Clust/R.E.A.D.

2010-01-15 Thread Linda Lehnert
This message is from: Linda Lehnert lindalehn...@hotmail.com Congratulations on your dog, Clust, for being in the R.E.A.D. program. I read about it in Franny Syufy's about.com/cats newsletter a day or two ago. It sounds like a great program for kids having reading difficulties. All of us whose

blog from Arizona with Fjords

2010-01-15 Thread David McWethy
This message is from: David McWethy 4nh...@gmail.com I am making a one month trip through warm country. Check it out if you like. www.daveontrail.blogger.com Dave Important FjordHorse List Links: Subscription Management: http://tinyurl.com/5msa7e FH-L Archives: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw

RE: blog from Arizona with Fjords

2010-01-15 Thread Gail Russell
This message is from: Gail Russell g...@zeliga.com Would not load for me? www.daveontrail.blogger.com Important FjordHorse List Links: Subscription Management: http://tinyurl.com/5msa7e FH-L Archives: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw Classified Ads: http://tinyurl.com/5b5g2f

Training your horse

2010-01-15 Thread Me Kint
This message is from: Me Kint me.k...@yahoo.com Hi, I thought this information from Clinton Anderson useful and interesting..  Thought some of you might find it interesting also in working with your horses.  Mary in Calif.   It wasn’t until I started attending clinics and apprenticing

Re: Training your horse

2010-01-15 Thread Heather Baskey
This message is from: Heather Baskey cavy_l...@yahoo.com When something doesn't work for me, I separate, isolate and recombine. Thanks for sharing, Heather Playing Naturally with Henry http://digilass.wordpress.com This message is from: Me Kint me.k...@yahoo.com They’re smart creatures,

RE: Training your horse

2010-01-15 Thread Gail Russell
This message is from: Gail Russell g...@zeliga.com Good quote! You need something else beyond breaking things down into baby steps. You need to tell the horse he is right in a way the horse can understand. Clinton, Parelli, and most other horse trainers use negative reinforcement (top doing

Training

2010-01-15 Thread Me Kint
This message is from: Me Kint me.k...@yahoo.com Gail  most other horse trainers use negative reinforcement.    I'm curious as to how you define negative reinforcement.   I'm not familiar with other trainers, but I know that Clinton rewards a horse by removing pressure or the request.  It is the

RE: Training

2010-01-15 Thread Gail Russell
This message is from: Gail Russell g...@zeliga.com I was a little unclear in my wording. Clinton, Parelli, and most other clinicians use a release. A release is negative reinforcement in behavioral science. The pressure, when coupled with its removal, is the negative reinforcement. In