My trainer has always done this with Mag. She whistles a tone that lowers to request him to slow down. I thought it was just her but I just watched a video of a German trainer teaching a horse to trail ride and he did the exact same whistle. (Here is the link to the video, at :53 he whistles and brr's the horse. He explains he's letting the horse go for demonstration purporses, to show that this horse will just go faster and faster to get away from stress.)
I asked AI and it said it's not just Germany. Link explaining it.
When I moved here I noticed there is no German word for "whoa/ho." They blow through their lips and make a brrr sound. It sounds silly to me but the horses know what it means.
Now I guess that whistle is also a cue.
Have you ever done this in the US or Canada, or heard anyone do it? Curious!
Here's a pic of me today enjoying the sunlight shining on my yarn, warming it up. Such a pleasant sensation while crocheting!
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I can’t whistle so no. lol. But it doesn’t matter the cue. The horses figure it out.
I can't whistle for diddly, so I don't use whistle-cues except for the "pee whistle"--incidentally, the tune I use for the Dragon's pee whistle is the Wicked Witch theme from Wizard of Oz. Except, as I say, I don't whistle very well so nobody recognizes it as that!
Looking good lady! What are you making? Love the floors! Smart donkey! I've always whistled to get the attention of either the horses or the dogs. It works for me.
C, I made another loop scarf that is so full of mistakes it's hilarious. It's a mobeus strip, has a point where I start going the wrong way so the pattern is wrong, but the yarn only cost 3 bucks and it's soft army green and really cozy. Do you mean our living room floor? I love our knotty pine floor too but it was made crappily and a lot of the boards are loose and sagging and everywhere there are gaps between the wood so crap gets stuck in there. We've discussed it and J says the floor was poorly made, not worth restoring. I guess he might be right. What a pity to move from real wood to some cheap alternative....I'm thinking tile now (J wants a heated floor).
The last time I watched Road to the Horse, the lady competitor did that brrr noise, I thought it a bit odd as I have never heaed that done with a horse before. I do growl at my horses when they get a bit rowdy!
Shirley, was the competitor from Germany or do other countries use this sound for "whoa"? Curious! The "brrr" does make sense because it's a sound we never make in normal life, so it means something precise. I just can't change the way I give verbal cues to horses. "Terr-ot" "Walk on" "Aaaaaand walk" "Ho" etc: ) The German word for walk is Schritt but while lunging they say "Scherrrrrr-it" to make it two syllables like we say "Aaaand walk."
I'm known in King County for my piercing Anti-Bear-Encounter whistle!
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