Clicker training - what do I need to know?

You teach it in "sessions" or blocks, short bursts at a time. 5 minutes, if that's all you can spare. Very easy to fit in.

To start with, you would tend to have quite clearly defined "training sessions" at a time and place you choose. As the horse "gets it", you can start to ask for the things you've trained at different times and in different places (in fact, you should!) and provided you they have really understood, you don't need to click and give a food reward when they do what you want, you just introduce a "good boy" and scratch to acknowledge they did the right thing.

So no, you don't need (or indeed, want) to be carrying food and clicker with you at all times :D

Awesome, thanks :D
I have added the book and a clicker to my christmas list :)
 
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