This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 1/13/01 3:06:26 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Thank you for the clicker training info. Brigid and Gail. > I'll give it a try. Just have to figure out how to make those wild LOL! Yes, the chickens in my situation were quite tame. But they slept under a tarp at night - that was the biggest "scary," a moving, clucking tarp : ) I would suggest doing simple clicker requests in the vicinity of the turkeys ... like walk, whoa, walk, whoa. Target a ball or something. Easy stuff, to get her attention on you rather than those horse-eating turkeys! I achieved great success (big pat on the back!) with Tommes and the "spooky corner" of the arena. Why it's spooky I'm not sure. Could be because it borders the neighbor's ranch where other horses/cattle/ machinery can be heard but not clearly seen through the fence. Well, Tommes normally avoided the corner, and when guided into it, "powered out" unseating me twice! We practiced walking/trotting on the rail, clicking for good gaits, transitions, whoas etc. I clicked closer and closer to the bad spot (the horse automatically stops when he hears the click and looks for his treat). Before I knew it, we were smack dab in the middle of that corner! Click!! Now he will go deeply into the corner and stay nicely on the rail without me having to "correct" or "hold" him there with a rein or leg. The worst I get now in the formerly spooky corner is an ear flick towards the neighbor's property. I'm a believer! Brigid in CA
