of using “too soft” of equipment, where refinement is correlated with training, not specific types of equipment that must be used.

May we continue moving towards a future where the industry grows and changes with the times.

03/03/2024

🌟When there is no bond, you do not ride🌟

This video is upsetting to me.
When you love someone you’re kind. This is like a toxic relationship being played out.

People need first and foremost stop blaming the horses.
Look at the dynamic. This horse does not like you.
I do not care what it does to others. We are talking about the two of you here.

You need to start working with your horse, not against it. It is like us women, you cannot just touch us on first date. We like to bond with you first. We like to feel safe and loved by you.
Your horse is the same way. It wants to have the bond first before you enter its space.
Be respectful to your Equine companion.
Let thw horse come to you and develop a harmonious relation.
Listen to the intuitive guidance your horse is giving you. Let your horse truly speak to you, and when you both connect, you can ride.

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03/03/2024

Animal Communication is based on telempathy.
Which is deep visual empathy.
I do sessions, and my work with Bashar has opened me even further up to my abilities.

03/03/2024

🥀 My conversation with a suicidal horse 🥀
* Trigger Warning *
A True Story:

It was years ago, and I visited a friend of mine at the time and her stable.
I instantly noticed her Lipizzaner horse. Wow he was such a sight!!
Gorgeous, proud, beautiful and confident!
He was allowed to run free on the farm, and he was living his best life!

Then I noticed his brother from another breed.
A black, young c**t with a very thick coat.
I pondered upon which breed he could be. Arabian head. He was standing there quietly and I started tuning into him. To me it was like reading an open book.
I felt a deep sadness and started to cry as I felt his emotions.
Let’s call him Link in this story.

Link held his head low, as if not to take any space. His gaze was distant, empty and he let out a sigh.
I asked him about his story, and he told me in emotions and images appearing in my minds eye.
I do not hear his voice. It is more of like a movie being shown in my mind. My work is very intuitive based, and I phrased in our language in my own way so that we can understand his journey and his story.

I” I feel unworthy of life. I am not like the others.
I wish I was like my brother, but I am not.
She doesn’t understand me (The owner)
She only has eyes for him. I am a failure to her”

I asked him why he felt like a failure:
“It was after I was born that my mum got sick and died, my owners grieved. None of the other mares would take care of me, so I was sold. I feel it is my fault my mum died. I am unlovable.
She never sees me. I try to die every day, but she makes me stand up, but then she leaves.
She never stays. She has given up on me.

He laid down in front of me, halfway under the fence, and kept sighing. He tried to tangle his legs into the wire.
I immediately spoke my truth.
“Listen Link! I don’t want you to die. Get up, you’re young and I will help you! You’re not supposed to live with this burden! You did nothing wrong. Stop harming your self! I care about you and so does your owner! I promise to talk to her.
Tell me the things you want her to know.”

Link looked at me now standing, “I want to run free like him. I want to wear a rug, and I want to have a short coat, I want her to brush me.
I want her to take me for walks with the rope.
I want her to stop feeling sorry and pitty me.
I also need my brother. I don’t want to be isolated from him. I’m always alone.”

I promised him I would tell her.
I told her. She has never believed in Animal Communication, but she started tearing up and thanked me.
I left the farm and went back to Norway.
I stayed in contact hoping she would make changes for link, but I got to hear instead she had traveled, and let her man take care of the farm. He wasn’t too fund of horses.
A month later Link was dead. He had again attempted su***de by rolling under the fence and tangle himself up. There was no external injury. Just an unwillingness to live.

Remember you mean everything to your horse. Make him in return feel he means everything to you.

Disclaimer:
The horse in the photo is not the same horse as in the story.

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03/03/2024

When you meet a horse. Spend time to get the to know the horse before you choose to ride.
Learn who this horse is.
Approach with curiosity and humility, cause when you do. The horse will invite you in, and as he does, the bond is formed.

When you ride, allow the horse to show you how to carry you with lightness. Don’t demand, connect, and when you do your horse will listen.

There is never a need for whips, spurs, bits or saddle when there is connection.
I love to ride in a well fit saddle, and with my horse softly chewing on the bit, knowing I can ride just as good without it.

Our horses are made by the creator to connect, to provide help for transportation, but they serve their own purpose too.

There is no need for a horse to show flashy trot if it doesn’t have the natural need and want to do so.
It all comes down to the path of that particular horse.

I disagree in a lot of competing. Because of the damage it takes on the horses nervous system. The chronic stress, the tear on muscles and ligaments.

