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What Makes Someone a “Clicker Trainer” ?
What makes someone a clicker trainer as opposed to someone who trains with a clicker in their hand? Let me start by giving a definition of clicker training (as defined by Karen Pryor, KPCT); “Clicker training” is an animal training … Continue reading
Christmas Gift Vouchers
Don’t struggle with knowing what to buy your horsey friends for Christmas,buy them a Gift Voucher for our Online Shop. The vouchers can be redeemed against any item in the shop, including Simple System Feeds, Biovorm Equine Care Products and … Continue reading
Posted in Books n DVDs, clicker training, Stuff !, Video Consultations
Tagged amanda martin, clicker training, clicker training clinics, clicker training courses, clicker training horses, clicker training videos, horse clicker training, horse clicker training courses, horse clicker training videos, horse training, horse training by video, learning about clicker training videos, the click that teaches, video consultations for horse trainers
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Keep Yourself Motivated Through the Winter Months
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S.M.A.A.R.T. Horses Second Video on Horse Hero
Horse Hero Featuring The S.M.A.A.R.T. Horse Company The second of the series of S.M.A.A.R.T. Horse Company videos has been published on Horse Hero. A short clip of the video is presented on our web site. The full video can be … Continue reading
S.M.A.A.R.T. Horses Featured on Horse Hero
Horse Hero Features S.M.A.A.R.T. Horses We are very excited to let everyone know that the of the series of S.M.A.A.R.T. Horse Company videos has been published on Horse Hero. A short clip of the video is presented below on our … Continue reading
Horse Hero Filming
S.M.A.A.R.T. Horse Company Film With Horse Hero A while ago the S.M.A.A.R.T. Horse Company was contacted by Fiona Price at Horse Hero about Clicker Training for the web site. One of the aims of Horse Hero is to “offer a … Continue reading
What Makes a Reward Rewarding?
This is a fantastic article by Kay Laurence about rewards. Although written about dogs all of what she writes is very applicable to horses. Enjoy ! Amanda S.M.A.A.R.T. Horse Company What Makes a Reward Rewarding? By Kay Laurence on 10/01/2011 … Continue reading
The Click That Teaches Facebook Group
The Click That Teaches Facebook Group Facebook has so many useful resources available within it. One of those great resources for any clicker trainer is Alexandra Kurlands work. As well as her books and DVDs, her worldwide clinics and more, … Continue reading
What is a Clicker Trainer ?
What is a Clicker Trainer ? What is clicker training? A question I am asked almost daily is “what is clicker training?”. It’s a fairly straight forward question, and as my experience, knowledge and understanding of clicker training and the … Continue reading
Posted in clicker training, Learning Theory
Tagged alexandra kurland, amanda martin, behavioural science, clicker training, horse clicker training, Horse trainer, horse training, learning theory, operant conditioning, smaarthorses, the clicker center, what is a clicker trainer, what is clicker training
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Clicker Clinics with S.M.A.A.R.T. Horses, 2012
Clicker Training Clinics with S.M.A.A.R.T. Horses – 2012 Below is our list of clinic, lesson and distance education courses for the first part of 2012. If you would like to book on a clinic, or enquire about a clinic please … Continue reading
What are Habituation and Sensitisation ?
What are Habituation and Sensitisation ? Habituation is the gradual reduction or waning of a response to a non-harmful stimulus in the environment (e.g. plastic bags) with frequent presentation of the stimulus. Successful habituation is dependent on the following; the … Continue reading
Posted in Horse Behaviour, Learning Theory
Tagged amanda martin, classical conditioning, clicker training, Conditioned emotional response, counter conditioning, desensitisation, habituation, horse, horse training, Learning, long term potentiation, Reinforcement, saliency, sensitisation, sensitisation of behaviours, Sensitization, smaarthorses
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Clicker Training In Kent, Surrey and Sussex – January 2012
28 January @ 10am Clicker Training Demonstration in Canterbury Everyone welcome. Learn about clicker training, how it works, why it works, see how you can apply it to day-to-day life with your horse and learn how to get started yourself … Continue reading
Why clicking and correction don’t mix
The Poisoned Cue: Positive and Negative Discriminative Stimuli By Karen Pryor on 06/25/2002 Why clicking and correction don’t mix Behavior analysts refer to a learned stimulus that triggers an operant behavior as a ‘discriminative stimulus.’ The behaviorists do not, as … Continue reading
Should I Use Time Outs in My Training ?
Should I Use Time Outs in My Training ? What is a Time Out ? A time out is when you give the horse space from you during a training session. It’s not like a time out for children in … Continue reading
Over-Excitement and Dropping While Clicker Training ?
Why Does My Gelding Drop While We are Clicker Training ? This is a question that comes up every now and again and I hear many thoughts on why gelding drop when we are training with them. Having worked with … Continue reading
Posted in clicker training, Horse Behaviour
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Learn About Clicker Training With S.M.A.A.R.T. Horses
Clicker Training; Options for Learning At S.M.A.A.R.T. Horses we offer a variety of ways to learn how to clicker train with your horse. These include distance education with our online Clicker College as well as a variety of face to … Continue reading
Practice Makes Perfect
Clicker Training Horses Practice Makes Perfect I am sure everyone has heard this more than once; practice makes perfect. And it is true. If we practice something we create both muscle memory and neural connections in our brain that mean … Continue reading
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Tagged alexandra kurland, amanda martin, clicker training, clicker training horses, finding the smallest try, getting to yes, horse clicker training, horse training, microshaping, muscle memory, neural connections, positive reinforcement, Reinforcement, smaart horses, smaarthorses, the click that teaches
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Why Clicker Training Works for Horses
Why Clicker Training Works for Horses I’ve been using clicker training to train horses (training young horses, old horses, problem horses all horses) for a number of years now, with stunning results. It’s such a fun way to train and … Continue reading
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Clicker Training Horses – Problem Solving
Clicker Training Horses Can We Train Horses to Problem Solve ? Clicker training our horses can be so much fun, for both horse and handler. And the more we clicker train with them the more we see simple behaviours evolve … Continue reading
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