The Click That Teaches: A Step-By-Step Guide in Pictures

The click that teaches

by Alexandra Kurland

"The Click That Teaches: A Step-By-Step Guide in Pictures is packed with over 600 photos. This comprehensive training guide will take you from clicker basics to to advanced training. Even if you are a novice handler, you'll find these step-by-step lessons easy to follow. And for the experienced clicker trainer, you will enjoy finding the "clickable" moment in the training sequences. Develop your timing, develop your eye with these step-by-step lessons.
The Book covers:
* Clicker Basics: Getting Started with the Clicker
* The Three foundation Lessons of a Clicker-Trained Horse: Targeting, Backing and Head lowering
* Ground Manners
* Accepting Shots, Clippers, and other Practical Skills
* Trick Training
* Advanced Leading Lessons for Safety and Performance
Plus:
* Creating a Safe Horse: Alternatives to Punishment
* Super Clicking: The Principles of Training and the Pre-Ride Checklist
* A Horse's Bill of Rights
* Training Tips and Terms

Genres: Horses, Animals

Paperback

Published December 30, 2003

About the author

Alexandra Kurland has been teaching and training horses since the mid-1980s as a dressage specialist and an accredited Ttouch practitioner. She began clicker training in the early 1990s, recognizing the power of the method for improving performance and enhancing the relationship between people and their horses. Alexandra teaches the use of clicker training for all equine needs and sports, from providing a gentle, companionable personal riding horse to halter training foals, training advanced performance horses, and reforming difficult and unmanageable horses. She travels widely giving hands-on clicker training seminars in the US and internationally. The author of Clicker Training Your Horse, The Click that Teaches, Riding with the Clicker, and several instructional videos, Alexandra's work is also featured in Panda: A Guide Horse for Ann (Rosanna Hansen, Boyds Mill Press, 2005), a photographic picture book for children about Panda, the miniature seeing eye horse she clicker trained. A graduate of Cornell University, where she specialized in animal behavior, and the author of a series of children's books, Alexandra lives in upstate New York with her horses and her (clicker trained) cats.

Reviews

[Christen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book but need to keep for reference. I'm certain I haven't digested everything but have been clicker training for months now.

[Milena Boyadzhieva · Rating 5 out of 5]

Whether on or not you intend to clicker train your horse, I think this book is an excellent read for every horse owner and/or rider.

[Shelby · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent!