Clicker Training for Your Horse [Paperback]

New full-color edition!

Now Alexandra Kurland's classic volume on equine clicker training is available in a deluxe hardcover edition packed with full-color photographs. Produced by our British co-publisher, Ringpress, this special edition of Clicker Training for Your Horse will stand up to years of reading and reference. It also makes an elegant and enduring gift for every friend you would like to introduce to the power of clicker training. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Clicker training is the revolutionary new method which has taken the world of training by storm. It was originally developed by Karen Pryor when training dolphins and is established as the leading force-free method of training dogs. Now clickers are proving especially effective with horses.

In Clicker Training For Your Horse, top equine trainer and behaviorist Alexandra Kurland provides an entertaining and enlightening introduction to the principles of clicker training, and shows how it can be used to overcome common problems.

Throughout the book, Alexandra draws on her own personal experiences, showing how she has tackled various difficulties through the magic of the clicker. From a foal's fear of clippers, and bridling a head-shy horse, to dealing with an adult's aggression or refusal to trailer-load, Alexandra describes each of the steps she has taken in a programme to transform her students into well-mannered, obedient and reliable individuals.

Clicker training is not confined to overcoming proglems or difficult behaviour, its uses are limited only by your imagination. It can be used for refining your horse's riding skills or teaching him to lift his feet up for you to check...the sky's the limit! --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Alexandra Kurland earned her B.S. degree from Cornell University, where she specialized in animal behavior. In the 1980's she studied with Linda Tellington-Jones and bedcame a TTEAM Practitioner. The other major influence on her riding at that time came from the high school dressage traiiner, Bettina Drummond. In the early 1990's she added John Lyons' training into the mix to develop her own teaching program, "Riding In a state of Excellence." In 1993 she learned about clicker training and began to apply its principles to horses. Since 1996 she has been writing extensively about her experiences with clicker uses.

Her home base is in upstate New York.

She is the author of three children's books. The Kenyon Bear Books, and she shares her life with her cats and her horses. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.