ATH conversation with Catrin D's Jojo

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[Carol Schuyler (SKY ler)]

Hello Catrin,

I want to connect with horses this month because of the excitement about them in ATCC and general reading appreciating their sensitivity and admiring their faces. My only experience was being sent to day camp as a pre-adolescent so I could try horseback riding, but a horse sneezed giving me conjunctivitis, which cancelled the rest of the week while I recovered.

I’m afraid I may be overlaying this communication with a memory of a colleague who kept her horse in a pasture outside her bedroom window. Bobby would whinny her awake in the morning. Also, there’s a horse ranch a house away from mine, and I must be imagining the hay and manure smell now because my windows are closed.

Jojo seemed interested in and agreeable to the idea that I was in this group with you and wanted to connect; she(?) seemed eager to facilitate the process. When I asked if she was pastured near your house or was boarded away from you, I thought she indicated the former. I wondered if she had a lean-to shelter like the horses across the street but didn’t get an image.

I seemed to get that she’s been with you for almost ten years and that her favorite activity is practicing for a show with you, including getting dressed for it and then the personal attention cooling down afterwards. She likes hearing compliments about the pair of you having a lot of style. What she doesn’t like is riding in the horse trailer. (But maybe that’s a memory of a veterinarian in another city telling me how difficult it was to get her horse into a trailer; she had to make standing outside the trailer scarier than entering it.)

Jojo seemed to indicate we could try again later.

Jojo also likes trail-riding as long as branches don’t snap in her face and hurt her eyes. Apples and pears are always welcome. Is a brown-and-white, medium-size dog a companion for her?

[Martha Breeding]

Hi Catrin,
I’m connecting with Jojo as I write this. Jojo at first seemed a bit sad, but then happy. She is very peaceful, patient, and has warm energy. She’s very caring and loving. She gets curious about things and about things you do. She wonders about life, too. She sometimes out of curiosity and for fun plays with things. She loves to play.

She said she had some kind of injury-to her leg or back a long time ago.

She said, “I love apples.” She enjoys eating them from your hand. She said she eats the apple core and its seeds, too. She loves the sweetness of apples and loves when they’re really juicy.

She loves to go on slow walks with you and there is a meadow she enjoys. There is also a dirt road she enjoys walking on.

She says she knows you inside and out and can hear your thoughts.

She said she doesn’t know what she would have done if you hadn’t rescued her.

She said she enjoys baths, but when it’s cold outside she doesn’t like feeling cold after baths. She said she likes the heaters being on and when she’s dry getting a blanket or a jacket.

She said she doesn’t like when a person’s heels are used on her side to make her move. She said for the people to just tell her they want her to move.

She said she loves butterflies and flowers.

I asked if there was anything else she’d like to say. She said for me to have a lovely day. I said the same to her. I told her she and I can talk again if she wants and that I love her. She then asked for a kiss. I gave her a kiss. She smiled and sent me an image of butterflies floating around her.

[Angela Carter]

3/25/19: Hello Catrin. I saw an image of a black/brown medium size dog with white collar. the dog was nose to nose with Jojo, in a friendly and familiar way. I heard that Jojo is eager to please. She said she loves trotting with Catrin. I saw an image of a latch door under the hay in her stall. I saw an image of a large egg or something that looked like it, white round with hard surface, in the corners of her stall?? I felt that she is social and likes communing, but it still shy. Is she a picky eater? She said she loves good snacks like carrots and crisp stuff, nothing gummy like. She says she loves being in larger open enclosure and running around. She says she prefers to be out in the bigger outdoors with Catrine or her daughter? She says she loves being the center of attention.

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