How to become better at Clicker Training and Befriend Your Horse
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Do you recognize and accept feelings and emotions in riding and training your horse? How do you handle them? Or do you just ignore them because you have no idea what to do? Traditional training didn\’t teach you, did it?
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Using a shaping plan will help you make your training more effective and less stressful. In positive reinforcement training we need our horse to think about what we want and to make a conscious decision to do it. We don\’t push, pull, force or threaten our horse in the right direction and release the pressure, force
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The word \’Patience\’ is between quotation marks because this is not really patience. It is \’just a learned skill\’ that looks like the horse is patient. We often tend to think horses have \’to know by now\’ what we want them to do, but in reality we simply have to teach them. In my business
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One of the key lessons in my positive reinforcement course is mat training. In mat training you teach your horse to stand on a mat with the two front feet. Once your horse knows what is expected of him, you can turn this exercise into a powerful tool to teach new behaviours. Applying Mat TrainingOnce your horse is happy to stand on
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Clicker training your horse can be difficult and confusion. The Key to Success is writing a shaping plan. A shaping plan is a written manual to train a behaviour from scratch. In shaping the trainer splits the goal behaviour into easy achievable steps for the horse. Then you rehearse and reinforced each step, until your
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Teaching your horse to be calm and relaxed is a valuable exercise that\’s worth putting some training time in. Here is how you can train your horse to be patient.
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In my previous post I talked about the key lessons safe behaviour around food , equine emotions during training, head lowering & backing. Another key lesson I want to encourage all clicker trainers to teach their horse is \’targeting\’. Targeting In targeting you ask your horse to touch a target with a body part. You start this
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In my last post I wrote about the importance of teaching horses safe behaviour around food and food rewards. Another key lesson that helps keep training safe and fun for all parties is managing the emotional state of mind of the horse during training. You want the horse to use his mind and stay in his learning
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Teach your horse manners to stop mugging, biting, grabbing the treat and being pushy around food and treats in training. The key lesson \’Table Manners for horses\’ increases safety and it provides clarity. Use this exercise to prevent and stop frustration and undesired behaviours in your horse. Table Manners is one of 6 Key Lessons