appalachian-eventer:muscle-horse-appreciation:The same kind of basic pressure and release approach t
appalachian-eventer:muscle-horse-appreciation:The same kind of basic pressure and release approach that was used to get Falkor used to being touched by humans. I have him haltered on a short contact and approach him with the clippers on, if he moves away he’s pivoting around in a forehand turn and I follow him around maintaining the clippers in the same position until he stops moving and settles before patting him and turning off the clippers (releasing the pressure). And keep doing sessions like that, working up to having the body of the clippers vibrating against his neck, and gradually having the body of the clippers (as of this morning) vibrating on the topline of his neck, which is the scarier bit. It’ll probably take me a few more sessions to actually start using the clippers to buzz the hair itself because he’s just a baby.R+ would almost definitely be way faster and easier, why use pressure/release for something so simple? I’m speaking as someone who DOES use pressure release, not an R+ purist. I don’t think what I’ve just described is either difficult or time consuming. He’s a two year old, I doubt any training method would get him acclimated to getting his mane clipped in less than an hour, which is how long I estimate this method will take to train him, though it’s spread across a number of days in overall sessions of about ten minutes because of his youth and inexperience. -- source link
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