Big news! ORCA (The Organization for Reinforcement Contingencies with Animals) has announced the date for their 5th annual Art and Science of Animal Training Conference, which will be held on February 2, 2013 at the University of North Texas. You can check out the announcement on the ORCA website. To stay informed, you can join […]
Happy Wednesday! The wonderful horse above, Zohar, belongs to one of my facebook friends, Carol Robertson. (The photo is used with her permission.) This photo is a great testament to the power of clicker training and positive training methods. Zohar initially absolutely hated having his skin touched, because of a medical problem with sarcoids. He […]
As I wrote about recently, the World Equine Clicker Games are fast approaching! I hear SO many people say that horses can’t be clicker trained, or that clicker training is only good for tricks. Well, clicker training is great for tricks, but it’s great for lots of other types of horse training as well. Here […]
Many horses resist loading into a horse trailer. A trailer is a strange, noisy box on wheels – it’s no wonder many horses are afraid. Unfortunately, horse trainers have traditionally resorted to negative reinforcement based methods when teaching trailer loading, tactics based out of force and discomfort. Trainers create potentially dangerous situations when they try […]
Shhh…. Let’s not be seen! It’s Izzy and Georgie peeking out of their hiding spot! Plenty of exciting hiding places to explore today. Izzy says: Life’s fun when you’re rat! Want to meet my four awesome pet rats? Check out the rat page for more information about rat training and why rats make great pets. […]
I love that more horse magazines are publishing information about clicker training in their magazines and on their websites. We’ve been discussing this article from Practical Horseman on a group I’m on. There was also a nice article this summer about clicker training and trick training in Equus magazine. Many people start clicker training because […]
