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...

This year I was fortunate enough to be invited to teach at Heroncrest Stables, near Ottawa Ontario. I was there in the spring and had a...

This blog is written again by Carolina who is living and learning for a while with The Pony Fairy, Monty Gwynne. And in the photos, she’s...

This month’s blog is all about an amazing lady who inspires me and everyone who meets her. Her name is Bernice. Her horse’s name is Altea...

As an aside for those of you playing the Tim Horton’s online no need to buy anything roll up the rim game, I found it to be an...

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...

Usually this blog is about ‘U’ but this week we are going to talk about ‘V’ or Valor. I wanted to talk a bit about him this week as 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...

I’m hoping you checked out my article “Resistance-free Bridling” in the September/October issue of Horse-Canada magazine, where I talk...

I hope you enjoyed my article in the July/August issue of Horse-Canada called “Make fly spray application a breeze” about using clicker...

To shape a hind leg lift for hoof cleaning, I use the same basic idea as I did for shaping the front leg lift. This time I will place my...

I was surprised not to get any comments on the video in last week’s post. It caused quite a stir on Facebook! Maybe everyone is too busy...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The next foundation lesson is called Happy Faces. Whether it is yourself doing the smiling or being on the receiving end of a smile,...

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,...