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Connection Training November 2018 Challenge: Teach your horse to Stay

12/7/2018

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​I made this video to enter the Connection Training November 2018 Challenge to teach your horse to Stay.
Why Stay? Horses can get stuck wanting to keep their noses with you and with the treat. Stay teaches early on that it’s ok for you to work in different positions.
It’s also a really useful exercise in teaching your horse patience and is the foundation of many of other exercises such as standing tied, being groomed and standing quietly in the horse box or trailer.
I’m looking for my horses to understand Stay, or stand still, while I move around them or walk away.
As always, working with these two horses requires different approaches for each. What is amazing to me is that Shiraz frequently offers to do things that she has observed Jalila doing. For example, I never taught Shiraz about the orange road cone target. I worked with her on a mat. (The double stay was sort of a fluke but I had it on film so I added it in.)
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christa link
12/8/2018 03:46:51 am

Great work, love to watch it. I wonder how your horses stand even when you click and then not give them the treat right away. It looks like they understand the click as 'yes' this is what I want and can wait, till they get the treatment from you! Mine would want it right away when I click. So I click what I want and give them the treat right after the click. If I want the behavior longer I wait with the click till I can feed right after it. Find this interesting, thank you for showing it. Regards, Christa

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Nancy K Camp link
12/15/2018 12:30:24 pm

I managed to switch away from immediately treating every time I clicked by increasing the time between the click and the treat while practicing the moving around the horse exercise. It was then that I also started saying, “Yes,” as an alternate marker to the clicker. By getting away from the clicker for a while I was able to bring things down and, as Hannah puts it, stop being a vending machine for my mare. I had my mare so excited about treats that I was getting nervous to be around her, especially at liberty. That was the result of my not understanding that calmness and relaxation were primary goals in the reward-based training.

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