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Does your horse mug you all the time, behave “unpolitely” or snap at you? Does it “throw” behavior at you, even if you don’t ask for it? Often, it’s not faulty training, but unfulfilled basic needs, like hunger, if you don’t succeed in your training.

One topic becomes more and more important in animal training: giving animals more choice and control during training and also in their normal life. I think the definition of “choice” is not so easy and changed a lot during the last 10 years. In the beginning of “force...

In the past few days, I’ve often read about a misunderstanding of negative reinforcement, so I want to write a few words to define negative reinforcement and its use in operant conditioning. There are clear definitions for these terms. Therefore there is no need for...

Training with positive reinforcement does not necessarily guarantee a positive training experience for the animal or that it always feels comfortable during training. If you only train with positive reinforcement because of effectiveness but disregard the animal’s...