Force-Free Training

”I’ve had horses all my life”, the most regressive phrase in horse keeping and training

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Believe it or not, the phrase “I’ve had horses all my life” or “I have been around horses 20+ years” or any variation on that theme is in no way a qualification.  In many cases it also does not indicate an understanding of what horses need from an ethological perspective.  It often doesn’t even suggest any real …

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What is Force-Free Training?

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❓Do you know the difference between positive reinforcement and negative reinforcement? ❓Do you know of other force-free techniques? ❓Do you know what happens when an aversive training method and a force-free training method are mixed together? ❓Would you recognise which technique/s are being used in training? ❓Do you know why each method works? ❓Do you …

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