I don't know the exact answer, but I can think of
several ways.
He knows the time he usually gets home from a
camping trip, and it was approaching.
He heard the truck way off in the
distance..
Coincidence, if he had done it an hour earlier or
even two hours earlier we'd be less amazed, and if he'd done it in the
morning we wouldn't give it a second thought.
Maybe horses like Giraffes have a way of
communicating that sends low frequency waves over miles of distance. We
can't hear them, but they can. (Turns out Giraffes aren't silent, we can't
hear them. They use their neck like a drum to put out a low frequency wave
that travels miles over the African plains, and allows them to be spread out
over a large area and still be in contact). I haven't heard of anyone
testing this, but then again, maybe nobody thought of it.
He's psychic.
I'm curious what others think. (personally I
don't put out much faith in the psychic one).
Steph's post reminded me of
something that happened yesterday. I was coming home from a wonderful
two-day camping trip with my young horse. My other horse, Rocky, had
been left behind in his 5 acre pasture. (Rocky hates being left
behind).
After I had turned Encore back into the pasture with
Rocky and the "reunion" was over, my neighbor wandered over and told me she
had been watching Rocky by himself since I had taken Encore away two days
earlier. She said that after the first 20 minutes, Rocky stopped
screaming for Encore and settled down. He was fine the rest of that day
and all the next day --- UNTIL about 30 minutes before Encore and I
returned. She said she observed Rocky cantering around the pasture,
whinnying. She said it was as if Rocky just knew we were on our way
home!
This kind of freaked me out... How did he
know????
