Finally taught my horse to give me a kiss!

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I've been trying to teach her to give me a kiss since february, but when i was trying to teach her it was like lights on but no one's home. She didn't really respond. Anyway i tried it again today and shes finally worked it out!!!:)

I was just wondering if your horse knows any tricks because i'm looking for something else to teach her to do?
 
mine picked up the ' kissing' trick very quickly!

my mare does all sorts of things from closing gates with her nose to playing ball with you. She's a quick learner and too clever at times lol
 
Mine kisses as well. As soon as I bring a polo out my pocket he's got his lips round my mouth kissing me. I love it but not when his Tongue comes out.
 
Monty knows plenty, but the only ones I've actually taught him and want him to do are to hold his feet up when I point at whichever one I want and say 'up', and to turn his head left or right on command. Both useful! :)

The rest (e.g. grooming-kit emptying, untying himself, undoing boots/rugs, bucket throwing, door opening, tool breaking, hanging basket destroying etc) are entirely his own 'special' tricks. Sigh. :rolleyes:
 
At the risk of sounding boring please be very careful with the kissing! It is something I have done since I was a child and never thought twice about until one of the youngsters nearly took my top lip off without any warning. He had always been lovely and it must have just been an off moment but it hurt!
 
Yes I taught " give me your bowl " trick.

It's brill. I now just walk past all stables picking up finished dinners.

More useful than a kiss and less stupid.
 
hch4971 said:
At the risk of sounding boring please be very careful with the kissing! It is something I have done since I was a child and never thought twice about until one of the youngsters nearly took my top lip off without any warning. He had always been lovely and it must have just been an off moment but it hurt!
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Yes, I was thinking take care with these tricks too. Many years ago, a friend of mine taught the horse she was looking after to gently take a polo from between her lips. It looked very cute. Then a few years later, we heard that in his next home, he inexplicably bit someone in the face.

Oops.
 
FionaM12 said:
Yes, I was thinking take care with these tricks too. Many years ago, a friend of mine taught the horse she was looking after to gently take a polo from between her lips. It looked very cute. Then a few years later, we heard that in his next home, he inexplicably bit someone in the face.

Oops.
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Yes, the polo trick is where it all started as a kid but I haven't used treats like that for years 'just in case', it was just a reminder of how powerful those teeth really are and how complacent I had become because 'I knew him'.
 
I always give two of mine a hug (head over my shoulder) and kiss before I leave. It has taken me 4 years to teach the other one, "The Beast" that she can do this too, so I know how great it feels.

Our little cob has been taught by someone to take cans of pop in her mouth and drink out of them. She does the same with the end of the hosepipe if she's having a bath.
 
Some tricks are cute, I'll admit - but I think you do have to be careful, as evidenced above. I think it is better to teach tricks that are actually useful (like the empty bowl trick - brilliant!). I have taught H to go 'over' and 'back' to voice commands (not terribly unusual or exceptional, I'll admit) and he will put his head 'down' too. I will think of some other things as they come up, no doubt!
 
When my mare was on box rest taught her some tricks, didn't take her long to catch on as she's very food oriantated :) If I point my finger to her head and say 'say no', she shakes her head. If I point to a foreleg she will hold it in the air and if I hug her and say 'cuddle' she will bring her head around and cuddle me. I've just taught her if I throw a small tea towel and shout catch, she will catch it in her mouth.
 
Lotty said:
When my mare was on box rest taught her some tricks, didn't take her long to catch on as she's very food oriantated :) If I point my finger to her head and say 'say no', she shakes her head. If I point to a foreleg she will hold it in the air and if I hug her and say 'cuddle' she will bring her head around and cuddle me. I've just taught her if I throw a small tea towel and shout catch, she will catch it in her mouth.
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Brilliant!! We want piccies of your clever loving monkey :D
 
Right!, mine can use Spearman's rank correlation coefficient to identify the strength of correlation within a data set of two variables, he can play God Save the Queen on the guqin and can limbo under 1.10cm..... go on, beat that!:p
 
The best trick in the world...Whoa! meaning stop and stand still, do NOT move your feet.:D

Charley does all kinds of things, some useful, some not:

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He crosses his front legs, will kiss, rear on command and he's just started to walk as well now, stand on a log (or anything you point at) pick up and 'fetch', walks to heel, turns left or right, stops dead on whoa, ground ties, comes to call (handy one that as I am averse to walking anywhere if I don't have to - all my horses come to some sort of cue) he is just learning spanish walk although at the moment we are just at the pick up alternate leg stage, one of his most useful tricks is jumping in and out of the jockey door of the trailer, saves me using the rear unload at all. Sometimes he gets a trick within 5 minutes, other times it takes months.

The only thing with having a trick trained horse is that if you sell them you have to send them off with an instruction manual otherwise it leads to all kinds of confusion.
 
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Training horses is a great thing to amuse them, get to know them, make life easier/safer, control potentially dangerous behaviours (rearing for one) Done sensibly and with thought it harms no-one. OP, enjoy your horse.
 
Bow
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Sit (ok, I didn't teach him this, he just does it when he gets up! I can ask him to stay there tho)
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'Push'
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'Up'
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'Step' (Spanish Walk)
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Think he and Charley would get on like a house on fire!
 
My pony can totally do stuff! :D

Unlock her stable door, let everyone else out, stand on straw bales because she thinks she is hilarious, undo her leadrope and again, undo everyone else, destroy electric fencing and sometimes even when it's been on and she's used her rug as a shield, time her farts just right so you're behind her when they happen, pick up chairs and turf people out, also she-
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Unless you mean tricks as in, what I've taught her ?
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Tazhazzamoose said:
My pony can totally do stuff! :D

Unlock her stable door, let everyone else out, stand on straw bales because she thinks she is hilarious, undo her leadrope and again, undo everyone else, destroy electric fencing and sometimes even when it's been on and she's used her rug as a shield, time her farts just right so you're behind her when they happen, pick up chairs and turf people out, also she-
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Unless you mean tricks as in, what I've taught her ?
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pmsl!!! :D:D:D:D:D
 
My YO teaches all her Horses to say please. She can point at either front leg and say "say please" and they bow. She just sold one of her Horses though and new owner was slightly baffled that he kept bowing (she had mints in her hand)
 
I want to teach my horse to give a paw! how do you do it??? shes only just 4 so im sure she'll pick it up quickly! we're working on giving a kiss at the moment!
 
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