I have heard a lot about this and am really interested in it. Can you please say what exactly it is, an example of it and how I can get into it? Thanks:)

It is communicating with a horse to get him to understand and follow your lead and your feel.

There was both a novel and a movie that made the term famous, but it was Buck Branaman, not Monty Roberts, that was the guiding influence for the movie.

It is doing things with softness and feel instead of force, depending upon the innate behavior of the horse and the herd to gain compliance.

If you want to begin to understand it, read the books about the Dorrances, Bill and Tom, to start with. Then I would go to Ray Hunt's book.

You get into it by understanding how a horse thinks and functions and using that as the basis for all training. It is working on the human first to gain knowledge and then taking that knowledge and thinking through each horse's behavior to communicate the human's direction.

This sounds very vague and philosophical, because it absolutely cannot be explained in a few words.. You have to see it, you have to practice it, you have to continue to learn it.

People call it whispering, because it is soft and without obvious forceful methods. You let your body language and feel do the talking.

It's a name that people call those who seem to have a total understanding with horses.

So a "horse whisperer" is someone who "thinks like a horse"....that is, applies how horses think and how they learn and see the world....to teach horses to respond in a quiet and calm manner.

It's someone who doesn't hurt the horse or use pain. Someone who doesn't try to force the horse to submit, but instead lets the horse think his way through a lesson, so that the horse learns it, and is calmer at the end than when they started.

It's a label that gets thrown around a lot. Especially to describe "natural horsemanship" which is a term for training a horse without fear, pain, intimidation or force. But with understanding about how the horse thinks and learns.

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You can be a "horse whisperer" and that simply means that you have common sense when dealing with horses.

A true horse whisperer id someone who has a total rapport with horses. They do not need round pens or ropes to put a horse on the ground, they cab just get the animal to do what they want by just being with them.

It is not something you can 'get into' it is something you are born with.

I have only ever seen one true whisperer. He was a family friend and his way with horses was nothing sort of phenomenal.

When at a show some people were having problems loading a big young horse. The had ropes behind it and had twitched its nose. The horse was in a lather and being very roughly handled.
Geordie, then in his eighties, first clumped the roughest of the men, around the ear with the handle of his walking stick. He took the horse, which was lifting other men off their feet. He just walked off with it, and went a distance of about 100 yards around other horse boxes and returned with the horse walking like an old beach donkey, very relaxed, head down and walking slowly by the side of the old man. He got to the ramp of the horsebox and stopped, lit his pipe and hobbled up the ramp with the horse following him. it all took less then 10 minutes including the altercation with the men. He had no time to do anything other than bond with the animal immediately he took the rope.

I also saw this man make friends with a semi wild New Forest mare and foal. The mare had run in the forest all her life but was use to people. However, Geordie fussed her for a couple of minutes and next thing was on her back! She walked trotted and cantered in a circle and when he stopped her, he slipped off and asked her to lie down just by having a hand on her mane and the other on her withers. Not even a halter on her and down she went. Total relaxation and a will to do as he wanted. No verbal communication just his understanding and thoughts.

The book The Horse Whisperer was written by a man who know nothing about horses and was based on a gypsy who travelled and worked with horses in the Exmoor area - a chap very much the same as Geordie.

It's when you whisper sweet nothings in the horses ear, while jerking the horse off. Truly a beautiful thing