Friday, August 20, 2021

Introducing Enrichment

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  As often as I encourage giving horses and dogs enrichment, I sometimes get the response of, “oh he’s not smart enough to figure that out” ...
Friday, July 2, 2021

Using Enrichment Toys to Train a Call to Barn

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Through the month of June, I posted a series of posts to my Instagram and Facebook pages on Mondays with examples of enrichment toys I am ...
Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Giving Instead of Taking- How to Deal with Destructive Behaviors

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  How to deal with destructive behaviors? I've been dealing with a few in the barn recently from both the horses and the cats. And anoth...
Friday, January 22, 2021

Pony of the Month- A Training Plan for Too Many Horses

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There, I've admitted it if it wasn't already obvious.  Too many horses. Actually only two are horses and the other four are ponies. ...
Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Grazing Tuesdays- Managing Horse Pasture

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If I had married someone else, well, a lot of things would be different. But specifically I probably wouldn't be as interested or ca...
Thursday, April 9, 2020

Anyone Else Experiencing Trigger Stacking?

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I recently had someone ask about how to address trigger stacking with horses. First, a discussion of what it is.  Trigger Stacking is a...
Tuesday, March 10, 2020

When Classical Conditioning Accidentally Goes Operant

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That's a confusing title but I wanted those terms in for search purposes. Classical conditioning is known as learning by association...