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- Are These Just Tricks?
- Although this training method has been successfully used with other animals for some time, it has only recently been introduced as a training method for horses, and many people don’t consider it to be a “serious” training method. Whether because of it’s historical use for teaching tricks, the non-aggressive approach, the treating, or simply its name, many people, mistakenly, have a negative or skeptical view of this wonderful training tool.
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- Change in Attitude
- I wonder if anyone else has noticed a change in their horse's attitude since starting clicker training? I've sure noticed a difference in Shadow! His eyes are brighter, he's friskier, and he's eager to work and play with me. He seems less bored with his life. I think giving him clicker training to engage his mind has been a wonderful thing for him! Phil
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- Clicker Training Instruction Kit
- Clicker training began with dolphin training. Thirty plus years ago when dolphins were first put on display in marine aquariums, people had no idea how to train them. Just imagine what you would do if you had to teach a dolphin to jump through a hoop on command.
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- Clicker Training...Trick or Treat?
- When one thinks of horses picking up orange cones in their teeth, standing on platforms with all four hooves and jumping through hula hoops, one generally tends to think of “trick” horses! Either that or the horse is one super-smart cookie! Well, I have personally learned that this just isn’t necessarily so. Any horse, any age, any breed and certainly any discipline, can be easily taught “tricks” (but are they *really* tricks?) and better yet … can learn the handler’s and riders cues twice as quickly than ‘traditional’ methods when using Clicker Training. Clicker Training is NOT just for the circus tricks. It is valuable for everyday training and working with horses; your horses, my horses the horses down the street and the ones across town. Are you ready to string me up yet? Well, hold on and read on … there’s more.
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- Give to the Bit
- Lyons says that understanding the giving concept and your responsibility in it will revolutionize your horse's training.
Preparation for give to the bit starts with rider concentration. The rider's concentration on the task helps build consistency, first with the rider then with the horse and his performance.
When a horse gives to the bit, he is saying that he recognizes a request made thru the reins and is responding by turning control over part of his body to the rider. Responsibility of give to the bit is shared between horse and rider.
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- Head Lowering or Calm-Down Cue
- There is nothing more dangerous (or harder to handle) than an excited, out-of-control equine. Yet most riders' bag of training techniques doesn't inclue a fast, easy way to relax a hyped-up horse. Many trainers recommend circling, but it is not a universally successful method, and it leaves plenty of time to get hurt. There is only one calming method I know that works consistently-the cue for your horse to lower his head. When a horse is excited, his head and neck come up and his muscles get tense. But when his head is down by his knees, he can't jig or rear and his whole body relaxes; it's a physiological response. When you teach your horse to put his head down on cue, he learns that the world looks better from that vantage point. This makes such an impact that some horses actually learn to calm themselves by lowering their own heads when they feel excitied or nervous.
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- Improving Gaits Thru Clicker Training
- "I'm still confused as to the 'how' of clicking & then giving reward to horse for correct trot (or any other correct move/motion), without interrupting the flow of that motion. If you stop the horse to reward, I envision a horse that stops whenever he hears a click?"
This is something that trips people up until they become familiar with the learning process the clicker represents. Yes, the horse does stop when he hears the click, and that's exactly what we want. The clicker builds on the power of variable reinforcement schedules.
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- In-Hand Work Exercises
- Well, I guess this is as good of time as any to begin! I am starting with assumptions that your horses are familiar with c/t, comfortable with being led and walking next to you and have been introduced to a dressage whip and a bridle with a snaffle type bit. I am by no means an expert so anyone please feel free to jump in and correct me if I'm wrong or leave anything out!!
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- Introduction to Clicker Training
- Clicker training refers to a new method of teaching behavior using a "yes" signal or conditioned reinforcer, to tell the animal precisely when it has done something right.
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- Mounting Block Practice
- I recently discovered that my saddle did not fit Harley properly, so until I can find, fit and afford another one, I decided I would try to ride bareback. This opened up yet another "hole" in Harley’s training. He absolutely HATES when I stand on the mounting block. The first time I tried to get on him, Harley was very uncomfortable next to the mounting block and would swing his hindquarters away from me every time I stepped up on the block. I had to have another horse and rider stand next to him to keep him from moving. This led me to begin doing clicker work with him by having him stand by the mounting block without moving.
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- Obstacle Course Work
- Obstacle Course work is great for the horses.
I have several obstacles at my place including: labyrinth, star, tires, "scarey" thing for squeeze game, bridge, tarps, platform, "L", pick-up sticks (logs), barrels, straw bales, cones, etc.
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- Parelli's Seven Games/CT On-Line Clinic
- Natural Horsemanship is not an invention of Pat Parelli's, but Natural Horse-Man-Ship is. It is an organization of techniques learned from many great horsemen and put together in a comprehensive form. Pat Parelli developed the program as a progression of tasks that develop horsemanship skills and takes us through a Levels program as we increase our abilities.
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- Preparation for Bathing
- If a horse doesn't like bathing, let's see where, exactly, his comfort zone about the whole thing is. Is it prior to seeing the hose? Then we need to do some targeting and friendly games with the hose. Is it the sound of the water? Let's practice turning it on and off and CT'ing for calm when it's on. Is it the contact of the pressured water on his skin?
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- Preparing Your Horse for the Future
- The equipment you'll need is a 12' to 14' line and a halter. Any kind of halter will do, but the longer line is pretty much a must have, so you can keep float in the line (which Bill will define for you) and let you influence the horse through your feel (this is also described) and not because a short lead is sort of tripping you up.
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