Maybe there could be a way we could compete without having to drive the horse far away?
In the age of technology, maybe competitions could be streamed online, with local competitors, to lesson the burden of traveling the country and the world?

In my previous post I mentioned stomach ulcers, and that is why I say this. Race horses and competition horses have a tendency to get stomach ulcers, and the owner isn’t even aware of it.
The horse loses weight and has tension with saddle and forth because of stomach and chest pains.

We need to think alternatively to best provide a healthy home for our horses.

Love Annie, The Horse Whisperer.

01/03/2024

A message the horses have conveyed to me over and over again is this:

Leave your spurs and whip at home.
Most horses will pretend it is not there.
They will tolerate it. Horses naturally carry the mother unconditional love energy.
They will do anything to protect you, who they see as their herd. They will abide by your laws.
And yes they will seemingly tolerate the whip, but did you know a large percent of the population of horses have chronic stomach ulcers? This is because they as service animals tolerate our injust. The stress acumulating in the body causes chronic inflamation and stress responded.

I have been riding with a whip so many times, knowing the horse was suffering in silence, because other people had used the whip. Even though I would not use it. The horse would tell me through energy feeling, and messages from his mind.

I have synesthesia, and my mirror neurons are operating very intensely, which is how I am able to understand telepathic signals in the brain of the horse.

This is why I refrain from using the whip when I ride.
You can always use a similar tool with a plastic bag when you train from ground to create play and excitement, but the whip itself is a tool of dominance and control no matter if you’re not using it.
It is not an extension of your arm. The horses themselves have told me they do not like the whip.

It is the same with spurs. They learn to tolerate them, because horses can block out pain, and horses easily dissociate. Which is why we call it «to break in a horse» It is a way if done wrongly will break the horse’s psyche, and make them «obediant».
They live their life in service to us.
It is time we show them our service and willigness to listen to them.

What your horse needs is that you live from a somatically regulated nervous system, with an ability to guide him into peace and trust.

27/02/2024

I promised to share, so here it comes.
A story about one of the most special horses I have ever met.

It was summer, and I noticed an immensely beautiful Icelandic horse stallion in a stall next to my horse at the stable.
He was breathtakingly beautiful, and he was from
the same bloodline as my previous horse I had sold earlier that year.

I felt this bond with him that I couldn’t even describe, and the energetic language presented itself as intuitive thought streams.
I started reading his field and there was a lot of resentment in him.
I wondered why.
I knew in time he would let me in.

In my story I will call him Storm, as he felt like a storm in the way he moved.
He was loud, and behaved agressively, shoving his owner around the box, biting her, rearing up.
He showed me something I can translate to this
«Why is she coming into my stall, demanding to take me out for a ride, and comanding me, without even connecting to me? She does not really care about me. She does not see me! How can she expect me to blindly obey her? I am proud. I know who I am, and she does not. Nobody does.
I do not like humans. All you do is expect me to accept your hand, which I do not»

I stood outside his stall and let him express himself, I told him over and over again I love him unconditionally.
I told him I wish he was my horse. I felt I knew his soul. I knew he was one of my Soul horses.
I told him this.
I felt just by being there quietly without expecting anything from him that he started to feel ease with me.
I felt the love between us, how strong our bond was, and I felt him wanting me to scratch his mane, so I did, and he did nothing to hurt me.
He simply started scratching me gently back.
I knew he loved me too.

Every day I would spend with him, and eventually other people noticed our bond, and I was allowed to get him from the paddock, and brush and saddle him for his owner.
I would drop the bridle and use a mild halter.
I would let him walk behind me as I fully trusted our bond.
I would use my energy to heal his blockages and free up the tension in his back.
I would teach him to lower his neck so that he would relax even deeper.

She ended up castrating and selling him.
And I was heartbroken.

Many stallions are ladies horses, and can be like men warrior achetypes who needs a feminine energy to balance them. They should not be handled in any masculine way, as a soft touch in every aspect of saddling up and riding is key here.
Storm was a horse I will never forget.
I will always love him, and I hope to see his reincarnation in my future horse.

The photo is of another horse I have met with a similar look. Taken by Stall Krafla.

25/02/2024

Going from nervous and sceptical to trusting me.
Many race horses are so conditioned they don't know how to truly let go and just be around humans. He truly needed to have that moment. I will see him again tomorrow

25/02/2024

Hi my name is Annie.
Ever since I was little I have been able to understand horses in a way that can only be recorgnized as what’s known as Animal Communication.
I can understand horses through an energetic interpretation of their thoughts and feelings known as telepathy.
My ability to connect with animals is my gift to the world.
Message me to book a session.