Ridecamp: Re: [RC] food aggression/respecting my space

> No flaming, but I'd be very interested to hear HOW you do this?  I have very
> limited understanding of clicker training, have only ever seen it used
> successfully in training a new behaviour, not un-doing an existing vice.
> Not denying it can be done, but would like to hear how you do it?

You pretty much have the answer yourself. You teach another desired behaviour
which can''t be done at the same time as the undesired behaviour. Horses tend to
be pretty highly motivated, so they can learn very quickly. For horses who mob
or trample you at feed time, can be taught to take 4 steps back and wait for a
release, or move to a particular part of the paddock and wait for a release.
Lots of people inadvertently make horses behave badly around food by rewarding
poor behaviour.... eg, the horse rushes you, you get a fright and drop the food
(and run for the gate), the horse is rewarded, and learns that if he rushes you
he gets his food faster, and being that he is very motivated by food, he rushes
you every time he thinks you have food to get it quickly, which can be downright
dangerous.

> Personally, my response to food aggression is simple : if you don't show me
> manners, you don't eat, mate.

:-) , same principle, do what you want - get food faster, don''t do what you
want - food takes forever.

CD


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