Touching Animal Souls

If you had to choose to be on this planet with one or the other what would it be? Cannot imagine a planet that would be bearable without animals. Recognise this may be an insufficiency in me.  See, I dont need permission to feel when I am with animals. Not so with people.  Temper my emotions with people. An area in my personality t h at has been highlighted by my animal friends. Thank you for another lesson. In the likeness of God(-; Sent from Samsung Mobile

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Working with a rehab seal. Teaching Gru to eat. Nothing better than working consciously and seeing the results. Teaching him to eat in 4 sessions. With an awesome team of people who are all as excited as each other. And because we see the power of working to get him to understand what we want rather than let our fear and overwhelming love for him get in the way. Yay!!!! Sent from Samsung Mobile

Spent 2 days without distraction in the company of these angels. It is where my heart sings. No boredom. Just awe and awe. Thats when we know that our souls are in syn with where we should be. Surely! Sent from Samsung Mobile

There are legends that deserved to be celebrated. Nellie passed away at 61 years old yesterday. http://www.georgiaaquariumblog.org/georgia-aquarium-blog/2014/5/1/celebrating-the-legacy-of-nellie.html?utm_source=20140501_nellie&utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_content=facebook&utm_campaign=20140501_nellie

Sent from Samsung Mobile -------- Original message -------- From: Gabby Harris <gabby@seaworld.org.za> Date: 02/05/2014 06:46 (GMT+02:00) To: gabbysea@gmail.com Subject: thinking horses - the only way! Training methods for horses: habituation to a frightening stimulus J.W.Christensen, M.Rundgren & K.Olsson (Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences) Equine Vet J. (2006) 38: 439-443 Summary Reasons for performing study: Responses of horses in frightening situations are important for both equine and human safety. Considerable scientific interest has been shown in development of reactivity tests, but little effort has been dedicated to the development of appropriate training methods for reducing fearfulness. Objectives: To inestigate which of 3 different training methods (habituation, desensitisation and counter-conditioning) was most effective in teaching horses to react calmly in a potentially frightening situation. Hypotheses: 1) Horses are able to generalise about the tes...