Comments on: Do you click at your horse?

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 17:03:13 +0000

Why would I click at a horse? I’ve never understood why some people do that. I suppose it’s no more silly than saying “excuse me!” To tell a horse to stop kicking or striking. Except excuse me has been a command since he was a yearling.

By: Madison

Madison — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 04:39:36 +0000

I click to my horse for him to go, and it works, but it’s only different horses that it does different for them

By: DD

DD — Mon, 09 Jun 2014 14:31:41 +0000

Sorry, this is bad information. Horses vocalize all the time.
They certainly understand clucks. I have clicker trained
several horses, they know the difference between
a click, a cluck and a kiss. They know whistles and
shushing noises.

I recommend taking this advice with a grain of salt.

Dogs aren’t that vocal and some understand
dozens or even hundreds of sounds.

Horses are just as aware.

By: ange carter

ange carter — Sun, 11 May 2014 22:46:57 +0000

Massively overused, as is the phrase “good Boy” or girl
These utterances are so habitual with some ppl that neither the human or the horse hears them anymore.
Nothing wrong with clicking if you have made it relate to a specific action or attitude, but please don’t randomly click at other ppl’s horses or click to compensate for bad balance or lack of aids and then expect a perfect result.

By: candy

candy — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 19:23:39 +0000

In reply to Jose. how does your horse indicate crying?

By: Kate

Kate — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 18:04:28 +0000

In reply to Jose.

Man, reading your post makes me feel so sad for your horse! He doesn’t have pasture and lives in a stall all the time? He was “tortured” before and “cries” with fear of being hit….which you won’t do UNLESS HE IS BAD? What kind of idiot, cruel person are you to hit your horse after a history of abuse? If I knew where you were, I would call the humane society and have your abused horse removed to safety. You are a danger to your animal!

By: Janet

Janet — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 12:33:04 +0000

In reply to Dr Jane Perry. Dr Jane Perry - I use clicker training as well, it is amazing what the horses will happily do. They love to work, and communication is so much better.

By: kara

kara — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 13:36:14 +0000

I use to click at my horse but then was taught to communicate with my horse using body language and to move her into any gait or direction with just my body movements including stop. I discovered that horses hear people constantly jabbering but really only hear the first part of words anyways. And clicking was just a distraction instead that separated human jabbering to get their attention. So my trainer retrained me to communicate like another horse with my horse. I’ve noticed that none of my comments are posted so probably this communication will never be read. However I’ve enjoyed all of your comments and appreciate your deep love for horses. I think you are all great, Have a great life and never give up your horses. 😛

By: Hollis Gammon

Hollis Gammon — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 03:35:43 +0000

Word of caution, If you are in a show ring and use voice commands of any type the person near you can pick up that your horse reacts to voice commands and start using voice commands and your horse will react.
Since their horse doesn’t work from voice commands it
will only affect your horse. I know this is cheap, BUT it happens.

By: anjiib

anjiib — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 13:03:47 +0000

Many stables I visit use click to let the horse know to move for example when they have their rump to the door of the stall. It is fairly universal and the horses are comfortable with it and just move for you. I work with a lot of horses that.owners or trainers think are troublesome. I want to share with you that many of the issues I find are that the horse wants such to do the right thing, but it us more often than not our inconsistencies in instruction that confused them. Unfortunately many of them get punished for not understanding, and they actually spend a lot of energy.trying to figure out what they have done wrong. This sets them on a pathway towards stress and anxious behaviour. They communicate to me ( and usually using the exact phrasing of the’person’ that’ I am not the dumb mongrel, YOU are because you ate inconsistent and your instruction is nonsensical to me. ‘ these horses.lose respect.for that person, and eventually this leads to deep resentment. So learn to observe not only your horses reactions, but also and more importantly your use of signals. In.e. you click at me to move away from the stall door, so why the heck are you clicking the same way here on the track?