Nash - electric clippers session one - 9 Nov 2024

To date the most effective way I have used to acclimate horses to the electric clippers is based upon the horse training principle called "advance and retreat." You advance the clippers (aka "put pressure on") to the point where the horse is just starting to resist but is not resisting so much that you cannot keep the clippers in contact with the place you advanced them to - you then hold the clippers right there (stop advancing) until the horse brings its head down and just a wee bit towards you and then you "retreat" the clippers away (you release the pressure) when the horse is approximating what you want done. Then step by step you use successive approximation to get the horse to the point where it willingly allows you to clip its bridle path with nobody even holding the horse - literally with it choosing to stay and willingly allowing the clipping to happen. You can see this process done on 3 different horses which had never before experienced electric clippers at this webpage https://griffes.tripod.com/Electric_Clipper_Training.html

Training horses always involves some risk of injury (or even death) to the horse, the trainer, any spectators, equipment used, etc. - this risk is totally your own as you will be making your own judgements on what to do. As with any suggestions on any subject you must weigh them out for yourself and proceed accordingly - at your own risk.

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