12/05/2018 Today Arena took off! The minute she saw me approach she came up looking expectantly. First I offered Rose Absolute to both Severino and Arena but their response was lukewarm. Then I offered Rose Otto. Once again the response to Rose Otto was very strong, and today Arena exhibited a big Flehmen response. (Unfortunately [...]
11/05/2018 Today I offered Frankincense, Rose Otto, Sandalwood and Violet Leaf to Severino. He sniffed the frankincense but soon lost interest, so perhaps his need for that oil has now been satisfied. Sandalwood received only a perfunctory response which makes sense as he is not particularly noise sensitive. On the other hand Rose and Violet [...]
11/05/2018 Today I offered Frankincense, Rose Otto, Sandalwood and Violet Leaf to Severino. He sniffed the frankincense but soon lost interest so perhaps his need for that oil has now been satisfied. Sandalwood received only a perfunctory response which makes sense as he is not particularly noise sensitive. On the other hand Rose [...]
What a pity that there was nobody around to film my encounter with Severino & Arena this morning! I had decided to do a short zoopharmacognosy session with them to see what their response would be, so I took a small selection of oils. When I arrived they both came up to the electric fence [...]
Please meet my new guests, Severino and Arena. They are asturcon horses (http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/bre…/horses/asturian/index.html/) belonging to a friend. Used to living in the hills they are more used to wolves than people so not very socialised. However, they seem happy in their new place and curious about what is going on around, particularly the three horses [...]