This week’s blog should be on the next foundation lesson; mat work. Instead after struggling with whether to write about a recent clinic...

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...

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...

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:...

This series of lessons, showing you how to use the foundation lessons of Alexandra Kurland’s clicker training, though they appear very...

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...

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...

One of the biggest keys to success with clicker training, like any form of training, is about how to set things up to be successful...

Hello! I’m glad you decided to check out my blog and find out what clicker training is all about. So, what is clicker training? Here is a...

I’m very excited about my upcoming articles in Horse-Canada magazine and hope you will have a look at them and then come back to the blog...

I thought it was a good time to write about clothing for the clicker trainer. Winter is an especially trying time for us to find clothes...

I love that there are more articles on clicker training appearing in magazines (Equus, Practical Horseman, Horse Canada) and that they...

Let’s review what we have done with Bruce so far. His first clicker lesson was to turn and face me. This was done by rewarding him when...

The story and training of Bruce continues this month. With haying season upon us, I have had very little time to work with the rescued...

It has been a long time since we have had a foal on our property. This summer, we are fostering a foal, Bruce, and his dam, Spyder, for a...

Our society looks at things that are not working, the way we’d like them to, with a negative “oh no” reaction. I want you to learn to see...

Good clicker trainers (and good trainers in general) will break a behaviour they want to teach down into its component parts, so that...

Spring is here and thoughts are turning to horse shows and trail rides. This usually means we need to get our horse into a horse trailer,...

I read an article recently by veterinarian and animal behaviourist Dr. Sophia Yin, in which she was talking about a book that she had...

Q: I am having a hard time bridling my horse. Can clicker training help him to get better at it? A: Well, what would you think if I told...

Q: I recently got a wonderful new horse, but I am having problems getting him to let me pick up his feet. Can clicker training help me...

Now how can that be? How can I take the same exercise and use it to solve opposite issues? At a recent clinic, I was presented with two...

This article will show how to go about splitting a behaviour down into smaller steps so as to make the learning easier and more...

Last month I discussed “getting paid for doing nothing” and how that can help your horse settle and focus on you. Soon you can start to...