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Hello there;

My name is Amy, and I'm 15 years old. I am the very proud Mum of my beautiful four year old Gelding, NF X Welsh cob, Shadow.


I met Shadow in March, as a three year old, and we discovered that a lot of things didn't work for us. In June; we discovered clicker training and the rest is just history! Clicker is a breathe of fresh air for us and I no longer have a biting, barging or kicking horse, but a young gentleman!

I am very keen on classical dressage, the work of Heather Moffett, Anja Beran, Philippe Karl, to name a few. I'm a bit of an odd ball and sometimes things I say come across not as intended.


I follow the mantra of make haste slowly, and probably hate most things- I'm a bit of a cynic and skeptic, but try as hard as possible to remain as optimistic and open minded about things as possible, for the sake of my horse. We aren't in a rush to go anywhere, I just want a happy, healthy horse I can enjoy and see riding as an Art form more than anything else. I hope I'll be able to help some people on here and gain some of the ideas I follow a bit more popularity, they have changed my life.


Anyway; thanks for reading.


Amy
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hi there, i've used clicker training on my dogs over the years and it really is fantastic. never tried it on a horse tho, but i can see how well it could work for all sorts of things. i look fwd to reading more of your posts!
 
Hi,

Clicker Training is something which I was skeptical about to begin with; my horse was always mouthy and nippy, so increasing the treats given to him probably sounded like lunacy- recommend 'clicker training mit Hylling' videos on youtube and visit the 'Clicker Center'

Lots of information :)

Amy
 
Hi! Welcome.

I have a question - how on earth would you go about clicker training a horse whose legs buckle under him at the sound of anything clicking (silly sod)

I'm not planning on starting it with hi, just interested me :) Also, do you think this fear of clicking could have been caused by bad clicker training?

^^This isn't a wind up btw, Len really is clicky-phobic :rolleyes:
 
Hi JessandCharlie!

That's a good question;

Clicker Training isn't just 'click' specific, the whole point is teaching a horse to become conditioned to a stimulus that is paired with a primary reinforcer ( a treat/scratch on the shoulder), to mark a good behaviour. So if you're long lining, say, and your horse does something really good, it allows you to specifically pin point the correct behaviour- so the horse knows exactly what he has done well, which helps speed learning up a bit. It is saying ''You did well, so your reward is coming', this means that you can target more specific behaviours, for example, if he does one really good walk/trot transition, you can quickly praise that, so he knows that is what is getting him the reward- not say, looking at the other horses in the distance.

It doesn't have to be a click, my friend uses tongue clucks- some people say 'xxxx' ( it's a bit of a tongue twister for me), others use words such as ''fab'' or something like that.


Perhaps he doesn't like the noise of clicking because, like you said; he's had a bad experience- obviously I don't know your horse- so I can't say. Perhaps a click noise has been associated with something bad in the past,


Amy
 
Yup, got the DVDs, his Twisted Truths book, and just got the latest reprint of The Art of Riding, which is based around the training of his favourite horse Odin.
It's a really sweet account, he obviously loves Odin deeply, and also extremely educational in a very clear way with lots of his own drawings.
 
Ah that's interesting, thanks! I might just have a read up on it :)

Another Classical fan too, which, as I understand it is quite a rarity for a showjumping fanatic :D
 
I have his DVDs and Twisted Truths of Modern Dressage, and have asked for Art of Riding for Christmas!
Odin is beautiful, isn't he? Lusitano's are my favourite breed of horse and for a horse his age, he is in cracking condition- really proves that classical and careful work can help horses work beautifully, even in their older age.

lol Jess- I've not heard of many SJers into classical lol


Amy x
 
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