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... different, three different sounds you make.
I said, "What will I do with Moses then? How will he know what I want him to do
if he can't hear the sounds coming out of my mouth.
And my trainer said, "That's not a problem. We're going to train Moses to use different
kinds of cues, so that it won't matter. Moses will learn in a different way and that's ok.
He's gonna be a great show horse any way."
So that's what we did. We taught Moses different cues.
So he didn't need to hear what came out of my mouth.
I just used different parts of my body. I used different parts of my leg to do different
cues on Moses so I didn't need to use my mouth. He didn't need to hear me. He needed to feel
my different parts of my leg to cue him instead.
So that's how we learned. Moses learned and I learned a different ...
... all white sometimes that means he can't hear. So, when I met Moses and the trainer
said he can't hear, I said, "Hmm, when you ride a horse -- and any of you that know how
to ride a horse -- when you get on them you are sitting on the horse if you want them to go
fast you make certain sounds with your mouth that tell them what to do. So, if I want him
to go really fast I can make a sound that makes him go really fast and there are three
different sounds you make. I said, "What will I do with Moses, then?
How will he know what I want him... "
... I say that when I talk to Moses that he can read my lips and that he knows what I'm thinking
cause he feels it in his heart. That's what I always say.
He doesn't have to hear my words to understand. That's what I say.
So... questions that you guys have about Moses and about riding Moses
... cause he can't hear. Any questions that you guys have for me about having a horse that is deaf?
[Cough]
Yes.
[Inaudible.]
Do I have what?
Um, he's actually, the little guy I talked about, he's a miniature horse which is smaller
than a Shetland pony. A Shetland pony is a teeny bit taller than a miniature horse.
So, [unclear] is actually a miniature horse. So, it goes miniature horse,
Shetland pony and then horse. So, yeah, he's a miniature horse.
These are a couple of other pictures that I can pass around of Moses and you can actually...