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Dusty Joe x Miss Sally Serenity
Angelica Bonnie
Dusty Joe x Blue Knoll Angelica

Dusty and Bonnie are registered Morgans. Dusty is a 1991 gelding that I have had since he was three. And of course he is the most wonderful horse in the world. For those interested in Morgan heritage he is from the Sherman line by way of his great grandsires: Trophy and Black River Major and his great, great grandsires: Tehachapi Allan, Red Correll and Vigilmarch. Bonnie is his half sister and 3 years younger. She has some Woodbury in her by way of her great, great, grandsires: Dyberry Ethan and Ulendon. Dusty and Bonnie (like their Sire and Dams) and a great many other horses, will remain virtually unknown outside of a small area group. This is not because they are lacking in anyway but only because they don't compete at shows. These are the pleasure and working horses, the ones we know and love, the famous horses of our hearts and our souls.

We have gone from braking horses to gentling them and scientist have taught apes to communicate by teaching them sign language. My question is this: "If we are the most intelligent of all species, why is it that we don't communicate with animals in their own language instead of trying to teach them ours?" Today few people have done little more than scratch the communication surface. Trainers seem comfortable enough with being called 'half horse' or having the 'touch' while denying any ability to communicate with the animal in his language. While actual question and answer communication is far beyond the realm of belief of most people, there is no denying that animals do communicate. As any horse owner knows when you walk past a horse and he suddenly raises his hind leg you had best give him his space or suffer the possible consequences. This is communication. We know what he means by this but a good communicator also knows the answer to why. How well and to what depth you can go with this 'communication' is the only thing in question. If you would enjoy learning more about equine language or animal communications in general you might want to read some of the books I have listed below.

Natural Horse-Man-Ship ~ Pat Parelli

Kinship with All Life ~ J. Allen Boone

The Tellington TTouch ~ Linda Tellington-Jones

Communicating with Animals ~ Arthur Myers

Horse, Follow Closely ~ GaWaNi Pony Boy

Talking with horses ~ Henry Blake

Thinking with horses ~ Henry Blake

Buy these books on the Web at: Amazon

LinksLinks

American Morgan Horse Association:	Manna Pro:
AMHA has an interactive anatomical chart of a Morgan horse.Click any body part and get a description of it.	Home page for Calf Mana. This site has a 'Equine Diet Evaluation Worksheet'. Fill in your horses daily feed and it with return the nutritional brake down.
HorsePlaza	The Hay Net
A good place to start	Links, links and more links