Did you know that horses could be trained with clicker training? In this section you’ll find lots of information about how positive reinforcement training methods can be used to create horses that are smart, brave, athletic and enthusiastic about training. If you’re skeptical, I recommend starting with this blog post, which summarizes a research study that examined whether clicker training causes horses to bite.
Our big black and white gelding, Beau, is continuing to make amazing progress. He will often come up to the fence seeking out attention and has come trotting up to me several times when I have been in his pasture. I wrote a little bit about Beau earlier in this post. He was probably badly […]
The end of the semester was a whirlwind of activity both at school and at the rescue! School is out for the summer now, so I have more time for blogging and for playing with the ponies. My plan for the summer is posts on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. I also have notes from several […]
We had a great day playing with the horses on Saturday. Meghan got to ride Tex for a little while and they both did great! She is hopefully going to adopt him at the end of the school year. Tex has had about a dozen rides at this point, most of them bareback. However, I’ve […]
Our rescue made the front page of the Waxahachie Daily Light (the local paper) on Friday. We’ve uploaded the article to the rescue’s website, so you can check it out here: Ferris High School students form special bond with rescue horses Ferris High School, one of the local high schools, has a large agriculture and […]
April is here, and with it, plenty of sunshine and bluebonnets in Texas! I’ll have to get some pictures for the blog, the bluebonnets are in full bloom here, as well as some of the other early wildflowers. I had a fun time yesterday playing in the sun with the horses. March was a whirlwind […]
We had several volunteers on Sunday, so we took five of the horses on a walk down the road. The weather was absolutely lovely and the walk was a lot of fun for both humans and horses! Walking can be very beneficial for horse and human. It’s great exercise and it also helps younger horses […]
