So, how do you start getting your horse to offer to hold up a hoof? Here are the videos that go with my article in the March/April issue of Horse-Canada. I will share some video clips showing how to start this process with a horse (pony in this case) that has had a bit of clicker training, so understands the relationship between the click and treat and how it is linked to a behaviour we like. These videos of Squirt were done early on in his clicker career. As you can see, he

I really hope you had time to have a look at the video links I posted last week. I would love some feedback on what you thought and felt while watching and listening to them. This week I am delighted to be presenting some very different hoof lifting videos. Videos of clicker trained horses. These videos are of two young horses that had, before these ladies got them, the usual ‘pry the foot off the ground and hang onto it if you can’ type of education that is unfortunately all

I hope you spent a few moments thinking about what kind of problem solver you are. If you are looking at clicker training perhaps you are looking for another way to solve your problems than the way you have been using. Looking for a new way to do things doesn’t always mean that the way you have been doing things is wrong. It might be that they worked in the past, but now your belief system has changed and you are ready to look at things differently. Or things may not be worki