Smart strategy to train a halter shy horse
Teach your horse to put his nose into the halter himself. Win-win!
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Advanced Clicker Training
When you master the Key Lessons it is time to move onto the next stage and train more complex behaviours or change equine emotions in training
Benefits of Key Lessons in Clicker Training (3/3)
When you start clicker training your horse you might want to start with something fun and exciting. I call my basic clicker exercises \’Key Lessons\’. HippoLogic\’s Key Lessons (Your Key to Success in Positive Reinforcement training) are not basic exercises, they are actual training tools. Important and versatile training tools. In this series I will explain how you can use a
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Benefits of Key Lessons in Clicker Training (1/3)
In this series I will explain how you can turn basic exercises into valuable training tools, HippoLogic\’s Key Lessons (Your Key to Success in Positive Reinforcement Training)
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The safest way to bring a dangerous horse to the pasture
When I was young and learned to ride in the local riding school, we sometimes were allowed to bring the ponies to the pasture. This came with a simple warning: \’Always turn your horse to the gate before you take the halter off, so they don\’t kick you.\’ I still use that advice and teach
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Teach your horse confidence
Are you tired of your horse repeatedly spooking over the same things? Are you getting impatient that he is still scared of object X while he has seen dozens of times? Do you think you and your horse\’s lives would improve if you could teach him to just \’get over\’ it? Here is what you
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How training horses can change your life!
How Horse Training turned me into a Pollyanna Before I started my positive reinforcement journey I used to be bit of a Negative Nancy. I could always find something to criticize. I was most critical about my own accomplishments. I couldn\’t feel satisfied about anything I did, especially when it involved riding. The only positive
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Preparing your Horse for the Farrier with Clicker Training
How to prepare your horse for the farrier with clicker training
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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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How to change emotions in your horse during training
Sometimes a horse shows undesired emotions during training, like biting, mugging, signs of frustration or even aggression. What can you do to change it? My mentor always told me it is foolish to keep doing the same thing over and over and expect different results. How do you break this circle? Change the setup
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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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