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REINFORCEMENT (Psychology); HORSE training; ANIMAL behavior; REWARD (Psychology)

You will also need your clicker and a pouch with rewards that are easy to deliver and that your horse loves - you can even use your horse's daily grain ration if he likes it. Georgia Bruce, an Australian-based clicker trainer and creator of Click with Horses, has an online program that includes everything from starting a horse to advanced ridden maneuvers. GETTING STARTED To start clicker training, you first have to "load the clicker", meaning you have to teach the horse that when he hears that sound, a reward is coming. [Extracted from the article]

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