Category: Veterinary Horsemanship
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Here’s a new twist on a perennial horse problem: Finn the 4 year old Fjord gelding refuses to get out of his trailer. You’ve read in these posts how target training helped Mr. Ed, a horse who refused to load up. His trailer issue is much more common. And while I’ve seen plenty of horses…
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Using complete freedom, a few well-timed treats, and within the space of 4 weeks, we showed that horse there was nothing to be scared of. –Kath Mertens, DVM Red has his farrier appointment yesterday–his first one since beginning clicker training 4 weeks ago. I’ve worked with him and his owner, Olivia, one day a week…
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Yesterday was my 4th session with Red the foot-shy quarter horse; the farrier appointment is next week so we were down to really testing how willing he would be to have a third person hammering on his feet. He did great! His trainer/owner, Olivia, says that there is a HUGE difference in his behavior since…
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Today was our third day of work with a quarter horse gelding named Red, a gelding who is reportedly an uncooperative basket-case when it comes to the farrier and had become dangerous with his hind feet, especially. I met Red because his owner had asked for sedation which they could use for farrier appointments. I’ve…