Do You Know Your Animal?s True Name?
Do You Know Your Animal’s True Name? You may not if you haven’t asked them directly…
Years ago I was called in to assist a well known and respected quarter horse trainer with a mare he was having trouble with. When I arrived at the ranch, we walked over to her stall and I introduced myself.
He went on to explain that she just didn’t seem to understand what he wanted her to do. He’d worked with her for several months now and wasn’t getting anywhere. Although he was very patient and careful to explain things, he’d begun to wonder if she was in pain, or maybe she was ‘slow in the head’… or maybe she was just in the wrong line of work – even though she had all the genetics she needed for the job.
He felt he’d tried everything he knew from his many years of working with horses, but was well and truly stumped. As a last resort, he’d asked me to communicate with her to see what was wrong. If that didn’t help turn things around, he was going to have to give up and send her back to her owner.
When I asked her what was going on, she told me something very surprising and unexpected. She said that she had no intention of working with him because he was disrespecting her and was rude. He had no idea who she really was and she would not work for him because of it.
I thanked her for sharing that with me, and asked her to please explain to me how he was being rude to her. She said that he called her ‘Rat’. And that her true name was Wind Dancer. Rat was rude and disrespectful and she wouldn’t answer to it, in fact, it made her mad. She even demonstrated her