Love this. I am a Certified Dog Trainer and use clicker training a lot with dogs. It is harder with horses! I have found our timing has to be so much more precise, but I found horses learn it really fast! I’m working on some cooperative care clicker training with my horse; starting with a target, but eventually moving to taking medication via a syringe (using apple sauce now for practice). Would love to hear what others have click-trained their horses to do.
Watching the riding piece on Sunday. So amazing! I don’t think my experienced chill mare would even be this good!
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12 Jan 09:57
I’m really enjoying the Dear Horse World episodes. The ones with Josh Nichols, Tik Maynard and Mark Rashid are all so good. So many good nuggets of information. I already feel more connection to my mare just by slowing down and being mindful of every move I make. It’s so amazing. Grateful that we have access to such brilliant minds.
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02 Apr 10:05
Love this. I am a Certified Dog Trainer and use clicker training a lot with dogs. It is harder with horses! I have found our timing has to be so much more precise, but I found horses learn it really fast! I’m working on some cooperative care clicker training with my horse; starting with a target, but eventually moving to taking medication via a syringe (using apple sauce now for practice). Would love to hear what others have click-trained their horses to do.