Monty Roberts

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410 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 7 Aug

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Fresh Air · Remembering ‘The Man Who Listens to Horses’ · 7 Aug 2026 podcast

Well, first of all it would be eyes on eyes, piercing the eyes.

That does not draw the animal in as it would the grizzly or the great white.

But it uh it drives the horse away, then shoulders square, all movements square and

fingers open and extended um drives the horses away.

There's um lots of motions and positions of the body which mean go away.

And how do you get the horse then to come back?

Well once the horse has gone its flight distance, then they begin to communicate that they would like to come back.

And they do that um with basically four statements.

One is with the ear to say I respect you.

I don't know what this is all about, but I'll give you my respect.

And then two that they'll try to come closer to you, just physically bending and trying to come closer to you.

Three that they lick and chew, they stick their tongue right out and then chew.

And i it's my opinion that they're saying I'm a grazer, I'm a herbivore.

I'm eating over here and if I'm eating I can't fear you because if we had any adrenaline or fear in us we would have to stop eating.

And then four the dropping of the head down and bouncing the nose right along the ground.

Which means if we could have this meeting to renegotiate the deal, uh I would let you be the chairman of the meeting.

So uh when when the horse does all these things that you just mentioned

What signals are you giving like come back, let's let's get together now?

Well, after those four, then I go passive from aggressive, those earlier ones that I mentioned.

And um passive means to take the eyes off the eyes, to lower your gaze, to put your shoulders on a forty five degree angle to the horse's body axis, to face slightly away, and to round all your movements, inviting the horse to come in.

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