In December the HippoLogic Clicker Challenge (HCC) contains many exciting and advanced training techniques:
- Chaining behaviour
- Building duration
- Building distance
- Stimulus control (putting behaviour on cue)
- Fading out clicks
- Getting a heap of behaviours for only one click
Behaviours in this challenge are:
- Trick training: Putting a Christmas wreath on, Picking up a Santa hat and hand it over to you and Ring a bell
- Mat training: standing on a mat, staying on the mat when handler moves away (distance and duration) and stepping off of the mat on cue (distance)
- Behaviours: stand and stay, sending your horse forward and away from you (walk) and ring a bell (distance).
This is what you need for this Challenge:
- mat
- "wreath" (can be a decorated hula hoop from the toy store or a tube bought at the DIY store)
- bell (hotel bell, string of bells or any bell your horse can ring)
- Santa hat (or a toque/hat)
