George had his first experience with the saddle pad the other day. Just a quick 7min introduction at the end of our session, so he wasn’t quite as confident with it as I will want him to be just yet. But nevertheless, he did really well! and it really goes to show the difference between a horse who’s never had a bad experience with new (human introduced) stimuli vs a horse who’s training history is more muddled with potentially aversive stimuli. For a uncut version of the whole process and my explanation of what my process is check out the video on YouTube 👇🏻 https://youtu.be/arw20LeSX8A?si=iRHyYUohhg98eS_O

Despite only having a rather short session today (due to oddly warm weather and annoying flies) we made good progress on our “walk on” cue. Despite some distractions 😂🐐 Especially since George is *hopefully* going to be driven one day, it’s important for him to not only understand walk forward on cue, but specifically to walk away in front of me. It’s one thing to follow directions while having a person in front of him (this is easy to George, who’s a in-your-lap-kinda personality) but another when you have to walk away from them! Today I felt like he finally gained the confidence & understanding I was looking for in this behaviour. So now it’s all about expanding that, by increasing the distance in between the cones, and then, practice, practice, practice!

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Imo, a better use of it anyway🤷🏻‍♀️😅👏🏻 #horse #horses #draft #percheron #aqh #horse #horses #horsesoftiktok #positivereinforcement #horsetraining #positivereinforcementtraining #forcefree #horsemanship #forcefreehorsemanship #liberty #libertyhorse #libertyhorsemanship #libertytraining

Replying to @Treeesh she’s doing good! Just taking a social media break atm😉