Re: RC: Re: spooking A-rabs theory

[BMcCrary27@aol.com]

In a message dated 02/24/2000 8:30:20 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
j.mills@gateway.net writes:

<< i have a psychologist friend, who knows almost nothing about horses, and 
his
 theory is that arabs are spookier because they are smarter.  he sees the
 same in more intelligent human clients who tend to scan the enviornment more
 for input.  >>

Our Arabs and part-Arabs are better watch animals than the dogs.  We call 
them, naturally, watch-horses.  They are taller, therefore can see farther 
than dogs.  They also detect the slightest movement about 1/4 mile away. 
Great way to spot wildlife.. coyotes, bobcats, deer, etc...  We use them on 
patrol for state parks and they spot people, too. Once we located a peeping 
tom who was hiding in the brush on top of a sand dune, watching the ladies 
sunbathing on the beach below.  My horse walked within a couple of feet of 
him as he hid under a big bush.  I'll bet he was near panic with all those 
equine feet so close.  We flushed him out of the brush and herded him up the 
beach back to where he should have been, with his friends.  It was rather 
funny to us, but I suspect rather humiliating to him.

Barbara