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'Using Treats as a Training Tool' rates 5 stars!
Sue and Allen produced a superb training DVD.
Allen often manages several horses at once.
Allen Pogue and Suzanne De Laurentis of Imagine a Horse have just released a new DVD titled ‘Using Treats as a Training Tool’ which is a real treat itself!
The DVD explains the basic concepts of clicker training and operant conditioning – the bridge, the reward, and shaping. They demonstrate rewarding for position, rewarding for action and rewarding for focus. In the DVD, Allen and Sue show you how to teach the following behaviors:
- Smile
- Circus Bow
- Pedestal Play
- Park Out
- Salute
- Retrieve
- Toss the Ball
- Roll the Ball
- Jambette
- Spanish Walk
- Open and Close the Gate
- Lay Down
- Come When Called
- Sit Down
Frequently Sue and Allen will relate how a particular trick can be transferred to the trail. They also share with you some very helpful tips. For instance, Allen gives you his ingenious secret to prevent mugging (horses demanding treats) which would also be effective for horses that nip or bite. But I won’t spoil the surprise for you. Get the DVD and you’ll be delighted with his humane and effective technique.
All the trainers, Allen, Sue and their friend Bobbi Colorado, exude quiet and gentle patience. Allen even thanks the horses every time they perform correctly! You see how much they genuinely love their horses, and you just can’t help but like them.
Not a ‘one trick pony’ act, at least five different horses appear in the video – Navegador ‘Gator’, Sombra, Dos, Rafieq, and Sue’s Missouri Fox Trotter.
The film quality is excellent, much better than the majority of horse training DVDs sold on the market. And since ‘content is king’ this DVD rules!
Value priced at $19 plus $4 shipping, ‘Using Treats as a Training Tool’ is the hands-down best training DVD I’ve ever bought!
Get it from Imagine A Horse at http://www.altuit.com/webs/monet/SalesCatalog/TrickHorseTrainingDVDs.htm
Visit Allen and Sue’s website www.imagineahorse.com for more training DVDs, books, toys and equipment.
Sponsored by Start to Finish, maker of my favorite treats, Start to Finish Horse Snacks come in Apple, Licorice, Carrot and Peppermint. Visit www.stfproducts.com
Here's a YouTube video created by a student of Allen's. You can see how gentle, caring and loving he is with the horses.
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Photo Credits
Allen Pogue and Suzanne De Laurentis
Related Links
Start to Finish Horse Snacks
Comments
My pets chiropractor has a horse farm where he sees clients. (He comes to you as well, but I like to take my dogs out there.)
The first time we went he was adjusting a horse in the barn while we waited in the exam room.
We could see it through this big picture window and it was pretty cool. When they were done they could not get the horse reloaded into the trailer.
The owner and handler tried poking it and prodding it while the Dr. blocked the sides. This went on for about 30 minutes.
The Drs. wife who had been driving around the property on an ATV picking up branches had finally had enough I guess.
She pulled up to the barn, got a scoop of something out of a sack, took the reins away from the handler and quietly led the horse into the trailer with it's nose in the scoop all the way.
Why people are reluctant to use food as a motivational tool is beyond me!
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