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The internationally recognized equine expert and creator of the Tellington TTouch tells you how to analyze your horse's physical traits in order to understand and influence his personality.

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Linda Tellington-Jones, renowned animal expert, is the author of books that include The Tellington TTouch, Improve Your Horse's Well-Being, and Let's Ride! With Linda Tellington-Jones.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating and Provocative, April 20 2000

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This review is from: Getting in TTouch: Understand and Influence Your Horse's Personality (Paperback)

This focus of this book studies a horse's physical characteristics as providing insight into a horse's personality. Linda Tellington-Jones has complied information on over 1500 horses and in the process has noted some astounding connections between physical traits and personalities. She presents separate sections analyzing a horse's profile, muzzle, lips, ears, nostrils, eyes, chin, and jowls. Line drawings illustrate the various shapes, positions, or placements these features take. Linda then notes her observations for each physical type. For example, she notes that horses with small, complex muzzles tend to be "opinionated" and that "fine, fluted" ears usually mean the horse is intelligent, but ones with tufts in their ears tend to be willfulness and inflexible. After focusing on each feature, she has a section of horse photographs to allow the reader to practice analyzing the entire package. She includes her assessment of the horse's personality with each photograph.

Of course, while all of this made for interesting reading, I wasn't sure at first if it really meant anything. I quickly found her observations all the more fascinating when I started to take a hard look at the physical characteristics of horses that I knew. I would run home from the barn to compare the horses' physical features to the personality descriptions in the book. By and large, she's right! The most uncanny part was her assessment of horse personalities given particular or unusual facial swirls. The remainder of the book goes into how a horse's conformation and health (and soreness) may affect his personality. She concludes by briefly introducing her method of equine massage called "Ttouch." (This was the least meaningful part of the book for me.)

This book presents a very unique approach to understanding horses. It opens the horse person's mind to allow for different personality types and adjust how he or she may interact differently if the horse is withdrawn, uncomplicated and steady or if the horse is anxious, clever and timid.

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5.0 out of 5 stars MUST HAVE IF YOU ARE A HORSIE PERSON, Dec 6 2001

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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!

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3.0 out of 5 stars I was a little disappointed, Nov 7 2000

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Karin R. Cuda (Cibolo, TX United States) - See all my reviews

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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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1.0 out of 5 stars Getting In Ttouch: Understanding and Influence your Horse's
After buying and carefully reading this book, I found it akin to voo-doo and phenology (the ridiculous Victorian era study of bumps on the head to determine character). Read more

Published on Jun 28 2004 by Laura Ponter

4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, but not magical.
I bought this book and was well into it before I realized it was TTouch book (procounced "tee-touch")! Read more

Published on Dec 22 2002 by Brian