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Social Cognitive Horse Training
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Series: Social Cognitive Animal Training, Book 3
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ISBN10: 1997638096
ISBN13: 9781997638094
Publisher: Dogue Shop
Published: Dec 26 2025
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781997638094
Publisher: Dogue Shop
Published: Dec 26 2025
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This book offers a different way of understanding horse training. Grounded in Social Cognitive Theory (SCT), social cognitive animal training (SCAT) approaches horses as cognitive participants who learn through sensory processing, social meaning, and choice-based participation. Rather than prioritizing speed, repetition, or performance, this framework invites trainers to slow down and attend to how understanding actually forms. Drawing on applied experience across species and decades of observation, this book explores how learning unfolds when horses are allowed time to think, space to process, and the freedom to disengage without consequence. It challenges common assumptions about compliance, motivation, and control, offering instead a model rooted in responsibility, clarity, and ethical restraint. This is not a collection of techniques, nor a promise of quick results. It is a framework for trainers who are willing to adapt first, listen longer, and recognize that true learning is often quiet. Written for horse professionals, trainers, and dedicated learners, this book is an invitation to reconsider what training becomes when understanding, not performance, is the goal.
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