Clicker Training: Your horse is only doing it for food! | Myth busted 

+Dion7 Thank for subscribing. Clicker training is becoming huge in dog training and we can only hope it follows for horses but we have a long way to go unfortunately.

Thanks for your comment. Several things: - "You do need to discipline horses" No you don't. I don't discipline my horses or my clients horses and there is nothing wrong with them. I rather use humane, efficient technique rather than old fashion ways that have been scientifically proven to have many drawbacks. - You are not a horse, your horse doesn't see you as a horse. - But if you insist, most free ranging/feral equine to equine interactions are not agonistic. (You may see a lot of agonistic behaviour in domestic horses due to inappropriate management) Meanwhile traditional and natural horsemanship methods nearly exclusively include agonistic interactions through the use of aversives. This is not only unethical, unnecessary but also very unnatural. - Positive punishment, which is the practice of adding an aversive to reduce the odds of a behaviour occurring (aka probably what you mean under the euphemism "discipline") has been proven to increase risk of aggression. - I highly recommend you watch our other videos to learn how we deal with unwanted behaviours in a humane, effective and safer manner. We also have a video on dominance and leadership that you should be interested in. Oh and also the whip video, because you don't seem to know about conditioned aversive stimuli.

Thank you for replying. I will watch more videos, and maybe that will help me to understand, but I guess I just don't understand how this way of training would work for all horses. Yes if you have a calm, mellow, cooperative horse, this would work fine. But what if your horse is aggressive or pushy? I also don't think horses are above punishment. By punishment I am not talking about anything worse than what a horse would do to another horse. I have seen people beat horses and it makes me sick. But just like a parent would threaten to take away your phone, or threaten to give you a spanking, I guess I just don't see how the threat of a pop(and I mean pop, not whip or beat) or even a pop is any different. I don't see why horses are above being punished. Dogs, cats, humans, everything else is taught this way, why not horses. I do believe in positive reinforcement. If they do something good, praise them, if they do something bad, get on to them. Make sure they know that is not aloud. That seems a lot easier than what you are doing.(No offence.)

Larry McCraw that’s like saying “clicker training made my pet lion kill me” instead of saying “keeping this _wild_ animal inappropriately got me killed” lol plus really you would have a way harder time disciplining a wild animal, it isn’t domesticated for human tolerance.

Heather Currell It depend if I am working with a rescue or a horse that is well adjusted. If the horse is happy and healthy I start by teaching him targeting and the rules of the game at liberty. Liberty is not that big pot at the end of the rainbow (It's a teaching tool!) if it is then it's probably because the trainer use a lot of aversive and therefore cannot convince the horse to work with him at liberty from the very first day. I have an entire video dedicated to liberty, look for "Liberty in Fairhorsemanship" on my channel. Also do not hesitate to email me if you would be interested in becoming a student, I have a long distance course available :)

Thank you very much, and how much are the courses and how long for ☺

There are customised lessons and 4 assignments takes about a month. When your month is done you can choose to do a second one. 4assignments/1month of long distance learning/online coaching cost £60. You can find more infos here: www.fairhorsemanship.com/our-services/ :)