A trailer is a small, dark, metal box on wheels. For a prey animal like a horse, walking into the mouth of this monster sounds like a pretty scary idea! Shimmer, our little buckskin filly has found a foster home. So, it was high time for her to learn to walk into a trailer! She […]
Lessons from Teaching Your Dog To Skateboard DVD
In the ORCA meeting several weeks ago, we watched Bill Ryan’s DVD Teaching Your Dog To Skateboard. You can see a preview video clip of this DVD on the Dogwise site here. It’s a short, but well done DVD that explains one method for teaching your dog to ride on a skateboard. The approach is […]
Doolittle works on leading using clicker training (video)
Clicker training is a safe and effective way to teach a foal, colt or horse the basics of leading.
Stubborn as a Donkey? More like Sweet as a Donkey!
Before beginning to volunteer at the horse rescue, I had limited contact with donkeys. (more…)
Clicker Carnival #2
Welcome to the second Clicker Carnival, a blog carnival especially for clicker trainers and positive animal trainers. I hope October was a wonderful month of training for you and your animals. We had 20 days of rain, so the horses got plenty of practice of walking through puddles this month! This month’s edition of the […]
Horse Swap!
We swapped around a bunch of the horses at the rescue almost two weeks ago. We currently have about 30 horses on a friend’s 25 acres (plus use of the pasture next to it, which is 35 acres). These are many of the Iowa horses that we are currently available for adoption, plus some of […]