--- In [email protected], "Mary Arena" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's actually a great way to > teach a pushy horse manners. But you do have to be consistent in your > training and in your food delivery. There's a lot of little details that > make a huge difference. >
I have found this to be true, when my very eager mare gets over eager, I ask her to take a step back, and click and treat her for that, we do this until she gets into a calmer state of mind, and then we can do the other tricks, she doesn't get to chose which behavior we are working on, that is the great thing about clicker training, you can model any behavior you want. Sometimes (usually when I am on the other side of the fence from them) I do just ignore her attempts to do tricks for treats when I didn't ask for that, it has caused that behavior to start to die out, but she still does the behaviors when I give her the signal. Kim
