Episode 17: Why Train? Is Training Art or Science?
Baby goats lead us to an understanding of why we train - and that takes us to a discussion of the "Art of Training". Dominique questions...
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Episode 16: Heads Are Spinning!
Heads are spinning in the best way possible after the June 30th webinar with Dr. Jesús Rosales-Ruiz. We taped this podcast the following...
Episode 15: The Connection To Freedom
One thing leads to another. In this case a discussion of the function that a behavior serves takes us to an examination of “polite"...
Episode 14: Are You Truly Listening?
In this week’s episode our long afternoon conversation continues. Last week we focused on cue communication. If cues open up the...
Cues Not Commands
This episode is part of a long conversation Dominique Day and I were having one afternoon in late May. Dominique had been rewatching the...
Episode 12: Loopy Training
It was Dr. Jesús Rosales Ruiz who gave us the name “Loopy Training”. That’s a name that seems on first glance to be silly and frivolous...
Episode #11: The Poisoned Cue
Karen Pryor coined the term “poisoned cue”. She commented that behavior analysts can easily set up experiments that look at pure...
Movement Cycles and All They Create
Movement cycles give us the beginning kernel, the beginning small step in our training out of which we can grow great changes. In this...
Goblins!
Goblins and Ghosts - Oh My Oh My! What do you do when your horse spooks? That’s the opening question of this podcast. We explore what...
Train Where You Can
It’s spring here in the Northeast which means the Siren’s call of the grass is pulling at our horses. In this podcast we talk about how...
Changes
How well does your horse adjust to change? When you take your horse on a weekend outing or you move him to a new barn, how well does he...
Rope Handling Part 2
Have you ever gone on a treasure hunt? A good treasure hunt should follow the Goldilock’s principle. If the clues are too hard, you’ll...
Rope Handling Part One
Clicker training lets us work so effectively at liberty should we even put leads on our horses? If we do, how do we use them? How do we...
The Foundation Lessons
Episode #4 - Did I say Episode #3 was packed? That’s nothing compared to this one. We must have used an over-sized suitcase and had...
Ending well
Episode #3- We took a short break from our conversation and went for a walk with Dominique’s dogs. When we came back, I asked Dominique...
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