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Title: Getting in Ttouch: Understand and Influence Your Horse's Personality by Linda Tellington-Jones, Sybil Taylor, Trafalgar Square ISBN: 1-57076-018-7 Publisher: Trafalgar Square Pub. Date: July, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.38 (8 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Interesting, but not magical.
Comment: I bought this book and was well into it before I realized it was TTouch book (procounced "tee-touch")! My only previous experience with TTouch was a late night info-mercial several years ago. Their angle to snag buyers was to make it seem almost magical. Simple touch excercises completely changing an animal's personality! I was sold, but never got around to making the call.
The majority of the book points out facial characteristics which were incredibly helpful for me, one who is notoriously horrible at recognizing horses, but the validity of Tellington-Jones' theory that they corrolate with aspects of their personality and intelligence was quickly and paradoxically disproved by the author! This made for a very confusing read, in the end.
Unless one took the time to memorize the first section which is littered with too-vague illustrations and too many differentiations of anatomy, you'll be either lost, or constantly flipping to the beginning for the rest of the book. Like I said and many reviewers will contend, this is a very interesting book that's pretty hard to resist for most horsemen. If it takes, however, assurance of mystical properties to make the modern horsemen realize a horse's personality is as sensitive and complicated as yours and mine, indeed traditionalism has plagued equestrian sports.
By the way, my horse found the TTouch excercises interesting at first, but quickly caught on and now only gets annoyed when I start the "clouded leopard" excercise. Did I mention the ridiculous excercise titles?
Rating: 5
Summary: MUST HAVE IF YOU ARE A HORSIE PERSON
Comment: I volunteer as a horse wrangler with a non-profit group and get to work with a number of different horses. I read this book cover to cover and carry it with me whenever I'm around horses. It is All the horse people I work with borrowed it so much I had to buy a second copy just for myself! The information in the book is very easy to read and understand. Every time I see a horse or look at a picture, I look for the "moose-nose", the "pin ears" and the forehead swirls. And its amazing how these characteristics are tied into personality! A must have book!
Rating: 3
Summary: I was a little disappointed
Comment: I was hoping for something a little more scientific. For the most part it reminded me of common sense (studying the horses expression) and a little bit of palm reading ( "almost 70 percent of horses she knows with a certain characteristic display a certain behavior" seems to imply that over 30 percent DON'T). I was hoping for a book that included a bit more on how the different horse personalities respond to different handling and training methods. I didn't get as much out of it as I had hoped, but if you like esoterik books you will like this one.
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