Clicker Training For Your Horse 

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Horse owners all over the world are discovering that clicker training is a wonderful way to solve behavior problems, train new skills, and just plain have more fun with a horse. You can use the clicker to teach your own horse, at any age, to stand still for grooming, shoeing, and vet care; to self-load onto trailers; to develop good manners; and to excel in performance.

Through her books and videos, our author and clicker pioneer Alexandra Kurland has taught thousands of people to be good to their horses, the clicker way, and to enjoy in return the very best the horse has to give. Karen Pryor 

What is Clicker Training?
“Clicker training” is the popular term for the training or teaching method based on what we know about how living organisms learn.
Research has shown that any creature—whether a dog, cat, dolphin, parrot, fish, horse, llama, or person—is more likely to learn and repeat actions that result in consequences it desires and enjoys. So clicker trainers provide consequences desired by their animal in exchange for actions or behaviors desired by their trainers.
We call these consequences “rewards” and the process is called “reinforcement.” Clicker training, therefore, is a positive-reinforcement-based system of training.

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 Retractable Clicker

The steel retractable clicker that's tougher any other. We searched until we found the highest quality metal unit. A retractable steel cable enables you to access the clicker exactly when you need but keep it tucked away when you don't. Metal clip keeps the unit secure to your belt and the extra heavy-duty construction all around means this clicker will last.

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The Click That Teaches:

Step-by-Step in Pictures

"The Click That Teaches: A Step-By-Step Guide in Pictures” is packed with over 600. photos This comprehensive training guide will take you from clicker basics to advanced training. Even if you are a novice handler, you’ll find these step-by-step lessons easy to follow. And for the experienced clicker trainer, you will enjoy finding the “clickable” moment in the training sequences. Develop your timing, develop your eye with these step-by-step lessons.

The book covers:

Clicker Basics: Getting started with the Clicker
The Three Foundation Lessons of a Clicker-Trained Horse: Targeting,
Backing and Head Lowering
Ground Manners
Accepting Shots, Clippers and Other Practical Skills
Trick Training
Advanced Leading Lessons for Safety and Performance
Riding with the Clicker
Plus:
Creating a Safe Horse: Alternatives to Punishment
Super Clicking: The Principles of Training and the Pre-Ride Checklist
A Horse’s Bill of Rights
Training tips and Terms

KPBKAKR 24.95 Order

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 Teaching Empathy

The clicker trainer's epiphany has changed many lives, yet perhaps none so dramatically as the children and their parents with the good fortune to work with Lynn Loar, Ph.D. (a ClickerExpo faculty member), Libby Coleman, Ph.D., and their colleagues in the Strategic Humane Interventions Program (SHIP), an animal-assisted therapy program for families at risk of abuse and neglect.

In their new book and accompanying CD: Teaching Empathy: Animal-Assisted Therapy Programs for Children and Families Exposed to Violence (a Latham Foundation Publication, 2004), Loar and Coleman describe their innovative intervention approach and how it transforms family dynamics. More-Teaching Empathy

 Clicker Training for Your Horse

By Alexandra Kurland

Now Alexandra Kurland’s classic volume on equine clicker training is available in a deluxe hardcover edition packed with full-color photographs. Produced by our British co-publisher, Ringpress, this special edition of Clicker Training for Your Horse will stand up to years of reading and reference. It also makes an elegant and enduring gift for every friend you would like to introduce to the power of clicker training.

Equus magazine, which recently featured Kurland and her book in a ten-page article, says clicker training is "a rare positive option, in an area where negatives have long prevailed. With the clicker providing immediate reinforcement and the promise of a paycheck to come, every little glimmer of desirable behavior can be rewarded and shaped into a working partnership." The editors say "Alexandra Kurland has learned that when horses become active partners in their own education, magical transformations take place.".

ISBN# 1-86054-292-1

KPBK400UKR 29.95 Order

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Videos:  Horse Training Videos by Alexandra Kurland

Horses: An Introduction to Clicker Training

Horses: The Click That Teaches, Lesson One: Getting Started With the Clicker

Horses: The Click That Teaches, Lesson Two

Horses: The Click That Teaches, Lesson Three: Head Lowering, Your Calm-Down Cue

The Click That Teaches, Lesson Four: Stimulus Control Putting Behavior on Cue
 

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Getting Started Clicker Training for Horses Kit

This kit includes: The Getting Started Clicker Training for Horses Book (approx. 40 pages), our new clip-on i-Click, an instruction booklet on how to use the clicker, and a sample heart-shaped horse treat. You will be amazed at the transformation that slowly happens to your horse in just a few sessions of clicker training!

 Getting Started Clicker Training for Horses Kit KPKT409R16.95

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 More Getting Started Clicker Training Kits

NOW WITH i-CLICKS ! The Clicker Starter Kits are a great way to start out learning the basics of "Clicker Training!" Each kit comes with a book, the new i-Click, treats and an instruction booklet on how to use the clicker

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