Earlier in the week I said I would post some pictures of the buoy target I am using. The first picture shows how the buoy can be used with the handle. using-buoy-target-with-handle.JPG While the stallion is targeting calmly now, the handle helped me keep all my fingers! The other picture is with a mare that is [...]

I have started to utilize a new target for the horses that I am clicker training. Rather then the traditional buoy target I have started to use a 8 inch inflatable buoy that has a handle. It has become multi functional. For the stallion that I am training it allowed my hand to be protected [...]

The book,  Animal Training: Successful Animal Management Through Positive Reinforcement by: Ken Ramirez is very popular. We sell an abundance of them in our online animal training shopping store called MyTrainingStore.com . Whether you are looking to increase your knowledge in dog training, cat training, as a professional animal trainer or one in training yourself, look no [...]

After we moved to North Carolina I learned about the United States Equine Rescue League and their desire to improve the lives of starved and abused horses. At a USERL monthly meeting I listened as a story was told about trying to halter one of the horses in a field and spending hours as the horse [...]

Are You Clicker Training, or Training with a Clicker?is a great article by Kathy Sdao. I like it because it addresses the fact that just because a trainer uses a clicker, they are not necessarily a clicker trainer. I have found in my consulting that some clients have been led to believe that it is the clicker that [...]

One of the important behaviors we want horses to do safely is lift their leg on cue and let us examine and clean the bottom of their hooves.
I’ve worked with my 6-year old gelding for over 18 months to get him to lift his feet briskly when I cue him. The procedure is for me [...]