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Your horse walks nicely beside you… until something more interesting shows up. Like a patch of fresh, juicy grass.
Suddenly, you don’t exist.
He’s in your personal space. He’s pushing you out of the way, or he’s pulling you towards the grass. Grrr, so annoying!
Or you don’t notice it because it’s such a small issue. Harmless, even. You ignore it....
Most people think clicker training involves giving the horse a lot of treats.
What they don’t know is that the word ‘treat’ in the context isn’t the same as in the context of spoiling your horse after a good ride.
Here are 5 ways to use food in training without contributing to the weight problem of your horse:
I’ve been clicker training (R+) horses since the late 90’s. Shortly after I started to teach R+ to my clients, too. I saw tremendous positive changes in the attitude of the horses.
I saw the bond between owners and horses strengthening because mutual trust and understanding replaced dominance and coercion.
The Secrets of Horse TrainingLaminitis used to be a death sentence a few decades ago. A lot has changed since then.
I discovered how I could get my reluctant, overweight and recovering from laminitis horse fit with clicker training.
That’s something else that wouldn’t have been imaginable 30 years ago: getting your horse moving, with … treats? Without riding, lunging and roundpenning?...