{"id":1555,"date":"2017-12-28T18:41:07","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T18:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/?p=1555"},"modified":"2018-01-08T14:23:05","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T14:23:05","slug":"training-tip-video-head-down-pt-2-relaxation-with-treat-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/12\/28\/training-tip-video-head-down-pt-2-relaxation-with-treat-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Training Tip Video: &#8216;Head Down pt 2&#8217; &#8211; Relaxation with Treat Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Here is an update on Sollys Head Down exercise with Treat Training. The first part of this was done 2 weeks ago and we&#8217;ve been practising his head down for a treat with me in front of him. He got this\u00a0pretty quickly and I&#8217;ve been working on doing more each time before he gets a treat, bringing a gap of relaxation each time before asking for more. This helps him find relaxation with the &#8216;click&#8217; I do more than the treat so that I can extend the time more and more before giving him the treat, the treat now is used as a BIG &#8216;WELL DONE&#8217; and not a first time learning &#8216;YOU&#8217;VE GOT IT&#8217; treat that we started with.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I also gave it a break so that he didn&#8217;t get over enthusiastic about the &#8216;treat&#8217; and forget the actual training we were doing. This helps us rebalance the issue that can occur of over &#8216;posturing&#8217; for a treat or mugging.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">This week I&#8217;ve just been asking for more than just lowering his head and relaxing for a treat when I&#8217;m in front of him, I&#8217;ve been standing further away and asking him to walk towards me, lowering his head to my hand for a treat. Each time I&#8217;ve done this I&#8217;ve been further away than the last time and it&#8217;s gone really well, he gets that it&#8217;s about coming to me, relaxing with his head down. Here is a short video to show you how it&#8217;s working now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FHqY06o-DOk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">We have been building up the time and distance for this task and are at the stage where Solly comes to me when I give him my raised hand signal\u00a0and he gets a treat only when I am leaving the field. Huge progress in a short time and task now in his repertoire. Here are pics I took of him working the task from a huge distance to me&#8230;what a super clever boy he is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/20180108_134601.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1579 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/20180108_134601-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"20180108_134601\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/20180108_134601-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/20180108_134601-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/20180108_134601-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/20180108_134601.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shelley &#8211; HorseSavvy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an update on Sollys Head Down exercise with Treat Training. The first part of this was done 2 weeks ago and we&#8217;ve been practising his head down for a treat with me in front of him. He got this\u00a0pretty quickly and I&#8217;ve been working on doing more each time before he gets a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157],"tags":[256,67,268,269],"class_list":["post-1555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-training-tip-videos","tag-head-down","tag-relaxation","tag-training-tip-video","tag-treat-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1555"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1585,"href":"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions\/1585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}