I hope you all had fun playing with transferring the head down cue from the lead to a lifted hand. Now let’s look another cue transfer. I now want Oli to put his head down when I turn on the …

Now that you have head down using a lift of the lead rope, make sure it is solid…that you get head down promptly every time you lift the lead. Now we can have some fun and play with cue transfer.…

I hope you have all tried the up for down method and are having some success. There are usually three ceilings that the horse will stop at. To get them past this sticky level first make sure you are allowing …

A few things:
1. Sue Parker and I introduced “limping” to Zelador yesterday. We weren’t exactly sure how we were going to do this. She mentioned trainers using ropes to lift a leg and we both agreed that we weren’t …

The first show for the fundraiser was last Saturday. I asked a teenage girl which she liked best. We had just returned the horses to their stalls after the performance and were standing in front of the bank barn. She …

Our next foundation lesson is head down.

With clicker training, we teach head down a bit differently. Head down is taught by lifting up on the lead rope. At first, this seems rather counter intuitive, lifting up to get down.…

By now you should be both smiling and having an even better time, so now we need to look at generalizing this behaviour just like all our behaviours.

Perhaps you have encountered grumpy faces in your horse when you go …