Deworming Prep: Part 1
Let’s look this week at how clicker training can help every day issues like deworming. Is your horse easy to deworm or does he run at the...
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Where Communication Begins
Nov 18, 20133 min
My Mother Dresses Me Funny: Part 2
After a week’s worth of practicing you should be ready to bet that $100! Once this ‘going to the target’ behaviour is solid and...
Nov 11, 20132 min
My Mother Dresses Me Funny: Part 1
Seems winter is upon us, here in Alberta at least, and that means the daily chore for some of us of blanketing. Being inherently lazy or...
Oct 21, 20132 min
Cue Transfer: Part 2
I hope you all had fun playing with transferring the head down cue from the lead to a lifted hand. Now let’s look another cue transfer. I...
Oct 14, 20133 min
Playing with Head Down and Cue Transfer: Part 1
Now that you have head down using a lift of the lead rope, make sure it is solid…that you get head down promptly every time you lift the...
Oct 7, 20133 min
Head Down: Part 2
I hope you have all tried the up for down method and are having some success. There are usually three ceilings that the horse will stop...
Sep 30, 20133 min
Head Down: Part 1
With clicker training, we teach head down a bit differently. Head down is taught by lifting up on the lead rope. At first, this seems...
Sep 24, 20133 min
Happy Faces: Part 2
By now you should be both smiling and having an even better time, so now we need to look at generalizing this behaviour just like all our...
Sep 16, 20133 min
Happy Faces
The next foundation lesson is called Happy Faces. Whether it is yourself doing the smiling or being on the receiving end of a smile,...
Sep 10, 20133 min
Mat Work and Trailers: Part 2
I hope you played with mats and moving them to different locations last week and worked a bit on building duration as well after your...
Sep 3, 20132 min
Mat Work and Trailers: Part 1
Trailer loading, just like any other behaviour we would ask our horses to do, must have had been taught before we can ask, and expect,...
Aug 26, 20134 min
Mats and Horse Agility
More things to do with your mat work! Once you start thinking differently about how you train the possibilities are endless. Take for...
Aug 6, 20134 min
Mat Work: Part 2
Hopefully you had some fun and success playing with targeting to the mat, but possibly you have one of those horses who has some issues...
Jul 29, 20134 min
Mat Work: Part 1
Why on earth would I want to teach my horse to stand on a mat? At first glance, it seems like an easy enough thing to do, and perhaps it...
Jul 15, 20132 min
Muggy Horse: Part 3
I like to relate grown-ups and duration by suggesting you look at it this way. You and I are having a great conversation, you have my...
Jun 4, 20133 min
Targeting: Part 1
I hope you had fun practicing you food delivery mechanical skills. You will be happy to know we are ready to get your horse started on...
May 27, 20132 min
Food Delivery Part 2: Time To Target
What now? The horse, right? No, not yet! Now that you have your food delivery skills perfected, it’s time to add another new skill:...
May 21, 20133 min
Food Delivery Part 1: Thinking Outside The Box "Stall"
This series of lessons, showing you how to use the foundation lessons of Alexandra Kurland’s clicker training, though they appear very...
May 13, 20133 min
Building a Solid Foundation With Foundation Lessons
All good training begins with a solid foundation. Just like building a house, if the foundation isn’t solid there will be issues with the...
May 6, 20133 min
Keeping It Positive
Now, let’s look at the horse you have and make a list of all the things he does that you would need to change to have him be your dream...
Equispeak is a proven science-based horse training method specializing in liberty horse training, groundwork exercises for horses, and clicker training horses. We offer courses facilitated by Monty Gwynne and Peggy Hogan who are highly experienced horse trainers.
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