Awesome. I've been clicker training my donkeys, they catch on VERY quickly!!! I need to teach them the fetch trick though!! Clicker training REALLY helped with foot work, got my little jennet to finally accept that it's ok for me to touch her feet!! It's been downhill from there, she's always interested in working now.
How did you get hin to learn to pick up the object? Me and my friend are wanting to teach her horse how to featch, and we can't figure out how to get him to puck the object up? can you give me any help?
I use a technique called "bridge conditioning," and then break the training into very small segments, rewarding him when he understands each segment. For fetch it might be: puting his nose on the object, touching it with his teeth, grasping it with his teeth, holding it in his mouth etc. Waltzer learn quickly, but most horses can be taught fetch within 10 five minute sessions.
@JOKEN11 You start by treats in left or right jacket pocket, so he cant get them and an object of your choice in other hand. touch it to his nose and give him a treat and praise then hold it still about a foot from his nose repeat! Do it till you can drop it on a bench then to the ground! Have fun!
but that does NOT make me a bad trainer i just get after my horses when needed, my horses arent scarred, or unhappy, or headshy, they just know that they have to respect me as much as i respect them! Im good to my ponies untill my ponies arent good to me!
Negative reinforcement doesn't mean bad reinforcement, it just means that when the horse responds to a cue, the stimuli is taken away (negated). For instance when you put leg on, if the horse goes forward, you release pressure with your leg. With positive reinforcement, when the horse responds to a cue, he gets a treat. For some reason, my horses love clicker training.
I dont always give my horse a treat just because he moves off of leg pressure. He gets a "good boy" or scratch on the withers but i dont want him to be fully food motivated. I want him to do what i tell him just because I told him so. Not because he thinks he will get a treat!
"Most horses are trained using only negative reinforcement training."
I know lots of trainers and i dont know any trainers that TRAIN with "negative reinforcement" ALL of the trainers i know are very positive. BUT I also DO NOT let my horses im training get away with stuff such as biting, kicking, bucking, rearing. if my horse reaches over to bite me on the shoulder I smack him across the nose.
What a wonderful well behaved happy horse. I love his pedestal; it's not easy to place their feet on something this small. Great job, he's lucky to have you (and I'll bet you feel the same about him)
Thank you for your comment. Poor Waltzer had a fall the other day and couldn't put any weight on his left hind. Fortunately he started walking again with two days of stall rest. I think he fell on his stifle.
Lovely horse ^.^ My horse has been trained to hug back when you lightly hug around his neck. He puts his head down around you. Kind of cute. I have a video of him but it's not as interesting as yours ^.^ did you use iMovie to make this film?
I first taught him to understand that when I say "bleep" it means "good, and you get a treat in a few seconds." When he understood that bleep=treat he really tried to find out what I want him to do so that he could get a treat. I would bleep if he touched the stick in my hand, and when he understood that, bleep when he touched it with his teeth, then bleep when he held it in his mouth. He is easy to train and could fetch within three five minute sessions.
Actually I started to train him because he had a bad attitude towards humans due to a bad cut that had to be forceably doctored when he was a foal. Now, due to clicker training he wants to please me.
Fantastic work:))) my donk & mini pony love to play fetch now...am working on proofing the behaviour with many different items:)
MultiAnimalcrackers 11 months ago
Awesome. I've been clicker training my donkeys, they catch on VERY quickly!!! I need to teach them the fetch trick though!! Clicker training REALLY helped with foot work, got my little jennet to finally accept that it's ok for me to touch her feet!! It's been downhill from there, she's always interested in working now.
akyramoto 1 year ago
wow I cant even get my dog to look at a stick let alone go get it and bring it back to me. You have my respect for having a horse do it haha
firewolf101 1 year ago
Hi! I saw him on dream horse and I absolutely <333 Him! Before I fall head over heels, how much is he?
AphroditeAllure 2 years ago
thats awesome :)
he is so cute how he picks the stick back up when he drops it to hand it directly to you :)
very cool well done :)
georgiabates 3 years ago
How did you get hin to learn to pick up the object? Me and my friend are wanting to teach her horse how to featch, and we can't figure out how to get him to puck the object up? can you give me any help?
