I have found in my LIMITED experience that some will work for one horse but not another. Traditional training does not seem to work well for Fox, he feels "pressure" when I don't think I am applying it. He had a huge breakthru turnaround when I switched to CT. Stonewall was CTd as a baby and now seems almost to insist on it. He reminds me that I am supposed to click and reward... he will respond to traditional training but its a lot slower and grudging. jaspar does not respond at all to CT. He was started the old cowboy cruel way and then with me, a more NH way but still pressure/release advance/retreat type stuff and he seems to still learn that way and be very easy to train without CT or anything else really. I am hesitant to try nasi or Tivar with CT because they are so nippy and treat hounding and seem to lose their freaking minds anytime they see a TREAT A TREAT OH MY GOD A TREAT and forget everything else. Interestingly, jaspar and the donkey seem least responsive to CT and seem least food motivated. They will both walk away from a feed bucket if they are full. Traveller freaks out from too much pressure and if I were allowed to train him I would CT, but he is my husbands horse and is "he who must not ever have hurt feelings in any way" so he is a huge nice untrained horse, lucky for us.
I have learned some things from clinton. I like his flexing thing. I hate some of his stuff, like the chainsaw in the roundpen thing... janice -- yipie tie yie yo
