I hope you enjoyed my article in the July/August issue of Horse-Canada called “Make fly spray application a breeze” about using clicker training principles to help you get your horse comfortable being sprayed, and maybe even enjoy it! Luckily, the bugs here aren’t too bad yet…I probably shouldn’t have said that! Below is a video to go with the article, showing how I worked with my pony Flash and fly spray. He wasn’t terribly afraid, but just a bit leery; not totally comfortable with it. You can see in the video where at one point I do go over threshold and he looks a bit worried. See if you can find that moment. It is ever so important to educate your eye to start to see the reaction before

It is always nice to get together with like minded individuals. At a recent gathering, six of us got together to play and help each other out with our training. To be able to work together, and help each other and our horses with no ego involved was a put delight. There were moments of just pure joy, when watching Mary and Rosy work on their relationship using simple targeting of Mary’s hands to Rosy’s nose, followed by a click and a treat when Rosy breathed out signaling she was relaxing. Boy talk about thin slicing for a behaviour. Built into the progression of this will be jaw flexions and all sorts of balance exercises, which is typical of Alexandra Kurland’s layered work. To the casual