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Stale Cheerios
http://stalecheerios.com/blog
Goldfish training and other tales of animal training and animal behavior. My blog deals with a variety of species, including dogs, horses, a goldfish, and a handful of zoo animals!
Recent Posts
Going Gaited is Going Positive
Going Gaited is a new online magazine for gaited horses. What’s neat about Going Gaited is that they support positive training and clicker training! Cheryl Ward will be writing a monthly column for the magazine on positive training and what she...
How long does it take to train a horse?
Question: How long does it take to train a horse? Answer: As long as it takes. This is a follow up post to my previous post, In a Whisper or In a Shout? Training under Time Restraints, which discussed training unhandled colts in 2 1/2 hours. Do you ...
December Clicker Carnival is Coming Soon!
Do you blog about positive animal training? Submit your favorite blog post from November to the December edition of the Clicker Carnival, the only blog carnival specifically for positive animal trainers. All submissions related to positive training a...
In a Whisper or In a Shout? Training under Time Constraints
Recently I watched a documentary film called In A Whisper. It’s a DVD of a colt starting challenge that was held in Fort Worth in 2002. The three trainers in the competition, Craig Cameron, Pat Parelli and Josh Lyons, each had 2 1/2 hours to s...
Shimmer Practices Trailer Loading (video)
This is Shimmer’s second day practicing walking into the trailer. Trailer loading can be very frightening to a horse and many people have lots of trouble and training problems trying to get their horse to load into a trailer. With clicker train...
Shimmer Learns to Trailer Load
A trailer is a small, dark, metal box on wheels. For a prey animal like a horse, walking into the mouth of this monster sounds like a pretty scary idea! Shimmer, our little buckskin filly has found a foster home. So, it was high time for her to learn...

