Most horses that we come across have already been taught a vast majority of the things they know through traditional training. These horse’s are often referred to as crossover horses.

We are shifting our focus to positive reinforcement, how do we move forward? I discuss how to move forward and recognizing when it would be best to retrain a behavior.

GUESTS AND LINKS LESSON #45:

• Link to Sound File for Sight Impaired:  Click Here
• Host:  Shawna Karrasch – Visit her website at On Target Training
• Buy Your Own On Target Training Kit
• Get Shawna's Book On Target Training: Clicker Training and Beyond
• Try Shawna’s DVD You Can Train Your Horse to Do Anything
• Try Shawna’s DVD Set DeSpooking Your Horse: Building Boldness and Confidence
• Trouble Loading?  Get On Target Trailer Loading
• Need help cleaning a sheath?  Get the DVD Positively Simple Sheath Cleaning
• Learn more about Shawna’s Personal Instruction
• Buy your On Target Training Supplies here
• Visit our sponsors: Via Nova Training and Cavalor Feed

Teaching pressure as a cue, with a strong positive reinforcement history instead of using escalating pressure. While this may seem like a matter of semantics, the resulting emotional state is quite different.

I describe the difference and ways to create the behavior utilizing positive reinforcement.

GUESTS AND LINKS LESSON #42:

• Link to Sound File for Sight Impaired:  Click Here
• Host:  Shawna Karrasch – Visit her website at On Target Training
• Buy Your Own On Target Training Kit
• Get Shawna's Book On Target Training: Clicker Training and Beyond
• Try Shawna’s DVD You Can Train Your Horse to Do Anything
• Try Shawna’s DVD Set DeSpooking Your Horse: Building Boldness and Confidence
• Trouble Loading?  Get On Target Trailer Loading
• Need help cleaning a sheath?  Get the DVD Positively Simple Sheath Cleaning
• Learn more about Shawna’s Personal Instruction
• Buy your On Target Training Supplies here
• Visit our sponsors: Via Nova Training and Cavalor Feed

Sometimes, during training sessions, our horses get off track.

Here I discuss ways to get back on track, to bring clarity to our sessions and to minimize frustration.

GUESTS AND LINKS LESSON #41:

• Link to Sound File for Sight Impaired:  Click Here
• Host:  Shawna Karrasch – Visit her website at On Target Training
• Buy Your Own On Target Training Kit
• Get Shawna's Book On Target Training: Clicker Training and Beyond
• Try Shawna’s DVD You Can Train Your Horse to Do Anything
• Try Shawna’s DVD Set DeSpooking Your Horse: Building Boldness and Confidence
• Trouble Loading?  Get On Target Trailer Loading
• Need help cleaning a sheath?  Get the DVD Positively Simple Sheath Cleaning
• Learn more about Shawna’s Personal Instruction
• Buy your On Target Training Supplies here
• Visit our sponsors: Via Nova Training and Cavalor Feed

Utilizing our hands as targets is easy to teach and obviously convenient. In addition, pairing it with their name becomes is an easy way to teach a recall.

GUESTS AND LINKS LESSON #40:

• Link to Sound File for Sight Impaired:  Click Here
• Host:  Shawna Karrasch – Visit her website at On Target Training
• Buy Your Own On Target Training Kit
• Get Shawna's Book On Target Training: Clicker Training and Beyond
• Try Shawna’s DVD You Can Train Your Horse to Do Anything
• Try Shawna’s DVD Set DeSpooking Your Horse: Building Boldness and Confidence
• Trouble Loading?  Get On Target Trailer Loading
• Need help cleaning a sheath?  Get the DVD Positively Simple Sheath Cleaning
• Learn more about Shawna’s Personal Instruction
• Buy your On Target Training Supplies here
• Visit our sponsors: Via Nova Training and Cavalor Feed

In this lesson, we bring how to teach our horses to go from point A to Point B. This is useful for exercise, for teaching your horse to go away from you, to trailer load, and for teaching your horse to jump or go over obstacles.

GUESTS AND LINKS LESSON #19:

• Link to Sound File for Sight Impaired:  Click Here
• Host:  Shawna Karrasch – Visit her website at On Target Training
• Buy Your Own On Target Training Kit
• Get Shawna's Book On Target Training: Clicker Training and Beyond
• Try Shawna’s DVD You Can Train Your Horse to Do Anything
• Try Shawna’s DVD Set DeSpooking Your Horse: Building Boldness and Confidence
• Trouble Loading?  Get On Target Trailer Loading
• Need help cleaning a sheath?  Get the DVD Positively Simple Sheath Cleaning
• Learn more about Shawna’s Personal Instruction
• Buy your On Target Training Supplies here
• Visit our sponsors: Via Nova Training and Cavalor Feed