Does your horse come running when called?
The horse in the video below was VERY difficult to catch. But after a few weeks of doing fun and interesting things together, she is VERY keen to be caught! 🙂 The quickest and easiest way to encourage your horse to come running when you call is to do activities together that you both enjoy.
A Very Simple Bow in Less Than 4 Minutes
A very simple bow is easy and quick to teach if your horse already knows how to target. ‘Targeting’ is to touch an object when asked. You can learn more about targeting (touch) HERE I sped this video up a little but the times are in real-time. It took less than four minutes to teach […]
[FAQ] What are the best tricks to teach my horse?
Easy. Just start with something that your horse does naturally. This will usually be a behavior that they enjoy or do in response to something going on around them. It is much easier to use a behavior your horse already does and build on it to create a trick.
25 Fun and Useful Things To Do With Your Horse At Home
Are you looking for activities you and your horse can do at home? There are lots of things you can do! Here’s a list of activities that are fun, useful, and will make your relationship even better!
21 Things You Will Discover in the Horse Tricks Club – Academy
Here are just some of the things you will discover in the HORSE TRICKS CLUB – ACADEMY. (Plus each month we add new tricks and activities!)
Playing Catch With Bella
I like to offer my horses different toys to play with and see what they want to do with them. Letting your horse have a say in the play process will really increase your horse’s motivation and enjoyment.
Turning Scary Things into Fun Things
One of the best tricks to teach your horse is ‘touch’. It is SO simple but has many uses. You can use ‘touch’ to help your horse accept and approach scary objects. It works like magic!
How To Teach Your Horse Treat Manners
Some people worry that using treats during training will cause their horse to become pushy, nippy, and turn them into a horrible food monster! Unfortunately, this is likely if your horse doesn’t learn how to behave around treats. For most horses, food is their favorite thing and they just want some… NOW! Thankfully it is […]
[FAQ] Which trick should I teach my horse first?
The best trick to teach your horse first is to ‘touch’ an object with their nose. This is a simple trick, but it is also the foundation of many other tricks like fetch, hug, and kiss. Most tricks, even the more advanced ones, can be built using a few foundation movements.
Does Your Horse Do Tricks Without Being Asked?
When you start teaching your horse a new trick, they may want to do it all the time (even when you don’t ask them to do it). This means they are super keen! And they have discovered that by doing this new trick, they are ‘rewarded’. A reward for a horse can be anything such […]
Try 2 Types of Training Treats
To encourage your horse to try even harder consider training with 2 types of treats.  I use a general one and a ‘special’ treat for when they do something really well. The general treat is usually something that isn’t high in sugar or fat. You can use a lot of it! 🙂 Options for the […]
Could Your Horse Speak Spanish?
The words you use to cue your horse to do tricks need to be words that you DO NOT use at any other time. Humans tend to chatter around horses and this can sound like general noise to our horses. If you don’t use special words for cues they will get lost in this noise […]
Increase Your Horse’s Attention By Defining Your Training Sessions
If you want to teach your horse lots of tricks you need to clearly define the start and end of your training sessions. Your horse needs to know when you are about to start teaching them something new and to give you their total attention. To signal to my horses that I am in training […]
[FAQ] Should I Teach My Horse More Than One Trick at a Time?
Question: I have started teaching my gelding to smile, he’s doing pretty well considering neither of us have a clue… well, do I stay with just the one trick until he “gets it” or… will that make him too bored and should I introduce another trick and alternate during the training time? …OR would that […]