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Gracie Gets Her Halter OffGracie is an older grey mare who lives at the rescue. No one knows her exact age, but she’s probably around 18. Gracie was rescued in 2007 from a feed lot in Nevada where she was on her way to the slaughter house. When Gracie was rescued, she was absolutely terrified of people. She was [...]
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Best of Last Month
Steve Martin: Training Birds with Trust Accounts
I love hearing Steve Martin speak. (the bird trainer, not the actor!) He was one of my favorite speakers at ...
Alexandra Kurland and Loopy Training
At the Art and Science of Animal Training conference this year Alexandra Kurland spoke about loopy training, which is a ...
2010 Art and Science of Animal Training Conference
I'm sick and it won't stop raining, but wow! What a great weekend. I spent the weekend at the 2010 ...
Horse Training
Lessons from Pat Parelli and Catwalk The latest gossip on the internet is all about Pat Parelli’s recent demonstration with a stallion named Catwalk. If you haven’t heard, I’ll catch you up briefly.
Catwalk is a show jumping horse who is extremely difficult to bridle. Over the course of the weekend Pat Parelli worked with Catwalk until he could be bridled. [...]
Dog Training
Clicker Training Shoulder Targeting I often think of targeting as a simple exercise. It’s one of the first skills I teach the horses when clicker training and it works great for teaching other behaviors. Usually, I think of targeting as a dog or horse touching their nose to something. However, there are many different ways to expand on targeting [...]
Book and DVD Reviews
We Bought a Zoo by Benjamin Mee (book review) I just finished reading We Bought a Zoo, by Benjamin Mee. What an entertaining book! This book is the true story of one daring English family that spent their life savings to buy an old, dilapidated zoo. The zoo has been shut down due to having it’s license revoked and is rife with problems, from [...]
Carnival
Clicker Carnival #6 (March 2010) Welcome to the March edition of the Clicker Carnival! Below you’ll find some great blog articles on animal training from the past month from around the web.
This edition’s a little late–the weather has been gorgeous in Texas and I’ve been outside playing with the ponies rather than tending to the blog. The horses are [...]
