Click With Horses

On the way home after a great weekend teaching at the Whitsunday Equestrian Group in Queensland.
I will be available for lessons at home near Kilmore for the next few weeks. Here are some photos of day 2 from the weekend.

Introduction to clicker training clinic for the Whitsunday Equestrian Group in Queensland over the weekend.
We had a lovely friendly and fun group of ladies and a beautiful range of mostly young horses.

Here is some photos from Day 1.

Some of you might not know this but I also do regular (non clicker) lessons in groundwork, riding and dressage.
Today I was the guest instructor for the Seymour and district dressage and show jumping club in Victoria. We had everything from groundwork lessons with young horses through to ridden dressage lessons.

I enjoy teaching and helping each horse and human with where they are at regardless of age, breed or experience level.

Thanks to the organisers and to Gemma Park for for hosting the clinic at your lovely indoor arena.

I arrived back in Victoria from Queensland on Thursday and was straight back into teaching lessons at Kangaroo Ground on Friday. Then today I was teaching at Yarrambat.

I love helping humans learn to bring out the best in their horses. These days it's possible to help people in person with lessons and also online via my online course and lessons .

I spent years making over 150 step by step tutorial videos for my online course. It's wonderful to see people utilising this resource and achieving goals with their horses even when they live in another country!

Thanks to everyone who has invited me into your journey with your horse. I really am greatful and I love seeing your progress and sharing the journey with you.

Thanks Ana for this lovely message. 💕🐴

Introduction to Clicker Training clinic with Georgia Bruce in Crystal Cascades, Far North Qld last weekend.
A great group of inspirational ladies all supporting each other.
Thanks to Karen Flanagan for organising and hosting the clinic.

🐴🐕🐈Animal trainer friends, do you use a diary or journal to record training session details? 📒🖊
If so what categories of information do you record in your ultimate training diary?
***I have a very special project in the works! 🫢😃

Rumba and Angel featuring in an article on Animal Channel...

Horse duo raise the bar in dance challenge with their hilarious spin on it When it comes to putting on a show, Rumba delivers.

Show me your horse photos from today.
This is my photo riding Angel in the wind. 💛
Her hair blew up like a mowhawk. 😂🌪

Today was a beautiful day for clicker lessons at Barrata in Victoria. 🌞

The basics 😄

This is what AI thinks clicker training horses looks like. 🤣😅 Not bad really. Rumby would approve. 🐴🥕

Good morning from Angel and Joey 🌞

For all you behaviour nerds. Some humour for your friday...

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“Be the person who still tries. After failure, after disappointment, after heartache, after exhaustion. Just be the person who continues to show up”.

Stationing on a mat is an easy, fun and useful behaviour to teach your horse.

Stationing on a mat means we teach the horse to go to a mat and stand on it. You could teach the horse to stand on it with just the front feet or use a bigger mat and have the horse station (stand) on the mat with all four feet.

You can use a station any time you want your horse to stand still in a certain location. Does your horse get overly keen and throw heaps of uncued behaviours at you? Or maybe they get anxious in a new environment and want to move around? Stationing on a mat helps your horse learn to relax and stand still. It gives the horse somewhere to be, and something to do.

Its also fantastic for helping your horse later with things like tying up. You could use a mat to have your horse stand still at the mounting block, for the farrier, in the float, at feed time you could have the horse wait at their station for you to bring their feed to them. You could use a station for the horse to stand on and wait while you go get something in the arena or refill your treat bag. We can also use multiple stations and teach the horse to go from one station to another, which is a great way to teach forward movement under saddle to a young horse.

How to do it:
Ask your horse to approach the mat. You could have them follow a target or use a halter and lead rope.
Then click and reward for each step towards the mat.
When the horse is close enough to sniff the mat click and reward the horse for sniffing the mat or investigating the mat.
Once the horse feels confident enough try asking for one foot on the mat. Click and reward one foot on the mat. the horse might want to walk over the mat instead of standing on the mat. Break it down into tiny stages. Reward any try. Once your horse can get one foot on the mat, try progressing to two feet on the mat to earn a click and reward. When your horse can stand with two feet on the mat you can click and reward every few seconds if they stay on the mat. Gradually increase the duration your horse can stand on the mat to earn a click and reward. When increasing duration make sure you keep a variable schedule and throw in some rewards for easy short durations. When duration is easy you could then start to add distance, can you walk further away from the mat and have the horse stand there. Start with just one step away from the horse. If the horse stays on the mat, click return to the horse and give the reward. Gradually increase how far away you can get before you click, return to the horse and give the reward. Now you can start to teach your horse to go to the mat to stand on it and get a reward.

Then start adding distractions. Can your horse stand still on a mat when there is distractions? In other locations? In different context...

Here is a pic of Angel standing on a mat. 🙂

🎄To all my friends & clients. Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas! I hope you enjoy some precious time with your family and furry friends.
Thanks for your support throughout the year. I wish you all lots of Clicks and reinforcers in 2024!
Love from Georgia ✨️

I love this horse! I also love Clicker Training!
It's great to be riding again. All the groundwork, means Joey is stronger and feeling better than ever. Strong yet flexible in his body, soft and responsive to the aids, highly motivated to earn carrots 🥕 🥕 🥕 good boy Joey.😘

New day new outfit.
Divine getting used to wearing different gear. She has been comfortable with wearing a bridle for a few weeks now.
Today she wore her first set of boots. We did some groundwork with those on. Then when she was comfortable moving with the boots on, then I put the dressage saddle on.
It's an old wintec saddle that's nice and light to put on quickly. Each step of the process was clicked and reinforced. 🥕🥕🥕

Divine wearing a saddle for the 4th time today. Nice and relaxed each time. Progress, yay! Click! 🥕🥕🥕🥕

Some pics from a lesson this morning with Trish Foley and her gorgeous horse Max. Max was very worried about pretty much everything when we first started with him. With clicker training and consistent work from Trish he's now alot more confident and is really starting to shine. Well done Trish.

Check out Tony the Pony starring in this month's Horse Illustrated Magazine. Owned and trained by Annie Parsons, one of our Clicker Academy members. :)