James Brubaker

June 23, 2015 – Yesterday “Fun to see things that are not” – Today, — observing things that others may not notice. I will show you what I notice while riding my horse Perla on a trail ride with two other horses, riding single file. Horses survive in the wild because of their instinct to flee from danger. This is called the “flight instinct.” Therefore, horses must always work as a team (herd) to be sure there is no danger approaching them! So, to get no great surprise (Horse jumping and running off (Flighting)) the rider must know where your horse’s attention is focused. Your horse’s ears (and the ears of the other horses in the herd) will give you clues as to what is going on in the heads of your team (herd) mates. — they will point in the direction in which its attention is focused. I will show you!

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I find that if we ride single file - three horses - the front horse checks for danger in front of us - with ears pointed forward like this one.
I find that if we ride single file – three horses – the front horse checks for danger in front of us – with ears pointed forward like this one.
Here is me on Perla - in the rear of the string of three - Mostly her job is to check the rear with her ears - for a mountain lion that may be following us getting ready to attack!
Here is me on Perla – in the rear of the string of three – Mostly her job is to check the rear with her ears – for a mountain lion that may be following us getting ready to attack!
Now Perla and I moved into the middle position - her job now to be one of checking on the quality of "watching" that the lead and last horse ore doing (Here she does not trust "anyhorse" - Perlas ears switch from front to back and sometimes look sideways.
Now Perla and I moved into the middle position – her job, now, is to be the one checking on the quality of “watching” that the lead and last horse are doing (She does not trust “any horse”) – Perla’s ears switch from front to back and sometimes look sideways.
Yep, watch out!
Yep, watch out! This duck may jump out of the pond and scare us – Oh , Sunday a Grouse jumped out of the woods – trying to lure us away from her chicks – ran right under Perla’s legs, squaking all the way – we have our horses  bomb proof most of the time -Perla was ok with the Grouse – but the other two horses did show a little reaction –  but no problem – it was really nice to see!

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