SAFETY

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Lesson 2
Essentials

• SAFETY
• ONE step at a time!
• TIMING
• Rate of Reinforcement

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3 Types of Consequences

• Consequences which give Rewards increase a
  behavior.
• Consequences which give Punishments decrease a
  behavior. (Remember, though NEVER PUNISH A FEAR
  BASED BEHAVIOR! This means horses!)
• Consequences which give neither Rewards nor
  Punishments extinguish a behavior.

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Reinforcement FUNCTIONAL Theory

• All components are defined by their FUNCTION
• How they WORK
• Not how they look.

Remember Consequences influence behaviors.
Rewarding consequences INCREASE behaviors NO
CONSEQUENCES EXTINGUISH a behavior.
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Start Small

• IF Horse is being aggressive about the treats and
  respecting your space start out in a stall
• Put the horse in the stall with a dutch door or
  use a stall guard.
• Teach the horse to target the cone or target
  stick while the horse is in the stall
• Teach the back up ask horse to step back X
  number of steps as requested

Variation to teach good manners at feed time
AND to establish good clicker associations, ask
horse to step back 3 or 5 steps and ask to WAIT
while you put grain down. Do not allow horse to
go to grain until he stands STILL. CLICK/TREAT
(allow to go to grain bucket).