Natural horsemanship

As a horse whisperer is referred to people who can handle particularly well with horses and to use special methods of communication.

This requires the ability to understand the behavior and body language of horses. Therefore, a good observation and empathy for them prerequisite. The acquired knowledge about the so-called "horse language" is used to get in touch using gestures with the animals.

The best-known example of a horse whisperer Monty Roberts is working with horses and their owners, for example, to reduce fears or eliminate undesirable behavior. His work has received worldwide attention. The so-called Join-Up method, which is applied in Germany especially by Roberts student Andrea Kutsch, is also now also a component in management seminars for interpersonal communication.

The filmed with great success book The Horse Whisperer has embraced the concept known outside of the horse scene.

The etymology of the term horse whisperer, whisperer or ears Blaster is not fully understood. After Peter Spohr ( The logic in horsemanship, vol 3, p 104), the term may go back to an Irishman named O'Sullivan. The method then used Spohr describes the basis of the American Pferdebändigers Rarey ( Ibid, p 107), which he had secretly observed in the fifties of the 19th century, when a violent system in which Rarey an unruly stallion so long covered his nostrils, to the exhausted and half suffocated animal gave up its resistance. This conditioning could Rarey then retrieve them later before an audience by stroking the nostrils and apparent " whisper " to make the stallion docile. Today's horse whisperer whispers with his horses, in which he with finger pointing, eyes, etc. communicates attitude with the horse. He renounces violence methods such as pain effect on the head by bridles and halters, whips and yell.

Film documentaries

• The secret of the horse language; Documentary about horse trainer Hans -Jürgen Neuhauser and horse - behavioral therapist Brigitte Schulz. - Germany (ZDF ), 2005, 43min; Director: Bettina Witte, Heinz von Matthey.