CT Coach Judith.

yesterday I led him up to our country lane and back easily, today I rode him the same way and he was foot perfect!

it still amazes me how R+ works so quickly! Jack is already more confident and much less bothered…[Read more]

That’s excellent news – well done! Keep building his confidence around the field/yard/stables and when he’s ready start to go into the stable for a short time with him, gradually staying in there for longer and longer. Hopefully you should have time now over the summer to get him used to being in his stable so that when the time comes…[Read more]

Well 5 days into the training programme and I am seeing amazing results.

Firstly, I have used an area of one of my fields which is next to my schooling area. I feed Riley in the field and feed Jack in the school. I leave them to eat then train Jack in the school, in sight of Riley.

I started with hand held targets and just…[Read more]

It sounds like you would benefit from using a ‘keep going’ signal – something which tells her she is doing the right thing without being the same as the click – and keep the click for when you would like her to stop and get a reward. Often keep going signals evolve organically when we say things like ‘excellent, well done, brilliant,…[Read more]

I am having a hard time progressing with anything related to forward movement, as every time I mark, my mare enthusiastically stops. She has ECVM so forward relaxed movement is already a struggle and refusing to move is her go-to. The clicker training has helped a TON but she’s turned the mark (click) int…[Read more]

CT Coach Judith.

Ken

Us humans tend to underestimate the effect that moving yards/homes can have on our horses. Jack has gone from a place where everything was familiar to somewhere where everything is new; new people, new horses, new sights, new smells, new wind/shelter spots, new grass, new hay, new hills, new sky, new mud! Some horses seem to be able…[Read more]

I have given him a couple of weeks to settle and he has calmed down a lot. Recently he has started objecting to being led…[Read more]

If she lived in a herd until she was six you have a better chance of her transitioning to live in a herd again, which is excellent. Introducing new horses is vary variable – some can immediately get on as if they have known each other forever, while others can hate each other on sight. Us humans tend to think that ‘horses need other…[Read more]

Thanks so much for the reply. Sassy did live in a herd up until about age 6 when I bought her. She was put out in a new herd where I originally moved, but it did not work out well. There were no slow introductions or anything like that. I was honestly new to horses at the time and didn’t know better. (I was in my late 50’s before I got…[Read more]

Has Sassy always lived as a solo horse? If they have always been kept separate some horses can find it difficult to adjust to living in a herd with others as they may have missed out on vital learning at a young age. This doesn’t mean that it is impossible to introduce them to herd living, but it does take longer and can have more risk…[Read more]

I live in Langley, B.C., Canada where pretty much all the boarding facilities (I think you call them livery yards) do not regularly offer group turnout. The ones that do have group turnout are insistent that the horse must already do…[Read more]

This is something where it would be very helpful if you could get some video showing exactly what is going on, as there are a few different ways to address this and the best approach might differ slightly according to what exactly is happening. The three main causes of this sort of behaviour are confusion over what you want them to…[Read more]