Here is an emoticon hint for you, if you are curious what you will learn this month: ????<–…<–…<–…<–…???? How would that make you feel? Register today. Click here for more info and sign up. Join us, it will be two weeks of fun with your horse! One of the first Clicker Challenges I participated in […]
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One of the most fun tricks I ever taught Kyra is to pick up items. It is very versatile too because once your horse can pick up stuff, you can teach them to hand it over. Kyra can now pick up and hand over a flower, her food bowl, my clicker, a dog toy, a whip and anything else she
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Get out of your normal routine and do something new and exciting with your horse this weekend. Here are some tips and tricks you can do. One day tricks If your horse is already clicker savvy and knows basic behaviours like leading, standing still, targeting, follow a target, mat training and backing it is very easy to
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In my previous post What if your horse doesn\’t like arena work I already mentioned that the first step is to find out the reason why. If you can exclude physical reasons like pain from the saddle, medical reasons like hoof cracks or maybe an unskillful (or rude) rider and so on, you can look for solutions
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[Click here for the English version of this article] Geven is beter dan ontvangen. Hier zijn wat lekkere snack ideetjes voor je paard voor Valantijnsdag. Deze gezonde snacks kun je natuurlijk ook tijdens je clicker training gebruiken. Wortel hartjes ~ Ingrediënt Winterpeen of wortel Werkwijze Snij met een schilmesje of je dunschiller een V-vormige geul over de gehele
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Today\’s book review is about an eBook I found online about trick training. Note: I don\’t get paid for my opinion nor for providing links to places to purchase the books I review. This review is purely meant to provide information. This book review will follow a specific order: Title of the book Author For who the
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We have all encountered times when we think \”Now what?\” at the barn. Maybe you have already reached all your equestrian goals, maybe your horse became sick and needed rest, maybe you got injured, maybe you just bought a young horse, or a senior horse… We all need inspiration if we don\’t know what to teach
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Now that the temperatures are much higher than in winter it becomes more enjoyable to spent some ZEN time with your horse. ZEN time is time spending together without having an agenda. You can take a chair and sit down in his paddock or pasture and just see what happens. Herd behaviour I really like to
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Work, this word has a negative association for a lot of people. \”Work\” has to be \”hard\”, \”long\” and involves \”no fun\” activities. If you are riding your horse or training him, do you refer to it as \”work\”? And what associations do you have with that word anyway? Think about it. If Kyra \”works\”
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Here are 10 funny horse pics for you. I hope at least one of them makes you smile. Or giggle. Or laughing out loud. #1: Kyra, becauseyour own horse is always number one, right? #2 This little cutie made me smile #3 We can all relate being scared #4 Nomen est Omen (What\’s in a
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