If you are a horse owner or know anything about horses and plastic bags, then you know that it is quite the accomplishment when you can get your horse to accept it near, touching or on him. In this video, I am introducing Taser to the plastic bag tied onto the wand with a short […]
This is not the first time Taser has worn the saddle. However, he is still initially fearful of any objects that approach him that has nothing to do with food. In this video, you will see me playing Catching Game with the saddle pad followed by the Friendly Game. I want to play lots of […]
This is a video short on teaching Taser how to pick a rider up from the fence. Be warned that this video is completely entertaining and is not educational. Before starting the lesson with Taser, the other 2 in his herd, Troy our Quarter Horse and Juno our BLM mustang, were minding their own business […]
In this video I am teaching Taser to pick me up from the fence. At this point I am not riding him, but instead teaching him what to do when it is time to be ridden. The method used here is like the Driving Game “that teaches the horse to yield from rhythmic pressure without […]
We need your help in raising funds for our new equestrian school. We need to upgrade our facility to make it a safe and stimulating learning environment for our students. Once we have a safe and proper learning environment, we can then carry out our mission of creating homes for mustangs. It is our goal to […]
Today our trainer gave us the okay to start putting a saddle on Taser. Unfortunately we had not captured any video of this event due to lack of camera operator at the time, but we do have a picture to share. Due to all of Taser’s work with the seven games and sacking out over […]
For this weeks video production, I was fortunate enough to have a professional videographer who came out to film me working with Taser. I have to say this is the best video yet! Taser has been under training at our place for about two and a half months now. We just learned from our expert trainer, […]
Creating a solid horse with lots of Friendly Game and sacking Taser out with saddle pad and rope acting as a girth. Notice I slap the pad and pull on the “cinch” 5 times and then reward him with a release. This gives him the opportunity to turn me off by putting up with it […]
Today we worked on the Friendly and Porcupine Games as before. Taser and I did very nicely as we moved through the escalations of each game. Below is a video short on how Taser performed doing the Friendly and Porcupine Game today. We are just showing you the Friendly Game on the legs and using […]