Heh.. horses are fun to train i've trained my own horse, cuz he knew nothing about riding when i bought him. Food does work with some stuff Windy doesn't like jumping fences, so i tried to make it more fun to him, by first jumping myself with a huge bread, and then if he jumped too he got to have a bite from the bread

...i haven't done that anymore though... He loves jumping over obstacles in the woods, he's basically just a trail horse now. I have no vocabulary on this subject so i can't really explain what i've trained him to do. He knows all the basics, everything I know. I couldn't train him to like passage cuz i can't do it either and also he's a standardbred and i higly doubt they could do it anyways ..i'm more in to western riding anyway, though it would be nice to own like a great, well trained holsteiner too.

And about dog training... I can train Sega pretty far with only verbal compliments easier to work with her greed though My old dog loved applause ...in tests of course u can't reward the dog in the middle of the performance, but she's supposed to know all the stuff well enough to do them without a seperate reward from every single move. Sega is so not there yet, but she's still just a baby

We've just started training tracking and she loves it ...goes totally crazy when she realizes what we're gonna do... I'm not sure if we will compete in anything, i don't like the atmosphere in any dog related contests ..some people take it WAY too seriously. They say that if u don't take it seriously, don't put your blood and sweat and tears in to training your dog, then u should get a different hobby.