There is a Beatles song that keeps running through my head: “Eight Days A Week”…and even though I spent eight days away from home, it...

I will admit, thanks to a friend, that I almost (ALMOST but not really) wish that snow and winter would stay a bit longer. Why on earth...

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...

I had the pleasure of teaching in Ottawa this past weekend. There were a great group of ladies with many, many years of combined horse...

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...

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...

So, I hope all of you had a look at the video clip from the last blog. I’m pretty sure a lot of you out there may have looked at the...

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

In the November/December issue of Horse-Canada, in my article “Starting Them Young: Clicker Training Foals,” I mentioned two new games –...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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:...

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’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 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...