I think Tootie is doing very well. He is eager to please.
I also think (without offence) that the trainer needs to practice 'clicking on time' , as some clicks were totally missed or were extremely late in delivery.
Tootie understands what the click means and maybe remember that with horse, 'the click buys you time to give the treat delivery'
Grab a tennis ball, bonce it and click everytime it hits the ground. great fun for timing practice.
@abirdslife Thanks for the comment and suggestions. The tennis ball game is a great one.
This is one of my older videos, I hope my timing has improved some in the past 13 months!!
Trying to remember back to what was going on in this session..... I think though that I was sometimes waiting because I wanted to wait for him to touch the ball, rather than biting at the stick. He was a very mouthy baby.
Toot was adopted this summer by a great family. They love his exuberant personality!
I am wondering if it would help him if you taught each behavior separately? The hand, treat pouch and body mugging, the targeting, the backing & the yielding? This way you are breaking the criteria instead of lumping together. It would make it clearer to him what you are asking, then add the first behavior to the second as another criteria.
Actually, on second viewing, it almost looks like he is trying to target the stick while it's behind your back! He may not be mugging at all. Does he understand the rules of the game (that he's only supposed to target it when you present in front of him or cue him to do so)?
@supernaturalbc2009 Toot was often too smart for his own good. He had experience w/ targeting prior to this video. You are prop. correct and he is targeting behind my back.
How these stalls are set up is less than ideal for working in protected contact. Also, at this point he was getting infrequent training. He did well given the conditions of the session, but there are plenty of ways this session could have been improved.
At this point, he had a fairly good grasp on targeting. The backing and mugging were interfering w/ the targeting, though. You are right, more work separately on some of these other components would have been helpful.
I often incorporate backing into everything at the beginning as part of the food delivery. That way, the horse gets in the habit of backing a step or 2 whenever he hears the click.
Thanks so much for the comment. That would definitely be one way to tackle this situation, especially if the horse had more training.
The pushiness is not because he is being disrespectful, it is only because he has never been solidly taught what I expect his manners to be.
Lunging, backing, yields he doesn't know either. I can't expect him to stay out of my space in a round pen if he hasn't even learned to do it from over a fence!
meobe you should do this on a lunge line? just back him up whenever he invades your space, turn him around the shoulder, around the hip... plenty of games/exercises
I think Tootie is doing very well. He is eager to please.
I also think (without offence) that the trainer needs to practice 'clicking on time' , as some clicks were totally missed or were extremely late in delivery.
Tootie understands what the click means and maybe remember that with horse, 'the click buys you time to give the treat delivery'
Grab a tennis ball, bonce it and click everytime it hits the ground. great fun for timing practice.
love your positive training :o)
abirdslife 1 year ago
@abirdslife Thanks for the comment and suggestions. The tennis ball game is a great one.
This is one of my older videos, I hope my timing has improved some in the past 13 months!!
Trying to remember back to what was going on in this session..... I think though that I was sometimes waiting because I wanted to wait for him to touch the ball, rather than biting at the stick. He was a very mouthy baby.
Toot was adopted this summer by a great family. They love his exuberant personality!
cheerioTrainer 1 year ago 2
I am wondering if it would help him if you taught each behavior separately? The hand, treat pouch and body mugging, the targeting, the backing & the yielding? This way you are breaking the criteria instead of lumping together. It would make it clearer to him what you are asking, then add the first behavior to the second as another criteria.
supernaturalbc2009 1 year ago
Actually, on second viewing, it almost looks like he is trying to target the stick while it's behind your back! He may not be mugging at all. Does he understand the rules of the game (that he's only supposed to target it when you present in front of him or cue him to do so)?
supernaturalbc2009 1 year ago
@supernaturalbc2009 Toot was often too smart for his own good. He had experience w/ targeting prior to this video. You are prop. correct and he is targeting behind my back.
How these stalls are set up is less than ideal for working in protected contact. Also, at this point he was getting infrequent training. He did well given the conditions of the session, but there are plenty of ways this session could have been improved.
cheerioTrainer 1 year ago
@supernaturalbc2009
At this point, he had a fairly good grasp on targeting. The backing and mugging were interfering w/ the targeting, though. You are right, more work separately on some of these other components would have been helpful.
I often incorporate backing into everything at the beginning as part of the food delivery. That way, the horse gets in the habit of backing a step or 2 whenever he hears the click.
cheerioTrainer 1 year ago
Hi ula06,
Thanks so much for the comment. That would definitely be one way to tackle this situation, especially if the horse had more training.
The pushiness is not because he is being disrespectful, it is only because he has never been solidly taught what I expect his manners to be.
Lunging, backing, yields he doesn't know either. I can't expect him to stay out of my space in a round pen if he hasn't even learned to do it from over a fence!
mehhunter 2 years ago
meobe you should do this on a lunge line? just back him up whenever he invades your space, turn him around the shoulder, around the hip... plenty of games/exercises
ula06 2 years ago