Welcome to the Horse Behavior 101 Classroom

taught by Dr. Jim and Lynda McCall

If you are in the presence of a horse, you are a horse trainer. Whether you know it or not, you are constantly influencing the behavior of the horses around you. You are reinforcing their behavior which means that you are either encouraging or discouraging behaviors to occur again. This course will help you to understand horse behavior and to develop a plan of action to change it.

Our goal as horsemen and behaviorists is to understand horses and to learn how to train horses using behavior modifications techniques powered by a positive reward system. This system is built on the basic principles of operant conditioning. Understand the basic rules which control the behavior of all living things and you will be will on your way to becoming a horse trainer.