I’ve been playing with some "new to the horse world" ideas. I know, I know...so what else is new! It has been a treat this summer to have...

Well, 2015 certainly zipped by. I have now had ‘U’ for a bit over a year. Many people would not have been happy taking this amount of...

‘U’ has been doing really well and, as you know, even participated in a clinic this year. He was also doing really well with regards to...

It is hard to believe it has been almost a year since ‘U’ came to live with me. It has been so wonderful to watch him change from a...

Clicker training for many is something they slip on easily like a well fitting glove. For others it represents a real U-turn in their...

The second key revolves around Ken Ramirez’s definition of an advanced training technique. An advanced training technique is anything...

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...

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...

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,...

More things to do with your mat work! Once you start thinking differently about how you train the possibilities are endless. Take for...

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...

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...

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

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,...

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...

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...