equine welfare

Clicker Training your Laminitis Horse

When your horse get the diagnoses \’laminitis\’, you\’re devastated. You panic and you want to know how bad it is, and what you can do. You want to do anything you can to make him healthy again. And pain free. So you listen to the advice you get, after all, it\’s the vet who\’s talking! You fear you have to give up clicker training. You don\’t!

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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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