Last weekend, I spent a lovely three days in northwest Arkansas at a horse clicker training clinic with Alexandra Kurland. We had a great group of people and a great group of horses, including two grey Andalusians, a Friesian gelding, a big bay Percheron cross mare, and a cute little black pony. Unfortunately, my camera […]
Will you be doing anything this weekend to celebrate Halloween with your family and with your pets? Last week, I shared some Halloween pet tips on my business website, Texas Animal Training. Unfortunately, Halloween can be a dangerous holiday for dogs and cats. I hope you’ll check out these tips and share them with your […]
I had a great time last weekend at the 6th annual Art and Science of Animal Training Conference. I am slowly getting caught up on work (and sleep) and beginning to type my notes so that I can post them on my blog. As I’ve done in the past years, I’ll post my notes and […]
As you might have heard, Kay Laurence is organizing an animal training conference on a cruise ship for next spring! I’m not sure yet if I’ll be able to attend, but I hope I can, as this sounds like an awesome opportunity to spend a week with some of the world’s top animal trainers. The […]
This is part three of my notes from ORCA’s 2013 Art and Science of Animal Training Conference. For links to the rest of my notes (which will be posted over the next few weeks), please visit the Conference and Clinic Notes section of my site. Alexandra Kurland’s lecture was one of my favorite talks at […]
Someone recently started a discussion on one of the horse clicker training yahoo groups about “clicker training” versus “training with a clicker.” Since I just posted an article about “What is clicker training?” I thought this discussion of “who is a clicker trainer?” was quite timely! So, what’s the difference? Some clicker trainers claim that […]
