Anyone have any experience trying this method of training?? Info on the website seems ‘vaguely specific’…lots of detail about ‘oh the places you’ll go’ but not much about the car or how to drive if that makes sense. From what I hear she can do remote video sessions and it involves alot of trying to get to get the animal to touch when you reach out and then giving a treat <<< heard through the grapevine and I am posting to get more actual facts so correct me kindly if the info is incorrect.
I’ve never heard of this method, so I Googled it. Still can’t find anything except the facebook page of an arty-looking bearded guy named Oscar Something, who seems to be a sort of woo-woo Parelli.
Maybe a link?
Thanks for replying!! What you found is another ‘Oscar’ this woman’s name is Casey and ‘willing results’ is the business name. Not sure how to post a link from my phone.
I clicked around and this is the most descriptive page I found…
No objections to trying it based on what I’ve read. If nothing else I think it will improve a participant’s ability to “be present” with the horse and notice a lot of small things they may not be paying attention to.
No pricing on the Web page. It honestly sounds quite “out there” to me.
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Me too. The site seems overly complicated and needlessly wordy - maybe because English isn’t the writer’s first language? - so I still don’t quite see the point.
All I could find in the way of outside research was something about octopuses which didn’t really seem especially relevant, so . . . yeah. I think I’ll stick to carrots.
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yes… very… out there…
I’m surprised rainbows, butterfly’s and unicorns aren’t involved here…
Is it published by Linda Parelli?
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What I can glean.
This is a one person show with a concept they’ve cooked up alone, and indeed patented. There is no shared academic community behind this, no research. The language is made to sound theoretical and scientific, but concepts made up by one lone person are not real science. They are pseudoscience.
This person spent a decade training animals at an acquarium so probably has some decent skills at behaviour modification and clicker training.
This person is dead set on pathologizing training issues. Honestly, there are almost no horses out there that genuinely have these kinds of spatial orientation pathology in relation to other horses.
There are lots of horses that are wary of people, often for good reason. And there are lots of horses that have owners that love them very much but are unable to communicate effectively, and create behaviour issues. There are lots of owners who don’t have good body awareness or proprioception.
It’s possible this trainer is used to working with zoo animals that are kept in such inappropriate conditions that they are going a bit nuts, haven’t learned to move correctly, have no socialization with their own species.
Horses are not generally that psychologically messed up.
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Thank you for that very succinct overview.
I agree with you all…not the worst “method” I have seen, but no actual science and how the heck can one really focus and react to their horse when the are taking instruction via a video call?? I will tell you they can’t…I did a little trial (paid) because I was curious and figured it couldn’t hurt…so I can now say with actual first hand experience it was not worth it.
I do a lot of treat based clicker training. I spend a lot of effort making sure the horse doesn’t reach out and touch me for a treat. She has to do her trick and wait, not mug me for a treat.
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