> You know, some Icelandics bite, I just don't see the > connection between it and clicker training, I know it might seem > amazing, but sometimes even our *perfect* little Icelandics do bite, > I think it's something that might be expected (not tolerated) from > equines.
Nasi used to bite like a little mule (no offense :) but since he's gelded he hasnt bit me! But I did not get so much that Karen was associating biting with ct I thought she was associating how sometimes a ct horse can have behav probs. I am lazy and to me unless you have all the time in the world it is just easier to not ct unless you need it, by that I mean if a horse doesnt respond to other training, wont do what you want, cant see what you want etc. Like with nasi, why go to all the trouble of wearing a fanny pack and fumbling around with the clicker and the treats if he is perfectly willing to walk up a flight of stairs without all that. As for brenna, you can be one of the top five iceys in the nation and still be bad :) Like they say on sesame street "even good kids do bad things sometimes". And even if she did something horrible she isnt a bad horse. Like my Stonewall. So many lately have flat out said "SELL HIM" even my husband. But he is not a bad horse. He is a good horse that does bad things sometimes :) anyway he is another story. I felt at the Liz clinic that Brenna, Kolur, Eitill and Skonji were all just incredibly well behaved. Eitill was a little scamp but honestly I was most taken by him, by his scampiness. I just love that in a horse. a personality to die for. literally with stonewall it seems.... sigh. who among us has not had an issue to work thru. And if ct works hey more power to it, and if parelli works more power to it. I have read and tried some pretty cockamamie stuff that worked incredible that I dont even bother telling people anymore they just look at me like I am crazy but hey, if it works great. And if what I am doing hits a snag I will try anything. But I do not believe one method works for all horses. As for the cockamamie thing that no one believes... I read this in a horse magazine, a little blurb. I had spent two years getting jaspar where he would step up into a trailer willingly without fear. Then a friend called and asked if I would help her. I tried everything I had tried with jaspar. We were using my old bee stinger trailer and her horse was about the size of a clydesdale with feet the size of dinner plates and he freaked out in there and got his head hung in the divider, ripped it off the welds, sat down like a dog and busted the butt bar off the hinges, I mean he was nuts. So he would not get back in a trailer for nothing. So I said hey lets try this thing I read... and we had him stepping into a trailer with a little nervousness but no panic within ten minutes. How? HA, I will tell if you ask :) Janice -- yipie tie yie yo
