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>This message is from: GAIL RUSSELL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Would love to hear >if there is interest. (in clicker training) What we really should do is have a clinic in >connection with Libby sometime, or maybe the Turlock show or.... - something >to work toward. Anyone interested? > >Gail I sure would like that! I'm fascinated by this idea and would love to have some instruction in clicker training at the Libby show. (near here, and I hate to travel). Is that a possibility? Ruthie Bushnell, NW MT > > >Ceacy wrote: > >I have read a>few references to clicker training on this list so I thought I >would post a >>notice about an upcoming 5 day clinic I am hosting at my farm. Aug.9-13 >>Alexandra Kurland, the author of the book Clicker Training For Horses , >>will be >>conducting a hands on clinic using clicker training. The first two days >>will be an introduction on how clicker training works, shaping behavior, >>applications of this method, and skill improvement. The last three days >>will be under saddle and combines clicker with John Lyons one rein method >>of training. I have been working with Alex for awhile and have found this >>method to be very ,very useful with Fjords. >> >>I gave a demo at the Mass. Equine Expo. with Alex last April and we used my >>stallion Konggard at liberty in the arena. We showed the attention getting >>stuff like fetching and retrieving stuff, and playing tag, but we also >>demonstrated what I think is particularly useful for Fjords, which is what >>I refer to as therapeutic gymnastics. These are ways in which you can use >>clicker training to teach your horse exercises that will improve their >>muscle tone, flexibility, and balance. For example, I used this method to >>teach Konggard to raise the base of his neck which is an important part of >>collection and self carriage. I have been using it to teach him how to rock >>his weight back onto his hindlegs in the halt, and doing exercises to free >>up his shoulders. The best part is that you can do this kind of work almost >>anywhere and at anytime, despite the weather! >Gail Russell >Forestville CA >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >
