Lateral movement is possible with R+!
This is why I love virtual coaching so much. We get to make changes in real time and get instant feedback from the equid on whether or not those changes are going to work.
Are you ready to try virtual coaching to train your equid?
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💛 Create a Connection
💛 Build a Bond
💛 Restore Your Relationship
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💥Does your equid keep backing up when you try to work on their feet?💥
The way you move affects the way your equid moves, so if you’re not super clear about when you want your equid to back up and when you want them to stand still, they’ll back up when you try to step to their shoulder.
❌ Staring at their leg, shoulder, or chest can make them back up as you try to move to their shoulder.
✅ Teaching them a stand/stay cue and a back up cue can help keep them in place.
✅ Differentiating how you move when you want them to stand still from how you move when you want them to back up will help them stay still.
Sometimes your equid is backing up when you try to handle their feet simply because you haven’t taught them to stand/stay yet.
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Lulu talks to me all the time. She’s the sweetest girl 🌸
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Why train tricks if you still can’t handle your fearful equid?
✅ Improve your training skills.
✅ Improve your equid’s problem solving skills.
✅ Increase the connection and trust between you and your equid by doing something fun that you’re not overly invested in.
What tricks have you taught your equids that you both love?
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It’s all about connection!
Weaving threads that hold you and your equid together.
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My best advice for getting a halter on your equid…
💥STOP TRYING SO HARD💥
✅ Instead, focus on getting your equid super comfortable with touch all around their face, poll, neck, and ears.
✅ Focus on getting them comfortable with the halter being draped all over their head, face, and neck.
✅ Putting your equid’s halter on should be a non-event… just an extension of all the stuff you’ve already done.
⭐️ Do you need help getting your equid haltered? Message me for a link to book your discovery session and let’s get your equid haltered!
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This is a great exercise for your equid’s balance and coordination (it’s harder than it looks!).
It’s also a great exercise for you to learn more about how your equid’s body works and how to use the way you offer food to get the movements you want.
Notice how the way Robin Hood turns his head influences where he steps his hind feet.
Try this exercise with your equid’s and let me know how it goes!
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Training a domestic horse is like putting together a jigsaw puzzle.
You know which pieces are the edge pieces and can easily put together the frame.
You also have the design on the box to reference, making it easy to put together large parts of the puzzle quickly by following that design.
When I’m working with a feral horse and their person, it’s more like cutting the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle myself and drawing a bit of the design on each piece as I go.
People watching us create each piece have no idea how the pieces are all going to fit together or what the picture will be.
Sometimes even my students don’t know what the picture will be until we start putting the pieces together.
There’s always a method to my madness, so when you see videos of my students and you don’t understand why they’re doing something a certain way, it’s because you’re looking at a piece that I’m still drawing and haven’t put together yet.
There’s something about a nice fluffy bed of clean shavings…
When RH came to me, he was too scared to be in a stall. Being trapped with nowhere to run from the scary humans was not on his agenda for sure!
Now he loves his stall and spend a lot of time in it, freely. I never close him in. I can tell he loves fresh shavings too because he spends a lot more time laying down in his stall, and rolling, when the shavings are fresh.
I feel like keeping a deep bed of shavings available for your horse is one of the ways you can show your appreciation for all the hard work they do, especially if you have to keep them in a stall.
Horses deserve a clean and comfortable bed.
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Gotta boop the snoot!
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Blu’s person didn’t think he’d eat out of her hand during our first session, but she was in for a welcome surprise! 🤩
❤️ Trust takes time but with the right combination of communication and openness, it doesn’t take as long as you’d think! ❤️
➡️ Ready to get started building a bond with your fearful equid? Message me and I’ll send you a link to schedule your discovery session!
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💡Don’t give up when you can break it down!💡
Lots of times when their equids aren’t OK with something, people will just stop 🚫 doing the thing and move on to something else.
And sometimes this is a valid option! ✅
▶️ But most of the time, whatever your equid is not ok with, can be broken down into smaller, easier steps.
▶️▶️ When you find the step where your equid can be successful, you can start there and build back up to the original behavior you were trying to get.
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