Matching Colors
I’ve been playing a lot with Ghost. Rusty hasn’t been ignored though! He knows his colors. Now were working on matching those colors. Starting with blue. Once can consistently match…
Read moreTricks
Why bother teaching a bunch of ‘silly tricks’? Isn’t it more important to teach the important thing? Shouldn’t our horses know how to lead, to ride, things that matter before…
Read moreStanding Quietly
A little bit of nothingness. Nothing is important. We all should be spending more time doing exactly nothing. Most of the time we spend with horses we are asking them…
Read moreSpooktober
It is spooktober and horses are known for spooking. They can train us to live in fear of provoking their fear. They train people not to try to ride if…
Read moreHalloween Horrors
It’s almost Halloween 🎃 There are so many scary stories involving horse training, I thought it would be fun to share some of them. Like horsey Halloween ghost stories. 👻…
Read moreTargeting
My favorite trick to teach is targeting. It’s such a small simple thing. It is the all and everything of training. If you think about it, is there any trick…
Read moreHalloween Horrors
Sometimes the result of the training is so beautiful. We see a horse leaping to respond to barely there cues. They seem to work as one with the person. Beautiful…
Read moreHalloween Horrors
It’s almost Halloween 🎃 There are so many scary stories involving horse training, I thought it would be fun to share some of them. Like horsey Halloween ghost stories. 👻…
Read morePunishment
Why are we always so quick to want to punish? I watched a school board meeting last night. They were arguing over policy and before they even had it set…
Read moreThe Strangest Positive Reinforcement Story I’ve Ever Heard
I know all the rules of the training, I know positive reinforcement is effective, I know it works. We needed something done RIGHT NOW though. There wasn’t time to train.…
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