April 4, 2011
What Is Clicker Training and How Can I Use It With Horses?
Clicker training is a wonderful, alternative method to teach your horse when compared to traditional horse training approaches. Clicker training is considered a positive training method that creates happy, enthusiastic, what-can-I-do-for-you-horses, because it turns the human automatically and within just a few sessions from a dangerous hairless monkey jumping around with whips, chains and ropes (a predator out to get you) into a friendly, nonthreatening buddy that automatically offers up good things in exchange for certain behaviors. It then becomes up to the horse to figure out what behaviors makes the human offer the goodies.
