Saturday, October 11, 2014

Treat Values for Horses and Dogs

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A recent conversation on Facebook  sparked some conversation regarding using varied reinforcers with horses and I mentioned that I had my o...
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Friday, April 4, 2014

Citizen Science- Why Do Clicker Trained Horses Drop?

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The guest speaker at Clicker Expo was biopsychologist Susan Schneider, author of The Science of Consequences . In her closing talk, she st...
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Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Free Food and No Food- occasional training without the clicker

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If you look closely, you can see that the fence is at fetlock height…an indication of the depth of the snow. This winter has been long a...
Friday, March 14, 2014

One of those "art of training" questions: when should you stop?

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The morning after In previous blog posts, I have recommended Alexandra Kurland's Online Clicker Course , for which I am a coach.  On...
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Monday, December 30, 2013

A Day's Worth of Reinforcement

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In the September issue of The Whole Dog Journal , Pat Miller wrote an article called "Daily Training " in which she detailed how...
Sunday, December 15, 2013

Four Horse Recall

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A quick success story this morning: The scene- I had just let four of the horses (two ponies) out into a foot of fresh snow and fiftee...
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Saturday, November 23, 2013

Being Unpredictable

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In my efforts to be unpredictable when training for husbandry skills,  I have come up with a variety of ways to change the setting.  I h...