What\’s your horse\’s best behaviour?
What behaviour you taught your horse that fills you with proud? Please share your story.
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Horse training
Horse training advice and training tips to improve your skills.
I accomplished my \’shittiest\’ goal ever!
Yes, this will be a very shitty topic. Sorry about that. The topic is… house-training my horse. In May 2015 I started house-training Kyra. I am a lazy horse owner, so I taught her some tricks to make my life easier. You can house-train your horse too: https://clickertraining.ca Thinking ahead I always, always reinforce Kyra
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Tips to prevent Frustration in Riding or Training Your Horse
Every rider, every horse owner and every trainer has experienced frustration at one point. I notice that some people are frustrated more than others. What to do about frustration? Take it out on your horse? Or try to prevent it (is that even possible)? The people who I see struggling with frustration are the people
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Be creative in horse training. Here is how
In horse training we often have to be creative if we encounter resistance, fear, frustration or if something else is just so much more reinforcing than you. You have to be even more creative, if you want to come up with a force free and horse friendly training solution. Here are some tips that can help you become
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Another useful tool in horse training
Of course we all know how valuable a training journal is, I wrote several blogs about the subject. There is another powerful tool that gives you insight into your own training method. Cue list Have you ever made a \’cue list\’ of all the commands you use for your horse? It can be very insightful
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Tons of Winter Training Ideas
Here in Canada it is Winter again. Normally the climate is mild here in Vancouver, BC but this winter we\’ve already had snow that\’s lasted for almost two weeks. We all know that frozen pastures limit our horses ability to exercise themselves and horses generally are more spooky and more forward in cold weather conditions.
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Teach your horse to accept oral medication (deworming)
Years ago deworming meant stress for me and my first pony. Sholto was not really hard to deworm, but I had to be cautious. He could move his head down in a split second and sometimes that meant that I pinched the syringe in his palate. Or, I emptied the syringe while he was moving
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5 Benefits of Trick Training in daily life
Sometimes previous training benefits you in situations you never could have expected. So can trick training. Many tricks may seem useless when you train them, however they can benefit you in surprising ways. Here are some examples.
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Fact Friday: Negative vs Positive Reinforcement Training for Rehabilitated Horses
Recently I started training the rescue horses at the BC SPCA. I was asked to help (re)train the horses with positive reinforcement, since that is my specialty. Would my training benefit the rehabilitated horses in terms of welfare? Is negative reinforcement training better in terms of welfare or is a horse better off with positive reinforcement training? I found
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Tips to re-train undesired behaviour in horses
In another post I explained the power of a variable reward schedule and how to use it into your advantage. A variable ratio schedule is the most powerful reward schedule because it takes the longest for a behaviour to become extinct. How can you use this information in re-training undesired behaviour? \’Extinction\’ of behaviour Extinction means that
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