Cabin of the Week Contest

Enter to win 1000 bucks for your decorating skills!
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Last Week's Cabin Winner EagleGirl   Send contests@clubponypals.com an email telling us the username's cabin you want to enter. Rules are: Each week three cabins will be chosen from the entries for member voting. Members can enter enter as often as they like, but winners cannot enter this contest again for six months. Look for more new fun furniture items soon. Have a request for something you want to add? Let us know!

Drawing of the Week Contest

by Maid Mairain

"Anna and Angel" is a painting of a pony I once rode for 6 hours straight.
She was blind in one eye but she was rightfully called Angel.

by Anniepk

Winner gets 500 Wiggins bucks, and their art is made into a painting for members' cabins. If you want to enter, send your art to the Contests@ClubPonyPals.com or mail it to:

Club Pony Pals
16654 Soledad Canyon Road #382
Canyon Country, CA 91387 USA

If you want a sticker and bookmark make sure and include a mailing address where we can send it!

Vote for your favorite caption for this cartoon--

Write a caption for this --

Can you write the winning funny caption for this cartoon? Deadline is Thursday of this week. Email it to Contests@clubponypals.com

Look for the entries in the next week's e-newsletter and vote for your favorite.

Winning caption gets 500 bucks, runners-up get 100 W bucks each. Captions should be short.

or draw a cartoon --

We are looking for cartoon artists, too. Draw one and email it to us by Thursday.

If it is selected, you can earn 500 Wiggins bucks! Hint -- for this contest, please draw your cartoon in black and white. If you want to enter, send your art to Contests@ClubPonyPals.com or mail it to:

Club Pony Pals
16654 Soledad Canyon Road #382
Canyon Country, CA 91387 USA

Envelope Art Contest! Win 100 Wiggins Bucks!

by Nat2

Letter from EagleGirl: Clicker Club Training Column
How to Begin Clicker Training:
Charging the Clicker

This week we are going to talk about how to begin clicker training. The first step in clicker training is to teach your animal that the click is followed by a treat. This is called "charging the clicker". Some trainers skip this step, others swear by it. I personally like it, because it is easy, it is fun, the animal enjoys it, and when you are done you know for a fact that the animal understands that the click means something positive. And when you are finished, both you and your animal have had success! So I love this part!

To charge the clicker, you need a clicker, your treats and treat bag, and your animal friend. For purposes of explanation I am using a pony. Since I am right handed, I have the clicker looped on my left wrist, and I feed treats with my right hand. I use a canvas nail apron for a treat bag. So, you put on your treat bag, loop your clicker over your wrist, and go out to your pony. Love on him, pet him, do whatever you usually do when you go out. Then you are ready to charge the clicker. Stand in front of your pony, and take your hands off him. Put a treat in your right hand and close your fist around it. Put your hand at your side. Stand for a moment or two, then click. Immediately move your hand to the pony's muzzle, opening it so he can get the treat. Put another treat in your hand, put your hand at your side, wait a moment, click After the first few treats, you can wait a second or two before moving your hand to treat your pony. Watch your pony. Does he begin to look for the treat? If so, this means he is associating the sound of the click with the appearance of the treat. Once he begins to do this, you can move to the next step. Wait until you click to reach for the treat. Click, then reach into your bag and pull out the treat, then offer it to him. When you begin your clicker training, the timing of the treat is secondary. The timing of the click is the most important thing, because it marks the exact moment the pony exhibits the behavior you want. But while you are charging the clicker, you don't have to worry about that. You are simply teaching him that the click is followed by a treat.and immediately treat. Repeat this process as often as you need to.

How do you know when he "gets it"? Simple. You observe him. Clicker training is not only going to help your pony/dog/cat/other animal learn new things painlessly and enjoyably, but it is going to sharpen your powers of observation, and build a bond between you and your animal. You will find as you progress that you will become more and more in tune with each other. To me, this is one of the very best things about clicker training!

There, now you have "charged the clicker", and your pony understands that when he hears a click, he gets a treat! Some animals require one session. Other animals require a couple of sessions, or even more. My mule got it after about three clicks. My neighbor's horse needed several sessions, but he did finally get it.

Next week we're going to talk about the basic tenet of clicker training - breaking a task down into tiny steps. Happy clicking!

~ EagleGirl

Member Art Gallery:

by Ajaxsluver101

by 123lalachacha

Play These Games to Earn Wiggins Bucks

 

Play these to earn bucks! Each week, that week's highest scoring

Scavenger Hunt
Winner gets 3000 Wiggins bucks,
next nine members scores below that get 500 bucks each.

 

 

"Scavenger Hunt "

EHL

ole miss

HorseRidingQueen

rene

caroline97

muffin1013210132

CheddarLov

cinnimon

santana

horserox

 

Pony Pal Derby
Race your pony to earn Wiggins bucks!
Each week the derby game's highest scoring player earns 3000 Wbucks.
500 Wbucks goes to each of the next nine highest scores.

 

"Pony Pal Derby"

Dollie

RogueMustangMare

Jessie_198

emi_bunny

Carolol10

LunaLight

Lianna Tiki Cruise

horse_freak4ever

Kazzandra

Zanrio

 

Math Games
High scoring players in addition,
subtraction or multiplication earn 500 Wiggins bucks,
next nine players who have high scores earn 100 bucks each.

 

"Add Like Mad"

wombat165

LunaLight

orperry14

CoolGuy

missy30

Goofybeeps180

Nanna06

eatsleepjump

Hiiny9

JAD

 

 

"Subtraction Action"

wombat165

LunaLight

eatsleepjump

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Jessba Baker

Chirgis

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"Multiplication Station"

SallyHorse

Jessie_198

LunaLight

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Hiiny9

ashwells

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JAD

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Pony Pal Thoughts for the Day:

They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
Kate Millett

Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was probably an illusion.
Cormac McCarthy All the Pretty Horses.

Horses and children, I often think, have a lot of the good sense there is in the world.
Josephine Demott Robinson