1. How Horses Learn and How YOU Can Benefit
2. Major Horse Library Update News!
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1. How Horses Learn and How YOU Can Benefit
Do you understand how a horse learns and methods
that must be used to help him learn?
A major part of horse training is understanding
how horses associate actions and commands.
For instance, if you’re gonna give ’em
treats from a bucket and you typically give ’em
treats from the bucket, they associate the bucket
with treats. In other words, when they see the
bucket, they get treats.
(BTW – There’s a real danger in keeping treats
in your pocket. Pretty soon the horse learns
where they come from and will bite you trying
to get to them. I would suggest that you never
give treats to a horse by hand.)
What a lot of people don’t understand
about this association thing is when they
walk into the pen to get their horse while
carrying a halter, soon the horse associates
the halter with something they don’t like.
If a horse only goes through hard and boring
work because the owner doesn’t think to make
it fun and interesting for their horse, then
it’s no wonder they run from the handler
when they see the halter.
Just like the bucket means treats, the
halter means work – or at least…something
unpleasant. Thus, the trick is to associate
the halter with something positive.
When your horse learns, his learning
by association is done in proportion to his
intelligence and memory, the conspicuousness of
the circumstances, objects, places, and time that
accompany it and the impression on their senses
of sight, hearing, touch, and smell.
The horse learns easier when the actions
or circumstances associated with the thing to be
taught are more conspicuous. Thus, they make a
greater impression if it’s associated with pleasure
rather than non-pleasure. (Non-pleasure can mean
pressure, fear, pain, being scolded, etc.)
What all that means is this.
Say you were teaching Mr. Horse to back up.
So you put your finger into his chest and push to
get him backing off the pressure.
If all you do is release the pressure your
association of what he’s supposed to do isn’t as
obvious as if you would’ve also petted him for
moving off the pressure, talked to him soothingly,
and offer him a pleasant expression from your face.
You see, he had “non-pleasure” from your
finger pokin’ him in the chest. He hears you say
“back” while he feels the pressure. When he moves
off the pressure the “non-pleasure” disappears.
Now…throw in lots of praise and love by
petting him and telling him what a good boy he was
for backing…you double or tripled your
reinforcement of what you want him to do.
Just like us humans, horses flee pain and
gravitate towards pleasure.
Pain can be in the form of a small bit of
pressure from a finger in the chest to being chastised
for doing something wrong.
But give ’em a reason to go towards pleasure
i.e. being petted and talked to soothingly, then
you get a better and deeper response from them.
Make sense?
Oh – by the way – this principle works with kids,
too. Or just about anyone your trying to work with.
A little positive attention and praise goes a long way.
Check out the DVD titles we have – you can learn a lot
watching these professional trainers and how they handle
different situations. Note how they encourage their
horses to get the right response.
http://www.horsetrainingresources.com/DVD.html
One more thing – you can still get the 20% off any
video by using the coupon code VIDEO. That coupon
will expire in the next few days so take advantage
of it now.
http://www.horsetrainingresources.com/DVD.html
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2. Major Horse Library Update News!
Have you checked out The Horse Library? It’s the best
deal on a massive amount of horse training, riding and
horse care information you can find anywhere.
http://www.horsetrainingresources.com/TheHorseLibrary.html
We’re updating it today and tonight with more articles,
more books, and the new Featured Video of Cole Briggs
(2-Disc set) titled:
“Get 100% Improvement Using Simple Reining Techniques”.
Why should you join now?
1. We’ll have 4 DVD titles up for 3 or 4 days then drop
one off. Two of them are 2-DVD sets.
2. You can lock in your membership rate before we increase
it again. As we add more content the rate will
start to go up. You’re guaranteed the rate when you
join now.
3. 2 NEW Books today! We have ALL of our books online,
plus many, many more (and we have more to add as we get time).
4. 18 NEW articles today! We have dozens of articles.
5. 10 NEW audio book/articles today! We already have the
entire Jesse Beery course in audio book form
there as well.
6. We added another movie a couple days ago and we’ll
be adding 3 more in the next few days.
Our web genius is swamped with all the new content
I keep asking him to include in the Library.
All the updates listed above will be put up by tonight.
The point is this – The Horse Library is, and will
continue to be, a tremendous bargain when you consider
the amount of valuable information that is offered.
http://www.horsetrainingresources.com/TheHorseLibrary.html
Wanna know something interesting? Over HALF the members
who joined selected the Lifetime subscription. They
realized that if they got in now that their
investment would keep paying over and over again
as we add videos, books, articles, etc.
We’re committed to making this is most cost-effective
source of horse training, horse riding and horse care
information on the Internet. And we’re well on our
way. Come along and grow with us!
http://www.horsetrainingresources.com/TheHorseLibrary.html
OK – that’s it for today. Please stay safe with your horses!
Charlie
P.S. Use coupon code VIDEO and get 20% off any DVD. The
coupon will expire in the next few days.
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Here’s a great note from James:
“Hello, just wanted to say thank you for the emails you
send. I bought my first horse November 2007. A Tennessee
Walker gelded paint, 7 yrs old.
Didn’t really know much about horses other than getting on
and riding. Didn’t want him to go to the auction. He had a
few problems, hard to catch, biting, kicking, etc. Was really
afraid of him.
But after my purchase of the Jesse Beery Guide, things changed.
My confidence level escalated and I got more respect from my horse.
Have lots more to do with him, but it’s a learning experience that
feels great.
Before my father passed away in November 2006 he said to me.
Son lets build a run in horse stale. I thought to myself.
”Me, get a horse?” One year later, here I am. Now I own two.
All my life I wanted to own a horse but didn’t have the facility
and didn’t know what it took to own one. Everything I heard was
negative. But I took the plunge and it’s been an experience and
well worth it.
Again, I thank you.”
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