Re: Aggressive Horses/Behavioral Conference in Texas

2009-04-03 Thread Starfire Farm
This message is from: Starfire Farm plumg...@pon.net wrote: ONe of the downsides of the clicker is that the horses are so enthusiastic and excited about the control it gives them that they can get a little exuberant. I came across this problem when I used a reward based system to teach Obie

Re: Re: Aggressive Horses/Behavioral Conference in Texas

2009-04-02 Thread Cherie Mascis
This message is from: "Cherie Mascis" I clicker train all my animals (dogs, horses, rats, goat) and believe me unless you make the same mistake over and over, it is really hard screw up. As Gail mentioned, it is important to teach the horse it never gets a treat for mugging and must take it

Re: Re: Aggressive Horses/Behavioral Conference in Texas

2009-04-02 Thread ruth bushnell
This message is from: "ruth bushnell" This message is from: "plumg...@pon.net" ONe of the downsides of the clicker is that the horses are so enthusiastic and excited about the control it gives them that they can get a little exuberant. > The correction based training does work, after a

RE: Re: Aggressive Horses/Behavioral Conference in Texas

2009-04-02 Thread plumg...@pon.net
>From: ruth bushnell[mailto:fjo...@frontiernet.net] Sent: 4/2/2009 9:20:35 AM To : fjordhorse@angus.mystery.com Cc : Subject : RE: Re: Aggressive Horses/Behavioral Conference in Texas This message is from: "ruth bushnell" > This message is from: "plumg...

Re: Aggressive Horses/Behavioral Conference in Texas

2009-04-02 Thread ruth bushnell
This message is from: "ruth bushnell" This message is from: "plumg...@pon.net" You all may remember that I was going to a behavior training conference at the University of North Texas last month which featured, among other speakers, Alexandra Kurland who does clicker training in horses. Gail