For one reason or another today was the first time in a couple of weeks that I got the target out, cut up alot of carrots and did some clicker training with Ebby - I somehow have lost the clicker though :lol: (that's what tidying up the tackroom does) but used the 'cluck' of my tongue.
Once Ebby realised what it was all about again she got very excited - at one point she'd touch the target, look at me for the treat, and in anticipation touch the target again - silly pony
Then she started huffing and puffing while she waited to see what I was going to ask her to do next. At one point she grabbed hold of the pepsi bottle on the end of the stick just to show me she was touching it! Then we had the grabbing of the stick not the bottle to see if she could still get a click and treat, but she shortly gave that one up!
It was such good fun - with her being broken and three-legged (front shoe has come off) it must be pretty boring up in that field, but her attitiude certainly changed for the better once we had done a bit of playing.
The only thing is - I ran out of carrots, so in the end she was eating scraps of veg from our roast dinner - carrot peelings, potato peelings and runner beans - so at one point I had all three ponies gathered around me asking for bits of runner beans
Bless em