JOKEN11 4 years ago
I use a technique called "bridge conditioning," and then break the training into very small segments, rewarding him when he understands each segment. For fetch it might be: puting his nose on the object, touching it with his teeth, grasping it with his teeth, holding it in his mouth etc. Waltzer learn quickly, but most horses can be taught fetch within 10 five minute sessions.
anuttama 4 years ago
thank you!
JOKEN11 4 years ago
@JOKEN11 You start by treats in left or right jacket pocket, so he cant get them and an object of your choice in other hand. touch it to his nose and give him a treat and praise then hold it still about a foot from his nose repeat! Do it till you can drop it on a bench then to the ground! Have fun!
hyperfocus2011 3 months ago
Well worth 5 stars! Love it well done you!
kittymcpherson 4 years ago
Johny Cash *sniffle*
KaraMaeCannon 4 years ago
but that does NOT make me a bad trainer i just get after my horses when needed, my horses arent scarred, or unhappy, or headshy, they just know that they have to respect me as much as i respect them! Im good to my ponies untill my ponies arent good to me!
lovegeneral11 4 years ago
Negative reinforcement doesn't mean bad reinforcement, it just means that when the horse responds to a cue, the stimuli is taken away (negated). For instance when you put leg on, if the horse goes forward, you release pressure with your leg. With positive reinforcement, when the horse responds to a cue, he gets a treat. For some reason, my horses love clicker training.
anuttama 4 years ago
well sure
I dont always give my horse a treat just because he moves off of leg pressure. He gets a "good boy" or scratch on the withers but i dont want him to be fully food motivated. I want him to do what i tell him just because I told him so. Not because he thinks he will get a treat!
lovegeneral11 4 years ago
"Most horses are trained using only negative reinforcement training."
I know lots of trainers and i dont know any trainers that TRAIN with "negative reinforcement" ALL of the trainers i know are very positive. BUT I also DO NOT let my horses im training get away with stuff such as biting, kicking, bucking, rearing. if my horse reaches over to bite me on the shoulder I smack him across the nose.
lovegeneral11 4 years ago
What fun! :) Trick training can be so rewarding. Looks like you're doing a great job.
charcoalangel 5 years ago
What a wonderful well behaved happy horse. I love his pedestal; it's not easy to place their feet on something this small. Great job, he's lucky to have you (and I'll bet you feel the same about him)
Peggasus09 5 years ago
Great horse.
opassi 5 years ago
wow that was really amazing and reading through how you taught him is also really amazing.. awesome and great job!! really enjoyed watching this :D
Pirouette 5 years ago
Thank you for your comment. Poor Waltzer had a fall the other day and couldn't put any weight on his left hind. Fortunately he started walking again with two days of stall rest. I think he fell on his stifle.
anuttama 5 years ago
Lovely horse ^.^ My horse has been trained to hug back when you lightly hug around his neck. He puts his head down around you. Kind of cute. I have a video of him but it's not as interesting as yours ^.^ did you use iMovie to make this film?
TouzokuKami 5 years ago
Yes, I think we used iMovie. My friend has a Mac and did the editing.
anuttama 5 years ago
Wow. How'd you teach him to fetch?
Very nice vid.
igallopon 5 years ago
I first taught him to understand that when I say "bleep" it means "good, and you get a treat in a few seconds." When he understood that bleep=treat he really tried to find out what I want him to do so that he could get a treat. I would bleep if he touched the stick in my hand, and when he understood that, bleep when he touched it with his teeth, then bleep when he held it in his mouth. He is easy to train and could fetch within three five minute sessions.
anuttama 5 years ago
very cool. thanks for sharing. I'm going to try with my Percheron.
igallopon 5 years ago
wow thats so cool
twinkleberri22 5 years ago
talk about trainable lol Well Done!!!
Nayds 5 years ago
Actually I started to train him because he had a bad attitude towards humans due to a bad cut that had to be forceably doctored when he was a foal. Now, due to clicker training he wants to please me.
anuttama 5 years ago
What a horse!
PapaBilly 5 years ago
How cute! I didn't know horses could fetch! Good job!
ChicksDigVegans 5 years ago