By jove, she’s got it!! Little Ellie is really going great guns on learning fabulous emotional (impulse) control. Frustration induced by appetitives (most especially food) is one of the emotions that we can often see in our horses and the emotion can very easily end up getting included within external behaviours we train them if […]
I am sure everyone is busy with last minute wrapping and organising for tomorrow’s festivities. However, in a day or two from now we will wonder what all the fuss was about, because ultimately Christmas is all about being close to those that matter, i.e. in person, by card or email etc., not just the […]
Would you like to create a bombproof, non-spooky horse? One who defaults to your side at liberty when it experiences anything frightening? This picture is the visual representation of the orienting response or freeze response. It is an involuntary physiological and behavioural response to an aversive stimulus which threatens to disrupt physical or psychological homeostasis. What […]
From May when she arrived, until about a month or so ago, I’ve been focussed on an in depth counter conditioning programme with Ellie (my 3 year old). Although she hadn’t had all that much handling or training, what she had had was pretty aversive and the result was A LOT of avoidance and escape […]
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