On 12/17/07, Anna Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > After > several sessions with him appearing to become more and more resistant, > I decided that Gloi needed another approach. I started with clicker > training and could very quickly and easily get him to move away with > barely a touch.
i think its so true Anna, sometimes a horse will respond so positively to another "different" method. My Fox freaked out in the roundpen, acted like he was panicked as soon as I put him in there. All I wanted was to contain him in a small area to work with him! Next time I tried to take him to the RP he dragged me like a water skier and broke away and bolted for his paddock. All day we would go at it. i decided it was my goal to get him to walk mannerly into the roundpen. After three long exhausting days I realized man, it was just a power struggle and i was getting nowhere! So I switched to trailer loading. to try something new. Same thing. he gave it half a try and then started bolting for the paddock, giving me rope burns. He was 8 years old and had been in a stall with no turnout or training his entire life. He had just been gelded when I bought him. I knew there was such a gentle loving soul in there somewhere, i had seen it. But he was a rearer and had reared and almost flipped with me and I knew he needed training. So I tried CT, clicking just to get him to walk out the paddock gate. That was where he had started breaking away from me. Then I would click for him walking with float in the lead. I got him further and further from the paddock each time. Now he loads nicely, will lead anywhere with a float in the lead, has not reared ever since.... but he just would not respond to any other methods... he trailer loaded btw because I had got him walking with float in the lead. he would follow the float. Then I led him to the trailer door one day, he balked a little, I gave him float in the lead and he stepped up inside the trailer with me :) Janice -- yipie tie yie yo
