The bias of us, trainers.
The hardest thing in training any animal, to change, or encourage a behaviour is the human bias of what we feel about the behaviour. But...
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Nancy Ellison-Murray
Sep 26, 20221 min read
Directional predominance - forelimbs.
Horses show strong indicators of being predominant in forelimb directional influence - therefore, the forelegs tend to define the...
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Nancy Ellison-Murray
Aug 19, 20221 min read
'They should know better.'
“It’s been doing xyz for xyz length of time, The horse should know better, they should be doing better by now. ” Well. They do. At that...
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Nancy Ellison-Murray
Aug 3, 20221 min read
Stimulus will be followed by a response, we can define what that is.
The more a particular stimulus leads to a predictable outcome, the more likely cognitive relaxation (reduced mental & physical load) will...
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Nancy Ellison-Murray
Jun 8, 20222 min read
A sense of agency.
Agency is to have a physiological & cognitive sense of predictability & control over ones experience. This can be developed extrinsically...
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Nancy Ellison-Murray
May 26, 20222 min read
The Quad of foundation movement patterns.
The horse as a quadruped has a slightly different way of managing movement patterns to humans. This also pairs, with the horses very...
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Nancy Ellison-Murray
Apr 21, 20221 min read
'Releases'
Licking, chewing, mouthing, yawning..... what does it mean? Is it what we must aim for? is that what we reward? is that when we remove...
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Nancy Ellison-Murray
Apr 10, 20221 min read
There are no naughty horses.
We must be clear here. Horses don’t do anything to just simply be difficult. They do it because the stimulus they are experiencing, or...
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Nancy Ellison-Murray
Mar 3, 20221 min read
The frame is your own - not the horses to make.
As a Horse rider, horse driver or horse handler our role is well defined. We must know what we want & what the horse can achieve. Then we...
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Nancy Ellison-Murray
Feb 18, 20222 min read
Im sick of silence.
I’m sick of silence on this. I am so so so sick of seeing horses broken both physically, and mentally by breakers/starters/trainers, then...
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Nancy Ellison-Murray
Nov 9, 20202 min read
Does your horse have a 'tell'?
Does your horse have a 'tell'? A 'tell' is often referred to in human behaviour, as an unconscious signal that a person many give when...
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Nancy Ellison-Murray
Apr 15, 20193 min read
Pain or behavioural? Understanding the tip of the multilayered iceberg.
Research based evidence leads us to understand that riders, coaches, judges and most humans involved in training or using horses for...
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