Mick is the sweetest most reliable horse now but several years ago we were sorting things out! He would try to bite me (that is why I am carrying a whip) and I was trying to train him to the point we could catch him. I wanted him to learn that touch was safe. If you have an aggressive animal,… Read more →
Last month many of you know I was lucky enough to participate in a five day clinic with the founders of Cavalia, an amazing presentation of how horses and humans can dance, celebrate and perform tricks and acrobatics together. Frederick and Magali toured for seven years with Cavalia and now their focus has turned to their new showwww.eqi-show.com. During my… Read more →
I have been feverishly working on building the website: www.freespirithorsetraining.com to combine all types of positive horse training: clicker training, trick training, liberty horse training. As far as I know, it’s the only free step by step on-line how-to on liberty training available with videos. Still working on the management part of the site but the cutest thing is Tino… Read more →
One more post and I will get off my “horse kick”! Here are Tino and I working together in another video using the techniques I learned at Liberty Horse Training. At the end Tino gives Jeff, who was running the video camera, a little glance as if to say, “Not bad, eh?” In the next few days, I will be… Read more →
Here is a video of Tino and me working together using techniques I learned last June on a trip to Liberty Horse Training at Robin Gates’ beautiful Rising Moon Ranch in Sonoma, California, about an hour north of San Francisco. Liberty Horse Training provides a truly revolutionary, entirely positive approach to working with horses. (By the way, can you believe… Read more →