I can’t believe another year has come and gone. Time really is going faster, or maybe it just gets faster as you get older. Yet another reason to clicker train. When I am with my horses, I am living in the moment and time seems just loses all importance. I can let all the cares and worries, all the thoughts buzzing about my brain, fade into the peaceful silence. I treasure these moments and the feelings. Clicker training can change your belief system: it penetrates into all a

I’m not sure about your weather, but the weather here a very short few days ago was a balmy 40 below with the wind chill, but this being Alberta it changed from that to plus 8 almost overnight. I thought I’d share a bit with you as to why I absolutely love clicker training. Now, what you might ask does this have to do with 40 below? What makes a clicker trained horse different? This question came to me while chasing frozen horse turds across the barn floor during this last co

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 staying warm or shopping to comment? So, I thought it would be great to give you the chance to see two well done but different approaches to worming using positive reinforcement. Both these videos are from good trainers and I’m pleased that they let me share these with you. The first one is from Peggy Hogan who is in the States and does a lo

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 sight or smell of the dewormer tube? Again a lot of where you begin will depend on just how bad your horse is to deworm. So some data to gather before going in and writing your training plan. 1) Can I walk into the stall with the dewormer and how does he react? 2) Can he sniff the tube? 3) Can I put my hands on his muzzle? 4) Can I put m