I will admit, thanks to a friend, that I almost (ALMOST but not really) wish that snow and winter would stay a bit longer. Why on earth...

I thought it was finally time to write about my clinic in Denman Island that happened last year! It is almost time for this year’s clinic...

This blog is written again by Carolina who is living and learning for a while with The Pony Fairy, Monty Gwynne. And in the photos, she’s...

This month’s blog is all about an amazing lady who inspires me and everyone who meets her. Her name is Bernice. Her horse’s name is Altea...

I had the pleasure of teaching in Ottawa this past weekend. There were a great group of ladies with many, many years of combined horse...

Well, 2015 certainly zipped by. I have now had ‘U’ for a bit over a year. Many people would not have been happy taking this amount of...

As the old saying goes, ‘Time flies when you are having fun’. Well not all of these past few months have been fun, a lot has for sure,...

Clicker training for many is something they slip on easily like a well fitting glove. For others it represents a real U-turn in their...

Opening the First Lock I always go back to this: I did some of my very best training when I knew the very least. At the time I was...

Begin at the Beginning. No matter what the age of your horse one should always begin at the beginning of training because there will...

After a week’s worth of practicing you should be ready to bet that $100! Once this ‘going to the target’ behaviour is solid and...

I hope you all had fun playing with transferring the head down cue from the lead to a lifted hand. Now let’s look another cue transfer. I...

Now that you have head down using a lift of the lead rope, make sure it is solid…that you get head down promptly every time you lift the...

With clicker training, we teach head down a bit differently. Head down is taught by lifting up on the lead rope. At first, this seems...

The next foundation lesson is called Happy Faces. Whether it is yourself doing the smiling or being on the receiving end of a smile,...

Hopefully you had some fun and success playing with targeting to the mat, but possibly you have one of those horses who has some issues...

I like to relate grown-ups and duration by suggesting you look at it this way. You and I are having a great conversation, you have my...

I hope you had fun practicing you food delivery mechanical skills. You will be happy to know we are ready to get your horse started on...

What now? The horse, right? No, not yet! Now that you have your food delivery skills perfected, it’s time to add another new skill:...

One of the biggest keys to success with clicker training, like any form of training, is about how to set things up to be successful...