> There's also a thing clicker training people do I always thought would > be worth trying. I'm not sure exactly how to work it for pulsing down, > but you reward the animal for doing the right behavior (relaxing and > pulsing down in this case), when it does. Then you introduce the clicker > into the mix. > > > Any of you clicker trainers think it might be possible to teach a horse to > relax to the degree that his heart rate would slow with clicker training?
Absolutely. It's done all the time. I would say, tho, that the first statement above has things backwards :-). First do the clicker training and the side benefit is relaxation. Judy http://iceryder.net http://clickryder.com
