Separation Anxiety Training - No more barn sour, buddy sour or herd bound horses

[@larissa3526]

love your resources for free but also the CTclub😍👍 its where I started my R+journey and now I am a trainer myself😇💖

[@ConnectionTraining]

Ahh wow that is so wonderful to hear! :)

[@Tam-Solo70]

I really love your teaching style.

[@ConnectionTraining]

Thank you! 😃

[@ArieanaOsterberger]

This is so helpful!! Thanks for the video 😊

[@ConnectionTraining]

You're very welcome :-) Glad it helped!

[@blazequestrian]

Hello! I just found your videos and I really like the way you do things. I'm definitely going to try this out on my very buddy sour horses. On a slightly different topic (I just came from the video where you worked on developing the topline over the course of a few months), I don't have a sand arena or anything like that. When I try to do liberty with my horses they almost always choose the grass. I know it's probably because our relationships aren't as developed yet, but are there any exercises you'd recommend to work on this? Thank you!

[@ConnectionTraining]

Hi! Yeah, working on grass is always tricky. And, if they're on restricted grazing and you're working on lusher grass, it's a veeery strong draw for them! There are a few things I do in this situation. Firstly, can you work in their usual paddock where the grass is already grazed? You can use electric fencing or similar to quickly set up a temporary pen if you need to separate them (it's much more complicated when the whole herd is trying to join in!). If you have to work on lusher grass, then you can either let them have a graze for 20 mins or so first. This can take the edge off and they'll be ready to train. Or, you can work with them and then give them some time to graze afterwards as an extra reward for their training session. Different approaches work better with different horses. Both take some repetition for them to understand it, so stick with the same approach for a couple of weeks and see how it goes. I generally have a rule which is "you don't have to DO anything, but you can't graze." So, I'll usually work them at first on a headcollar and rope so I can limit them grazing. You can still have exactly the same conversation as at liberty because you don't need to use the rope for anything other than bringing them back if they go to the grass. They quickly realise the training is fun and rewarding, too, and then you won't need the rope. If you have problems with your horse pulling for grass, there's a video here to start retraining that (though you do need to train this NOT on grass at first if it's an established habit): kzbin.info/www/bejne/a3ayqKV-hr6sgMk Hope that helps and happy horse training 🙂

[@blazequestrian]

@@ConnectionTraining Thank you SO much for taking the time to reply to me! This was very helpful, and I'll definitely be trying it out. Considering winter's coming where I'm at, I think this will be a lovely time to begin training just that, Thank you again!