I've worked with the Anderson's before and highly recommend their story contests! Based out of Minneapolis, they write and compile stories about the wonder of...
The magazine Western Horseman is doing a Yea-Nay poll about the USDA's proposed National Animal Identification System (NAIS). The poll is on the lower left...
If anyone is in need of a nurse mare there is one available near Cincinnati, OH. She's a first-time mom but was very attentive with her colt and had no ...
From Julie Williams Another press release from AMHA--please forward this to other lists. Suzy Lucine Win a Morgan! AMHA's "Team Morgan" is conducting an essay...
It is memorial day here in the USA. A day set aside to honor those who have given the ultimate sacrifice to there country. I also use it to remember those who...
Neil, Thanks for sharing about Red. You portrayed him as the great soul that he was, and a fine teacher for you. You might consider entering this in the horse...
I thot you might like to know of upcoming interviews, especially when I saw that Jane Savoie would be on the show this month! Julie Williams ... From:...
For you Natural Horsemanship types, I wanted to let you know Leslie Desmond (NH author with Tom Dorrance) will be on TheWowFactorRadio, July 2 !! YEA! -Kris ...
Mailer 10 TheWowFactorRadio www.TheWowFactorRadio.com June 11 TheWowFactorRadio.com has taken the next step! This week you'll see VIDEO with the interview!...
In case you have missed some of the interviews on WowFactorRadio, you can click on this link to listen to replays. There are some great interviews here and you...
Tonight's guest on www.TheWowFactorRadio.com is a fascinating fellow who is a classical equitation based WESTERN rider!?? He is a wrangler and rider for ...
A quick note to let you know The View From My Saddle Blog<http://360.yahoo.com/theviewfrommysaddle> has a new article. A review and synopsis of Dr. Robert...
Hi All, Have awoken (in a fashion) from a work induced coma!!! I promised Neil months ago that I would try to get a topic up and running that I had been...
Why do you think food is the only way to R+? Tam (I rarely if ever use food and I know that I am using R+) [Non-text portions of this message have been...
ok, your post made it seem as if the taking of food was the important thing. Tam ... From: djrayment To: BeyondBasicsEquineCT@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday,...
... and ... Hi Diana, I think the point is, it's not NECESSARY to add +R to an IR. The behavior is something the animal will do anyway, BECAUSE it's reinforced...
One more thing. Regarding Tam¡¦s sheepdog leaving the sheep/ field insulted by clicking and treating: The way I see this is, since for a BC working sheep is...
... I'm not sure that I'd 'read' the situation as the dog being 'insulted' by clicking and treating. It is a wee bit anthropomorphic for my taste. ;-) (I ...
just to clarify. I clicked my dog exactly three times. I went to her to deliver the treat once, threw the treat to her the second time and the third she...
BTW.....Insulted (as Jord Ann put it) is exactly the image I got from this dog. I have to fly into the face of Clicker Training and say that once experienced...
... I didn't say 'too stressed out to eat'. I said, the reinforcer didn't make sense. It didn't make her 'feel good'. She walked away. If one continued to...
ya, sorry Sharon, never meant to imply that you would accuse me of stressing the dog out. It is a knee jerk reaction to folks new to training with R+ who...
Diana, ... retrieve behaviours (he loves retrieving more than anything in the world!!), and for this I've used food rewards. Again, I've seen no problems what...
... this. Markers are about the predictability, to the animal, of a consequence of behavior. Reinforcers are about the likelihood of a behavior reoccuring....
Hi Jord-Ann, OK you have got me on the vagueness of words like happiness or pleasure. ;-) But still... ... WHY would 'x' reinforcer increase the likelihood of...
... that 'feels ... animal ... I think there is a very complex balance of factors that taken far enough, in some circumstances and maybe more often than we...
... the ... Amygdala: the Neurophysiology of Clicker Training By Karen Pryor on 08/01/2001 Filed in - Karen's Letters - Training Theory About a year ago I gave...
Everything old is new again and round and round we go. When Clicker Training first came on the scene in dogs many moons ago I was already a successful Show Dog...
... then ... click ... This is the way I have been shaping his behaviour up until I started to require him to retrieve multiple objects before I can throw...
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