Hi Karen, >>>One thing Christine Schwartz told me that made sense, and maybe she was quoting Robyn or Linda T-J, I don't remember. Anyway, she said the idea she (they?) had found best was to see yourself as a slot machine, not a vending machine.
This was Christine quoting me, quoting someone else. Just like other training methods there are different ways that people use the clicker, and some of the methods disagree. I have been told that you must always treat but I have found that I quite quickly to using variable reinforcement with food and then sometimes just a scratch and only treat every so many times, with that changing. Once again it depends on the horse. Just like every other training method some methods work better with some horses / people combinations than others. Robyn Icelandic Horse Farm Robyn Hood & Phil Pretty Vernon BC Canada www.icefarm.com
