I’m hoping you checked out my article “Resistance-free Bridling” in the September/October issue of Horse-Canada magazine, where I talk about teaching your horses to bridle himself. It utilizes the foundation lesson of targeting. If not, be sure to pick up a copy to get all the details on how to teach this! I use behaviours that I have taught not only as useful behaviours in and of themselves, but also as a monitor as to how my horse is feeling about the work we are doing and how he is feeling in his body. If Icaro, who normally eagerly takes his bridle, suddenly is less eager or won’t take it at all I can use this as a ‘red flag’ to tell me something is going on that I need to have a closer

In 1988 Robert Fulghum wrote his book: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. So what do our clicker-trained horses learn in Kindergarten? Lots of fun things! Check out this video for some great examples.