Reily seems bored lately and I think it's partially because, thanks to extra tax season hours at work and the general lack of daylight, we can usually only ride 2 maybe 3 days a week right now and during the week he doesn't get as much one-on-one time as he's used to from the track. So since it seems fun, entertaining and useful too me, I decided to give clicker training a shot. This way I can ensure that he's getting some one-on-one time at least twice a day and hopefully it will eventually lead to me being able to simply point at the trailer and he'll load himself. He's not awful about the trailer but he definitely has some anxiety about it. Mainly it seems that he still thinks getting on the trailer means going to another race track to run, and since he wasn't very good at that he somewhat resents the idea of going on trips. He always gets on but it'd be nice if it didn't take 15 minutes to coax him on each time.
So tonight was his first night. From now until the forseeable future he'll be earning his morning and evening feed through clicker training. He picked up on it pretty well for his first time. It only takes about 5 or 10 minutes each session but he was starting to put the peices together by the end of it. I think this will be very good mental stimulation for him. We'll just have to wait and see how things go!
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