Ropin’ Practice
When your horse is a better roper than you are. Here, let me show you how that should be done…
Read moreUngraceful Getting Ons
Things seldom go as planned. What fun would life be if they did? I was trying to get back on Rusty, again, after he had dropped the rope and I…
Read moreRoping With Rusty
We’ve been playing with roping lately. I think every good ranch horse should know how after all! Now that he has the idea from the ground we are transferring it…
Read moreOops
Do things ever not go exactly as you had planned? In clicker training we hear a lot about training plans, and cutting things into very thin slices then working on…
Read moreLeaving The Cones
I’ve been asked how to progress with a young horse from targeting cones and walking from one to the other on to regular riding. So here is my opinion. Once…
Read moreNew Post
Harvey is such a fun boy. I’ve been busy working with him. He’s a perfect horse to demonstrate tricks for the academy. He doesn’t know them yet so we can…
Read moreHappy Habits
Abraham Lincoln is credited with saying that people are just as happy as they make up their minds to be. That sounds simple enough. People suffering from depression will tell…
Read moreLearning The Ropes
I realized I haven’t shared Rusty’s first encounter with a rope on his page! It wasn’t dramatic, just an interesting example of letting a horse say when they are worried…
Read moreRoping Horse
Rusty and I have been working on getting him over his fear of ropes. I guess I didn’t share that video here. He had no interest in being around a…
Read moreStimulus Control?
With clicker training the first thing we usually have to do is convince our horses that we want them to think for themselves. We take horses who have been trained…
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