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what is equine clicker training?
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Do you wish you could communicate better with your horse? Do you wish you could have fun with your horse? Or just lie around with him? All these things are possible with a clicker trained horse. With clicker training, you can teach your horse all the skills he needs and have fun at the same time. With clicker training, your horse learns faster because he is actively trying to learn what you are trying to teach him. You are truly working together toward a common goal. To learn more about clicker training and this site, please read the articles on the sidebar menu and also go to about this site. June 2008
Welcome to the site. For more information on what I have recently changed, be sure to visit the What's New Page to learn about new members and features.
Alexandra Kurland has a new DVD available on using microshaping. She shows how to use her microshaping strategy to keep the reinforcement rate up and how to start microshaping better balance in our horses. Leslie Pavlich has a book out called "Clicker Training: Colt starting the Natural Horse." It is available through Amazon.
I will be hosting a clicker training clinic with Alexandra Kurland at my farm in Elverson, Pa. on September 20-21, 2008. Please email me (katie.bartlett@att.net) for more information.
New Article: Taking Clicker Expo Back to the Horses Some ideas for integrating the Microshaping Strategy, Backchaining and Conditioned Secondary Reinforcers into my training. In March of 2008, I attended Clicker Expo in Kentucky. For more information on that, please see my Clicker Expo 2008 Report which describes the sessions I attended. I love Clicker Expo and it always inspires me to come home and do more freeshaping and experimenting with new ways to get behavior, but I often find that it is easier to start applying my new knowledge by working with my dogs. So for one month, my dogs (2 border collies) get lots of attention. This year, I was determined to take the Clicker Expo material and integrate it into my horse training more directly. I find that the material I get at Clicker Expo deepens my understanding of clicker training and changes the way I think about approaching training, but it is not always easy to figure out how to incorporate some of it into the work with the horses, especially the ridden work. But this year, things came together a bit more for me. I think it helped that I had spent part of the winter watching clicker training DVD's and thinking about how clicker trainers working with other animals structure their sessions and build behaviors. In particular, I spent a lot of time watching Kathy Sdao and some of her discrimination, cue and early target training. I also watched Alexandra Kurland's new DVD's on cues and microshaping. This winter research combined well with the material I got at Clicker Expo and gave me some clear ideas for new things to try. click here to read more
Training Tip: For horses that are reluctant to hold objects in their mouth, I have found that it is just a matter of persistence. Even if I feel that I am making no progress, I just keep doing a little session every few days, clicking for any lip movement or touching the object with the mouth instead of higher up on the nose. I might also try different objects. A lot of horses find it easier to pick up a towel or piece of cloth than a plastic toy.
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