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Category: Horse Training
Playful Horses and Upcoming PostsI’ll be finishing up my posts from the ORCA Art and Science of Animal Training Conference this week. (About time!, you’re probably saying.) Figure I need to get them wrapped up, as I’ll be attending ClickerExpo in Lexington in about 2 weeks and, well, I should have plenty to write about that!
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Best of Last Month (Jan 2010)
Shaping behaviors in a goldfish using clicker training
Blaze is my star fish who I've been clicker training. (Actually, err, he's a goldfish, but he is a star ...
Ginger Takes a Bow
Using clicker training, Ginger dog has recently learned how to bow! I've included a short video clip at the bottom ...
Stale Cheerios: The Best of 2009
These are some of my favorite posts from 2009. I've picked a few of the ones I enjoyed writing the ...
Horse Training
Riding Rosie for the first time I rode Rosie for the first time on Saturday, and she did excellently! Rosie is a mare who I did quite a bit of groundwork with last year, such as desensitization to bareback pads and a big green ball. She’s a smart mare and a quick learner. Rosie was in a foster home for a [...]
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 [...]
