Mine was scheduled for fifteen, but we went over; Nancy only charged me for fifteen minutes. That said, it was well worth it. Feel free to message me about the appointment.
I have emailed her again to ask about my cat.
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Perfect, and thank you! I sent her an email yesterday afternoon with our info and my availability. Is she pretty quick to respond?
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Not always. Sometimes she responds quickly, and other times it takes her a while.
Good to know, thank you!
Nancy’s rates are very reasonable, so out of sheer curiosity I booked a session with her. I’ll report back after the session.
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As thread has encouraged me to schedule another session with one of mine on Monday, just some things moving around that we can’t quite pinpoint. Plus she’s acting kind of punky. 
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This has been an intriguing post.
Question-do all of these animal communicators also communicate with those who are no longer with us?
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I asked Nancy to communicate with a horse that passed.
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I’m still waiting to hear back from Nancy. Hopefully she will reach out soon! I didn’t pre-pay, is that something I should do or just wait to get something scheduled?
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I believe you need to pre-pay, yes.
My appointment is at 1:00 today - wish me luck!
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Let us know how it goes!
I just sent through the fee on PayPal so hopefully Ill hear back soon!
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Let us know how it goes-- or at least share what you’re comfortable sharing.
I paid after the appointment, but I think it all depends upon the situation. 
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I ended up giving her a call a few days after to follow up on my email, and she seemed to have missed my email - like with so many in the animal world, technology is not necessarily her favorite thing!
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I’m bad about email myself so I totally get it. She got back to me shortly after my PayPal went through and said she is quicker with texts. I texted her my info and confirmed the time she suggested for Thursday this week 
I haven’t heard back from my text yet, but hopefully were all set.
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Well! That was interesting…
I really liked Nancy - she was down to earth, kind, and forthcoming (I liked the last one as well, and as a “woman after my own heart” she liberally sprinkled profanity throughout the reading 
)
So the very first thing she said was that “Ella has more weight on her forehand - obviously all horses have more weight on their front end, like 60/40, but Ella is more like 65/35”…
TRUTH!
Ella is downhill, long backed, long necked, and has short front legs; she loves to lean on her shoulders and I am constantly working on her “posture”: rocking her back off her shoulders, moving her shoulders and ribcage and haunches around, doing belly lifts and butt tucks, shifting her weight with bodywork, lifting her sternum, strengthening her core, doing lots of transitions and lateral work - and I ride her with a “neck strap” which goes around the base of her neck and is attached by a thin strap to the saddle D-ring to help her become more aware of lifting her shoulders and moving her weight back - so yeah!
When she was a youngster, I used a TTEAM body wrap when doing groundwork - and when I longe her occasionally with side reins, I use the same neck rope attached to the surcingle, along with using the Equicore system.
Obviously, I am well aware of this tendency in her! OOOF.
Nancy then “read her body” - and said “she’s one of the few horses whose pelvis is not out of whack” - though she said Ella has some soreness (she had to root around a bit) in her sacral region? No - she was able to pinpoint that it was right glute medius. (I didn’t see her yesterday, but did a x-country schooling on Sunday; I will check on this today when I go out.) She also said her left pole/atlas felt “out” - I frequently work on releasing the poll pressure points and use the Posture Prep on it (which she loves), but having the vet/chiropractor out is clearly an option - she hasn’t seen him in awhile but he can help with this. 
Ella tends to cock her head to the left moreso than the right - and the left poll is tighter.
Ella said “I’m a good jumper” (truth! LOL), and is “on the fence” about her saddle; saying that there is a little pressure on her right ribs which interferes with her bending there - I do need to get the saddle fitter out for a re-check so will put that on my calendar.
She said “she feels pretty good overall!”, after scanning several times: teeth, feet, digestion, etc.
She said “Ella doesn’t like the color of the saddle pad” (C’MON, girl!! My colors are red, black and white - saddle pad and body protector are red - and I waited to have a black horse in order to use my favorite colors: HEAD DESK!, her dam is a chestnut, so to avoid the orange/red thing I couldn’t use red. SIGH)
Now the saddle pad I use for jump schooling is beige/cream colored - but Ella kept showing her blue. Huh.
Ella said “I know I’m dark and beautiful, but I just don’t like that color…”
(I do have a blue green pad that I won years back; maybe I can try that for my next jump school? If I do x-country and wear my red body protector I’ll look like Christmas.)
Ella said “I hate those stupid boots” 
I jump her in ventilated protective boots, and when she gets antsy she stamps her feet - particularly the left hind. My previous boots would slip down when she stamped; my present ones are pretty unbudgeable. Sorry, girlfriend - you will have to “mare up”!
Nancy asked whether I used a breastplate - no to that (the last thing the saddle does on Ms Downhill is slide back!), but I do use a running martingale for jumping. Ella said she “didn’t like the rein stops” and was “shaking her head about it.”
Now interestingly, at the previous day’s x-country schooling she swung her head around to scratch an itch and momentarily got the rein stop/martingale ring stuck on her bit - a moment of panic but then she freed herself (thank God!), but I said to Nancy that “maybe I can move the stops farther away from the bit?”
Ella also said “I don’t like that thing on my forehead” - HA! I don’t use a bonnet (or a hack out fly mask) because she violently objects and shakes her head until they come off, so. Flyspray on her ears instead.
This was all very interesting to me because so much of it rung true.
Nancy then talked about our “connection” at fair length - saying that Ella showed her a “braid” with beautiful colors? that described our relationship. Ella told her that we are so “entwined” that we are inseparable - and that’s how Ella “felt” and projected that closeness.
I totally see (and get) that - she is my adored homebred and I have loved her since she was a black dot on ultrasound - but I also wonder whether Nancy says this to everyone??
Ella said: “People think I’m really good looking” (truth - she has a large fan club both online and at all of our competition venues, LOL!), and that “I’m a good competitor” - well yes, up until recently.
She said that Ella loves cross country (this has always been the case previously!), and that "we’ve been together so long that she knows exactly what I want her to do - we’re that close - and she waits (usually) for me to tell her - which is true, she is usually pretty rideable unless she gets a tinge of anxiety (at which point she gets fussy and sucked back), but she is SO much easier than her dam was.
She said re: farrier that “the insides of her front feet are higher” ??, I was wondering about this, but this farrier (who I just started using this spring) is setting the heels farther apart on ALL four to give her more support; this has actually been helpful!
Ella also said that “I am a very, very good rider and when she goes to shows, she sees nervous riders who hang on their horse’s mouths and she is VERY grateful that I don’t do that!”
Hmmm. Another thing that makes sense BUT that Nancy probably says to everyone 
OH! And she said that “Ella knows that my husband really loves her, but he doesn’t act like it!” (LOLOL! I told my DH this and he had a good laugh about it - he does love her, calls her “Booboo head” and they have a good relationship - but he doesn’t respond to her attempts to engage him with little head butts and gentle nosing, like a dog - to get pets and rubs. Men! This is very different from her (ahem!) “mother”, who showers her with face kisses and rubs her in all her favorite places. So that was amusing!)
Nancy also said that Ella showed her that “we have an energetic connection from her heart to my heart”, and that she sees other horses at our barn who do not have that connection.
SO true! My barn is mostly broodmares, foals, young horses, layups, retirees - I am the only person there who comes out regularly, and who rides and competes! There is one guy who comes out once a week and hops on his horse and goes on trail rides - the poor horse is more like a “motorcycle” - and there are two boarders with 2 year old fillies (not in work yet); one does some in-hand showing with hers - but they are only out a couple of times a week. So I board at an “unusual” barn in terms of the horse/human relationships. I don’t even SEE most of the owners of these horses; they are either “warehoused”, or just hanging out and growing up (in the case of the foals and younguns.)
Oh, and Ha! Ella said “I don’t like things hidden in my food” - um, err. I give her several supplement and some are powdered (not her preference), she does usually eat it - but sometimes I have to “help her” and add extra grain to my palm along with the supplements and “sneak it into her.” (She only gets a lb. or two of grain a day - since she stopped eating an RB I had to go to a high fiber textured feed which she likes better - I add a vitamin/mineral supplement to cover the bases along with some other stuff - she HATES flax so I feed her Flix which are flax biscuits - and have to “hide” them in a handful of grain. 
Also, Ella said “the hay tastes like straw” 
THIS was spot on - this spring my BM got a bunch of crappy hay (she usually feeds an alfalfa blend and/or orchard grass - which Ella loves and HOOVERS - but recently the hay has been crap and Ella eats it verrrry slowly, or just spreads it around her stall. First time for this because generally the hay is very good, and always has been!
Oh, and she HATES bugs and hot weather (well, what horse doesn’t?), but it doesn’t help that she’s black, the flies LOVE her. 
