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EagleGirl's Clicker Club Training Column

For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, winter is hard upon us.  This means shorter days, colder temperatures, and in many places, more precipitation such as rain, sleet, and snow.  All of this adds up to not a lot of time or good weather in which to enjoy clicker training our outdoor pets.  But we can certainly continue our training during this time.  For your indoor pets, you can pretty much just do what you have been doing.  But with your outdoor pets, such as ponies, you will need to be creative.  If you have a barn, you can train in the barn.  If not, you may find yourself wading through mud or snow.

This is a good time to play games (remember The Rope Bump Game?), or to work on some basics that will help you later.  If you have a game or activity you are doing with your pony, please write in to the Clicker Club and tell us about it!  If you are still trying to think of something to do, a really good thing to teach your pony is "head down".  This pose helps him to relax, and is very useful when he is nervous or excited.  There are several ways to cue this.  You can touch his poll, touch the crest of his neck, put a little pressure on the lead or rein, give a voice command.  The more ways your pony can be cued, the better!  With my Welsh mule, his cue is for me to lay my hand on his poll and gently massage.  When I do this, his head starts going down, down, down.  You begin teaching "head down" the same way you teach anything else.  You start at the very beginning.  If your pony is ear shy, you work on that first.  We'll cover that in a separate column.  But, if you can touch your pony close to his ears, you are ready to begin teaching "head down".  Just gently lay your hand on your pony's poll.  Either massage or give a very gentle pressure.  Click at the very first sign of downward movement, even if it is barely noticeable.  Continue until he is moving his head down a little more, clicking for each new "step".

Once he has his head down, you can continue massaging, waiting a second before clicking.  Gradually increase the time his head is down before you click.  Later, you can move to lifting your hand just enough so that you are touching his mane, but not applying pressure, then click.  Eventually you will be able to move your hand, and he will not lift his head until he hears the click.  Just take it step by step.  At first you will click for just a second of "head down" without your hand on him.  You will gradually increase the length of time you wait before clicking.  This will teach him to not only put his head down, but to keep it down.  Once he responds to the hand cue, you can start teaching the voice cue, "Head down".  Use the two cues together.  You can then begin to give the voice cue just before the hand cue, gradually increasing the length of time between them.  When you do this, click at the slightest downward movement after the voice cue.  My mule does not yet put his head down solely on voice cue, but we continue to work on it.

I have also begun to work on having him put his head down with my hand on the crest of his neck, about halfway down.  I am teaching this the same way I taught the poll cue, step by step.  At this time, I am beginning with my hand on his poll, them moving it to the middle of his crest.  Once he has this down, I will practice with both of these cues, then move to the next one.  This will be having him follow my hand downward.  We will discuss this in the next column.

Remember, if there is already something that causes your pony to lower his head, use that as the first cue you teach.  For instance, if your pony lowers his head when you stroke his muzzle, then use touching his muzzle as the cue to begin to teach him to lower his head.  Any time you can take something that your pony is already doing, and put it on cue, you are ahead of the game.

Until then, happy clicking!
EagleGirl

Member Photo Gallery

from Keely

The palomino is Studson the other is Snickers

from Ajaxsluver101

from DesertStrong

Hey there, club pony pals! I'm DesertStrong, and I'd like to show you some pictures of my horse, Sweet Revenge. I bought her about two months ago. She's a 4 year old 17.1hh Warmblood mare, pretty much done growing. We compete in everything, but here are some pictures of our first dressage show together. Thanks!

Dedicated to Whiskywoo for Flopsy

by Kell27 (look for my card in the Postcard winning section!)

by Tamikia

This is a lipizzan that I drew. The L on his cheek shows that he is a purebred Lipizzan, the marks on his side are his breeding marks.(the M is the sign for his mother and the other symbol is his fathers sign.) The L with the crown below it on his flank shows that he was bred in Lippizza. ( the place where the breed originated.)in this picture he is doing a ballotade, where the horse jumpes with his legs tucked underneath him, only the strongest horses can do it. CPP ROCKS!~Tamikia

by Jesnay

by Cory101

Walker horse

Arab Stallion

Western Adventurer's Club

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"We all love horses; we ride them, care for them and love them. But yet so many of us punish our horses for behaviour we think is bad, when really, the horse is trying to tell us that something is wrong. Why not take the time, today, to go out there and find out what your horse is trying to tell you. After all, wasn't life with a horse meant to be free of misunderstandings? If you take the time to listen to your horse, your horse will listen to you, obey you, and respect you even more. "
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