shawnakarrasch

Wow! I just saw your video and it is really helpful. I am glad I found you! Thanks! Tiffany

Hi, Shawna. It's Elisha Jennings-Snavely. I found these boards on accident today. I searched for CT threads and OF COURSE found you in a thread. :) Thought I would come say howdy.

Well Punks, you and your mare have come a long way! Congratulations! I was just talking in another thread about CT, that its one of many tools we use and everyone uses food to train horses even if...

Wildcat that sounds just exactly like what I want - do I go about training it the way explained? We've been trapped in the house the past few days - we're all going stir crazy. I'm gonna teach them...

Yep just like that. Mat training (stationing is also an incredibly handy tool to have!) Posted via Mobile Device

Thanks. The link only takes me to the sales pitch about the DVD, but I'll do a Youtube search and see what I find.

Neat!! I feel like CT somehow empowers a horse, in that they know how to do something (like touch a target)... they just have to apply it to something new or scary (like entering the barn). It's...

When I first started CT I relapsed several times. I had to prove to myself it was really better. I still have small relapses but now it's over small things like tugging a lead rope harder than I...

I have GOT to post up my experience today. I have to say the first half of this will be hard for me to admit publicly - but I'm SO proud of what we did today I just have to explain!! So my mare...

I wasn't sure if I should put this under health or training, but oh well, maybe you guys will have health answers too! So a 16.3 hh, 3 year old standardbred I bought in December has been having a few...

I think I would avoid the laying down, bowing type stuff if she's already sore. I don't do clicker training myself, but I've watched people that do, it's pretty neat.

If she's only 3yo I would be doing very little riding on her, no trotting or cantering yet, for at least another couple of years at least. A horse's vertebral growth plates don't 'close' until around...

LOVE it! That's so cool! Makes me want to stretch

DINGDINGDING we have a winner! ;)

Ask and you shall receive :-) Garzo in all of his stretching glory: Garzo Performing His "Cat Stretch" - YouTube It's not as obvious in soft footing as it is on the concrete of the cross ties,...

Yesterday I was watching a training dvd whereby the trainer would ride each horse to clarify to the rider what she was asking. There were a lot of pats and "good boys" which didn't seem to register...

Shawna - thank you, good to know I'm on the right track :) Unfortunately I'm not her daily care taker, the woman who is, is about the most wonderful woman in the world, but she's raging with emotions...