Generally, Nancy said "she’s a happy, well cared for horse who feels great in general, and Nancy actually said: “Hallelujah!”
I DID mention the random x-country stopping thing, and Nancy didn’t feel (from Ella) that this was that big a deal - though she “told” her that “if you feel like hesitating, just go - and don’t hurt your mama by stopping at the last second unless there is something truly dangerous.”
Since the ill-fated HT on June 1, Ella hasn’t hesitated or looked twice at anything during schoolings…FWIW. Hmmmmm. I will put some competitions on the docket, and am cautiously optimistic.
Briefly on to her dam (sorry, this is LONG but I thought interested parties might be, well, interested!)
Voee is 27, and is (and has always been) an Alpha mare who runs the show, rules the roost, thinks well of herself, and is “in charge” of ALL other horses. It’s who she is. She is a pussycat on the ground with humans, though - very sweet.
She is on field board and is turned out 24/7 in a small pasture surrounded by other pastures with horses in them - on all sides. She is on private T/O because “doesn’t play well with others” (same with Ella), and all of the other horses are in thrall to her; they watch her constantly, interact with her over the fence, and whenever I go out there they are obsessed with everything I do, never taking their eyes off of us. It’s pretty funny, Voee is “The Queen” of all she surveys. I’ve had her since she was 5 and this has always been her, but she is really in charge of her little “fiefdom” in her current situation. 
Nancy said “Voee says I am the matriarch!! I am wise, and though I don’t move as well as I used to, I still show the other horses who is boss, and tell them what to do.”
She is “never bored”, because she is living the life and “sharing her wisdom” - LOL, SO true.
Also, she said that Voee recently had to “corkscrew her body to compensate for a recent injury” WOW, this was spot on! She recently developed an abscess in her right hind toe, and was 3 legged lame, putting all of her weight on her left hind and torquing her body around so that she looked twisted and odd - poor baby. 
I treated, poulticed, wrapped, and had the farrier open it up and drain it; she is now MUCH better (we all know how abcesses are), so I am just padding it up and continuing to protect it with a wrap until it grows in. Voee said the farrier “is a funny guy” - he is super nice and we DO joke around, but that was an interesting thing to say.
She also said that Voee showed her “heavy feed” that’s hard to eat and that she has to chase around the bucket. Voee gets a pelleted RB with a supplement, and even though we hang the bucket in her enclosure, it’s only covered on the top so when it rains, rain drains into the bucket and makes the feed wet and sodden. So that must be it (Neither Voee nor Ella like their feed wetted, and won’t eat it.)
Overall, Nancy said “these are two very well-loved and well cared for horses!” - but then again I suspect this is what she says to most folks, no one wants to hear negative things.
I would be interested to hear about others’ experiences with her!, I was pleased and she got a bunch of stuff right - and had some funny insights - so I will try to make a few “adjustments” and see how it goes.
(You don’t have to write a novel like I did - or PM me if you had a similar experience?)
ETA I asked Nancy about the water thing, and why Ella won’t go through streams but happily splashes right into water complexes and she said the same thing as the other AC: “that water is moving!”
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" In lay terms, horses can be classified red– green color deficient but not blue color deficient."
Color Vision in Horses (Equus caballus): Deficiencies Identified Using a
Pseudoisochromatic Plate Test
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Journal of Comparative Psychology
2007, Vol. 121, No. 1, 65–72
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My experience with Nancy was also very positive, but she definitely didn’t say all the same things! My horse didn’t say anything about me being a “good rider” for example 
but he did say in his past life he had lots of different riders and lots of pulling on his mouth, and that he is much happier with me. Also that the food is a lot better! She said a lot of things that were spot on, including what he shared about his previous life which is what I was mostly curious about.
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Interesting – I know they can see yellow, and see the spectrum differently than we do!
I’ve had two students in the past whose horses hated yellow jumps - of course we schooled them whenever possible, but they were always a little leery
Thanks for the input! Lol, that’s one thing I didn’t have to worry about – my last three horses have all been with me pretty much from the beginning.
The pulling on the mouth thing – I guess that’s a universal “complaint” among horses?
Or possibly just something that people will relate to when their horses are read
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I have known Nancy for 20 years and she’s talked to every animal I have ever owned multiple times… and she’s never said anything like that to me.
Not gonna lie, I am a bit jealous of that kind of connection!!
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