Monty Roberts, The Man Who Listens to Horses

As a child, Monty Roberts witnessed horses being "broken" by traditional, violent methods and also experienced abuse from his father which led him to look for kinder ways to deal with horses.

He spent a lot of time studying how horses behave in the wild and how they respond in the herd situation.

This led him to experiment with using the horse's natural instincts in ways that he could start to build an understanding and communicate with the horse in it's own language - which he terms "Equus" and which earned him the title of the horse whisperer.

His Join-Up© method developed from this and he has been internationally successful in demonstrating this way of starting and re-starting (he does not use the term 'Breaking") horses.

He has had an illustrious career, highlights of which include:

• 1986 - first public demonstration of Join-Up©
• 1989 - Queen Elizabeth II invited Monty to Windsor Castle to demonstrate Join-up© and train her staff
• 1996 - Published his first book The Man Who Listens to Horses
• 1999 - His second book and documentary Shy Boy: The Horse that Came in from the Wild airs
• 2001 - His third book Horse Sense for People is published
• 2002 - His fourth book From My Hands to Yours is released
• 2004 - His fifth book The Horses in My Life is published in Great Britain, Germany and Australia
• 2005 - Monty is awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Parma for his work in animal psychology

I highly recommend his books, some of which are available for loan at your local library. Alternatively you can buy them from Amazon by clicking on the images in the column on the right.

Monty continues to tour the world to demonstrate his non-violent methods. For more information visit: www.montyroberts.com
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