Clicker Training Blog

Clicker Training for Cats earns 5 stars from About.com!

About.com provides an in-depth, glowing review of our Clicker Training for Cats Kit. Read the review or learn more about this indespensible tool for cat owners. "Anyone seriously interested in clicker training a cat will need this book, and the Clicker Training Fun Kit will give you all the tools you need to start today."

What Separates the Little Guys from the Big Guys in the Canine Kingdom?

- the gene IGF-1 and the DNA that sits next to it, according to a team of researchers lead by K Gordon Lark and his team of researchers at the University of Utah.

Toilet Trained Cats and Whales Giving Blood

What is it about a toilet-trained cat that would attract more than one million views on YouTube.com? Plus, footage of a whale giving blood...

Mystery cat takes regular bus to the shops

And here I was, so proud last night, because my cat will follow a target across the room. Now there's a cat that rides the bus to the fish and chips shop in his neighborhood.

BBC's "The Underdog Show" stars Kay Laurence, master clicker trainer!

In the tradition of "Dancing with the Stars" comes "The Underdog Show," a dog training competition pairing British celebrities with dog trainers and rescue dogs for the benefit of animal rescue organizations. And what better way to do it than to have Kay Laurence, one of the world's very best clicker trainers and ClickerExpo faculty member, as the show's Training Consultant and Lead Judge?

Golden Retriever performs ... the Heimlich Maneuver?

Now this is a great application of targeting:

CALVERT, Md. -- Toby, a 2-year-old golden retriever, saw his owner choking on a piece of fruit and began jumping up and down on the woman's chest. The dog's owner believes the dog was trying to perform the Heimlich maneuver and saved her life.

Your dog's tail wagging direction holds meaning

New research indicates that your dog may be communicating through the wag of his tail. From the Discovery Channel:

"Going right or left makes a big difference for tail wagging dogs, Italian researchers have discovered..."

Post YouTube videos to your Clickertraining.com blog!

You can now post videos from YouTube or any other video-sharing site to your blog on clickertraining.com! Just create a new blog entry, click "disable rich-text" below the editor, paste the "embed" code into your post, the click "submit."

For example, here's a hog doing weave poles!

If you have any trouble, please comment below and I will answer so we can share the solutions.