Empaths n Animals

First let me say I cannot train your dog in ten minutes or stop your cat from clawing up the curtains and your favorite suede couch. but I do have a way with animals and oddly enough some insects and other creepy crawlies, though I really hate spiders when they run across my face at night while I am sleeping so not cool!

For as far back as I can remember weird things [not so weird to me now but  back then] seemed to happen around me when it comes to animals and things of nature. today I am focusing in a couple ofexperiences with horses and cows.

When I was in public school every year we would go to the royal winter fair at the exhibition fair grounds in Toronto. there were always several pens full of farm animals that we would wander through oohing and ahhing at. I would find myself drawn to the horses where my attentions to one tended to draw the others and so I would have to make sure I paid them all the same amount of attention. kisses and head butts and rubbing manes would go on forever and then as soon as I tried to walk away the horse would start acting up until I came back and spent more time, then I would have to tell them I had to go so they would stay calm.

One year I went horseback riding for the first time at this lovely little rancho and it was a real blast. the horse I was on was really gentle and I soon lost my fear of riding.

Well come time to leave and I get off the horse thanking him for the ride and start to walk away only to turn and see he was trying to follow me out of the yard, so I walk him back and pet him and everything and said gotta go, turned to walk away and he started following me again.

So then I thought, well maybe he just wants to come into the paddock area. so we walked together inside, but as I tried exit out the other side to the waiting schoolbus, he kept on coming determined to come with me. Finally a handler came over and took his reins, but he was just not budging, not until I went back and promised to come back would he let them lead him away. [Man did I cry].

This has continued to be a problem around horses, they want to come with me and I have to spend the extra time to calm them but really I don't mind at all ;-)

The hubby and I lived near a hobby farm in our first apartment in Burnaby [we discovered it on a bike ride] suffice it to say I visited often and when I would show up at the fence even if there were people already there, they would come a running [there were five].

It would be a real love fest for the entire visit, of course I thought it was just the apples and things I brought but others had the same things and well I tell you I felt special. 

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Now to the cow tails. it seems I sound like a baby calf okay let me explain. the hubby used to go paragliding and the best places to land are nice big fields one of which was up near mission BC. this particular landing spot was smack dab in the middle of a cow field patties and all.

Now most folk know that cows while they wont run away tend to wander from people slowly, when free so petting them is a tad difficult. 

This one day while waiting for the paragliders to land several of us watchers were admiring the cows as they munched away. several kids tried unsuccessfully to pet them and well no luck. 

for some reason don't ask me why I thought of trying to sound like a cow so I picked a spot and started mooing making my voice sound small [I am a bit of a mimic can do animal sounds and accents etc] but had never tried the cow thing until then.

after trial and error, I hit upon the right note aparently since all of a sudden the cows began coming towards me. I kept moing and they kept coming, until i was surrounded by them, [which tickled the kids watching as they came running to pet them].

In the meantime the cows were busy checking me out to see I think if I was okay. I guess the sound i\I was making came across as a distress signal to them.

They nuzzled me looked me up and down and when assured that I was unharmed they just turned and wandered away again [hubby said it looked awesome from the air as he was coming down]. Not as awesome as being in the middle!