>>> Your example of going out and trying to catch a horse using a clicker makes no sense.
Yes, it does. IF you go back to where this started. If we are talking about either/or scenarios - NH versus clicker training. And you know, and I know, that scenario has come up before, even on this list. Sure it SHOULDN'T be an either/or...but it often is. Especially when people are just starting out - it's impossible to learn everything at once, so people have to prioritize. Something has to be the first thing you learn - which? And when do you switch? What I've said all along - and I'm still sticking to it - is that I would never use c/t as the backbone of my horse training. >>> There is a learning process in every type of training. I Parelli train, but you can't put a halter on a non-Parelli trained horse and get a perfect Yo-yo game right from the start either! No, not a perfect yo-yo game. But who needs a perfect one, at least most of the time? That's just gravy, something to build on later. Heck, I don't even care if any of my horses do perfect yo-yo games, ever. But you CAN get a horse out of your space using the language of the horse, and you can do it very quickly, in an emergency, even if you've never met that horse before. (At least no horse I've encountered yet - it would have to be a real renegade.) Without getting very rough with the horse, either, at least most of the time. You can't say that about clicker training. It's not a native language of either the human or the horse. It takes time for both to learn. Horses are born knowing the horse language. Karen Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
