Carol
--- In haflingerfriends@yahoogroups.com, "Animals Helping Humans" <animalshelpinghumans@...> wrote:
>
> I taught my feral Chincoteague Pony, 2 weeks after I became his owner, how to 'walk up' in about 5 minutes of clicker training.
>
> The following weekend, this 3-year-old wild-born colt (gelding) who was barely halter-broke was taken from the farm he was brought to after the swim (Chincoteague Pony Penning Day in VA) and spent the next 2-1/2 plus years. He'd never left the pasture before, never was out on the 'other' side of the barn, never down the lane (driveway) and never - seriously - asked to load into a horse trailer.
>
> As I lead him, letting him look around, when he slowed - I would ask him to 'walk up' and click/treat the slight movement forward. The light bulb went off & he remembered our little session before. We got all the way from the pasture to the trailer in a good time. The colt had never seen a trailer before (okay - he had when he was 8 weeks old, loaded and driven to this place from VA). Took him just 10 minutes to load using 'walk up' and C/T.
>
> Six months later when the same colt caught his hoof under his metal stall door -- Walk Up / click / treat helped the boy load into another trailer (this time, at midnight, and with a ramp) with one well-wrapped leg. This time - he stopped only once, when he had to put 'full' weight on his injured leg.
>
> On his trip home from New Bolton - he had his 3rd experience with a trailer, and a 3rd type of trailer, and loaded with only a single, 'walk up' cue - as if he'd been doing this for years.
>
> With the clicker - you're marking (with a click) every little movement towards your goal. Sometimes, even a deep sigh will get a click & treat as it's important your horse (dog, goat, etc) exhales. Instead of pushing the horse into a even more fearful situation - the clicker shows him 'there's something in it for me' when he hears the click sound.
>
> As Always,
> Beth in DE - getting more snow even as I type!
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Cynthia Eliason
> To: haflingerfriends@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 4:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [haflingerfriends] Day 1 & 2 clicking Camryn
>
> On Tuesday 02 February 2010 1:58:04 pm Liz Farley wrote:
> > I clicker train my horses and honestly, it is SO MUCH FUN! There is no end
> > to the things you can do - help them with their confidence, get them to do
> > things they are otherwise really leery of - they really learn to trust you
> > - good luck! It's a blast!
>
> Can you give an example of how you'd use the clicker to get a horse to do
> something he's otherwise leery of? If you're clicking for the correct
> behavior, you have to get the behavior before you can click, so how do you
> get the behavior in the first place if he's too worried to do it?
>
> Cindy Eliason
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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