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CAT for horses - helping horses overcome their fears Help horses overcome their fears by giving them the control to change the way they process a fearful object or situation visit us at www.equilog.com.au

Here we try and share CAT stories and other topics of interest that relate to horses that is for their benefit. Yes we are also clicker trainers and you can get all your clicker training needs here from us also - as well as our CAT DVD

09/01/2025

I was asked to provide an article for the German Magazine "dressur-studien" for their issue on stress. It was edited of course for their print run. It seems I cannot attach the full version of my paper on FB for those who need English, but I will add it to the website and provide the link soon

Was wäre, wenn wir uns reitweisenübergreifend darauf einigen könnten, welche Anzeichen wir bei Pferden während des Reitens und der Ausbildung nicht sehen wollen – weil sie nicht pferdegerecht sind? In diesem Heft beleuchten wir (übermäßige) Stress- und Schmerzanzeichen bei Pferden: klare St...

21/11/2024

Here is a link to a great podcast with Dr Sara Hintze on flow. I love the points she makes in the podcast. This is what we focus on with horses when CAT H has done it's job. It is very important that +R does not become just for the sake, so we provide opportunities to set horses up for flow. We also have a workshop on teaching behaviours that will provide opportunities for our horses to experience flow. Here is the podcast and I will attach Dr Hintze paper in the comments.

00:00 Introduction to Research Bites Podcast 00:30 Join the Research Bites Membership 01:08 Introducing Dr. Sara Hintze 02:01 Dr. Hintze's Journey into Animal Welfare 04:43 The Evolution of Animal Welfare Science 06:22 Und...

04/10/2024

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Balance Through Movement Method™ is a revolutionary approach to classical training, centered around treating and preventing nerve and spinal compression and solving undiagnosed lameness. This performance training system is designed to help the horse achieve optimum balance and strength through the...

01/10/2024

Agghh I am going to spend some time on getting this into practice!

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31/05/2024

I was helping a lovely man the other day understand common signs of the equine pain face and although I referred him to the freely available paper written (and researched by Dr Gleerup), he told me that the short video I also referred him to where Dr Gleerup explains her now very well recognised research was helpful before he read the paper. So, although I don't agree with the commentators note about 'respect' and ears, the video link is worth sharing again. Always when I go and meet a new horse in person or on line, pain is always the first thing I want to eliminate the best I can - we are lucky we have these resources, so that we can immediately refer our new clients to a veterinarian, and or help the carer of the horse recognise when the immediate issue is not training, but pain. The link to Dr Gleerup's paper is at the end of the video

Wouldn't it be cool if animals, horses in particular could talk like TV's 'Mr Ed' or 'Dr Doolittle'? Turns out horses ARE trying to communicate with their v...

24/04/2024

Celeste-Leilani Lazaris has released Pillar one from her wonderful program to the public. Celeste's process has really helped me help Star - we are still working on it, but it has been great for us. I need to start videoing again - been a crazy year, soon......I hope. Enjoy the freebee

Pillar One is a Space in Balance Through Movement Method Academy. Join us to share your tips, tricks and stories with other members.

30/03/2024

I don't usually advertise on this site, but my friend has just released a beautiful book. So those who want an awesome coffee table book with the most wonderful ethologically relevant photographs visit Lynn Scott's website here

The first book, available now for purchase is A Horse Story of Wildness. Discover the magic of living in harmony and connection with the Moon Mountain herd. Lynn takes you on a journey with the herd who share life at Moon Mountain.

07/02/2024

A new paper has been recently published and it discusses The least inhibitive, functionally effective (LIFE) model for animal welfare when training. What I love about the model and how it might be seen as a more inclusive model than LIMA is the emphasis on function (which is what CAT H is all about). We have to understand the importance of how a behaviour functions for our horse in order to understand any procedure in terms of functionality for both the horse and his or her trainer/carer. The paper is open access and a webinar where Dr. Fernandez presented his views is available and the link is in the comments. There are some real gems in the webinar - so Dr. Fernandez presents his views for the first hour (just under) and then there are questions and answers. I was pleased that he spoke of the difficulty of contrived aversives. For us this is close to our hearts as some folks have taken CAT H and ran with it, without truly understanding how function is important and we have seen videos where the threshold of the horse is not honoured. This is a form of a contrived aversive (1:20) - so say the horse is afraid of a person and we are seeking to change the horses mind about people. The person would stand BEYOND the threshold and begin their CAT H training there. A person standing inside the threshold (in the red or even to the point of the yellow zone) is placing the horse in fear - it can be seen by the horse as positively punishing the horse by standing within the threshold and removing the punishment (the person) when the horse stands still. This is not CAT H, but of course as CAT H done well is slower than watching paint dry some trainers do not have the time or their audiences the patience to watch paint dry. This is why CAT H done badly does not work and does more harm than good for the horse. Anyway off my soap box now I am back from my break. Here is the link to the paper: press view PDF

The ethics of animal training procedures have seen dramatic changes in the last few decades, with a movement toward reward-based training methods. The…

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