Life Skills for Horses- How To Begin Equine Clicker Training

This book clearly outlines what is involved with clicker training horses. Positive reinforcement is explained and illustrated via links to free YouTube video clips. It contains eight detailed Training Plan outlines ready for use to set up education programs for individual horses. Techniques such as ‘free-shaping’ are clearly described without delving into scientific terminology. Positive reinforcement training of horses is beginning to challenge old ideas of how horse training is carried out. This book shows how equine clicker training opens up a host of new possibilities to teach horses by letting them know when they are right, rather than telling them when they are wrong. It shows how clicker training adds a new dimension to horsemanship. The handler and the horse learn the new clicker training language together. Clicker training does not mean clicking and treating everything the horse does forever. The book explains how clicker training is a technique, to use along with other horse training techniques, to communicate more accurately what we would like the horse to do. It helps with the setting up of individual training plans that exactly suit the horse you have and what you would like him to learn next.